While cruising around Walmart, we passed by the cart of Opps! we bake too much for the day and saw boxes of cupcakes in different colors and designs. They are marked down to 70% off and comes out really cheap. For a dozen mini cupcakes, it would only cost $1.50 for 12 pieces. My daughter was delighted! Thinking her mother would buy her that box of cupcake as it is markdown to just a little over a dollar. She begged, please.
It has been a while since she last have a piece of cupcake and so as a nice mother can be, she agreed to get one box for her. She was estatic with a loud yeyyyyy!
We got home and she forgot about the cupcake. A day passed and the cupcake sat in the top shelf of the fridge waiting for attention. Finally, the mother can not let a day passed with the cupcake begging for attention, told the daughter to try one. And so she did. She eats one a day but there were too many, a dozen would take 12 days to finish, longer when it excludes weekend. The mother could not bear seeing it, decided to deal with the cupcake. Encouraging her daughter to have some cupcakes, a two maybe for today. The daughter sensing the mother's persistence ask her mother if she would like to have some with her with a begging PLEASEeee....
The mother obliged, hoping to get rid of it immediately. But at the back of her mind it was a struggle as she has been trying to avoid sweets to lose some weight. How can a mother refused the sweet please from her dear daughter. So, out the box of cupcakes from the fridge. The mother had one and the daughter had one. As the mother was busying herself from other house chores, the daughter decided to have another mini cupcake. It was at this very moment the magic happens. The daughter cautiously pick one cupcake up with her tiny hand when it slip from her finger and bounce into the box of cupcakes, while her hand tried to save one cupcake from falling to the floor, she accidentally hit the tip of the cupcake container and out flew all cupcakes on the floor. Oh no!!!
On the floor landed all 10 cupcakes, some kissing the floor with their icing and some landed on the bottom paper cups. The floor became colorful with all the sprinkles of different colors and yet the cupcakes all look yummy to me. The daughter's face was sad and wrinkly from the anger and despoilment of the incident, it was bad. The mother seeing the look in her face was quick to come and help pick up all cupcakes on the floor and said : " Well, we might as well have a cupcake party as all cupcakes wants to get out of the box. How about we eat them and enjoy them like having a party?" The daughter was torn between two cupcakes - yummy but kissed the floor cupcakes. At the end, the only word that matters to her was yummy no forgetting the dirty floor. We both sat on the floor and each have a cupcake on our hands. Like we are only serving cupcakes on the floor party. I had one just enough for my big mouth and she ate one. We divided evenly the cupcakes but end up not finishing it because the word dirty came to her mind and she stop eating the cupcakes. It became too much to eat for her and both made the decision "no more buying of cupcakes".
Both were happy with the decision they made and now aiming for a much healthier snack, no more place to even think of having cupcakes,we threw them all to the trash can. The trash can now happy with full of sugar cupcakes junk food. They belong there!
It was a less than 10 minute party with good result. The daughter promised out loud " no more buying cupcakes for the rest of the year" and the mother happy, silently whispers " no more telling you enough junk cupcakes for the rest of the year".
Family Canteen
The fruit of SILENCE is Prayer
The fruit of PRAYER is Faith
The fruit of FAITH is Love
The fruit of LOVE is Service
The fruit of SERVICE is Peace
