For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 23, 2018

yeah, playing with grandchildren (or stepsisters’ children in my case) can tire you

Look kids. I believe we have a nursing scene there in Panel 2. How often do you see that in a syndicated newspaper comic strip these days?

And that, my friends, is how urban legends are born.

She knows the baby’s thinking about the same thing she is!

I was 8 when my younger brother was born. I have 5 older siblings, but most of them were old enough to do their own things (the oldest was 21), but I was still little & needing attention. My father decided that on Saturdays, he’d take me – JUST me – out for pizza & bowling. Keep in mind that he worked 5-1/2 days a week (he worked until noon on Saturdays). While I was just thankful for the attention at the time, as an adult I was able to fully realize the sacrifice he made…and thanked him for it. (My husband did something similar with our older daughter, taking her out to lunch 1 day a week, just the 2 of them, when her little sister was born, even though she was only 2.)

My daughter just had her third. I love them all and am thrilled to be close enough to help out. But I know now why only young people shy have children.

If you look closer (which I did because it was brought up and got me curious), it looks like Elly’s shirt is bunched up a bit and Liz is nursing. The baby certainly is in the feeding position, little hand and all.

Today’s strip was a wonderful “thank you” letter to Elly’s MIL. It brought a tear to my eye, that’s for sure…

I believe this comic strip is supposed to be in Canada.