kidandkid

Author Unknown

If you give a Mom a muffin,

She’ll want a cup of coffee to go with it.

She’ll pour herself some.

The coffee will get spilled by her three year old.

She’ll wipe it up.

Wiping the floor, she will find some dirty socks.

She’ll remember she has to do some laundry.

When she puts the laundry in the washer,

She’ll trip over some snow boots and bump into the freezer.

Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan dinner for tonight.

She will get out a pound of hamburger.

She will look for her cookbook (101 Things to Make With a Pound of
Hamburger).

The cookbook is sitting 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.

While she is changing the two year old the phone will ring.

Her four year old will answer it and hang up.

She remembers that she wants to phone a friend to come for coffee on Friday.

Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.

She will pour herself some.

And chances are……

If she has a cup of coffee……

Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.

I smoked cigarettes from the age of 13 until I was 22. I was not a casual smoker, but a real addict.

Defeat comes, not when giving in to the temptation, but when becoming the Hare and relinquishing the race. The wisdom of the Tortoise is to “endure to the end.”

The techniques I used to quit smoking the final time, could be used to break any habit or sin.

1. I set aside some time where my only goal was quitting smoking.

2. I had a partner. My future husband quit smoking with me also.

3. I minimized the temptation. I spent 2 solid weeks backpacking only coming out of the mountains to replenish food supplies.

4. When I felt like smoking a cigarette I exercised.

5. I embraced the benefits. One of those was exercising. It’s so much nicer to exercise smoke free.

In the summertime I try to keep the wisdom of the tortoise and the hare at forefront of my mind. Usually that means I remind myself that slow and steady wins the race.

I just have to keep going, no matter how slow, and great things will be accomplished. “He is like a tree planted by streams of water…whatever he does shall prosper.”