Oh my gosh! I just wrote a huge post to my Facebook page last night (See below) and a friend asked if I had read “If You Give a Mom a Muffin”. He gave me the ling to this site. I had never read it, but love the fact that as I said in my post, most mommies would relate. I used to read the “If You Give a Moose a Muffin” books with my step-daughter when she was little. She is now 19! I also have a step-son that is 21. I have four more kids with my ex. They are 11, 10, 6, and 5 next week. Their daddy left almost two years ago and I work full-time, do hair when they visit their dad, coach softball and tee-ball teams, and all the other stuff mentioned in my little story below.
I love writing poems and have shared one of my blogs I started http://thebathroomchroniclesblog.wordpress.com/ in the area that asked for my website. I also have a blog of poems I started after their daddy left. That site is http://lied2nomore.wordpress.com/. Some of them have some bad words as I was working through a lot of emotions. However I love to read them in chronological order to see how far I have come since he left. There are still a lot of emotions, but much of the bitterness of the past has faded away and I try to focus on the best part of life……my family and the joys we have each day. I plan to leave the old, bitter poems out there though for anyone that may find themselves in a similar situation, so they can see there is light at the end of the tunnel as “they” say. See my post from Facebook below. Hope you enjoy.
From June 10, 2013 1:51 am
My life (as I am sure other mommies lives do too) reminds me of the children’s book “If You Give a Moose a Muffin”. If you haven’t read the book, it starts something like this…..If you give a moose a muffin, he’s gonna want a glass of milk. If you give a moose a glass of milk, he’s gonna want a …..
Well, if I’m walking out the door, I’m gonna decide to switch over the laundry.
If I switch over the laundry, I’m gonna have to start a new load.
If I start a new load, I’m gonna see that the cats need food.
If I fill up their food bowl, I’m gonna have to give them water too.
If I fill up the water bowl, I’m gonna notice we have ants on the counter again.
If I notice the ants, I’m gonna have to spray them.
If I spray the ants, I’m gonna have to wipe their little dead bodies off the counter.
If I wipe off the dead ants from the counter, I will need paper towels.
If I go get paper towels, I will see that my kids messed up the toy room, so I will start cleaning up the toys.
If I clean up the toys, I will forget what I came down the hall for in the first place, so I go back to the kitchen and see the dead ants on the counter and decide to again go get the paper towels.
If I get the paper towels, I will see through the window as I turn back around that my kids left their softball mitts outside again and I will have to retrieve them before it rains.
If I go out to the mitts, I will put the paper towels down on the floor on my way out.
On my way in, I will trip over the roll of paper towels and bloody my knee.
If I bloody my knee, I will need a bandage.
If I go to get a bandage in the bathroom, I will notice my kids forgot to flush the toilet again and I will, of course then feel the need to clean the gross toilet.
If I clean the toilet, I will have to wash my hands.
If I wash my hands, I will notice the big glob of toothpaste in the sink and will have to clean it out. If I clean the toothpaste from the sink, I will remember there was something I needed to do and realize I was supposed to have left 30 minutes ago and no I’m late!
So, I rush to the kitchen for my cell phone and key and see the stupid dead ants and grab the paper towels and the cleaning spray and clean the counter and realize I cannot find my key or my cell phone.
So, next time you’re wondering where the heck I am, remember this story!
And, in the end, I will more than likely open the door to the garage to find all four kids waiting for me in the car with my cell phone and my key.
So, it may not be that bad, but this is how my mind works! I have to work at staying on task! 🙂
Lisa Kay (Cox) Robbins
