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Pshaw that’s nothing. Friend of mine gave birth Tuesday, went home Friday, and had that kid dressed to the nines for church today. I’m sure Joe, Kendra, and Garrett made an appearance.

I didn’t get the impression Kendra was reckless with her care at all. First video showed the contractions 5-10 minutes apart in the evening after most doctor’s close. She was also two and a half weeks early so it’s very possible those would have slowed over time. No hospital would have admitted her during the first video if something else hadn’t happened. Then the second video was in the early morning (2-4am) and they went to the hospital once the contractions were 2-3 min apart. Plus her water never broke at home. Kendra also had a plan to go to the doctor in the morning which sounds like she called and talked to his office at some point. I thought Kendra had the most sane birth of all the Duggars.

At the very end when Kendra was leaving you could hear Michelle say she looked good for having just given birth. There might have been a glimpse of her as the cameraman panned around the room.

Maybe, but there also wasn’t a Duggar present. Jana has usually filled Lauren’s role in the past.

Austin wouldn’t make eye contact with the camera and Joy seemed to be throwing some shade by telling Joe he needed to help out as her advice.

This also puts the Duggars back into the media right before the wedding. All the articles that I have seen have mentioned Josiah and Lauren were engaged and getting married soon. I’m sure this announcement wasn’t a coincidence, unplanned, or at the detriment of Si.

Derick was in his early teens when The Incredibles came out. He was just about the target audience. He likely has very nostalgic memories of the franchise. I don’t mind them not taking Izzy because early 3 is still pretty young for a movie theater. I’d be lucky if my 4 year old lasted 30 minutes in her seat.

It might be fluff. Pastor Caldwell also looks like he’s chunked up quite a bit as well. There’s more gut then I remember them having. I bet they both went on a starvation diet for the wedding and it’s caught up to them.

Garrett came early. TLC probably has to approve the message that the fam sends out (perhaps provide a script and/or camera crew). I could see them not having everything ready yet. I bet we see messages drop around Father’s Day. Jill & Derick aren’t bound by those rules, so post away.

There was an episode where everyone was at a consignment sale, Izzy was probably 18 months old and Jill heavily implied that she had to go feed him from the boob. I’m sure they all use extended breastfeeding as their “birth control” and “leave” everything else to God. It was probably also easier to breastfeed Izzy in Central America then to feed him real food.

He’s a Pastor in a Baptist church that’s backed by the national group. It’s very likely he was given the opportunity to get health insurance from that, since the national religious organizations historically have tried to group the pastors together for the insurance. It’s also possible that he pays good money to buy insurance from the marketplace.

Crib bumpers are a no-no but every damn bedding set I looked at pregnant included them. I think some are technically made of a breathable fabric that skirts the line between okay/not okay. I didn’t use them, but have friends who did. I wish more grocery stores would embrace the double seat carts. Although Izzy is going to be way too big to sit in the front anyways.

I grew up in the neighborhood in Houston that Bill & Jen lived in. The problem was they didn’t have the money to live in Bellaire, the richest part in town. Tear-down lots start around a million, especially if you buy two to build your mega mansion. So Bill and Jen bought on the fringe. If the trajectory continued, it was the next neighborhood to get the “Bellaire” treatment. But first the oil market crashed. Expensive homes without the Bellaire address bottomed out. Then three bad floods happened to the same area back to back to back. Memorial day flood, Tax day flood, and Hurricane Harvey. While their property didn’t flood, there are thousands that did. Drive up and down Braeswood and you will see house after house empty and decaying. If you’re a millionaire who wants a big house in a fringe neighborhood, you’re going to pick up one of those flooded lots for $400,000 and spend the extra $500,000 building a flood proof home. And still be cheaper then buying the Klein-Arnold property. I’m sure if Bill and Jen could do it again, they’d spend the money to get in Bellaire. They are never going to sell that house as-is for anything close to a million, but that’s not necessarily Jen’s fault either.

I think it’s mostly fiction based on the fact that the registry date is 12/31. The media likes to make a big deal about the obfuscated dates. They did the same thing with Joy using her October birthday as her “wedding date” on the registry.

If Lauren was having a bachelorette party too then that hashtag would also apply. #littlesisgettingmarried doesn’t necessarily mean it has to happen this weekend.

I watched it as a comedy. I’m not sure what the house looked like at the end, but some of their bickering had me howling. It was awful though and I’m not sure I’ll keep watching if this is the new format. I hope it was just first episode back selective editing.

When I write, I prefer to make handwritten notes first, then write everything out in Word second. I do not like to scroll through multiple tabs when I start writing.

I love Superstore, but it’s not so much about their individual lives. Hit me up when Amy has her baby and let’s see if they talk about what it’s really like to be a single mom to a newborn on a retail salary. Or if they just mine it for laughs like they did Cheyenne’s pregnancy. Both Speechless and Fresh Off the Boat are good, but each focus on JJ and Eddie more then their parents’ ability to raise them. There are times when they get close with individual episodes (although I haven’t seen a full Fresh Off the Boat in a long time. That show can drag.)

I easily think there could be a void filled where there is a show set in the Midwest with blue-collar family. I’d even support some of the same cast and crew minus Roseanne. But it shouldn’t have anything to do with the Conners and it should be fresh, original characters. While it was fun to revisit everybody, I thought the political mess and backstory that had to be pigeon-holed in some places really held the reboot back.

I’m cynical enough to wonder if this wasn’t part of Roseanne’s (as in Roseanne Barr the person) plan all along. I never got the feeling she was as into the reboot as some of the other characters. She doesn’t own it, Sara Gilbert was the executive producer, ABC had their hands in the cookie jar and season two was supposed to be less political and more normal sitcom... the whole thing makes me think that Roseanne always had Twitter as her “out”.

Luckily, probably not. Yes the evangelical Christian base is strong, but so is the career politician. So many people realize that the small school board, city council roles are good stepping stones to the big positions further in life. That’s why so little change is actually seen at those levels. Derick hasn’t kept up his schmoozing. Jim Bob has little political capital left his senate run and Josh. Derick would have to start from the bottom. Those usually aren’t successful races. I think it took JD two or three elections for his sheriff position. Austin recently lost a different sheriff position, I believe, before he married Joy.

There’s a lot of tier 2 law schools that would take Derick. They aren’t going to be as focused on his social reputation as one might think. As long as he had the grades in college and has decent LSATs, someone will accept him. Sitting for the bar will be harder, but not impossible. I’ve seen people with DUI’s in their past pass the ethics part of the bar as long as they are contrite enough. If Derick locks down his Twitter and keeps out of the media for a few years, he won’t have a problem passing if he met the other qualifications. .

All they needed was $3,000 to cover the deductible on their health insurance.

I could also believe that after the flooding Dan had enough work to make good, guaranteed money from the insurance companies. But they just only barely mentioned that at the end and instead focused on FEMA. It was just weird. I wonder how it was supposed to end if the reboot failed.

Oh no, I remember them going for the crazy ones first. I didn’t spend much time around it, but the justification was definitely how much they could memorize vs actually learning the Bible. The prevailing theory was that the younger they were, the more they’d remember, like with a second language. All three kids absolutely despise religion now as adults, so nurturing a love for Jesus did not seem to be the end result.