Temperance

@Cinnabon There's been no official announcement. I can barely see the photo, so it could be Joe and Kendra. Kendra's sister had her photos professionally taken by Joe and Kendra's photographer.

Jill could chop a foot off and still wear her hair in the same way she does now. She could go shorter without it being short enough to need a style. However it's her hair, so she should be able to wear it how she wants.

Actually I googled empty tomb oreos and was directed to site called Catholic Icing. (This seemed too Pinteresty for them to have thought of on their own.) I honestly don't care if they make little empty tombs out of oreos, doughtnuts, etc.

Cheyenne Jackson's voice sounds a lot like Yvie Oddly's voice. Cheyenne Jackson and Fortune Feimster were both good judges. I agreed with who won, who had to lipsync and who left.

She's trying to build an fanbase and audience, not connect with any particular people. Part of being an appealing reality television star is being as bland and relatable as possible. Jinger's "any moms out there relate?" question is the kind of question any blogger, reality star, social media influencer, etc. would ask to build a fan base (Christian or not). The idea is to let the audience project their own ideas about who you are so you feed them bland information about yourself that's not offensive and a little relatable. The Kardashians are masters of this. This is from the infamous Paper article about Kim Kardashian West published in 2014. "The rap on Kim Kardashian is that she has done nothing to merit her fame. But the longer I steep myself in the ambience of her pleasantly languid manner and hologram-perfect looks, the more facile this charge begins to seem. Of course, she has cannily leveraged that fame to build, with her sisters, a beauty-industrial complex, which includes a clothing line, a makeup line, a line of tanning products and seven perfumes. (A collection of hair care implements and styling products will debut in the spring). Her mobile app, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, in which players climb their way to A-List status under Kardashian's tutelage, has earned over $43 million since its debut in June (2014). Yet her perceived lack of accomplishment is also, perhaps, an accomplishment in itself. Kardashian seems to know instinctively that, as Andy Warhol once observed, "When you just see somebody on the street, they can really have an aura. But then when they open their mouth, there goes the aura." Take the stream of small faux-confidences that she offers during the interview. They reveal very little yet foster a sense of closeness. She tells me that she is "obsessed with apps" but, when I ask her to name one, she replies, "I like all different apps." Of her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries, one of her rare missteps that actually left a footprint, she says: "It's just one of those life lessons that you have to learn, and it's OK." Her behavior suggests that the key to total ubiquity is giving up all of one's verbal edges and sharp angles ....." When the Duggars first hit television, the point of the celebrity was to show the rest of us how really Godly people lived and how we too could give up our worldy temptations/point of view and become more like them. Then they started to ease up on that stuff in front of television while Michelle made robo calls about transgender people and Joshgate happened. Since the show came back after Josh, the Duggars have been trying harder and harder to be the bland, relatable, appealing, ordinary, etc. They went from being "more Godly" to a family who just does things "differently".

I'm glad Cade has someone and isn't hoping to become Mr. Jana.

In my hometown, it wasn't just rich parents who bought their kids cars. Anyway, I would say Jana has been working for her parents for a long time providing child care, filming the tv show, etc.

I mainly use google to navigate Tumblr. If you google the account, it comes up and usually so will specific post.

I made a mistake and mixed up Tumblr and Instagram. Sorry 😊.

Speaking of which, Duggar data has a great post on Instagram Tumblr that gives the exact of age of all the Duggars and Bates when they got married along with their spouses. Kendra Caldwell was techically the youngest of all and Jeremy Vuolo was the oldest including the Bates. I posted the above before I saw her data.

The Maxwells have had several blog posts recently. One was a plug for the new book with several confusing statements about marriage. The next was Easter. Then they had their usual photo dump of "random life". Melanie Maxwell is having a baby soon. Sarah put it like this: "For the anticipation part, we’re excited about Nathan and Melanie’s newest addition, now due in less than a month. When will Baby Maxwell vote to come? Any guess?"

I think the reason her dress doesn't fit is that she's probably pregnant (it is maternity dress) and expecting to go up several sizes in the near future. By buying a bigger dress, she can probably wear it to church all summer and into the fall and maybe even in November if someone gets married and she's not a bridesmaid.

What? Is Coffee for Life a real thing? I've never heard of it. And neither has google.

If that's the same dress, the color looks faded in the ad.

It is true that all of the Duggars and their spouses of this generation were at least 19 (or older) when they got married. Same with the Bates of this generation.

I think the dress is a bridesmaid dress from Si's and Lauren's wedding.

@Jeeves made a good point. Also people who have a problem with Santa Claus also dislike the Easter Bunny and other commercial elements of Easter.

Happy Easter and Passover to everyone who celebrates. @Jeeves Good for you for looking it up! I don't really watch The Doctors/Dr. Oz, so I didn't remember all the details. @Nysha I know this is so hard for you. I've been thinking about you since you first told us she was missing. I'm mainly relieved that there seems to be movement towards justice/answers. I will keep praying that justice will continue. I saw this quote from Mother Theresa today. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

According to FJ, Sierra's husband works for Sam's Club. She seems to always trying to make a little money. Like the scooter post was sponsored by Citrus and Lemon.

She looks five months to me. It's hard to tell since women gain weight differently and a women is going to gain weight much faster during a seventh pregnancy. Anyway Sierra wasn't hiding it well. I said this about her scooter picture:

I'm not as picky about who the queens choose. Not everybody knows who Little Evie (Grey Gardens, Jinx Monsoon) was, or who Dorothy Parker (Miz Cracker season 10) was, or Joanna Worley was/is etc., but you can make people who don't know laugh by being funny and showing who they are. Who is relevant as a celebrity varies person to person, but knowing how to take breakdown a personality, really play that character, stay in character and be funny is what counts. I agree with the frustration about people not knowing the people they're portraying. You can google the celebrities and watch clips on youtube of who they are. Since queens have done men, I think Brooke Lynne would have done well with Justin Bieber since they're both english-speaking canadians. After googling it maybe Pamela Anderson. Thanks for mentioning Beauty and the Beast. I didn't know, but that info is relevant to me.

Oily may just be part of it. The hair's texture and other variables may also have something to do with how often it needs washing. I saw this woman on Dr. Oz who hadn't washed her hair in at least a year or two, and felt that her hair was much healthier. She said her hair developed its natural oils to maintain itself and that after the first month or so she got used to it. She was a hipster mama type. I don't think she was fundie. Some fundies used to be against shampoo, but not the Duggars/Bates etc.

The same professional photographer who took the pregnancy announcement photos of Joe and Kendra also took photos of Lauren Caldwell. She wore the same dress (brand/make) that Jana has wore in the past. (I don't think Jana gave her the dress; I think she and Jana bought/ordered the same dress from the same company.)

I actually like the lavender dress. It needs to be hemmed for her or she needs tall shoes. I would wear that actually. It does look a little big. I think it's much better than the wrinkled beige jumpsuit, but obviously tastes vary. I could totally see Jill like that (not that the old part, but the Reiki part). I definitely think she could have been a Reiki healer if she hadn't been fundie.

All the Duggars overrate their abilities to some extent and they also tend to believe that the world criticizes them, because they're so holy. That seems common for fundies.