mynextmistake

She’s so incredibly insecure about their relationship that it’s getting painful to watch. Honey, jokes notwithstanding, *nobody wants him but you.* You don’t need to make heart shaped cookies with your initials on them or carve your names into your house foundation or write “Jill + Derick = 4 Ever” inside his law school books with magic marker. Chill out, he’s yours.

Aww. I hope he gets a few dollars extra so he and Nurie can have a really nice double date with their parents.

Pregnant women don’t have to completely give up caffeine. My OB told me that I could have a cup of coffee every day if I wanted to and believe me, I wanted to!

The orthopedic sandals aren’t doing her any favors either. Everything from this website looks like house clothes. If Derick does actually make it as a lawyer Jill is going to need to smarten up her style a bit. She can’t show up at firm events in a Citrus and Lemon jumpsuit and three feet of unbrushed hair without embarrassing Derick. Going from the second picture Jill’s new neighborhood looks extremely depressing. One of those new builds where they’ve clear cut all the mature trees, the houses are five feet apart and your backyard is the size of a postage stamp. Hopefully there will at least be other kids for Izzy and Sam to play with.

Given what we know of her diet, are you surprised?

It makes me so happy that my child is not the only one who tries to Queer Eye her pets. She also once tried to put my lipstick on the dog, but she couldn’t because the dog ate the lipstick before it could be applied.

Based on my experience, by the time you are big enough to need maternity clothes nothing is comfortable. Your only goal in dressing is to choose clothes that reduce the number of people who stare at your bump and say “wow, it must be twins.”

Judging by the picture, I’d say Marigold.

Mini Mistake once got a hold of a Sharpie and decided to use it to color. Not on the walls, though. That would be too pedestrian. FYI, it takes about 6 months for black Sharpie to wear off of a yellow Labrador. I still sometimes don’t understand why the dog didn’t run away when she saw Mini Mistake scooting toward her with an uncapped Sharpie, but then I remember that it took her three years to learn that she couldn’t stand up under the coffee table without hitting her head and it makes more sense.

Only these people would wear maternity clothes before there is any earthly reason to wear maternity clothes. She’s probably like six weeks along.

Although actually when I looked more closely at the picture, I noticed that while the dress is cut like a mumu it’s that cheap rayon fabric that is kind of clingy so you can see her midsection pretty well. She still looks quite slender. She might be pregnant, but if so she’s not really showing yet, and certainly not showing enough to require this monstrosity as camouflage. Perhaps Josiah has become a stricter headship than anyone anticipated and told her to lay off the tighter-fitting clothing?

I wondered if she might be pregnant again.

Why is Josiah wearing Jackson’s blazer? And what’s with that pose? He looks like he has resting jazz hands.

Wow. Just... wow. There is so much wrong with this outfit that I don’t know where to start. Its color is unflattering, it makes Jill (who is in no way overweight) look chubby, and the obviously cheap fabric is weirdly sheer and easy to wrinkle. But the outfit pales in comparison to her styling. She can’t wash or brush her hair? Iron the jumper? Stop squinting? Does citrus and lemon think she’s making their clothes look good? I really think she must be depressed. To be this half-assed about her only arguably profitable enterprise is just bizarre. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if she was the one who insisted on the move. Being isolated in Fayetteville with Derick at school all the time must have been hard. She doesn’t seem to have developed a friend network there. This way she’ll be closer to her family and it will be harder for Derick to spend time at school on weekends or days off.

Yeah, zofran didn’t work for me at all. Promethazine helped a bit (instead of puking 12-15 times a day I only puked 6 or 7 times) but it made me drowsy and itchy. There were days I couldn’t get out of bed. It got so bad that I got clinically depressed and (please don’t judge me anyone) had to take an antidepressant starting in my fifth month. I lost weight. My hair was falling out. I had to get IV iron because my ferritin level went down to 5. I am blessed that my daughter is healthy and happy but, as much as I would like her to have a sibling, I just can’t do that again. 😢 You’re right though. If the Duggar girls had hyperemesis they’d be shouting it from the rooftops.

You had hyperemesis but had 4 babies? I am in awe of you. Sincerely. I had hyperemesis and it led me to completely shut down the factory after Mini Mistake. There was no way I was going to be that miserable for another 9 months. You must be a really strong person to go through that more than once. Hasn’t it been hinted that the Duggar girls have had hyperemesis? They just call it “bad morning sickness” but both Jinger and Jill have described what sounds like hyperemesis to me.

That carpet could use a good steam cleaning, but I guess that would probably be pointless in a house with three kids under four.

Unless they bought the house for cash in hand, i’m not sure it would matter how much they have in savings. A buyer may have $300k in savings, but if they also have $0 in monthly income the bank isn’t going to count on them using 2/3 of that $300k to keep up their monthly mortgage payments. If they did take out a mortgage, i’m guessing they needed a co-signer to qualify. It could have been either Cathy or Jim Bob, both of whom would likely have sufficient income to qualify.

I can’t snark on Jill for where she lives. I grew up in an area way worse than this. A well-maintained Section 8 complex would have been a nice change. Not everyone is raised upper-middle class. Plenty of people who grew up like me probably see these pictures of a quiet, green, seemingly safe neighborhood and do find it aspirational. Now their housekeeping, on the other hand, is totally snarkable.

If she wants to live long enough to raise her 37 kids she should really have a helmet on.

Josie probably licked them clean.

It surprised me that it took as long as it did for Jill to start wearing pants. Say what you will about Derick, but he never struck me as someone who would prohibit his wife from wearing pants. It’s interesting that Jill waited until Jinger had already started wearing pants before she was willing to do it.

Wow, that sounds like a real page-turner.

Me too! I was thinking “wow, I could hit those from space! I wouldn’t even need a butterfly!” 😂

Nobody who knows anything about the Rodrigui is going to court Nurie. She’s pretty, but nowhere near pretty enough to make up for all the baggage she would come with. Nurie’s best chance is to find a fundie guy who isn’t part of the IBLP crowd and doesn’t know her family, bring him home, introduce him to the actors she has hired to play her parents, and insist on eloping before he meets the real ones.