Libby96

Priscilla obviously doesn't have a mean bone in her body, but she does have a bit of a time getting to the point when she talks. I can't really snark much, because it is heartbreaking that her friend lost a baby at 38 weeks. However, when she said the "put the quarter in, get a healthy baby in 9 months" metaphor, how many of us were trying so hard NOT to think about David depositing the "quarter?" Girlfriend has a pretty decent sized belly for having 12 weeks yet to go. I can sympathize. I looked like the broad side of a barn with my fourth. Interestingly, I was the same age as Priscilla when I had my fourth (I was thinking she was younger.) The similarity ends there though, because I packed it in with the pregnancy thing after the fourth baby, and I'm sure Prissy still has many pregnancies left to go...

I am really kind of surprised neither one of them is pregnant with #3 yet. Once Baby Vuolo hatches that means no Duggar grandchildren will currently be gestating. But who are we kidding.... it's likely we are just weeks away from the announcement of a Josiah/Lauren honeymoon baby.

I know I shouldn't be stunned, but the speed with which these people hustle these kids from courtship to engagement to wedding makes my head spin. I imagine it has partly to do with getting them hitched before they have a chance to fornicate, and partly to do with getting them hitched before they have time to thoroughly digest the lifelong commitment they are making.

I hope for his sake he is not working a full time job! Certainly part time to pay for food/housing is understandable, but trying to work full time along with a full class load as an incoming freshman would be very difficult. I know there are people who juggle this, and I hugely admire that, but I think poor Timothy has a better chance of success if he's just working 20 hours a week or so.

I think part of the reason they are hauling their entire family across the country to take Timothy to Washington is that the "engagements" at churches that Jill mentions will be opportunities to solicit "love offerings" to help cover Timothy's tuition.

If they keep marrying kids off at this rate and nobody is secretly bucking the party line and dabbling in birth control, someone will ALWAYS be pregnant at their sibling's ( or soon to be sibling-in-law's) wedding. Pregnancy is the default state of married Duggar or Duggar-adjacent females.

That article was certainly a mixed bag. On one hand I was amazed he said that it was actually okay for a woman to wear a bikini or a sexy dress in a public, but then he says that has to do with pleasing her husband, nothing about pleasing herself. And of course, he has to remind Christian women to shower each day and to only wear sweatpants if they are doing certain types of work or are ill. Sweatpants should be rare. Nor is there any acknowledgement that a woman might not be sitting around each day waiting for the husband to come home, that she might have a job that keeps her out later than he is. I usually am home from work before my husband, and I often have changed nto comfy around the house clothes by then. I can't imagine being married to a man that would actually micromanage what I wear, especially in my own home. To keep this on topic, I am glad that Jill "Plexus Pink" Rodriguez is persuing proper medical care for little Janessa. That baby is a cutie. I hope her outcome is better than expected.

The angle on Jill's post-baby body picture is so weird. It's like her lower body is angled away from the camera or something. At first I thought she was wearing tight-fitting blue pants tucked into black boots. Then I realized Jill considers pants-wearing women harlots, and looked again and saw it was just a tight-fitting skirt. Much more holy.

If you get married at 19 and don't believe in birth control, you are going to have a very LONG season of pregnancy/birth/small children. No new season for a while!

"Little Ones" and "Kiddos" are both terms for children that annoy me. Nothing really wrong with saying them, they just bug me.

I don't watch the show anymore ( I think the last thing I saw was Spurgie's birth) but I'm here for the discussion/snark. I must really be missing out, though, if I missed teenaged girls washing their faces! Scintillating television.

I am sure I would learn so much listening to the sharing of kids young enough to be my children about their less than year old marriage. Please. Even as a Christian myself I just don't see the obsession with these marriage workshops and marriage retreats. It's like there is some belief that marriages are under atrack and it is all just such hard work. For just $499 you can spend a romantic weekend with your spouse taking notes on how to keep your marriage alive! I'm not saying marriages don't need attention, but I kind of operate from the standpoint that my life is easier with my husband than without him. But go right ahead, Joy and Austin. Share that wisdom.

