Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 17, 2013

Way to go, Max’s stepdaddy Wally.

Joy kill

That would be Luci

Been there, done that. But it wasn’t so funny then. lol

Seems to me Max was in the picture (literally) long before Wally and Joan even started going together, maybe even before Wally was a character in the strip.

About Stone Soup

Jan Eliot’s funny and irreverent Stone Soup follows the saga of an extended, blended family, starring two working-mom sisters living just across the fence from each other. Val and Joan share life with their opinionated mother, a middle-school diva and 10-year-old tomboy, a reclusive teenage boy, a wild preschooler and his new baby sister…and of course Wally, the ultimate nice guy who steps into his stepdad shoes with grace amid the chaos. Working-parent hassles, pre-school tantrums, middle-school angst, love and the single mom… it’s all here in Stone Soup.

Oops!

The ONLY downside.

One of my father-in-law’s friends, who had been a football pro back in his day, nearly gave us all heart attacks when he scooped up our baby and gave her a ride on his shoulders. He was about 62, fast and tall, and the door arches in the house relatively low-lying, but since he’d been a pro and had good depth perception and all, nothing bad happened.

The menfolk here both do that without anyone on their shoulders—doorframes only come to 6’8". Ducking is a way of life when you’re taller than that.

to think that in the old house we lived in…I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM BUT FOR AROUND 10 YEARS!