Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for December 03, 2012

Do it, do it! Wally asks for so little in return for what he gives; do it!

Please, Wally, don’t take Joan to Idaho; ’twill feel like a rip-off!

You don’t get a romantic outing to Paris with kids on your trail. I bet on baby-sitting :) (we’re grandparents, so we have experience …!!!)

Are you kidding? It’s Paris, for pete’s sake…let them behuman just once. Ditch the kids and run.

Just don’t end up staying over there for three months.

I just did this! Although my kids are older than Max and Luci, my husband and I celebrated our anniversary in Paris this year. The first time traveling without kids (they stayed with friends bc we don’t have family nearby… do it and do it first class if you can!

Since these kids never get older, might as well take advantage before Evie heads off to Guatemala

It can be fun either with or without the kids. Discovered parts of Paris I never would have seen without the kids picking out things to do on the their days of the vacation. Also taking your teenage daughter to the Tower of London in England to see the queens jewels, gave her a great perspective on what to expect in jewlery from her now husband. Boy, does he hate me.

‘Evie’ like so many before me—Tell Wallie you’ll watch the kids because he asks for so little in return from the family for what he does and Joan does deserve it.

as long as it is not Paris Texas…….go for it.

Evie’s down for this one :) you can tell in the second panel.

Ah, I see. They’re going to skimp on the gifts to the kids – one present only – but take each other to Paris. That’s so going to make the kids so much happier about the slim pickings! Wally will be lucky if the kids don’t burn him in effigy on the lawn…

Yes I would babysit !! Trravel is the best !!!

Actually, there seem to be a number of Parises (or New Parises) in the U. S. According to tohttp://helenathegreat.hubpages.com/hub/UnitedStatesParisthere are twenty-three. They name two for Wisconsin, which I frequent, but I know there’s also a “New Paris” which is a tiny subdivision or something nestled in Plymouth, WI.

But it’s only one present.

Well a gift basket is only one present but full of all sorts of things. That’s how we do it. although we still haven’t found a basket large enough. :-)

it was Joan that had the austerity speech, not Wally.

We’ve seen what one tango did for them — what will Paris do?

She can’t object. This is what grandparents are for.

Aw come on Evie help them out. Wally and Joan need time away. Wished we could and ours are adults. Money main issued.I’ve been away and could not comment busy with on-line class and nearing the end for the semester.Other days missed comics.

simpsonfan, A & B. Maybe he’ll ask her to babysit and she will instead offer to pay for him to take the family.

Do it now. My mother always to go to Ireland, my father was cheap and waited until she got cancer – then he did not have to take her..

I’m betting for them all to go, and Alix can find new bugs with her magnifying glass. But the best reaction will be when the kids find out what escargot really are!

I’m all for Paris alone, together, and Evie babysitting. Wouldmake a much better storyline. She could get Unca Andy to help…:-) this could be Evie’s love gift to her daughter: thetrip of a lifetime. Wow.