Nancy is right. Once a mom, always a mom. It is okay for the career to come second. Some of us would be nothing without our kids, just existing but not really living.
Ugh usually I like Luann but this comic is so trite. “I could have changed the world and done amazing things but then I would have missed out on all the meaning that comes with watching you lick this spoon.” Gag.
While I appreciate the nod to stay at home moms, the fact that this strip wouldn’t make any sense if it were rephrased for Father’s Day is sadly telling. Dads have been and are expected to be all of those things. I have to think there are also Moms who are CEOS and astronauts, and most if not all of the female candidates for president were and are mothers.
I’ve seen a couple of “made for TV” movies where a “high strung,” single, male CEO is transplanted into a role as a struggling, father of three, operating a small business and initially finds it difficult to accept his role as the father and husband in the family. It’s an interesting movie.Surprised a similar type movie was never made for a “high maintenance,” single, female, CEO into a role of (struggling to make a decision), mother of three, maintaining a small household with a loving husband who isn’t always around.
I love these moments between Luann and Nancy ♡. Cooking together can be such a beautiful sign of affinity, affection and love ♡. Happy Mother’s Day Everyone♡♡♡!
I miss those days with my daughter, who is now a mom and has a little girl of her own. My daughter has a busy career and a working husband, so during covid we just can’t spend much time together. But we will today! All adults are vaccinated and one happy little girl is part of our pods.
It never occurred to me, but I’m starting to think that everyone who comments here is a senior. I’m 78 myself. A hundred years ago we’d all be down at the general store lounging around the cracker barrel and Franklin stove, commenting on local characters and how the world was going to hell. Now we have to do it this way. Do we need some young blood? Do any younger folks care about these important things we discuss every day?
I used to ask my Mom the same question. She was a single Mom when it was not the norm! She had Alzheimers the last twelve years of her life. I was her caregiver for ten of them! Our roles reversed; she regressed to childhood and didn’t even know my name! I also worked a full time job before she got too far into the illness! I don’t think that Luann sounds like a teenager. I wish I could still ask my Mom those questions!
Is this really the first time Nancy has told Luann to not lick a spoon and put it back in the food?? You’d think Luann would have learned that by age 4.
Today is a father-daughter day of sorts for me. She just finished the final exam for Vector Calculus. Unless she goes on to grad school in her field or an MBA program, she won’t be calling the old man at all hours for math tutoring. I can relate with Nancy today.
When I was 16, I was cooking in the kitchen. I tasted what I was cooking to see if I added enough salt and was putting the spoon into the sink when I felt a hard slap on my backside. It was a relative with a history of mental illness, and she started accusing me of going to put the spoon I just put into my mouth back into the pot without washing it. I was clearly going to put it in the sink because I was already half way there. I yelled at her that I wasn’t four years old and that if she was seeing what was actually going on, she would have seen that I was putting the spoon into the sink. So, yes, I do believe that Luann’s behavior is what would be expected of a four year old. I have never done that ever per my recollection of my entire life, and I wouldn’t eat the food of one who does.
lvlax over 3 years ago
Happy Mother’s Day Everyone!!
Templo S.U.D. over 3 years ago
way to think things through, Luann
BartSimpson (Youtube is NightClaw - Brawl Stars) over 3 years ago
I do it too.
Rhetorical_Question over 3 years ago
Happy Mother’s Day and one day, Luann be a mother.
nesto49 over 3 years ago
Oh, Nancy has it right!
donwestonmysteries over 3 years ago
Just once I wanted to break the top 10 posts on Luanne and I did it. What’s your goal? Hope its better than mine.
Chocolate over 3 years ago
That’s why having three kids was perfect for me: 1 got the mixing bowl, 2 got the beaters, and 3 got the spoon.
Mordock999 Premium Member over 3 years ago
You know, Luann?
Maybe if you and Brad had minded your Mom a little more, maybe her job wouldn’t have been so hard.
