Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for December 18, 2022

No wonder you have such bad luck at Christmas time Wanda. You shouldn’t give a small child like Wren a ornament with the tree hook in it. She’s trying to put it in her mouth.

How can you burn a whole turkey? The top part, sure. But there is some meat in there that is still good.

Why’d they wait two weeks to decorate the tree?

Christmas at the MacPhersons. If invited, I will politely decline.

Apparently Wanda isn’t a great cook

Ah the price of required comedic yuletide antics.

I remember when my father decided that, instead of the front porch, he tried to put our light-up Santa on the roof. He fell off the roof & busted his wrist so badly…it was pretty gross. However, as my mother was getting ready to take him to the hospital, I noticed some red on his coat collar & started laughing. My younger brother saw it & laughed, too. Dad picked up on it & laughed, too. My mother, just about ready to kill us, asked what was so funny. Dad: “What did you do before I took Santa outside?” Mom: “I touched up some worn spots on his suit.” Dad: “What did you use?” Mom: Lipstick. The 3 of us started singing, ♫ Lipstick on your collar… ♫ Mom was STILL not amused. (For the record, my older brother now has that Santa…but his wife never wears lipstick.)

Turkey for Christmas, so soon after Thanksgiving?

What? No good memories?

“Wren, you see what you’re doing there? Stop it!”

(With a tip ’o the cap to Howard Wolowitz, on “The Big Bang Theory” ☺)

Is that why the snowman is green?

CHRISTMAS MEMORY ORNAMENTS that is what they have..

How in the world do you burn a Turkey?

I still have, by sheer luck, the two boxes of Handblown glass ornaments we received so many years ago. One is a 12 piece set of figures, the other is a 16 piece set of intricately blown glass balls, some with various patterns in the centers others intricate painted. Both were wedding presents, a popular Bavarian traditional gift. We have added to them over the years. I just love the beauty of well crafted hand blown and painted glass ornaments.

The true spirit of Christmas.

One needs Santa to cheer you up if you’ve fallen off a ladder.

Did they get one for the time Wren got stitches, Hammie sprained his arm, Zoe’s fingers smashed in the van door, and Darryl fell in the emergency room parking lot all in the same day? I imagine that ornament would be a doozy.

Turkey at Christmas? Nope. Brisket or ham or, for this year, standing rib roast. And Nanaimo bars!!!!!!!

Nice to see a strip that depicts real life incidents.

Maybe a Christmas ornament, for a year that the characters have a giant Christmas letdown!

Good times!!

Depends, does the Santa have a cast on his right leg or his left leg?

Time to change things up Wanda.

Oof Dah! When the O.R. gives out ornaments with the year embossed on it (and your family name).

This year’s Christmas disaster is someone tried to steal my car. Because so many people are trying to steal supposedly unstealable cars, immobilizers are on backlog, and it may take a week or two to fix it. Everyone is traveling and renting cars for the holiday, so there are no loaner cars available.

Haha! XD Wow are they accident prone!