For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for April 10, 2021

Sigh!

Oh, John, you’d wish your stressful job on April? Do you realize what you’re saying when talking about trading?

Isn’t it sweet the way Annie uses baby talk to convey information to John about April instead of saying “snack, nap and BM” like the child care workers for my kids used to do? However, what is her obsession with bathing April? This is about the 3rd time she has done this in the comic strip. When my kids were in child care, they did not do baths. Is Annie sending John some kind of message about how she thinks April comes to her dirty?

“…especially the doo-doo.”

Why? Are you constipated?

I sure miss those days when I could carry my children around.

Sure you do. You want some to pick you up and put you down where they want, not you. Someone to make you dress in what they want you to wear, not you. Someone to spoon-feed you food you would rather spit out. And you would want to have people talk to you in “baby-talk” all day long. Sure you would want to trade places with April.

His day was soo busy, he was forced to get off work early to spend time with the baby!

It’s all relative. I once heard about a teacher asking kids to tell which activity was work and which was play. the two activities were reading a book and working in the yard. One student said reading the book was work and yard work was play. Another student said the opposite – reading a book was play and yard work was work. When asked, the first student replied their dad was a professor while the second student was a gardener.

Give it another 50 years or so and your wish will come true. …just saying.

Awwww.

I can’t believe this dialog from Annie to John. May I never, ever, have those words come out of my mouth.

Marian is already on the way to becoming like April. She burned the pot holder, and soon enough she will be soiling herself.

I have been reading this comic from the start. It really should be required reading for pubescent girls as a detriment to getting pregnant.

I read several comics each morning but always save FBOFW for last because it always makes me happy. What a top shelf production.

A lot different than the one where they were stuck in the airport for Thanksgiving due to bad weather when they tried to get flight to see Marian and Jim:

John{talking on pay phone}: “No, Mother Richards, I am not calling you from the plane. Those phones are only for emergencies. We have had a boarding problem due to weather.”

Elly{talking over John’s shoulder}: “Is that my mother? Will you let her know I plan to cook my apple brown betty for dessert, which I have been making from 1975 and shall until the year I die. I will need margarine, and not butter!”

Third panel shows Richards residence. Marian is on phone

Marian: “Is that my daughter? Welly, you telly Elly that we use butter in this house!”

Marian hangs up

Final panel. John hangs up payphone.

Elly: “She got butter, didn’t she?”

Wish I could “like” this one a MILLION times! If this one doesn’t warm someone’s heart, they ain’t human!

You will enjoy early time with April, you can even fix family dinner and surprise Elly.

I wanted to be a stay at home parent until I figured out the kids would be there

OK, I read this strip, but I swear I don’t know who Annie is.

Enjoy the day……

That last frame is so precious.

A sweet comic showing a wonderful side of John we don’t see enough