Murphy's Laws for Moms

If you give a mom a coffee cup, she'll say "thank you" and immediately go to the coffee pot.  At the coffee pot, she'll start the coffee and pour herself a cup...noticing the full cup of cold coffee that she poured herself yesterday. She'll take the cold cup of coffee to the sink, dump it down the drain, and go to put it in the dishwasher. She'll open the dishwasher and realize that it's full of clean dishes that need to be put away. She'll put away all of the clean dishes and then will put in the dirty - now empty - cup of coffee from yesterday. She'll notice that there are other dirty dishes in the sink that need to go into the dishwasher, so she'll put them all in the dishwasher. She'll then realize that there may be other dirty dishes other places in the house and will go looking for them...finding them in bathrooms, on the coffee table, under beds, and in the sandbox outside. While looking for dirty dishes, she'll not