<p>Unfortunately, “Zits” isn’t featured on <a href=“http://www.comics.com%5B/url%5D”>www.comics.com</a></p>
<p>But today’s is, I suspect, relevant to some parents of hs seniors right now.</p>
<p>Worth tracking down if your paper doesn’t carry it.</p>
<p>TheDad, I was just sitting in the kitchen smiling with tears running down my face, thinking I wished there was some way to post it online here! And someone else clearly had the same idea!</p>
<p>There used to be an online source, but they’ve just closed. I recommend you try to find it, everyone. I don’t have a senior, but it hit me right where my mother-genes hang out.</p>
<p>Here you go: <a href=“http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/zits.asp[/url]”>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/zits.asp</a></p>
<p>AP, got a “Content Currently Unavailable” on that link.</p>
<p>MootMom, I understand. Even if it’s not <em>quite</em> my reaction, I was in sympathy with it.</p>
<p>Try this:
<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm?name=Zits[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/comics/king.htm?name=Zits</a></p>
<p>but audiophile’s worked for me, too. Of course, as the mom of a newly returned home college freshman, staring at the disembodied contents of his dorm room (since he was a Visiting student) in my front hall, my sentiments might be a <em>little</em> different.</p>
<p>Ah. It appears that my Norton Interent Security is interfering with viewing. Tried the solution, didn’t get it to work the first time. Maybe I’ll have to re-start my computer.</p>
<p>Okay, now it works…my next complaint is image size. Waiters hate me.</p>
<p>Ah, the cute & cuddly days, how quickly they flew by! Son was NOT amused by the Zits. Daughter (age 16) wasn’t either. <sigh></sigh></p>
<p>Hey, I was sniffling over Zits this morning, too! Thought I was just in a maudlin mood due to missing a brunch due to fear of driving in freezing rain, but maybe not if others had a similar reaction.</p>
<p>Somehow, I don’t think that current teenage sons and daughters will connect with today’s “Zits” nearly as much as parents will. I sometimes go a bit goopy in the presence of a verbally precocious 8-10 year old girl.</p>
<p>My H was the one who first spotted this cartoon in Sunday’s paper. He handed it to me and quipped, “Look like anyone you know?” I just had to laugh. It’s so very true. I look at my son this way all a lot!</p>
<p>Yes, I noticed that one, too, showed it to my son and he rolled his eyes.
While you’re in the mood, try reading the last chapter of The House at Pooh Corner–keep your Kleenex handy.</p>
<p>O.K. all, mine has been home for the first time since June: no IB exams, papers, college apps, sats, no concerts, no college work since trimester is over–what is he doing in this down time for the first time in several years? He is going through all his “old” stuff and is now playing Oregon Trail. I believe in his mind he revisiting the kid in the cartoon for just a little while. Shhhhh…</p>
<p>I also had tears in my eyes when I saw that cartoon. My oldest is getting married in a few weeks and my youngest (of 2) is a freshman in college this year. I showed it to my oldest and he understood completely that it was me.</p>
<p>Geez- after seeing this, I ALMOST offered to take one of my sister’s young ones for a weekend…Almost!
Instead, I’ll have to be content with my fond, fading memories of my teens as little ones! Sigh…</p>
<p>I printed off the cartoon and had it laying on a table. My oldest, who arrived here Sunday, said he’d seen it in the paper before he left. I asked him if he thought of me. He said a different one reminded him more of me: the one that shows Jeremy’s mom going through contortions of fear while Jeremy is at the wheel of the car, then the last frame shows Jeremy waiting in the driveway, saying, “Could you at least wait until I’m on the road?”</p>
<p>That cartoon had me teary too…I’ve cut out and posted a few on the fridge or in an album. The driving ones are hilarious (and true) and the ones where the son is eating/dressing in the car going to school hit home. I usually get an eye roll, but my son did laugh when I showed him the one of the mom giving her son his laundry to put away and him saying “thanks” as he shuts the door and throws it on the floor! I’m glad I can’t see his dorm room next year!</p>