Alyssa's Easter photos are all part of the childbearing contest these girls are part of. Not only is it about who can have the most babies the fastest, but also who can present the best social media presence while doing it. And not to be gross, but I can't imagine dressing in white like that considering what is still happening to a female body four days after having a baby. Maybe they have found a way to pray away postpartum bleeding and leaking breast milk?

I don't understand the inviting a whole army of people to the birth regardless of where it is taking place. How many people do I really need observing me pushing 7 or 8 pounds out of my nether regions? I was perfectly fine having just my husband there and the necessary (licensed, actual, trained) medical personnel. Everyone else, my parents included, could come a few hours later when my baby and I were cleaned up and I'd had a sandwich.

They should definitely use the name Martin Luther (the original, 1500's Martin Luther) since his childbirth philosophy is right up their alley. Luther quote: "Even though they grow weary and wear themselves out with childbearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for." This seems to fall right in line with the attitude they are espousing with their lack of quality prenatal care and reckless home births.

There is no explaining crazy. This woman obviously has a nice bed in a comfortable home, yet she shoves a dozen kids in a camper for most of the year. She needs to feed those same kids, but the kids look wan and thin while she shells out for vow renewal ceremonies, professional pregnancy photos and Plexis snake oil. That shirt is tight, Jill. We see your belly button outline. But God forbid the heathens wear swimwear on the beach. Raising a kid with special needs is hard. I know from experience. It's not all "praise God for this trial, aren't I lucky God chose me to do this." I think she's in for a rude a awakening. Bless that poor little baby.

Whether or not Jessa is pregnant now, when she is pregnant again it is a non-story. It is what they do. With six married Duggar children now, another one engaged, and more of the kids reaching marriageable age every year or two, we are living in a world where there could be a Jim Bob and J'chelle grandchild on the way every year until 2050. Wrap your minds around that, folks.

I am probably being way too grumpy here, and of course I have no idea what it is like to be a world class athlete, but doesn't Worlds mean something to these skaters? I know the Olympics is the pinnacle and all that, but after all the years of hard work I would think a trip to Worlds would be an honor and barring injury or illness, an athlete would go for it. It seems like the number of withdrawals is really high, even for an Olympic year. Oh well. I hope Mariah, Nathan and Deanna seize the opportunity and skate well.

So Med is out of Worlds too. The Worlds right after the Olympics is always so weird. I guess the only mystery in the women's and dance events will be what kind of record breaking score Zag and Papadakis/Cizeron can rake in. Sigh.

It's a bummer. They showed an entire hockey game that, of course, went into overtime, and then switched to soccer. Soccer. I can't believe the NBC broadcast didn't even show all the medalists. No pairs at all (I know Aljona was sick and didn't skate) and no Shoma and Javi. I guess I shouldn't be surprised :(

Why is Andrea Joyce announcing this gala? They already have Scott and Tanith. When she is the one doing the rinkside interviews, it seems that Terry Gannon always says something like "Now we will send it down to Andrea Joyce, who just caught up with so-and-so." It always gives me the mental picture of the skaters walking away as fast as they can in their skates, ducking behind curtains and such as Andrea pursues then, tottering on her high heels while clutching her microphone.

Looks like they also did another interview with Lindsay Vonn. They always have time for that. (I fast-forwarded it. Take that NBC.)

Other than watching skating, one of my little Olympic joys is reading and discussing the event in forums like this, as well as reading articles and hearing others discuss the event. It's also fun seeing some of the misinformation that floats around out there. A local radio station here has someone who reports and lightheartedly chats about the Olympics each day. She told about Zag beating Med without even mentioning their names. Then she said "the 15-year-old was not the youngest champion even. Someone back in the 80's won when she was younger." No mention of Lipinski's name, and obviously she got the entirely wrong decade. Then I read a Bleacher Report article that called Tessa and Scott a husband-and-wife team. Check your facts people!

That would be appropriate. Anna Karenina does pretty much end with Anna getting wrecked by a train....

Shades of Surya Bonaly at '94 worlds. No silver for her!