Live And Let Live, Laugh, Love

In this house, the Family and Household Bylaws are not to be trifled with.

Sarah Layden
Slackjaw

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Brandi Alexandra, https://unsplash.com/photos/ykYknpMsndk

Family meeting! Take a seat, kids. We, your parents, have noticed that the walls are suddenly empty of the décor we’ve spent years lovingly arranging in every room. We have also located in the storage shed all of the missing framed inspirational sayings in fancy fonts.

Obviously, this was an inside job.

Listen, sugar beets. We remember well our teenage years and the conflicts that ensued with our own parents. Like zero wiggle room, whereas the two of you get wiggle room aplenty. We like to think of ourselves as relatively laid-back Gen Xers, and while we’re not as strict as your grandparents — OK Boomer, am I right? — the Family and Household Bylaws are not to be trifled with.

Please open your binders to Section III, Article Five, where you’ll see a new amendment scheduled for notarization first thing in the morning. In this house, the policy is: Live and Let Live, Laugh, Love. All signage expressing same shall be respected and given wall space as designated by us, the mortgage holders of 93 Magnolia Lane.

The 18 x 24 “Live, Laugh, Love” canvas print has been reinstalled in the foyer. The centerpiece of our wall hangings, it is also the heart of our family belief…

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Sarah Layden
Slackjaw

Humor & novels & short stories & a textbook & op-eds. (It's fine.) Writer, reader, teacher. http://www.sarahlayden.com