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Cannot. Stand. Chantal. That girl just thinks she's the cat's meow, or something. She is so immature -- her life is nothing but partying. Even Pedro is sick of it. She's so in love with herself...maybe that's what bothers me. Can't stand self-absorbed people.

So I guess DonnaLee wasn't home that day to help her out of the shower?

Or the landlord would have....

Well, they wouldn't have to rudely point it out. I would have just appreciated some raised eyebrows from Mrs. Flame when Jessa was explaining how Ben only works part time, she doesn't work, and they have $$ to buy them nice gifts.

I thought I saw Grandma D. in one of the last few Counting On episodes. Now I can't recall which one. Oh, wait...I think it was the last one. She was at the graduation party.

I just gave myself my first ever black eye two weeks ago when I knocked my head into the doorframe of my car door! :)

Some comments say that it's just the way the lighting was. Who knows with this family.

Does no one wonder (or question) how Jessa and Ben can afford to live in a house when she doesn't work, and he only works part time? Their friends from St. Louis (Flame and Mrs. Flame) just took it in stride when Jessa was talking about how Ben has finals, and works part time, so he can still spend time with his family.

OK, so I see what's happening here. One 60-minute episode is 15 minutes of the Counting On Couple of the Night (COCON), and the other 45 minutes is easing us back into Life With The Duggar Clan, as a Whole (minus, of course, Josh).

Ben and Jessa don't have a toaster? Really? Ben: "I thought he was just coming to check out the cuts of different diamonds...." Really, Ben? He was just there two days ago, and now he's back, just to check out the cuts of different diamonds? Couldn't he have done that in Texas? Are you really as dimwitted as you want us all to believe?

I'm kind of tempted to give Matt a pass here. He doesn't have any small children, and probably had no idea what the kid ate. After the way Alla got all up in his face about the apples, maybe they'd had this discussion before, and he didn't want to see her go off the rails if he had something there she wouldn't like. He had crackers and peanut butter. Not the best breakfast, but not the worst, either. Having said all that, I am kind of surprised that his mom didn't stock his fridge with food. Matt just seems like a bumbling dolt to me.

That's kind of odd, since the UK has tons of reality shows depicting morbidly obese UK people who show little motivation to get thin.

I think the weight/receding hairline post meant that now that his face was thinner (due to weight loss), his receding hairline looked smaller -- not as "stretched out". :)

Her daughter is so cute....I find it sad that she hasn't mentioned missing her once. Maybe she did, and they edited it out, because it would give her some cred.

They do! I homeschooled my daughter one year, because she missed the age cut off for Kindergarten by two days. Her birthday is Aug 3, cutoff was Aug 1. She'd just gone through a year of preschool, and her preschool teacher felt she was ready for Kindergarten. So I had a choice...have her languish at home for a year and get out of the academic groove, or homeschool her. I went the homeschool route, and have never regretted it. It gave me a chance to work on her one on one, something she wouldn't have gotten in mainstream school. I got to know her academic strengths and weaknesses, and how she learns best. That knowledge still serves me today, when I'm helping her with homework.

Wow...Nicole looks much thinner in that picture. If that was the picture Azan saw, no wonder he was surprised by Nicole in real life -- even seeing neck up facetime video.

I'm confused.

.........Jed Clampett :) I didn't think Dani and Mo ever did it. :)

Another cringworthy moment: Chantal grinding/twerking whatever she was doing in that ridiculously tight and tiny skirt in the previews for next week. Cover your eyes, if you're sensitive that way: she's like a dog in heat. Someone turn on the water hose.

I am fascinated by Nicole. She's such a contradiction. She makes these very juvenile comments and demands, but then when she doesn't get what she wants (or is trying to pressure Anza - whatever his name is), she looks decidedly like a much older woman, and poof! The soft, timid little girl is gone, replaced by a woman with hard eyes and a hard mouth -- hard look, period. Funny, that. I could barely watch her. I'm sure I looked away from the screen more than once. Cringeworthy is certainly the right description here.

Insane, or control freaks who think the only way to make sure your kids grow up the way you think they should is to control their every waking (and nonwaking) moments. I had friends who did that with their daughter. Boy,did it blow up in their faces. She did one year of college, and then threw it all away to move to the boonies with a semi-employed guy who promptly got her pregnant. She is now living the kind of life her parents so desperately tried to keep her from. Funny how that worked out.

Does Jer have a TV? Anyone notice?

Typical, juvenile-type comment. It's because Jeremy was going through the dresses, trying to find one for Jing.

I wonder if she and Michelle had "mouth wide open/shocked surprise" lessons in front of the mirror...

Right. And now we can piece together the Mexican restaurant picture that was floating around on here a month or so ago....(the one with Ging noticeably hiding her hand, and questions about a pregnant Jessa -- before she made her "double the love" announcement).