Roslyn

I have noticed on Instagram that whining and bitching about your kids/babies from the 20's mums seems to be a trend. It horrifies me that people are putting this negativity out there, especially after months of every single step of the pregnancy and all the "joy and happiness" at the eminent arrival of their new little ones. Which is it? Happy they are coming? Or bitching the absolute second the baby does something that isn't cute and photo worthy? I can remember being a first time 24 year old mum. I had zero experience with any kind of caring for little ones/babies. My life had been spent with dogs and horses. I read a book on human child development with all the milestones and stages and that was really it. In the hospital a very kind and patient nurse showed me the very basics of changing diapers, bathing, umbilical wound care and that swaddle wrap with a blanket. There. I knew it all 🙄 I did what I knew, animal training. Kindness and consistency, rewards for good behavior. It worked for me. If cranky and lashing out then exercise, change the routine. But routine is really important. Her older one needs to know that his needs WILL be met. When you have one baby as soon as they go down for a nap it is YOU time. But...once you have a second, then when the baby goes down for a nap, its one and one time with the older child. Dad hangs out with the baby in one room and Mum does something one on one with the other and then swap. Sadly Maddies upbringing meant that in her world there were always a gaggle of kids to keep active with. In the real world Mums do a lot more than just manage the herd. Whining and bitching on social media does NOT help and really makes you look like an angry ungrateful person.

Yes, most all herbs and spices have health properties, and over the millennia people have used spices/herbs/foods for healing and then they end up as common kitchen spices that just a sniff or taste you can identify the region the food developed from. However...you have to know what you are doing before you go online prescribing this stuff to people. Oooh. Her daily rock star is good? How about we just take more, one cup of tea? How about a gallon drank through the day? People are stupid about this stuff. Hey, it's natural right? Can't be bad if it's natural right? Hemlock is all natural, Wild Parsnip is all natural, Foxgloves (hey...they are SO pretty too!), Giant Hogweed, Common garden rhubarb...etc. etc. I have taken turmeric for years and I have seen improvements in my aging dogs as well. I don't have serious issues, just the over 50 creakies. But turmeric helps keep me more mobile and active. My pug moved easier after I added turmeric to his diet and more movement helped his health issues in his final years. Now my Heeler is in his older years and his new diet with turmeric has him getting up quicker and up and down stairs better as well as increased exercise. There is a catch with turmeric. She doesn't mention at ALL that for it to be properly digested in your body you don't take it alone. No...nutmeg is not the supporting rock star. Turmeric needs black pepper, and they have to be taken together. You also need to know the body weight of the person/dog taking it and calculate the daily dose based on body weight... Infusing the black pepper is very important. I was lucky that when I changed my Pugs diet I had a new Vet who is Indian. He is very knowledgeable about the medicinal uses of foods and spices/herbs and we shared recipes when he helped me develop my pugs diet. As a child he was in charge of caring for his mothers turmeric plants and he shared some of the recipes she used for various ailments with turmeric. She always infused the pepper before adding it to the turmeric, and that is how I now do it for myself and for my dog. I simply add black pepper fresh ground to the rice and let them cook together. Also, I discovered that black pepper rice is really tasty and I now add pepper to my meals rice in the beginning instead of adding it in the end dish. Ayurvedic healing beliefs are basically the Indian version of ancient Chinese medicine. A whole body look at healing that isn't just symptomatic, but spirituality as well as food and lifestyle bases. Keeping yourself healthy versus healing sickness kind of thinking. However it is way more complicated than Janelles (probably online) reading about all these "rock stars" and "game changers" that she spews ad nauseam. What blows me away the most is how she has NO WARNING on these posts! When you post online, or write a book about herbal "healing" you had damn well better put that little tidbit about how you are not practicing medicine and your post is in no way claiming to replace a qualified doctors care. Based on how hard it is to find real information with all the crap that is posted out there, people will jump to taking x, y, z JUST because it's all natural and so much better. People kill themselves and kill family members because they don't know what the hell they are doing. Yes, foods and herb and spices have healing properties, but the biggest difference between a medicine and a poison is the dose. OH! And those damn green smoothies she is always posting about, her love of getting those greens into herself without the need to actually taste or chew them? Sure, spinach and kale are the dark leafy greens that are SO good for you, you read about them everywhere. However. There is a catch. Basically you can't really eat so much spinach or kale to mess up your kidneys unless you have later stages of kidney issues. But. You can really get WAY too much dark leafies when you reduce them in the blender and drink them every. single. day. People with good kidneys can find themselves having issues and people with issues can make them much worse with essentially overdoses of those "so damn healthy" dark green leafy veggies. Before treating yourself medicinally with food...you really really need to know more. ....rant over....

