mynextmistake

True! I tend to forget that most mainstream churches don’t oppose birth control. I had assumed they would only be comfortable with NFP because they were both raised Gothard, but maybe I’m wrong. They could be using something else, or not using anything at all.

Wow, I didn’t realize that. That’s what I get for not watching the show I guess!

Exactly. My 3 year old can recite her favorite books verbatim. She’s not reading, she just remembers the words she has heard us read. When we tell her to sound out an unfamiliar word she just looks at us like we are Martians. She’s 3, why push it? I was reading at three, but i’ve always been very verbal and was apparently very focused as a young child. Some kids are ready to learn then, some aren’t.

Are they racist? Ignorant, surely, and hateful and homophobic and misogynistic, but i’m unaware of any examples of overt racism. Did I miss something?

She’s the spitting image of Jana already. If not for the age difference they could be twins.

7 months and no blessing! I have a feeling these two are going to do things their own way. As a nurse Abbie should be able to understand NFP and be comfortable enough with her body to do it correctly.

So Derick hates Michelle. Interesting.

Thank you. I had an early miscarriage after having Mini Mistake, and I grieved. I was unaware that people think that only women who carry to a certain number of weeks are allowed to be upset when they miscarry. It’s a deeply personal experience. Lauren and Si are allowed to share their feelings about her miscarriage and the fact that some random internet stranger’s sister-in-law didn’t think her miscarriage counted until the second trimester doesn’t matter a bit. Can’t we snark without being heartless?

I can’t snark on those poor girls. They rip my heart out too, because they are so clearly malnourished. It’s not just that they’re thin... they have that dull, sallow skin, thin hair and sunken-looking eyes. I bet that underneath that caked-on makeup the older girls look exactly the same.

Which mindset? I’m not being argumentative, I want to understand what you mean. Jessa’s boys are adorable and look happy and healthy. You can tell she genuinely loves being a mom and really enjoys her kids. That’s really nice to see.

Arkansas court records are public and Derick Dillard has never been involved in a court case. Not even a speeding ticket. So if he sued his dentist it wasn’t in AR. They do have some awesome names in Arkansas though. “Chucky Dillard” gets in trouble a lot, almost as often as “Custy Dillard” (three guesses about what his school nickname was). My favorite, though, had to be “Assberry Dillard.”

I’m not sure how cheap her clothes are. That skirt looked like Boden (she’s worn their clothes before) and they’re not Givenchy but they’re not Walmart or TJ Maxx either. I think he spends more on clothes than she does, but I think she spends more than a lot of people.

Make sure he uses his incentive spirometer! Everyone hates them but they’re the best defense we have against postsurgical pneumonia. There are excellent hospitals in the Bay Area. Best wishes to both of you!

Maybe she didn’t want to go. Big Sandy sounds like its main purpose (for young adults, at least) is helping fundies get dates. I mean courtships. So really the only draw for Jinger would be seeing her family, which I think is pretty low on her priority list.

Hi guys. This is Jeremy’s lynx. If you looked at Jeremy’s real estate listing, you may have seen me stuffed and mounted on a fake log in a corner of Jeremy’s office, my lips drawn artificially back so that I have the world’s most serious case of resting predator face? You guys, send help. I need to get out of here. I can’t even describe how horrible things are here. I’m in Jeremy’s office 24/7. I have to listen to every sophomoric sermon at least ten times, once when he writes it and nine more times when he plays it back on YouTube. I have to watch as he tries on thirteen ties before going down to the corner Walgreen’s for diapers and Crest Whitestrips. I have to sit next to this oversized mahogany furniture and try not to gag as he whispers “who’s the prettiest one?” and gazes at himself in the mirror after one too many glasses of blueberry pomegranate sparkling cider. I mean, I was once one of the most fearsome predators in the wilds of northern Arkansas. I could have downed this guy with one lunge to the jugular while he was stopping to take a selfie in the woods. Now I spend all my time listening to Jeremy blather about pocket squares while Jinger holds their cub in front of me and coos “look at the nice kitty!” Nice kitty? Seriously? I have to take this from a woman who spells “Ginger” with a J? Please, you guys, someone help me. Break into their house and steal me. Seize me as collateral for back taxes. Pretend to work for U-Haul and “lose” the box they put me in. Just get me out of here. I can’t take this much longer.

They may have qualified for a homestead exemption in 2018 that they didn’t qualify for before? In my area you have to have lived in the home for a full calendar year before you get the exemption. What is up with the random stuffed lynx in Jeremy’s study? I bet that lynx could tell some stories.

That’s both hilarious and horrifying at the same time. I was a sarcastic child, so I would have looked at our Thanksgiving turkey and said “Jasper? Is that you?” There was a prostitute in one of the cells at the jail who actually talked to us girls for ten minutes about how we should stay in school and off drugs so we could have happy lives. A school would never get away with such a field trip today, but it was actually really touching and I think she might really have made a difference in some of the girls’ lives. I grew up in a rough area and a lot of us had folks who were absent, or on drugs, or just working so hard to get by that they were never around. It’s hard to imagine a future other than the one you see as a child. Come to think of it, that’s probably why so many of the Duggar kids are hesitant to stray from the path.

We went to the jail in third grade, and then to McDonald’s for lunch. Our teacher told us to pay close attention because most of us would end up in one or the other. He probably wasn’t wrong, actually.

To be fair, Felicity is a doll. I wish they’d stop putting bows on her head, though. She looks goofy.

Yeah, this seems less “hipster” and more “I live in the backwoods of West Virginia where I farm yaks and engage in questionable personal hygiene practices.”

Please. Becky from the third row wouldn’t be caught dead in that hot mess of an outfit.

It’s also been a full six months without any announcement of a blessing. Take that for what you will.

Still, it’s interesting! And I looked at the website for their church and it seems pretty mainstream Baptist. The congregation includes women who work (and wear pants!) and divorce is discussed in a pretty matter-of-fact way. Most of the pastoral staff have only two or three kids, and there’s no anti-birth-control language in their “what we believe” section. I mean, they’re still antichoice and anti-gay, but it seems more like Cross Church than a crazy IBLP place.

Have we discussed this yet? Abbie got her nursing license transferred from Oklahoma to Arkansas in late January. I don’t think she would do that unless she’s at least entertaining the possibility of continuing to work.

She hasn’t looked pregnant in any of her recent photos, though, and there have been a lot of them. I think Derick has stopped the baby train, either for good or until he’s done with law school.