Category: life

  • Calcium Deficit

    Calcium Deficit

    All the times I found myself in the kitchen seriously considering if it would have been better to still be sick because then I could at least have as much [food containing calcium] as I wanted…

  • Garbage Jenga

    Garbage Jenga

    We really felt for the people working at the kid party venue who were waiting to clean the room and had to watch the garbage tower grow more and more unmanageable.

  • You’re Scaring Him

    You’re Scaring Him

    I mean, once you have kids, you’ll wonder why you waited so long! (Even if only because you’ll imagine it would have been easier to handle when you were younger and more energetic in general.)

  • Dead Ringers

    Dead Ringers

    Sadly, I did think that the basic plot of The Lord of the Rings was enough in the cultural zeitgeist that stopping someone over spoilers was a joke in itself. Then I remembered how many years it’s been since the movies came out.

  • Persuasion 100

    Persuasion 100

    My kids have definitely figured out what kinds of things will motivate me.

  • Forget The Alarm

    Forget The Alarm

    To clarify: that’s not “me” in the comic – that’s not how I (outwardly) wake up. I got to hear this happen one day when one of my kids woke up to the usual school day alarm and decided to try this approach for dealing with it.

  • Eye Don’t Get It

    Eye Don’t Get It

    Honestly, I’m not even sure if reading in the dark is actually bad for you, but people sure brought it up a bunch growing up. I don’t recall reading in the dark often, but I also didn’t like carrots as a kid, so I’m sure that didn’t help with my terrible eyesight.

  • Parental Leave

    Parental Leave

    Yeah, that’s right: I’m taking a day off for each time I went through labor. Every year. Forever.

  • Un-emergency

    Un-emergency

    I understand that there are legal cover-your-ass reasons that they have to consider the worst case scenario when you call for medical advice, but it’s not always the worst case, you know?

  • Party Crashers

    Party Crashers

    Maybe it seems weird to imagine attending a stranger’s birthday party and nobody realizing it, but especially for those younger kid parties: you might not have ever met any of the parents or the other kids. Fun fact: little kids can be hilariously bad at identifying people! Trust but verify.