For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for September 25, 2012

You’re still a pig in the sty, Michael.

Been there, done that. Last week. (I’m pushing 68).

I will not be posting or viewing tomorrow due to Yom Kippur.

@SUSN NEWMAN: Have an easy fast. My havure, the West Side Minyan, at 100 St and WE Av,, 5th floor of Ansche Chesed, has a female shofar blower who is really impressive. If your shul is near there, you may want to here her and meet me. I will be wearing a green Bukharian Uyghur kipa from China (like on the map of my avatar).

He needs supervision – or at least an inspection after.

@SUSAN NEWMAN: Sometimes I attend services at Bnai Jeshurun on Friday nights. I especially love the dancing around the synagogue. Have a spiritually rewarding Yom Kippur and an easy fast.

Hahahaha!! I remember those days! Looking back, i just want to say… yuck! :-p

“J” get back in that tub and use SOAP this time. lol That is what I hear from my daughter to my 10 year old grandson. She has to threaten to wash him or send in Dad to wash him in order to get him to use soap and actually get clean.

what no toys

I remember my younger sister asking our mother if taking a bath meant she had to use soap. We started to remind her about soap even when she was just washing her hands. Might have been a mistake as today she takes the longest showers of anyone I know with a plethora of bath products.

My son loved being in a tub filled to the brim just so he could be completely submerged. The washing part would be conveniently forgotten. I’d hear the water draining and have to ask him if had actually washed. Most often the evidence was that he had not so back in the tub he went.

My kids loved being in the water. Bath, beach, pond, river, any water. My problem at bath time was getting them to get out of the tub. They’d want to rewarm the water and stay longer.

Today’s strip is SO true! I bathed two daughters and four grandkids (still do the six-year old when I’m here). Sometimes she wants to wash her hair herself. Me: Did you wash your hair? She: Yes. Me (feeling): But it’s all dry!Mean trick I developed with her: Sometimes she won’t get out, and at 77 1/2, I don’t feel like fighting. So I’ll threaten to turn on the icy water, and if ignored I’ll follow through and splash some on her. It works. She gets a nice towel swaddle afterward, though, with “Walk the Horsie”-type games or lullabies. The boy wanted to have a towel-swaddle even when he was nine. Now we often have to make the older kids take baths.

A little dab will do ya!

Isn’t Michael about 10? It’s creepy his Mother would still think to wash him.

@SUSAN NEWMAN: What time do Friday services start? I will be wearing my green Uyghur Bukharian kipa and bluejeans. No eye glasses..

I think he’s confusing the term, “a dab will do ya!”