Dylan's birthday was last week, but I finally got around to making cupcakes for his class yesterday. I made 32, even though there are only 16 kids in his class.
This is how it's done, CUPCAKES FOR EVERYONE!!!
- and I mean everyone. I had 4th graders coming up to me telling me how good they were. (Dylan is in 5th)
Now, as a teacher at the school, we have a secret code that we follow when a child brings us a birthday cupcake.
We ask them....
"Did you make these or did mom?"
(lots of ohhhhhing and ahhhhing on our part)
Now, here is the tricky part.
If the kid says;
"My mom made them." We anxiously accept the cupcake and devour it before another class comes in and puts their hands all over it begging for it.
If the kid says:
"I made them!!!".......we very graciously take one and then when the kid is gone, we toss it in the garbage....for obvious reasons. (If you don't know what I'm taking about please read my 2/17 entry, "A One Way Ticket To Hell on the Cruise Ship Barf)
So when my fellow teachers jokingly asked me if I made the cupcakes I assured them I did and added that I was playing with my feet between batches.
They ate them anyway.
13 comments:
I'll have to remember the foot comment. My wife teaches preschool so I understand very well what you meant in this post ;-)
LLOL.... you are so funny Kerry... I would still eat the toe jam cupcakes!!! Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... hey by the way .. who is Michael C here above?
See, with my office being tucked away as it is, I am off the cupcake trail. Dangit all.
OMG playing with your feet between batches! LOL
And what if the next Emeril or Rachael Ray is in your class? You'll never know....:)
I always add that I only sneezed a few times while making them..
P.S Happy Birthday to Dylan...
I can remember having doubts about some of the gift-food that I was given based on the general appearance of the giving student (even if the parent made it). If the parent let their child go out in that state of filth, what did their kitchen look like?? Of course, I was also known as being a bit of a germaphobe! (sp??)
Toe jam just adds more flavor.
Hey, we can't make treats to bring to our schools. They have to be pre-fabricated bits of yuck made in a licensed kitchen in our town...
That's sooo funny! Sounds like a fantastic cupcake party even with the feet playing between batches! lol
omg you kill me!! i bet your really did play with your feet too!
I totally agree with lara!!! They may actually be good if a kid made them....never know :)
~Mere
Happy birthday to Dylan!
I'm not so sure about the moms, either. I was once a guest at a friend's church social at which EVERYONE but me got terribly sick from lasagna that some good churchly soul had made on her kitchen floor (no doubt.)
I was spared because I don't eat anything that is made in enormous batches by amateurs.
Playing with your feet probably just added to the otherwise bland flavor of the cupcakes.
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