Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 10, 2015

The baby isn’t born yet and Rick is already an absentee father (he has to get the clutch on the Volvo fixed).

Can’t win for losing.Nothing he could’ve done would’ve been right, somehow.

All this for the Red Rascal.

I prefer to go on my own to have anything painful done … who wants their partner see them scream

Run yourself down enough times, and everyone will start to believe it.

Wonder whether Joanie is clinically depressed. This reminds me of a story I read in last Sunday’s NY Times.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/style/crawling-back-from-the-ledge.html?_r=0I also read an article on how pregnancy can trigger depression in some women.

Be sure to get video of your partner coming home anesthetized, many hours of humor and a great blackmail threat.

this was the very bad style of the day, appearance of independence. our extended cartoon family illustrates well the cavalier attitudes exhibited by people of this generation in that days, and yes, it was F’d up especially for the children expected to be little versions of adults. Hyperactive was the label, ritalin was the drug of choice, or time outs for inappropriate, so called, behaviors. Selflessly selfish, many figured they were doing the kids a favor no babying them. Yes, always go with your mate to medical consults, let alone procedures, they may hear what you don’t. And if uncomfortable to have your partner see you at your worst, better now than later, because eventually we all will. Any mate worth their salt will stick by you if they love you. Would you want someone else comforting your children when they are in pain? hope not. Isn’t this the lady who punched her husband and left him and their kids behind because he echoed some stupid meme from an old TV commercial? Domestic abuse, self centered. I guess she found a good mate, getting the clutch fixed. Jeff is not as much of a jerk as i thought, he is a survivor. Love them all anyway. Always have, and miss seeing updates on the newest members, the timewarpingly precocious twins

No. I am not counting your chins. I just thought you were still eating pancakes, that’s all.

Cocoa/hot chocolate always burns my tongue, but even if I know it’s still too hot, I want it too much, and it gets me. Then everything else tastes flat for a while. Gaahhh!