That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 28, 2018

Esmee and Hans seemed to have nothing to say to each other since the baby was born.

“Go fish. No, really! All we have is bread here!”

Even though her husband was starving, Agnes would always touch the food to lay claim to it.

“I don’t know who he was. Just some dwarf! He came in, handed me the baby, plunked three gold coins down and said if we’d keep the kid until she’s twelve, there’d be more of the same every month. Eat your strudel.”

Billie Jean is not my lover….She’s just a girl who claims that I am the one!

Who’s talking? Him of her?

Quick—over the man’s right shoulder! Big Brother? John Bolton?

“..and he said that if I keep bugging him for a raise, he’ll take away my company car, too.”

Little food, few furnishings, they are in Dutch.

Where did you get this chair; at an elementary school?

Because of the baby, no Canary Island vacation this year!

You old fool, we got the worst table in the joint. I told you to tip the maître d’

Six months is a guaranteed MINIMUM in the EU. This must be the USA or some other third world country.

Funny thing is… I know someone who just had a baby and the husband got 9 months paid paternity leave from his company and the woman, who carried, bore and has to nurse the child, does not get paid maternity leave from her job, at all. She’s a teacher. Something very, very wrong with our country.

A Peasant Family at Lunch: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Neuhuys_-_Middagmaal_in_een_boerengezin.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size, watercolor painting.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPhLoy0FICMC&pg=PA255#v=onepage&q&f=false 

http://www.artindex.nl/noordholland/default.asp?id=6&num=0873900087022030003060077001830960501901 

both have info about this artist (the first truncated and under the old Dutch spelling of his last name, the second has a Select Language translation button), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. Perhaps those who read Dutch can find more (I couldn’t, that Chrome could automatically translate, even with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions/). This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1961 (May 27, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

No, sitting in front of the fire does not qualify as ‘popcorn and a movie’.