Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for October 25, 2008

let us examine that query from the ‘then,’ shall we?

I think I would have given Alix the top 10 things about motherhood she doesn’t know now. Which Val may be considering in panel 2, with that expression.

My cats ask the same question. Why do I have them if I don’t want to devote every waking minute to them, feeding them, petting them, fulfilling their every desire?

Those of us who have chosen to be childfree and have to work overtime to cover for “Working Mothers” who have called out again with a sick kid again ask ourselves this everyday. How dare this mother presume her brat will opt to become a mother. Maybe the kid’s smarter than Mom and won’t choose to breed.

My song is apropos to here, too:

Oh gee, I’m really glad I’m not a mommy, A mommy’s what I never want to be; ‘Cause if I ever were to be a mommy, There would soon be nothing left of me.

Just wait honey, just wait……