Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for July 21, 2024

And fall asleep into the sink!

I take it that the family is not into snacks.

IT´S A TRAP!

Very clever of you Wanda.

Sometimes parent need to run interference for each other. It’s one of the advantages of having two.

Well Darryl, she didn’t specify where.

Be careful what you wish for, they tell me.

Panel one, did the kids have a lot of sugar?!!

She made him an admiral. He’s in charge of all the vessels.

if you wanted to be alone, should’na come home

Ugh, really! You wouldn’t happen to be related to the Wicked Witch of the West by any chance, would you?

She’s right. As a kid, my parents assigned my younger brother and myself to do the dishes. He ghosted the first chance he got and I was left alone to do the dishes. I was happy that I was being left alone. To this day I don’t mind doing dishes.

Why in the world aren’t they using a dishwasher? And no, I don’t mean the kids.

He should have said “time alone tonight with you” wink, wink.

All he wanted to do was relax.

Poor guy. I feel for him.

Wanda’s not the sort of woman you want to marry…

Darryl, take what you can get.

Daryl, instead of just sitting there and letting your kids run wild, you could throttle them down, and teach them in house behavior. Just a thought, your house, your rules.

My 2-year old granddaughter would come up behind me, and smack on the rear, then run for safety. She still was too little to get up on the couch, but she was very ‘motivated’ with me ‘roaring.’

You stepped into that one Darryl.

What ever works….

Daryl might just enjoy washing up. For years, Dads have been escaping to cellars or garages in veiled attempts to fix something in private. If you look at it, this too is “fixing” in quiet privacy…..plus think of the brownie points!

You asked now you have peace, just work.

How is that famous quote, how does it go? Children are the best contraceptive. :D

Hide in your nose.

I always did the family laundry (and still do). No one will bother you. I had a TV and my workout equipment and blessed peace.

Its the truth, say dishes and everyone scatters like rats on a sinking ship.

You play, you pay.

Youtube shorts showed me a video the other day in which a young dad carried a baby up to mommy, who was doing dishes, to say hi. She smiled, reached for baby, handed daddy the scrubber, and walked off with baby. Daddy smiled, turned toward the sink… and then realized he was now stuck doing the dishes. Smooth.

soooo true because if they do, he is going to say can you help me

She’s right. And actually, it’s part of the reason I like doing the dishes.

Killing two birds with one washing.