Cream Cheese, My Muse (I'm on the edge today)

I'm sure none of us can forget the year I felt so inspired by cream cheese that I sculpted an igloo and penguins from cream cheese and olives.


After enduring years (YEARS) of ridicule, and having since been called "Serial Mom" (thanks Christine) I swore off the white stuff and vowed never to indulge my creative urges in soft cheeses again.

I had stayed on the wagon for many years; then I was faced with a great challenge "Special Snack Mom" for the letter U.

U!

Not B, C, or T.

No - U!


What is a "Special Snack Mom", it is an overwrought, tired, frantic woman who runs through the grocery store late at night grabbing ANY food item she thinks she can make into a snack - a snack that starts with the week's special letter.

In this case - U!

Hmmm... umbrella drinks ... no ... google foods that start with U ... these DON'T start with U! ... call smartest woman I know ... ahhh! Big shout out to Stacey at work, she hooked my up with the UFO idea.




So, peanut butter and banana bagels ... WAIT just a minute!
PEANUT ALLERGIES!
CURSES!

So we made UFO bagels with cream cheese, globe grapes for the middle, and Yogos for the lights. I must have spent $35 on the raw materials, 15 minutes with the kids in the instruction process, and then I think 19 of the 22 little darlings came up to tell me "I don't like cream cheeeeeeeese. I like peanut butter on my bagel". Me too, kid; me too! But unless we want "Special Snack Mom" to turn into "Special CPR Mom", we gotta stick to the cream cheese.

Next time, if I get the letter U, I sure as hell better get the letter F to go with it!

Ta-freakin-da, here it is:

Will somebody bring me an umbrella drink, damit! ?!


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