For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 21, 2012

My getting up early is because if I don’t our cat will wake the whole building wanting back in, LOL

No good dad goes unpunished.

That’s what Sunday BRUNCH is for dad!

A father’s work is never appreciated.

Not hungry for pancakes??? What’s wrong with that kid?

If I wanted anything besides cereal for breakfast, I had to cook it myself but I had to clean the kitchen afterwards otherwise would have to wait until Mom decided to get up and cook breakfast for my Father.

When I was very young we always had a big breakfast on Sunday: either pancakes, bacon & eggs, Pillsbury orange rolls, or some other thing like that. After a while it morphed into Dad running out to get donuts. For the longest time we had donuts on Sunday morning. To this day I REALLY have to be in the mood to have a donut.

Only real maple syrup on mine please…

If he’d said something Saturday night he might have had a more appreciable audience.

tho’ I never gained a taste for grits, I agree, when a meal was on the table you ate or you just did without. I love the idea of a big Sunday breakfast and my mom and I used to do either pancakes and bacon or eggs, bacon/sausage, biscuits and gravy every sunday. Brings back memories, think I will go make me some biscuits (from a can) and gravy (from a mix) ((sigh)). Have a super great Sunday y’all from Texas.

good one.

John, breakfast sounds nice. I’ll join your family and share pancakes with you. Elly and the children don’t know what they’re missing.

I just did a large breakfast here, but the PP are right- everyone has to be awake and ready. For my son, you have to wait at least an hour after he’s woken up, or he won’t touch anything till lunch. My daughters are particular about what is served.

Sunday breakfast is finally a tradition, and they all help. But we’ve seen the situation pictured. If we wake them up early, nobody will eat anything! Which is frustrating for me, since it’s the only meal I can really cook well. Besides, then they are super-grumpy in church, which is what we’re trying to avoid with the unusually large meal!

I bet he left the mess for her to clean up

Aw, come on now! Hominy grits with a bit of butter, or milk, maybe a touch of maple syrup. Splendid!

It’s 9 a.m. and I just got up. Bummer! I’m retired…

…and they all seem perfectly willing to do without, so that threat isn’t gonna work. Poor John!

Sounds like we may be from thge same region of the south. Grits is with salt and butter only. If you wanted a litle sweetness, you could add sorghum!

Grits need Redeye gravy!

gee martin997, we must be kindered souls after all, cause that’s the way I eat my grits and I am from Michigan. Has nothing to do with the south. It just taste better that way.

“The idea of mixing milk and sugar with grits was unheard of!”So true, g! I’m in Wisconsin now, and the only place to get cooked grits is a Cracker Barrel forty miles away. Lucklily, up here they do sell Quaker grits in the supermarkets. I make my own.

We never had time for a big Sunday breakfast. We were always in a rush to get out the door for church. Lunch, on the other hand was always huge on Sundays.

What is this huge Sunday lunch of which you speak? In the south, the midday Sunday meal was “dinner.” In fact, in the deep south, you had breakfast, dinner, and supper every day!

My father used to do this every Sunday—pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon, gravy, fried potatoes. Those were the days. We do this once a month now, family and friends. Thanks, Dad!

john did something very nice for the family and nobody acknowled it or even said thank you.How sad is that, and even more sad ,things like this happen all the time.It`s a damn shame people take other peoples kind gestures and forget or ignore these all the time.No wonder people don`t bother anymore!

Watch dogs, alarm dogs. What will they think of next?

I love Sunday Breakfest the best Ibut now that im adult my family is really not morning people besides me they would rather sleep away a beautiful Sunday morning

Imagine the snit Elly would have been in if it were her. How she slaves and nobody appreciates it. She oculd have forced down just one.

I’ve had grits before. Mostly tasteless.

That’s why you add sugar (white or brown) or maple syrup to them! ;-)

Way to be supportive mom