Temperance

Daxton.

Probably October. Kendra's baby Addison was born November 2nd.

The no swimming thing is mind-boggling to me. I know that some people can't afford to take swimming lessons or have access to water, but these people have been rich for a long time. There was plenty of time to teach their kids after they started on the show. Also Joy went ice-fishing with Austin when she was about 8 months pregnant with Gideon. That she can't swim adds a whole layer to that idiocy!

Was Joy one of the kids who said she couldn't swim?

Sally Mally is the author of Before You Meet Prince Charming. She has two younger siblings a sister Grace and a brother Stephen. There's a few older single Sarahs. The most famous is Sarah Maxwell, who is 38 and still single. Sarah Maxwell has 5 brothers, who are all married and most have kids. (Jesse just got married.) Sarah Maxwell's sisters are unmarried. All three sisters live at home. Their father is control freak Steve. Sarah Mally Hancock and Sarah Maxwell get confused, which is why I'm posting this.

Joe is older than Joy by 2 almost 3 years. The first seven Duggars are Josh, Jana, John David, Jill, Jessa, Jinger and Joseph (joe). This is when the laundry room breakdown happened. Then Josiah, and Joy. I think that's Josiah in the get up unless that baby is younger than Joy. I think you're right and that is JD. Good eyes!

Joy wasn't born yet. Joseph was the baby when that happened.

I read it on a forum that little girls in white are traditional. I don't know if this is true, but I googled it and google confirmed it's true. Like a lot of traditions associated with weddings, flower girls are lot less sweet if you know the origins. "Traditionally, the little girl represented the fading of a bride's innocence and the passage from childhood to womanhood. A symbol of fertility and family, the flower girl announced the bride’s new role as a wife and a future new mother." Flower Girl Guide Also a book I read put it more bluntly the flower girls tossing flowers is symbolic of the bride "tossing her flowers" (on the wedding night). Some of the girls are old enough to be junior bridesmaids, but it was probably cheaper to buy green dresses. A big fundie-lite family I know had ivory flower girl dresses, because they reused the dresses over again at the next wedding. The bridesmaid dresses changed, but the flower girls dresses were the same. I think more modern weddings match the flower girl to the wedding party.

If Jinger is the girl in the matching print farthest to the left, then she has changed a lot. The other three girls girls in the matching print look enough like their adult selves I can tell who they are.

Actually that's pretty tame by fundie standards. The Maxwells talked about crying very hard when their first son Nathan got married and he moved next door or the house behind them, etc. Harold Mally is the father of two daughters, both of whom lived at home until they got each got married (two weddings less than a year ago). His words were way more dramatic. His older daughter Sarah (Mally, not Maxwell), got married in May at age 41 and we were chatting here about it. His younger daughter Grace was the first to get married in November 2019 and here's what old Harold said about 30/31-year-old daughter getting married. He's describing walking his daughter the aisle. "We turned right and walked slowly to the center aisle. We stopped, turned left, and then simply stood there looking down this 50-foot white runner lined by candles and people. Standing at the other end were the groom and the preacher. We stood waiting for 6 or 7 seconds before taking our first steps. Time stood still. I felt like Tevya in Fiddler on the Roof when the motion stops, and he sees his daughter in the distance, and he is pondering the weight of what is happening. These few seconds looking down that white 50-foot path was, if it’s okay to refer to it this way, in the emotions of a father – the beginning of the end. That doesn’t actually sound good for a father to say about walking his daughter down the aisle. It sounds negative. But that is not how it’s meant. To think that misses the point of what is actually happening, at least from a father’s viewpoint.As Grace and I paused there at the top of the aisle, we paused for a long time, or what seemed long. And as I stared down that glittering path ahead of me, a path I must travel, I finally felt the full impact of the event. The aisle represents more than meets the eye, and is weightier than one might think, until you are standing there gazing at the front. It represent a finality. At the end of the 50 feet in front of me something was coming to an end. Fifty feet away was a life change that was permanent. Staring down this glowing white scene drove home the power or impact of what was about to happen. The drama was not that we were in the spotlight. The drama was that there was something scary at the end – it’s called “an end.” A true end. It was an intimidating realization that hit hard at that moment with some more-than-expected force. “I’m facing a finality! I’m only 50 feet away from it! A final end of family as it is!” None of this is to make light of the fact that it was also a beginning. I knew that. And it is a bright beginning. A joyful one, a glorious one. Was there really an end? Yes, I guess one could say there was sort of a death and then a resurrection to something new. But in truth, both were good. It was a successful and wonderful conclusion and a joyful, glorious, new beginning. Oh the wonders of God’s ways; His designs, gifts and challenges, and His grace." In some ways I guess it makes sense that it's harder for families that live together to be separated by marriage. I read a few articles and books that say historically marriage was like dramatic this for young women, because it was the first time they really left home. The articles speculated that part of the big elaborate weddings these days is subconsciously trying to rehash the drama getting married was for our ancestors. The little Rod girls crying reminds of the young Duggars crying at their sisters' weddings.

