Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for July 27, 2009
Transcript:
Val: Sis, do you think I'm CRANKY? Joan: CRANKY?! Joan: Well...you're a widow who works full time while raising two kids...you live with your mother...then you listen to the NEWS every day... Joan: All things considered, who WOULDN'T be? Val: So you DO think I'm cranky!! Joan: I did not say that...
When Val first began dating Phil, Holly was not happy. At that time, they discussed Holly’s memories of her dad & that she missed him. Joan’s husband left her when Max was a baby. She moved in with Val and their mother but Wally, who lived next door, soon began courting her, they married and had baby girl. The children in this strip do not age in real time. Max has been in the terrible twos far too long.