Just saying.
Happy Mother’s Day, Moms. ;)
Joe1962 over 3 years ago
Luann stop being so selfish. Happy mothers day to all the mothers.
Willow Mt Lyon over 3 years ago
Nancy is right. Once a mom, always a mom. It is okay for the career to come second. Some of us would be nothing without our kids, just existing but not really living.
kenhense over 3 years ago
Luann is sounding like a 15 year old here. G & K – Time for Lu to be 20.
Lucy Rudy over 3 years ago
My mom often licked the spoon and put it back in the bowl. She always denied it until the night we found lipstick swirls in the creamed peas!
ronaldspence over 3 years ago
Nice thought…thank you…
np312 over 3 years ago
Ugh usually I like Luann but this comic is so trite. “I could have changed the world and done amazing things but then I would have missed out on all the meaning that comes with watching you lick this spoon.” Gag.
kauri44 over 3 years ago
While I appreciate the nod to stay at home moms, the fact that this strip wouldn’t make any sense if it were rephrased for Father’s Day is sadly telling. Dads have been and are expected to be all of those things. I have to think there are also Moms who are CEOS and astronauts, and most if not all of the female candidates for president were and are mothers.
Brdshtt Premium Member over 3 years ago
If my Mom had decided not to become a Mom, I would not have been born 64 years ago today. May 9, 1957 – Miss ya, Mom…
Rhetorical_Question over 3 years ago
Nancy is a Saint and Luann is lucky after Tara’s Incident.
live2read over 3 years ago
I think this a lovely, appropriate song for today, and it brings tears to my eyes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJAKmWAIKcY.
luann1212 over 3 years ago
Happy Mother’s bDay in Luannverse and everywhere else
Salinasong over 3 years ago
Mom passed away this year, at age 98. I updated the last verse to this song I wrote decades ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNfBZU_Qp1I
Odd Dog Premium Member over 3 years ago
Happy Mothers day and thank you for all you do to all the mothers out there!
Susan00100 over 3 years ago
Too late, Nancy—she already did.
Adam-Stone(Soup) over 3 years ago
I’ve seen a couple of “made for TV” movies where a “high strung,” single, male CEO is transplanted into a role as a struggling, father of three, operating a small business and initially finds it difficult to accept his role as the father and husband in the family. It’s an interesting movie.Surprised a similar type movie was never made for a “high maintenance,” single, female, CEO into a role of (struggling to make a decision), mother of three, maintaining a small household with a loving husband who isn’t always around.
Aladar30 Premium Member over 3 years ago
I love these moments between Luann and Nancy ♡. Cooking together can be such a beautiful sign of affinity, affection and love ♡. Happy Mother’s Day Everyone♡♡♡!
RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 3 years ago
Happy Mother’s Day Ladies.
OneTime59 over 3 years ago
And a Mother to the very end, still giving instructions to the children, keeping them in line.
Ellis97 over 3 years ago
Happy Mother’s Day from Luann and all of her friends.
mountainclimber over 3 years ago
7,874,965,825 and still growing. We should celebrate couples who choose NOT to have kids.
LtPowers over 3 years ago
Backward? You mean “If you hadn’t spent half your life being an astronaut (etc), you couldn’t have been a mom”?
Moonkey Premium Member over 3 years ago
I miss those days with my daughter, who is now a mom and has a little girl of her own. My daughter has a busy career and a working husband, so during covid we just can’t spend much time together. But we will today! All adults are vaccinated and one happy little girl is part of our pods.
luann1212 over 3 years ago
Beautiful Mother’s Day panels, Happy Mother’s Day to all.
Johnnyrico over 3 years ago
Happy Mother’s Day!!
larryvanover over 3 years ago
Isn’t 20 the new 15… ? LOL!!
ImDaRealAni over 3 years ago
Happy Mother’s Day everyone.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 3 years ago
“I didn’t until just now. Now I’ve thought about it and….NAH. Rockets then to explode too often.”
