The Society Pages

As we draw close to the end of another year, I would like to reflect on what has changed in our society.
And what has not changed at all.

On the left are pieces from various newspapers.  I put the equivalent on the right.  Also, I do not apologize for my use of pun names whatsoever.  So click on the picture and enjoy perusing the Society Pages!

Merry Christmas!

This is a drawing I did for our Uncle who loves HAM radio.

Happiest of Christmases to you and yours!

Karaoke Christmas

I've never seen an Ugly Sweater Party
I hope to never see one...
But I can tell you, me harty,
I'd rather see than be in one.

And that concludes my horrifying parody on Ogden Nash.  I wish it concluded Ugly Sweaters...

Happy birthday, Short Man!

Happy birthday to my "short"man and little bro.
Love ya, dude!
(You'll be getting this in the mail and you'll like it.)

Bureaucracy vs Big Business

Part two of the cookie dough wars.
Dad may be a bureaucrat, but Mom is Big Business.  She makes the dough, she takes the dough.

Effective Theft-Prevention Devices

This goes out to all of you Christmas cookie makers out there who try with admirable effort to maintain proper cookie dough levels so as to have the correct output for presents and treats for loved ones.

No cookie dough was harmed in the making of this comic.  I can't guarantee complete theft-prevention through the use of this method.

Iris Fairies

Over a year ago my goddaughter was born and this past June her mother asked me to draw a fairy picture to hang in her room.  It only took about six months, but at last here it is, ready to be shipped off!

The beautiful young ladies are my nieces who kindly posed to look as though one was telling a story and the other two listening.  The irises I drew came from the fairy-models' grandmother who dug them up and gave them to me a few years ago.  Little did I know that they, and the young ladies who likely helped her dig them up, would be a subject in a drawing!  Quite cyclical.

Please don't use this or any of my images for commercial or personal use.  Contact me for permissions.

Thanks!

Making Up for the Holidays

The amount of times that I have mascara running or my hair attacking the sky or my shoes mismatched and NO ONE HAS TOLD ME is quite a high number.

Travel Necessities

In case you can't read it...click on the image!
Otherwise, it reads as follows:

Travel Necessities for 1st Baby

Diaper Bag with more pockets than a Boy Scout:
4 kinds of diapers
5 baby outfits
2 mommy outfits
wipes
wipes warmer
hand sanitizer
bum cream
hand cream
eye circle cream
bulb syringe
brand name changing pad
snacks
formula
bottles
bottle brushes
nursing cape
inflatable nursing pillow
nursing pads
toy sanitizer
scented diaper trash bags
baby carrier
43 rings to hold discarded toys

top of the line
baby stroller with
designer car seat

Specialty nursing top
with hidey flaps to
breastfeed in case baby
refuses bottle

6 visible toys
to keep baby happy


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Travel Necessities for 4th Baby

Snacks (mummy milk)
Ergonomic baby carrier
Diaper in pocket
3 visible baby toys (aka kids)

Pintrocity

I can NOT for the life of me do a Pinterest project without serious mayhem or sadness or crying or bizarre fuzzy things stuck to my hair all day.

Have Yourself a Not So Early Christmas

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm usually the one who decorates the house so thoroughly that it looks like an elf exploded inside-out and bled tinsel on the windowpanes.  But sometimes you need to let the turkey settle in your stomach first.

Fleece Weather Problems

I shed on my husband's fleece coat merely to mark my territory.  It has nothing to do with stress or many children or the fact that I steal his fleece and wear it more than my own.  Honestly...

Powdered Sugar

Dear Dom is rather like my own three-year old who would just as readily believe that God should be Mummy-fearing instead of the other way around.

Extra-ordinarily Bored

A peak into the world around the Peebles.  

Fall and Resurrection

Happy Veteran's Day

Happy Wife, Happy Life

11/7/2014 EDITED to correct car content.  Dammit, Jim, I'm a wife, not a mechanic!

Knit Pro-Tip

I'm looking at you, Brandon Sanderson, I'm looking at you...

Daylight Lying Times

Daylight Savings Time

My world of sleep is crashing around my ears. How about you?

(The savings is a lie.)

Parental Halloween Rights

Happy Halloween!

Spider Cooties!!

The Great [Diaper] Escape

Out smarted by the escape artist.

Therapy

Magic Portal of Forgetfulness

I can't blame motherhood.  I did this as a kid too.

Selfie

Thanks, married friends, but no thanks.

I am Groot

Mummy's Helper

World Famous Singer

Fourth Child Syndrome

Swordfights

In the heat of battle, it's easy as a parent to scream the wrong name.  Screaming colors makes things infinitely easier.

Trilogies

Audio Diet

Handsome Please

Innocence and Ignorance

Patience

Eyes in the Back of My Head

Geek Dads

Definition of Futility

Water Parks

Payday

Expectation vs reality.

Turkey and Cheek

(Big head nod to Neil Hurlbut, without whom I would never have thought of the atrocity that is TURKEY bacon.)

Being Green

Misplaced Hygiene

I didn't need that toothbrush anyway...

Weapons of Mouse Destruction

(No cats were harmed in the drawing of this comic, nor does the creator of the comic wish harm on any animal.  I cannot speak for the Mouse Mob, however.)

Mom's New Diet

Prayer of the Faithfully Overheated

God's love is unconditional.  The air conditioning is not.

Movie Night

(Big head nod to John L. Snyder for this idea.  Thanks, Pop.)

Hi, I'm not here right now...

...but if you would ONLY leave your name and number, I might call you back.  In a few years...when I'm done listening to your message.

Terrifying Trouser Trauma

If it fits, I sips

Don't try to be smart at your spouse before coffee.  Just don't.