Posted on 09/01/2009 8:24:28 AM PDT by blueminnesota
You guessed it -- Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar were just thrilled to announce that they're expecting their 19th child. As usual, Viera just oohed and ahhed over the fantastic news, which comes only a few months after the eldest Duggar kid, Josh, announced that his new wife Anna is expecting their first child.
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TC with nine...and only one washer/dryer; regular sized kitchen YOU should write the parenting/organization book.
I actually got to see their interview, on the Today Show w/Meridith Viera (via the link). Their new ‘season’ premiers tonight. And the girls (and Michelle) have had mini-make overs (they look great...much more contemporary, and now not all dressing alike; hair redone; eyebrows shaped—TLC’s doing?). Barring more flames, I may have to tune in to see if Jenna and Jinger (with a ‘j’) are out of the laundry room yet...if so, I will feel worlds better about Duggar reality TV.
Yes, LONG before the TV show.
I've been telling you for years that you needed to put your kids to work and make money off of them. I even offered to set-up the business, for a sizable cut of the profit! :-)
Women who give birth many times are usually bothered by a prolapse uterus, don’t know about ruptured....prolapse is quite common...It can actually fall out part way.
My parenting book would include adult beverages prominently ;-).
I figure Jinger is the one who will totally freak out when she turns 18, to get back at them for dumb name. That said, I do all the laundry at my house: I don’t trust the rest of them with my machines! I delegate almost all the dishes, though.
If you lived around here, I’d be happy to hire out the whole batch! My mom was going to buy a laundromat once, back in the early 80s. She got fairly far along in the process before she hit a snag with the cost of liability insurance, iirc.
LOL...it only takes seeing a kid trying to ‘force’ an extra pair of jeans into the washer (’hey, I do this in the dorm allllll the time’) to make you rethink them using your equipment.
I think we once had an online FReep discussion about my obcessing over a cherry red Kenmore set (which I never got
:( but still covet...oh well). Maybe I can get my upgrades if I can shop around my own reality show...”moms who blog?”
My grandmother had my mother in 1914 at the age of 46 yrs. mom was the last of 16 all born at home...she was a tough lady and lived to be 83, mom lived the longest of all, she was 85...
so just maybe Mrs. Duggar is good for a couple more...very nice looking family, they will always have someone to be by their side in troubled times..God has Blessed them...
lol it took me 14 yrs. just to get two!!!!
Oh, I think she could be good for a couple more, but she has to be coming to the end. However, I don’t think 46 is out of the question for her.
A uterine prolapse can be repaired surgically. It’s done all the time.
Yes, I remember your wanting the red washer. I had a friend in Oklahoma who painted her laundry room bright red with Black Forest kitsch stencilling and a collection of German beer steins. She said it kept her from being homesick for Germany, and nobody else in the family had to look at it!
As I said up thread, my kids started doing their own laudry at about 8-14. That was about the time that a couple of them started whining about not having their favorite garment washed just when they wanted it. I took them to the machine, showed them the soap and the buttons and gave up that job forever. They were required to find a sibling with similar colored clothes that needed washing and combine loads, if they didn’t have a full load.
They had already been folding clean wash from kindergarten on. They used to sit on the floor watching Sesame Street and folding their clothes.
Didn’t hurt them a bit, and none of them suffered the humiliation of *pink* underwear their first year in college.
BTW, my oldest son accused my husband and me of *spoiling* them after he got out of college. This was when he was looking to buy his first house and found out how expensive they were! I had a good laugh over that!
Uterine rupture is very rare and I never had a patient with that problem...
Lucky!
They are responsbile, smart, caring family. I am the 10th of 11 children and we were the “big kids” and the “little kids” the "boys" and the "girls". We slept in bunkbeds and the older “kids” were responsible for helping out with the little kids. It didn’t hurt us in any way. My oldest brother and my oldest sister are my Godparents!
God Bless the Duggars. They are fanstastic..such a refreshing change from the slutty fake shows out there today.
I tell mine they’ll have to go to the laundromat if they want GarmentX before I get to it. I *know* they’ve got drawers full of clothes, anyway!
I don’t put their clothes away, although I do my husband’s. I sort them into piles by room and leave heaps by the doors!
Exactly my point.
They feed the entire family for less than $2000 a month, built their own house — including the kids pitching in — and are debt free and have income properties.
TLC has been filming them for several years now, including a whole year of them building their steel-framed house.
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