Argythree over 3 years ago
Still hard to believe my Mom’s been gone since December of 1992. I still wake up thinking of things to talk to her about…
sueb1863 over 3 years ago
Well, that batch is ruined.
KEA over 3 years ago
Luann is perfectly correct.
Mayor Snorkum over 3 years ago
It never occurred to me, but I’m starting to think that everyone who comments here is a senior. I’m 78 myself. A hundred years ago we’d all be down at the general store lounging around the cracker barrel and Franklin stove, commenting on local characters and how the world was going to hell. Now we have to do it this way. Do we need some young blood? Do any younger folks care about these important things we discuss every day?
w16521 over 3 years ago
Its time for G Evans to mature Luann. She’s supposed to be twenty, but still acts like an adolescent.
Levana_214 over 3 years ago
I used to ask my Mom the same question. She was a single Mom when it was not the norm! She had Alzheimers the last twelve years of her life. I was her caregiver for ten of them! Our roles reversed; she regressed to childhood and didn’t even know my name! I also worked a full time job before she got too far into the illness! I don’t think that Luann sounds like a teenager. I wish I could still ask my Mom those questions!
eladee AKA Wally over 3 years ago
Sweet Mother’s Day message from Nancy today. Happy Mother’s Day everyone!!!
Joe1962 over 3 years ago
Luann yes your mom could have done one of things bet instead she got married and had you and Brad. Happy Mothers day to all.
locake over 3 years ago
Is this really the first time Nancy has told Luann to not lick a spoon and put it back in the food?? You’d think Luann would have learned that by age 4.
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
Awwww… Gross…
Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago
You’re thinking Thel Keane, Luann. Now SHE has regrets! ;D
AndrewSihler over 3 years ago
Sweet!
j.l.farmer over 3 years ago
she can be any of those AND a mom! Luann is just proving that a mother’s work is never done.
Willow Mt Lyon over 3 years ago
What Luann did with the spoon would only be expected of a small child.
asrialfeeple over 3 years ago
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Roy G Biv over 3 years ago
Nancy an astronaut? Luann has a lot to learn.
PeterPirate over 3 years ago
Today is a father-daughter day of sorts for me. She just finished the final exam for Vector Calculus. Unless she goes on to grad school in her field or an MBA program, she won’t be calling the old man at all hours for math tutoring. I can relate with Nancy today.
Uncle Bob over 3 years ago
It was nice of Home Depot to let Nancy come in a couple of hours late today…
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
Cleverly pointing out the ironic joy of motherhood on this Mother’s Day.
Although there is a certain attraction to never having birthed Luann and Brad….
gnmnrbl over 3 years ago
Really Luann?!? If Nancy had chose to not be a mom, you wouldn’t be there to make that observation.
Seed_drill over 3 years ago
Don’t lick the spoon, period. Raw eggs are pretty much Russian roulette.
kozmikgal over 3 years ago
Some of y’all should just draw your own comic.
Willow Mt Lyon over 3 years ago
When I was 16, I was cooking in the kitchen. I tasted what I was cooking to see if I added enough salt and was putting the spoon into the sink when I felt a hard slap on my backside. It was a relative with a history of mental illness, and she started accusing me of going to put the spoon I just put into my mouth back into the pot without washing it. I was clearly going to put it in the sink because I was already half way there. I yelled at her that I wasn’t four years old and that if she was seeing what was actually going on, she would have seen that I was putting the spoon into the sink. So, yes, I do believe that Luann’s behavior is what would be expected of a four year old. I have never done that ever per my recollection of my entire life, and I wouldn’t eat the food of one who does.
Le'Roy Hawkins over 3 years ago
She can’t run a household. Seriously doubt she could be a CEO or an astronaut. But the bar for President is currently very low.
Tyge over 3 years ago
Sounds like my wife.