Don't forget melamine tableware!! It's so rugged even the Browns can't chip or break it 😉

Yes! Meri and Christine were side by side on the couch and Meri pinched Christines leggings and then said something about "leggings are not pants". At the time both Christine and Robyn had been on the show wearing the bright color patterned leggings a lot. Foreshadowing at its finest....

Exactly! Or wanting to spend time together, sharing each others interests etc. The one thing I noticed on the show was how cuddly touchy they were (eye contact etc) BEFORE they were married, but the times they have been on camera together after marriage is just weird, they aren't that way at all. With Tony's weight gain I can't help but wonder if any and all physical aspects of their relationship have dwindled.

This photo really creeps me out! She really really looks like she poorly photo shopped her own head in place. The head/neck placement looks way off from the way the shoulders are positioned. 😲

Janelle has openly stated on camera several times "I'm an emotional eater. I'm a stress eater." And the lightbulb has NEVER gone off! Duhh. Her eating is clearly a symptom of a larger issue. Get the emotions and stress under control and then tackle the eating/nutrition. The problem is that she has to get to a real therapist and get really really real with herself. Nope...she will never do that. She will just bitch and moan and turn her rock stars into smoothies. She's in a perpetual head game of self delusion.

...yup... I've been in perimenopause since I was 35. I am only now (52) having damn near every menopause symptom on any list. While I've had bizarre "feeling hot no matter the room temperature" for several years I have now experienced my first hot flash. Dayam I could have lived without those! I am just wanting it all to be DONE!

Hopefully by the time Truely is off to college some of Christine's kids are making grandbabies. She is going to be lost once her little family girl group is gone from the family. Truely has been her "emotional support child" from the very moment she was born. Meri's "empty nest" is nothing compared to what Christine will go through.

...line breeding exists for a reason... ...okay. I'll see myself out...

I can't believe I actually remember this ...but she made a post a long time ago about it and it was so weird it just stuck in my head... They have two side by side televisions so that she can watch her shows and he can (wearing headphones) play his games. At the same time, while still sitting together on the couch. Because you need two tellys instead of just, you know, sharing!!

Her book is on Kindle, but for $9.99

Ahh. Don't you just love people who think yelling at their dog will quiet them? /s

To piggyback/add on to this just after this social media shit fit...the airline that was involved (I forget which one...) changed their Emotional Support Animal policy within a few days. It just so happened that my husband was flying on the same airline at that time and he sent me the email showing the bright red "new policy" banner about flying with animals. Also...I now see everywhere on the doors of businesses (even in my small town) about animals being allowed entry, so it must really be a thing these days.

lolol...so true I have often wondered if the camera crew purposely "catch" Kody napping or being awoken from a nap as often as it has happened on the show is done purely to point out how often he is napping while everyone else is working on keeping everything functioning.

