I’m hungry by the time I arrive home from work, and most days I try to keep an apple in the car for the ride home to stave off the voracious hunger and temptation to ravage the pantry before dinner. When I was sick and couldn’t stomach much of anything, the saving grace for me was sherbet. It felt like I was swallowing refreshing sunshine to put smiles all through my insides and wrestle the germs loose.
I’m feeling much better, but this sweet treat is still calling my name from the freezer when I come home. I’ve been scraping the top layer for days – – straight outta the plastic tub, y’all — with no shame and no regret.
Now that I’m nearing the bottom, should I resist the temptation to buy more? I was always a pushover for a Push-Up, and here I am elbow-deep in an adult-sized helping of rainbow sherbet of summer memories at the swimming pool.
I need an intervention.
Appetizer Snack
After work snack or dinner appetizer?
Let’s call it whatever we want –
should I try to hide
that I scrape straight from the container?
that I eat it right out of the tub?
why bother when
it’s mine
~ all mine ~
(he only likes vanilla)
guilty
bliss
Common Threads 
So fun to read both formats here. I like how the scoops take you back to summertime pushups. I like how in peom form, we discover why you get all the sherbert as he only goes for vanilla. Lucky you! Enjoy and keep feeling better. You slice reminded me of how when I was sick as a child, my mom would buy apricot juice for me to drink. Not sure why only when I was sick? I’ll have to ask her. Your slice had me remember that memory.
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Loved the title which had me guessing… what could this be? Beautifully written in two formats! Thank you for sharing.
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It’s ok to have a guilty moment of bliss at the end of the long day but they way you describe the process of wanting and guilting (not really a word), is powerful and takes us into your thinking as you slowly (in my mind) scrape that surface and make the taste linger.
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Absolutely no shame, no guilt!
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I loved this description: “It felt like I was swallowing refreshing sunshine…” what an incredible description! And I vote a solid YES on getting your next tub (or at least a box of push-ups) – we all need to swallow sunshine!
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Kim,
I’m sorry you’ve been sick. I don’t remember you mentioning this ill was this month. Hope I didn’t overlook an important detail. And about that sherbet: Feel no guilt. Eat all the sherbet you want. Eat some for me. I’ll likely nosh on some girl scout cookies later. I’ll promise myself I won’t do it again. I will. I know I will. I’m stressed eating my way through the month. Okay, through the year. Feel better.
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Kim, I had to laugh at “I need an intervention.” I do love sherbert, but I rarely have it. Nothing like a push-up on a hot summer day though. Fun post!
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I enjoyed reading this. I come home ravenous, too, and try to reach for a healthy snack. Why is it that a chocolate kind bar doesn’t make me feel guilty but a tub of ice cream would?
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How delightful, Kim! The rainbow sherbet looks like springtime. I am imagining the cold, creamy, citrusy freshness of it. I was chuckling to myself while reading your post, as I am also voracious after work. I will not say what I stopped and bought at Dollar General yesterday just to make it home (okay… it was Spicy Nacho Doritos. Terrible craving. Maybe I needed salt??). Another time I came home and discovered a thing I was saving had been eaten by a family member. I shall not name him. I will just say that he is still alive. So, I am grateful that your husband only likes vanilla – that is saving grace! I say enjoy your sherbet without shame!
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Kim, haha! So fun. I love “…I was swallowing refreshing sunshine to put smiles all through my insides and wrestle the germs loose.” What a perfect description of sherbet. And “I need an intervention” made me laugh aloud! Your poem is sweet. It’s a bonus that you all like different ice cream, so you can say: “it’s mine / ~ all mine ~” Perfect!
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My mom’s favorite! And she’d let me have rainbow sherbet all the time because it was dairy free and had fruit, or so she thought.
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What a fun slice! I love the idea of eating sunshine! And the fact that you get it all to yourself? Even better! 😉
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