• Slice the large bagel in half, and spread it with cream cheese. Arrange sliced smoked salmon along the edge of one quarter of the bagel to make the hair on the top of Mom's head. Curl or drape more salmon for the sides so it looks like your mom's hairdo.

• Place the black olive "eyes" on her cream cheese face. Arrange the parsley leaves so they look like lashes, with the cut part of the leaves close to the olives and the curly part pointing up toward the hair.

• Trim off a small, triangular piece of the carrot and use it to make Mom's nose. Feel free to be creative and make your bagel look as much like Mom as possible.