For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 22, 2020

There may be times at 3AM when…never mind.

wrong choice of words (who could be on the phone?)

that’s what I would’ve said !

Better of the baby then herself

Reminds me of the little girl who answered the phone and it was their pastor. Mom was in the kitchen trying to get ketchup out of the bottle by hitting the bottom of the bottle and the little girl told the pastor “Mom’s in the kitchen hitting the bottle.”

The Patterson’s must have missed parenting class the night they discussed putting the baby in the swing after it’s been hung.

Suspending my sibling.

She ain’t wrong

Most Jolly Jumpers I have seen have a clamp that you use to clamp around the top of the door frame. I have never seen one that you screw directly into the frame like that.

To a kid that’s exactly what it would look like!

So was she being like Elizabeth or Duh-lizabeth? :P

That’s about like the mom trying to get ketsup out and the kid told that she was “hitting the bottle.”

There’s an old Family Circus where one of the boys tells a caller, “She can’t come to the phone right now. She’s in the shower with the plumber.” Mom is seen helping the plumber hang a new shower curtain rod. Still funny today!

LMAO!

Okay, this is where rumors start and how child services get involved. John having an affair. Ella hanging the baby. It all piles up.

I chortled!

I mean you are hanging the baby up so she’s not lying.

I was helping my neighbor wallpaper her bathroom. With five young kids, we had locked the bathroom door to keep one of them from opening it and knocking me off the step ladder. I heard the doorbell, and heard someone ask if her mommy was home. “Yes, but she’s locked in the bathroom with Mrs. Wertz.”

Little girl tells her teacher her parents have a lot of weed. Well she really meant weeds in the backyard. lol.

You may be next, Elizabeth.

That is funny.

I hope that hook holds.

Out of the mouths of babes…

A Jolly Jumper. Those are now banned. Stupid thing to do. They helped babies learn to stand. If the parent was right there ( as they should be) there was no chance of injury. But…sociologists say they were dangerous. Bull feathers.

In this case by the seat.

If it’s someone who knows the Pattersons well, then they’ll understand what Elizabeth meant.