For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 12, 2018

Oh, Liz, Everyone loves babies – they are new and adorable. We all outgrow that and become people. I look at my boys’s childhood pictures and my heart melted at their adorable young faces filled with innocence. I look at my adult sons and ask myself, “Are these the same innocent and adorable little boys I raised?” It is sometimes hard to believe they are the one and same. Sigh.

“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.” ~Robert Munsch

We leave Elly thinking, “Why does my daughter think I don’t like her? I let her watch TV. I stopped talking about how she broke the milk and how she cursed and drew that picture of me as a witch and how she soaked me when she washed the windows when they were open and how she hurt Farley’s paw and how she was fighting in the street with Michael and the Enjo kids. We’ve had nothing but good times this past year.”

A better question would be, “Do you still like me as much now?”

I prefer “the best is yet to be” and it really works (for me.)

Elizabeth asks the cutest questions! At least this one’s much easier to answer!

Just wait until April comes along!

After seeing the fourth panel, I thought of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3umaLe37-LE

Cleaning and scrubbing can wait til tomorrow

For babies grow up we’ve learned to our sorrow

So quiet down cobwebs and dust go to sleep

I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep

oh for just 5 minutes back in time… my me then could rest and I could smell the sweet smell of baby hair one more time.

I was talking to my son the other day while he was holding his five-month-old son. My son was saying how easy it is for he and his wife to get their son to laugh with them, and be cute, and all that. My son then said that, “In 10 – 12 years, he (the baby) is going to think we are idiots.” So says the one who did exactly that!

Can’t stay babies forever. We all get bigger and uglier. ☺

Babies are cute, most of them grow out of that rather quickly.

Babies are cute and lovable, but a ton of work, so they need to be “instinctively” liked. As you get older, you get much more interesting, and are just as lovable! Being a royal pain again as a teenager is natures way of getting the parents to let go, at least a little. If everything doesn’t go straight south as the child and parent begin to let go, you will still be lovable as an adult, and one day if the parents are lucky, a grown-up person will turn around, looking a touch puzzled, and say,“Who are you, really? You’re my parent and I love you, but you are also someone I need to get to know as an adult. I don’t know the adult.”