Save the Cupcake
Dear god, they're banning the cupcake in classroom birthday celebrations! You can read the horrifying story here. This is supposed to be to promote good health. What about spiritual health?! What about tradition?! It is not a birthday celebration without cake. Taking away an occasional celebratory cake is not going to make a kid less obese who eats badly at home. Nor is it going to turn a healthy kid into a junk food-scarfing monster. Childhood should be made of small joys where ever we can create them. Cupcakes accompanying a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday is one of those joys. Replacing cupcakes with fruit salad is an act of joylessness. I can already see the PTA nazi mommies in my school district leaping on the anti-cupcake bandwagon. LONG LIVE THE CUPCAKE!
Contained in this short Life
Are magical extents
The soul returning soft at night
To steal securer thence
As Children strictest kept
Turn soonest to the sea
Whose nameless Fathoms slink away
Beside infinity
Emily Dickinson
Dear god, they're banning the cupcake in classroom birthday celebrations! You can read the horrifying story here. This is supposed to be to promote good health. What about spiritual health?! What about tradition?! It is not a birthday celebration without cake. Taking away an occasional celebratory cake is not going to make a kid less obese who eats badly at home. Nor is it going to turn a healthy kid into a junk food-scarfing monster. Childhood should be made of small joys where ever we can create them. Cupcakes accompanying a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday is one of those joys. Replacing cupcakes with fruit salad is an act of joylessness. I can already see the PTA nazi mommies in my school district leaping on the anti-cupcake bandwagon. LONG LIVE THE CUPCAKE!
Contained in this short Life
Are magical extents
The soul returning soft at night
To steal securer thence
As Children strictest kept
Turn soonest to the sea
Whose nameless Fathoms slink away
Beside infinity
Emily Dickinson
posted by MJ at 2:53 PM
3 Comments:
fascist bastards. I'm gonna go eat a box of hostess cupcakes in protest.
I ate some Halloween cupcakes as my personal protest, and fed some to my kids!
Oh Lordy Lordy don't take those cupcakes away! My stomache muscles clenched in reaction to reading your posting that fruit cups might replace the cupcake! This is a sad day in America, what will all those mid-west mommies say?
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