Moms get all the kid crafts, have you noticed that?
Mother’s Day is conveniently located within the limits of the school year, so we get the cutest things from our kids that they works on in class. The famous handprint poem. Vases of crafted flowers. Hand drawn pictures and cards…
Dads get the short end of the stick, in my book. Father’s Day comes when school is already out and people are usually vacationing. If Dads get anything crafty from their kids for Father’s Day, it’s up to the Moms to organize it and make sure all of the supplies are available and the kids are motivated. Sometimes, that’s hard to manage! (or, a LOT of times)
I was glad to see that Prince’s Kindergarten teacher had planned ahead and sent home a Father’s Day craft with all of his end-of-year paraphernalia, but I will reveal that jewel in June. It did, though, let me off the hook a little bit. I really do have the hardest time remembering Father’s Day. Probably because I never had to as a child.
My Mother’s Day craft was a gift bag with a computer-drawn image of me on it and a little poem about having breakfast in bed. Inside was a fill-in-the-blank story about me and what Prince liked best about me (including the wonderful news that I only weigh 50 lbs!), as well as a muffin, a package of coffee, and this poem:
If You Give Mom a Muffin
She’ll want a cup of coffee to go with it.
She’ll pour herself some.
Her three-year-old will spill the coffee.
She’ll wipe it up.
Wiping the floor, she’ll find dirty socks.
She’ll remember she has to do laundry.
When she puts the laundry in the washer,
She’ll trip over boots and bump into the freezer.
Bumping into the freezer will remind her
she has to plan for supper.
She will get out a pound of hamburger.
She’ll look for her cookbook
(“101 Things To Do With a Pound of Hamburger”).
The cookbook is setting under a pile of mail.
She will see the phone bill, which is due tomorrow.
She will look for her checkbook.
The checkbook is in her purse
that is being dumped out by her two-year-old.
She’ll smell something funny.
She’ll change the two-year-old’s diaper.
While she is changing the diaper, the phone will ring.
Her five-year-old will answer and hang up.
She’ll remember she wants to phone a friend for coffee.
Thinking of coffee will remind her
that she was going to have a cup.
And chances are…If she has a cup of coffee,
Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.
