Churchhoney

Bin hopes everybody thinks it's "Heaven." Way to hide your pop-culture dreams under a cloak of theology, Binster.

Why one of his kids hasn't hauled off and hit him with a frying pan by now is beyond me. He's not just insufferable. He's proud of it.

These two words are incompatible for Duggardaughters. At least according to their parents. And their flip-flop-favoring guru.

It's creeping secularism that's done this to the poor Duggars. You know Gothard made plain that it's wrong to work for the ungodly. That rules out a lot of jobs these days. What's a Duggar to do but minister and grift? Ad of course the track record of the Duggar men isn't any better than that of the in-laws. Joshie was gaudily employed for, what, 18 months or so? And now he may never be employed again. And male Duggar worker-bee John David is apparently forever barred from holding any job that actually includes wages.

Oh, yeah. That is about a can of spray apiece there, isn't it? I'd interpreted both JB's and M's hairdos as the hair trying desperately to get as far away from the lamebrains underneath as possible.

Huh. I read that as a kinda lame attempt at an "aren't they adorable?" face. Especially when combined with her caption about how tough goodbyes are and how she remembers those days. Seems to me that Jill's proven herself to be a bit of a romantic in recent years. She and Derick famously front-hugged, for example.

The Dugg parents have gone out of their way to make sure their kids think they have no options but being tied to the parental apron strings. Apparently they dimly apprehend that anybody who saw an alternative would run, not walk, to the nearest exit. heh

Well, I have no idea whether my experience is typical, but the weddings I've seen in this category do require gifts, and basically the same "level" of gifting as any other weddings. .... It's a gift, after all, to honor and celebrate a new marriage and help a couple get a start in life. It's not some kind of trade situation -- as in "I'll buy you a dinner that roughly approximates your spending on a gift." Honestly, that makes no sense to me. If you expect to get a return on your gift, then you're not really giving a gift, are you? (That said, I don't think relative strangers and vague acquaintances should ever be invited to a wedding, since it's really too much to expect people to hand out gifts to person after person in any large community of which they're members.)

Actually, in Duggarland I expect that means they've been correctly socialized -- to be just like their wonderful uber-godly role models, JB and M, some of the most oblivious-to-others people on the planet.

I completely agree, but in this case I think I'd make an exception. I expect that she ran to Jill and jumped up on her when she saw her. So Jill returned the favor. I got the feeling that the kids really enjoyed going over to Jilly Muffin and Derick's house when they were in Arkansas and that they've probably missed them since they've been gone. They probably provided a laid back away-from-the-TTH environment where the adults were pleasant and seemed to enjoy actually interacting with them and having fun with them. That's the vibe I thought I noticed in the many pictures we saw of young Duggarlings hanging out with the Dullards, anyway. And the young Duggarlings don't have a lot of avenues of escape into relative normalcy, even for a few hours.

But then you probably wouldn't post your menstrual-cycle calendar on the fridge, either. The Duggars are just a postin' kind of family. They're not tv people, though. They're very modest. And private.

Proves how inspirational they are. Or should I say aspirational...

Physical harm is no threat cuz Jesus will lift you up. (even, or maybe especially?, if you court physical danger by, say, not getting proper prenatal care?) Spiritual danger, on the other hand, requires serious warnings. Cuz if you don't listen carefully to MEchelle and Jizm Bob, you just might wind up colluding with the devil!

This POM is toilet paper. http://www.samsclub.com/sams/pom-2ply-bath-tissue-45-roll-473-sheet/prod14270688.ip 45 rolls for $24.86. ..... I thought they'd buy used and save the difference, though.

"Could John David, Joseph and Josiah be pursuing courtships? These siblings supposedly aren't kids anymore, and each new relationship, parenting challenge and exciting incredibly dull, arranged-by-the-producers endeavor are a reminder of how much they've haven't grown," the post went on to say: Fixed it for 'em.

To let the donors know and to provide a potential four or five dull minutes in the can for an upcoming episode? ... They have so little actual plot going on, I imagine that any excuse for a party of some kind is seized upon and videotaped. Good point! ....

Looks to me kinda like the same room they had the going away party in? Was that in Cross Church?

Bingo. Tragic, really.

Of course, even in the past, long before anybody thought of the personal computer, you could've kept your calendar inside a boring looking notebook, under a couple of boring books on theology and math, inside a drawer, inside your nightstand, inside your own bedroom. But the Duggs had to keep theirs on the family REFRIGERATOR. Just sayin.

Sucks to be any spawn, grandspawn, or spawn-in-law of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar.

Because women's only workplace option is doing grunt work for free at businesses owned, operated and named after their fathers, brothers or husbands?

Because everything Gothard -- all the booklets, the conferences, the "camps", the videos, the loudmouth preachy zealots such as Jim Bob and Michelle, etc. etc. etc. -- hammer on exactly these words over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And have done for decades. The Duggar spawn operate less like people than like parrots. She has no idea what she's talking about.

Diane von Furstenberg has often spoken highly of palazzo pants. If they're good enough for Diane, they're good enough for the rest of us, I say.

I don't know. I think it's possible that he's so bummed out by this point that all he needs is a can of Crisco and a spoon.

Given what she's said about wanting a guy who works with his hands, I wonder if she's scoped out all the guys so far and decided that for her taste they didn't seem interested enough in doing real everyday work. I expect I'm giving her too much credit. But I still do wonder whether picking up an "I really want to be a missionary/pastor" vibe tells Cinderella that these aren't the guys for her, the ultimate worker bee.