I will paraphrase the story for you. Toad bakes cookies and Frog and Toad decide they are best cookies they have ever eaten. However, they decide that they should stop eating before they get sick. So they have one last cookie and another very last cookie before they realize that they can't stop. Frog explains to Toad that they need will power which is trying very hard to not do something you really want to do.
So they put them in a box to keep them out of sight, but figure out they can always open the box, Then they tie a string around the box, but they realize that they can just cut the string. Next they put the box on a high shelf before they decide that they can just get a ladder to get the box of cookies down.
Finally Frog gets a ladder, takes the box down, cuts the string, opens the box and scatters the cookies for the birds. Toad is sad that he has no more cookies, but Frog says, "But we have lots of will power." Toad says, "You can keep it all because I'm going home to bake a cake."
This simple story makes me smile every time because I, too, have tried to stop eating cookies because I don't have lots of will power. I usually start with a box in the freezer, but then...
So for Frog and Toad and the smile they bring to my face, I am thankful
Frog and Toad books are wonderful. We have at least one of them. I've noticed that all of my family have occasionally been re-reading childhood favorites. I think it takes us temporarily to a place in time where we felt safe. And it lightens the heaviness of life. Do you have any other favorite childhood books and authors?
ReplyDeleteI'll have to think about favorite children's books. That's a good topic for another post that will be coming soon. Thanks for the idea.
DeleteI am not that familiar with Frog and Toad books, although, I might have read one to my daughter when she was a child. But, yes, the cookies story made me smile because I certainly had no will power, whatsoever, when it came to the doughnuts, yesterday! :D
ReplyDeleteMy will power comes in a similar way as it did for Frog--to not have the cookies around because if they are, all bets are off.
DeleteFortunately doughnuts do not call me the same way cookies do. While I like doughnuts, I can be okay with not having them. And that's a good thing because one of my kind co-workers often brings fresh doughnuts in for everyone.