My daughter is a blonde and when she was a teenager it turned a dull mousey color. I understood her desire to dye it and the first dye job was expensive. She went dramatic to a deep red auburn color. But then she learned that red is the hardest color to maintain and she started to study coloring it at home, caring for colored hair etc. She learned to maintain her color naturally with henna and ...yes...beets. I had a big bed of beets in the garden for several years. lolol it was a lot of work but she did it naturally for awhile then she moved onto other colors and hair extensions etc. Her hair was her artwork through high school. At one point she had extensions and a beautiful head of ocean blue waves. We were shopping one day and a group of young girls (4 or 5 yrs old ish) came up to her staring at her. One piped up..."Are you a mermaid?" She was really sweet to them and squatted down so they could look at her hair and they asked to touch it to see if it was real. Keeping colored hair healthy and looking good is a LOT of work. Many times my kitchen and bathroom looked like a laboratory exploded when she was experimenting. Today she is back to all natural, thanks to her years of study she is quite the expert on skin and hair care, and she is a mechanical engineer trying to decide on graduate programs. If my memory is right, Mykelti was only blonde in the first season of the show. Maddie had black hair from the beginning. I have always thought that the girls who dye their hair do it to stand out from the sea of blondes. If you watch the first season, Mykelti is difficult to pick out unless she is right in front of the camera, she does blend in.

At the end of last season Maddie was harping on camera about how Janelle wanted them to move to Flagstaff with the whole family. Maddie said that there weren't any work opportunities for them (her family) there. She was pretty open about being irritated that they all moved to LV to be close to family with the baby and then the family up and moves away. I don't think it was very long after the whole lot of them went to Flagstaff that Maddie/Caleb went to North Carolina.

Hummus is simply grinding chick peas with tahini, garlic, a squeeze of lemon juice and olive oil. When I was a kid and my very hippy Aunt would visit (living in a commune hippie...) she would make hummus for everyone. She would skip the olive oil and toss cold water or even ice cubes in the blender to help smooth it out and used roasted garlic instead of raw. It was used as a veggie dip. I always thought it was quite bleck as a kid. Fast forward to adult me in culinary school and we used olive oil to smooth it out while mixing in a professional food processor and it was smooth and flavorful. We made our own roasted tahini, roasted garlic and a bit of sesame oil and really good olive oil. THAT hummus I really like, most likely because of the olive oil. I can see a chick pea and artichoke mixture being tasty as well, especially with a LOT of roasted garlic. I grow several varieties of full flavored and even spicy garlic that work well. My husband likes hummus with chopped up roasted hot peppers stirred through, but he likes hot hot things. I am a bit weird, I like it with fresh cracked white pepper and parmesan cheese with a whole grain seedy nutty cracker.

To use a modern term, as Truely is to Christine, I believe Mariah has always been Meri's ""emotional support daughter"". Her attachment to Mariah has always been for her emotional needs so much more than raising a future adult, tax paying person. On the subject of Covert Narcissism. It's nasty. I am a survivor of a Covert Narcissistic mother. Sadly it is way to easy to just slip into a lifelong training instead of fighting against it. Knowing Kody's over the top hyper personality and Mariah's family dynamic (including the cult training that is the Fundie Mormon's belief structure), it isn't surprising to see Mariah follow in the footsteps of both her parents. She has only converted the blind zeal that she had for her former religious beliefs and transferred it to her newly found wokeness. Her Instagram is nothing more than a new modern way of her proselytizing to the masses. A technique the LDS church uses by sending young people on missions to cement their beliefs firmly in their head. To use the Browns most favorite word...validation.

Ahh. I always wondered what the exact dates/timeline was for the marriage/meeting/divorce etc with Janelle. The book is quite vague about it all, and in my opinion glossed over to normalize it. I don't understand one bit why Meri and Janelle didn't go off on Kody. He preaches on camera how he is the Big Pooba Leader of the Family and yet he dropped every ball in the beginning. He was pretty much completely at fault because he plopped Janelle into the home where Meri was more than comfortable and then went back to work. There ya go gals....we be family now. For whatever reason the women in these relationships seem to bend over backward to blame themselves and protect the men. Janelle mentions in the book meeting Adam "toward the end of high school" and that he had to convert to LDS for them to court, then a temple marriage. She sites his lack of spiritual conviction as well as zero emotional or romantic compatibility. It's kinda funny because Kody has said on several occasions that he would prefer Janelle to be more romantic with him and they are more "like good buddies". She also says that they lived together only 6 months, so I'm assuming that the divorce then took 18 months to finalize. She liked his family tho and continued to be included with their gatherings. Who really knows the exact timeline, but she makes it seem like that first meeting of Kody, when she "suddenly remembered something she forgot" happened during the divorce process of her marriage. But again, so much in the book seems to gloss over exact details. When the book shifts to Kody's perspective he makes it sound like he and Meri kept Janelle within their circle of friends because they felt sorry about her and her poor marriage. Yet it is pretty clear that Janelle had the instant hots for Kody, he was very satisfied with Meri and lots of talk of adding more wives.

