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03/11/2006
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Tonight on TLC: 16 Children and Moving In.
All's I'm saying is that's an awful lot of Duggars.
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Lord, save me from the Duggers.
For the first time in my adult life I have cable. I am tempted to watch this but I have a feeling that pulling my leg hair out individually with tweezers might be less wince-inducing.
If the five minutes I caught, including a tired-looking Ma Duggar gamely cooing about finally having a romantic bedroom and Pa joking that now they can get to work on number 17 are any indication...
...Yes. Bring on the Tweezermans!
See, I watch you trying to distract us from the non-posting post-maternal-fetal specialist meeting, and I ignore the sinking feeling in my stomach (because wouldn't you have posted good news?), and I tell you: it is not working. Not even the Duggars are going to distract me from the non-responsive post-meeting silence.
If it was bad news, whatever bad news means, I'm sorry. If it was inconclusive news, I'm almost more sorry, because man, does inconclusive medical news drive me crazy.
Oh, fine, I'm a little distracted. Pa Duggar wants to use the romantic bedroom to try for number 17? EEEEEEEEEEK.
There is nothing even remotely romantic about 17 children, unless you are talking about the fantasy where you ditch the lot of them and run off with the post-vasectomy pool-boy. Or something.
I just watched it.
When they got to the part where Momma Duggar gets to see her new bedroom and they showed the candelabra all lit up and romantic looking, all I could think of was the Duggars getting it on. And I literally felt sick to my stomach.
I DVR'd it! Those people amaze, and frighten me!!!
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I'm all PMS-y and cranky right now, and right smack dab in the middle of a baby jones. I am SO looking forward to making snide comments and weeping into a pillow. And drinking wine. And whiskey. Because i'm not pregnant, you know, and I can do it, sweet jebus. Hmph.
i saw the promo and thought of you. i am taping it. :-) that surely is an ASSLOAD of Duggars.
I'm watching it as I type. I just had to after that wonderful testimonial of yours!! ;-) I can not IMAGINE having that many kids.
I take it back. I'm watching it RIGHT NOW, and I'm laughing..."Father Joe thought it would take a few months for the house to be built...it's now been three years." Hah. What a tube. And how can you keep managing to get knocked up with that hair?
Don't call me a bitch. I've spilled my whiskey, if you think that serves me right. Such a bitter hag I am.
"Jinger"? That's totally jay.
I am watching it. I don't get how she had good hair in the 80's, but bad hair now. Get rid of the wings and stings sweetie, and go back to the high school hairstyle.
I do think the kids "helping" to build the house is the ultimate educational experience. This is how my kid's school works. They have a project based curriculum. I just wonder how do you get all the proper permits and inspections when you have an 8 year old as one of your contractors ?
I can't remember if I commented last time Julie posted about the Duggars, but this metafilter comment regarding Ma Duggar (the one posted by Kafziel) is my favorite: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/43228#972251
Good god, the Duggars make me want to to bathe my eyeballs in bleach.
--Bugs
I watched it.
Apparently if you're a freak you get free stuff.
ALOT of free stuff.
Sign me up. I'll be here getting my uterus ready.
By the way, that house is a complete write-off since it's a CHURCH. Note the 'extra' kitchen, etc? That's how they are paying for this, folks.
Did anyone else notice the changes from the first TLC show? Mom is now shown actually holding a baby and doing a few chores. Jim Bob praises her about what a worker she is. I'm sure they've heard a few comments here and there, eh?
I know I sound snarky. I would have loved to have had another child beyond my 2, but stopped when I felt tapped out emotionally and financially.
I should have thought of the church angle.
It also helps that pa is/was a politician. I didn't watch the show because I don't need to see things like that when I'm still trying conceive my first child. On the site you linked to, though it says "They're building a new house, but it's been difficult and they need help." My only thought was screw the help, they need to just quit having kids.
you know, yall put a lot of energy into hating them and thinking that they have too many kids.
it doesn't bother me. they've made their choices, and they're dealing with the outcome. believe it or not, they seem to have a pretty happy family. yeah ma kettle is pretty tired, but we're all pretty tired.
maybe you're jealous cuz you're not getting near as much sex as she does, and it pisses you off, infertility or no.
I'm jealous too. That post-partum sex is just the BEST.
This one won't be on over here for a while, but I saw the previous one, and I have to say, it almost made me glad to have no children. If it was a choice between 15 of them and none of them, I'd take none.
But although they are scary (the hair! the matching outfits! the canned food! the girls playing football in skirts!), I did think they should be given credit for bringing up the children well - they seemed to be polite, caring, and thoughtful children who had a reasonable level of responsibility around the house - in a 3-child household, for example, you'd probably also expect children to help with cooking and their younger siblings. I can imagine situations that are loads worse - these children seemed well-loved and well-adjusted. They also seemed like the kind of family that would accept their children's choices, if they didn't go down the same road as their parents. They seemed authoritative (setting boundaries, but with warmth and appropriate explanations) rather than authoritarian (setting rigid boundaries and enforcing them "because I'm your mother").
But perhaps I should hold off on judgement until one of the boys turns out to be gay, or one of the girls wants to be a single mother with a career.
Tam made me choke with laughter.
All Rob and I could do was snark while watching this -- "OF COURSE the house isn't built yet! They've got at least nine kids under the age of three they're not using as workers!" and "But when do they get the time to wack off?"-- but my favourite part was "Everyone say it... PERPENDICULAR".
A friend of mine said it best: having 16 kids isn't a choice, it's a vocation.
I'm sorry I missed this...
Wow Julie, I love your blog, I love your humor, and I hope for the best for you all the time. I hope your appt. went well and that you have some hope for a second child. I think you're a decent person who deserves a good break this time around.
That being said, these Duggar posts make me ill. It's so very sad about how you and your commenters go on and on about mommy-drive-bys and yet look at these giggles and grins at the expense of people who've done you no harm.
I'm very sad for you and how bad this makes you look.
Well, 16 kids would be too many for me. Heck, 2 might be too many -- I want to see how it goes with the first one, due later this year, but...the Duggars seem happy, their kids seem happy and pretty normal, and Pa and Ma are still together and seemingly care about each other. In a world of $800 strollers, horrible spoiled teenagers, plastic surgery to get you vagina back to pre-baby so your husband won't leave you, and the Mommy Olympics where your child's accomplishments at pre-school are a direct reflection of your worth as a human being the Duggars are a nice breath of fresh air.
I agree with Melissa.
I don't know, colicmommy, the comments here seem fairly balanced to me. Sure, some of us are, um, nonplussed by the Duggars. But some of us say, "The kids seem happy and pretty normal..." Or "They should be given credit for bringing up the children well..." Or "I do think the kids 'helping' to build the house is the ultimate educational experience..."
But you know what? Just like I did last time I posted a program note, I'm closing the comments. Decide for yourselves whether a show about a family with 16 kids is noteworthy.