I've known quite a few people with big families who like to put the baby in the baby's own room. The logic is that the baby doesn't sleep through the night and the other kids do. This way the baby doesn't disturb the sleep of the older children. If Alyssa is pregnant or she hopes to be soon, she is probably less than 3 months along. It is probable that the youngest will be almost 3 or over 3 when the next blessing arrives. A 3-year-old probably sleeps better than a newborn. I think fundies like to have their older children used to sharing a room so that they're used to it. A lot of fundie logic comes down to getting used to the way things will be eventually, because if this is the way it's already done, they'll complain less.

The bottles on the desk look like they contain some sort of liquid. I spy a big vinyl record of Kanye's album Jesus Is King on the bookshelf.

This is one of the least reputable, most wide-swinging-and-missing, most amounts to nothing sites on the internet. Very silly. Also there are other unmarried ones who could speak out.

You might remember I was convinced Jessa was pregnant only to be wrong. Just sayin'. 😂 Of course she could be pregnant now. That being said I think Lauren is the next one to announce a pregnancy.

Kendra has two sisters. One is the most speculated about Lauren Caldwell. She's 20 and is usually viewed by snarkers/fans as potential Duggar courtship. The other one is way too young to court. I think Jill R liked Kendra and Anna, because they seem to be the most conservative women in the family. Most of the other Duggar adult women wear pants (certainly Lauren Duggar and Abbie Duggar do). They share values. Kendra's parents are better looking and feed their family better than Jill R, but their basic worldviews are the same.

Did Anna and Josh not bring the kids? Anyone know?

He wasn't in a wheelchair last time he showed up on the Wallers blog about 6 months ago. He was living with his second wife and not his parents. yes He appears in the Waller family blog in the post Exciting Adventure. Daniel, his wife Diana and David installed a floor together and he's not in a wheelchair.

That's the same dress Carlin wore to Joy's baby shower. It looks casual and comfortable.

Other than when Josh was at Jesus Jail, I think Nurie's wedding is the farthest and longest Josh has ever been from his parents since the Joshgates happened.

I'm sure Jill would have been happy with both Anna and Josh in the wedding party. Anna still appears on television, and probably wants to downplay her involvement in this wedding during this pandemic. I think Nurie and Nathan have genuine affection for each other and that's part of why Nurie looks so happy.

At least she had 2 year + break. I'm also glad she doesn't have heart problems. Hopefully she gets a boy and calm down.

Actually Bobby Vinton there looks more like Chad.

MacKynzie (the oldest) Also not a big fan of the dresses the girls are wearing, which Anna probably picked.

Thanks for information! I'm surprised, because she looks like a lost Keller sister. If she's into Plexus and hanging with Jill R, it's very likely she's a fundie.