Category: Life

PNE = Pacific National Exhibition In the last hurrah of what residual summer was left, I took the kids to the fair last week. The twins are now just about fully potty-trained and thus I spent a good chunk of time with them just lining up for the bathrooms! LOL My biggest fear is what…

So this literally happened with the twins…. LOL they are deathly afraid of bugs!

If anyone’s interested, I’ve got a 1-minute time lapse video of this on my Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/yangstercomics) that shows my process of drawing. You can see where I struggle when I draw… In the meantime, I wish you all a very healthy and happy new year in 2021!! -Laura

I probably spent too much time trying to get the shading right. If anyone wants to know how to shade terribly, hit me up! LOL Oh gosh, I need help! :p  

Even though it’s Julyuary on the west coast of Canada here (current temperature of 20C or 68F), the summer flies are alive and well. Though, due to cooler and wet conditions, the mosquitoes are particularly bad :s One of my pet peeves is the darned house fly, also known as the “poo fly” in our…

Based on a true story.

This week my 5 year old daughter came home from school claiming she was punched in the face by a male classmate. Uh-oh, here we go again… dramaramarama. I listened to her and let her explain what she could but secretly I’m the first to quickly dismiss her claims. She did have noticeable darker indentation…

Happy New Year! Just when I was about to draw about zits, this beautiful true story happened the other day. I was floored, flooooored I tells yas!! 🙂 The cashier was stunned at how old I really am. LOL Oh the simple pleasures in life, as we get older! Hope your holidays were full of…

This is the reason I don’t like looking in the mirror… I want to deny the reality that I am no longer young and fit… that my body no longer repairs itself as fast as it once did. The aches, the pains, the stretch marks and cellulite I suppose are a badge to motherhood, or…

Well, today marks the 1 year anniversary from whence these twinkies entered the world. Life is a blur as everyday truly is survival. That old age cliche is true, the days are long but the years are short! And just a disclaimer, no, we do not let our children climb on counters to knock vases…

I wake up 2 or 3 times a night per twin… why can’t I sleep train them?!! Maybe I’ve become so feeble-hearted in my old age. Lately the twins have sprouted some little nuggets of teeth so the past few days have been particularly whiney and painful for them. Lots of extra hugs and cuddles…

The twins are 10 months old now and have been on solids for half their life! I’ve been waiting for the inevitable jagged edges of baby teeth cutting through their gums as my oldest had her first tooth appear at 7 months. Finally, fiiiiinally my girl just cut her first tooth. The boy is still…

I am naturally a pretty high energy person, even before kids. The aroma of coffee never did anything for me until my pregnancy with the twins. It was almost like I wanted so badly what I was now not able to drink so much of. I indulged maybe once a week, maximum one cup per…

This is art imitating life. My formerly easy going child who ate everything has become this opinionated picky eater. This conversation literally happened exactly as is, minus the Frenchy bits. Anyone else have kids who are picky eaters??

So I’ve been experimenting with different comic formats. Most of my readers view my comics on cell phones so in an effort not to spoil the punchline too soon (this is extremely important to me), I’ve used the “vertical scroll” format. It is a lot easier just doing a simple “square” format that fits nicely…

I once read an article on useful German words that the English language could probably adopt. One such word is Ohrwurm, or earworm. Fluentu.com describes it this way: Have you ever listened to a song on the radio while driving to work only to find yourself still humming the same tune by lunch time? Congratulations, you’ve had…

These days sleep is very scant. Even when the twins are asleep at the same time, I should be too! I just find myself drawn (pardon the pun LOL) to making the most of the day, alas here I am at 2:16am in the morning. I can’t rest until it’s done! X__X

So this was the cartoon I had on the back burner last week so that I could ink this cartoon. I don’t really have any further comments except to say #truth.

Yep, so…. speaking from experience, the Mommy Brain thing is verrrrrrry real. Thought of this cartoon while I was hallucinating from lack of sleep. Or maybe, I wasn’t hallucinating? HAHA! I guess I’ll never know, or will I?? *sigh*

Anyone who has contact with a toddler during mealtime knows my pain… at least my child and my friends with kids seem to eat at the same rate. I wonder if they all band together and conspire to test their parents’ patience one painfully slow bite at a time.

I truly believe that one of life’s greatest pleasures is to watch children (and people) grow and mature. This is why I’m a teacher… I love the payoff of watching students learn and better themselves over the years. There’s nothing like witnessing and maybe contributing to human progress before your very eyes. I have a Taiwanese…