It's been on camera when Janelle was working (back in the original Utah plyg house) Christine was the home mom for everyone. Janelle left earlier than anyone and so Logan and Christine took over kids/meals etc. Janelle said something along the line that even she wanders through Christine's kitchen when she is looking for something to eat (even tho it seemed like Janelle's kitchen space may have been the largest of the three). She also gave the plug to polygamy because she never had to worry about her kids for dinner because Christine had it covered etc. Janelle did make a post at some point where she talked about not liking or not eating many vegetables as a child, so more than likely her upbringing was veggies from a can or covered in a whole lot of something else. She seems to have taken a stance on "as long as I can get these 'good for me' substances into my body, it doesn't matter what my weight is"

Actually...yes. If you are typing a hashtag for one that has already been used...say #knitting (currently has 14, 360, 439 posts) as you type #kni.....a little box opens up and gives you options that fit that hashtag and you can then just click within the box and the hashtag appears on your post. It's handy especially for long hashtags that you can easily misspell...like #knittersofinstagram...(currently with 5,805,814 posts) because as you type on your phone your auto correct might change the word or put spaces between the words and then change the hashtag if you aren't paying attention. Mykelti's biggest issue is she is just using the # as some weird additional comment instead of writing her comment and then using the hashtags as designed...to put your post in front of your target audience. Since her grammar and spelling errors are frequent, they show up by changing the intended hashtag. ...oh...also. If you are using a hashtag that is NOT out there at all...that box won't pop up. So Mykelti is on her own to spell it all right when she does that. But if you are using one that you have used before...it will still pop up because you have already used it. Some posters will use their username as a hashtag in the hopes that followers will either follow their page or their hashtag.

...so do Potters, especially those who work with stoneware. I haven't been fingerprinted, but I couldn't get the fingerprint lock on my phone to work.

Aspyn and Mykelti shared an apartment for one year. Then Mykelti dropped out because "college is hard" and also Aspyn said she was too mothering to Mykelti and it was hurting their relationship. They gave up the apartment but Aspyn also had been butting heads over mothering the "little kids" back at home with Christine. Tho not ever on camera I believe she was kinda like Logan...the mothering was just second nature to her, yet she wanted to be a college student. They never went into detail but Christine and Aspyn didn't agree on parenting. So, one of the very big pros of polygamy is ALL those other houses to move into. But like you said, Meri had room galore yet Aspyn moved into Robyn's full to the max house. Christine put on the "I'm so happy with this decision what a great idea that Aspyn and Robyn become closer" mask and Aspyn moved into Robyn's house.

This is exactly what I thought when I read about paying for a phone call from Janelle. She has a script that she reads that lasts 35 minutes...giving you the chance to say something or ask something in the last 5 minutes before "bing!" the 40 minutes are up. BUT...if you need more from her, or want to ask questions...then...that's another $35 please. 🙂 If the script is written well enough...there will be some great thing that you just really need to know, but geez, we are out of time... Just like with phone psychics and pay-for-a-cleansing-spell witches, you have something dark stuck to your aura, some kind of evillll. For $300 they can perform a cleansing to save you. If you fall for that...then they really kick in and drain you dry. Years ago I had a neighbor who lost her house to a "psychic". The poor lady was left with nothing and the psychic forced her out of her house, then turned it into a rental.