Jana and Stephen: Slow and Steady Gets the Best Wedding

[Salacious Kitty]

"You think you have it bad? I live in Hell." 😀

[jschoolgirl]

On 1/17/2025 at 4:52 PM, Jynnan tonnix said:

There was a small town in the area called Scotrun, and I bet most of you just read that the way my friend and I did! 

At first — ?

Ohhhh …

Yeah!

[Mahsati]

Jana with Jed and Katy's twins, Elsie and Emma. 

[BetyBee]

She looks genuinely delighted with the nieces.

[Absolom]

She looks like someone who wants her own babies.  Perhaps they'll have one or two well spaced and stop.  At least she'll be spared having too many to manage more than likely.

[andromeda331]

Just now, BetyBee said:

She looks genuinely delighted with the nieces.

She really does. I always wondered if people in big families ever get tired or bored with the birth of the 10th niece or nephew or 23rd. Are they really as excited as when the first niece Mackynize is born or fifteen years later with Elsie and Emma? Same with the nephews. 

[Tuxcat]

On 1/20/2025 at 1:29 PM, andromeda331 said:

She really does. I always wondered if people in big families ever get tired or bored with the birth of the 10th niece or nephew or 23rd. Are they really as excited as when the first niece Mackynize is born or fifteen years later with Elsie and Emma? Same with the nephews. 

I think twins are extra special for her too - since she is a twin.

She seems to be back in Arkansas fairly often. Jinger's birthday, the holidays, her birthday and now visiting nieces. I wonder how Nebraska life is.

[Salacious Kitty]

Jana spent Christmas with the Wissmans (there was picture evidence). I suppose she could have gone to the Big House during the trip for Jinger's birthday, which is right before Christmas.  Jinger was home in time for Christmas in CA where she entertained her in-laws. 

Edited Wednesday at 07:13 AM by Salacious Kitty

[ranchgirl]

I imagine Jana is homesick.  A lot of transition going on with her right now.  Stephen is smart to encourage her to visit home and let her see everyone. I think all the sisters have said that going from lots of people around to hardly anyone once they are married was very difficult.  Since their home is remodeled, I wonder what Jana is doing everyday now.  I guess she could be getting ready to start a garden and get some animals.  

[Gemma Violet]

41 minutes ago, ranchgirl said:

Since their home is remodeled, I wonder what Jana is doing everyday now.  I guess she could be getting ready to start a garden and get some animals.  

According to FB, Stephen apparently has a side-line dog breeding business--Mini Aussies.  I guess Jana helps with that. 

[lookeyloo]

2 hours ago, ranchgirl said:

I imagine Jana is homesick.  A lot of transition going on with her right now.  Stephen is smart to encourage her to visit home and let her see everyone. I think all the sisters have said that going from lots of people around to hardly anyone once they are married was very difficult.  Since their home is remodeled, I wonder what Jana is doing everyday now.  I guess she could be getting ready to start a garden and get some animals.  

I think you are onto something.  I am Very Old now, but when I got married the first time we moved about an hour away from my family.  I lived at home with parents and two brothers before then.  I was very homesick and missed everyone even though I was with the new husband who I loved and wanted to be with.  It took a little time.  Because of the back then times, it wasn't all that easy just to go back.  We did, but not all the time.

[EmeraldGirl]

The gossip has already started in the comments. She’s wearing a big jean jacket, so she must be pregnant (eye roll). 

I could see it going either way. She’s older, so she wants to get started on children right away. Or she was around children her whole life, and just wants time alone with her husband.

I don’t like dog breeding. I know people want certain breeds, but after just rescuing a new baby it kind of makes me mad when you see how many are already out there. Maybe he got the idea from Anna. Who needs to do something else besides breeding (I know, that sounds super catty. And an pun about dogs).

[Gemma Violet]

3 minutes ago, EmeraldGirl said:

I don’t like dog breeding.

I don't have a problem with it as long as it's a responsible breeder as opposed to a puppy mill.  And by a responsible breeder, I mean one who doesn't breed females on every cycle, who supplies proper medical care to both mother and babies, who socializes the puppies, etc.  On a recent FB post, Stephen said that two puppies he had for sale had had their six-week check-up and vaccinations, so I'm hoping he's a responsible breeder.  (Although I'm not thrilled with "mini" versions of any breed because of the health risks.)

[EmeraldGirl]

I think the whole doodle industry has gone crazy. Everybody wants a doodle of some kind, and I’m not sure how they’re all being bred. It can cause problems with the breed, even though they’re not technically a breed.

We had a St. Bernard when I was growing up. I called to ask a vet about different dogs when we were looking for one with allergies in the family. I just mentioned that about our St. Bernard (not thinking to get one) and he told me that after the movie Beethoven, everyone was breeding them irresponsibly and they had become a rather mean dog. I’m a little worried about that now with the doodles.

We actually ended up buying a poodle years ago from a home breeder. They were very responsible and he was a fantastic dog. But that was kind of a location situation. There are many areas where you can’t find dogs that are “hypoallergenic” (I know no dog is completely, but my kids and I had bad allergies to cats and other dogs). We looked everywhere to adopt, but it just wasn’t in our area. I see in bigger cities it's easy to find all kinds of rescues. We were lucky enough to find a rescue recently after our last baby passed.

[AstridM]

8 hours ago, Gemma Violet said:

According to FB, Stephen apparently has a side-line dog breeding business--Mini Aussies.  I guess Jana helps with that. 

If the Duggars aren’t abusing children, they’re abusing animals, so that sounds about right 🤬.

2 hours ago, EmeraldGirl said:

The gossip has already started in the comments. She’s wearing a big jean jacket, so she must be pregnant (eye roll). 

I could see it going either way. She’s older, so she wants to get started on children right away. Or she was around children her whole life, and just wants time alone with her husband.

I don’t like dog breeding. I know people want certain breeds, but after just rescuing a new baby it kind of makes me mad when you see how many are already out there. Maybe he got the idea from Anna. Who needs to do something else besides breeding (I know, that sounds super catty. And a pun about dogs).

In what comments?

[EmeraldGirl]

Sorry, in the comments on Jana’s post holding the twins! People already saying she’s pregnant, and a bunch of comments telling them to mind their own business.

[oliviabenson]

I think they will try for kids. I see them having 2-4. unless she has twins too. I honestly see them like Jinger : 4 tops.

[Gemma Violet]

I could see Jana having no more than one (since she may be burnt out on babysitting since she was eight years old), but only if Stephen's OK with it. 

However, the odds are that Stephen will want at least a few children, so I'm thinking they'll compromise, like maybe he wants 4-5 and she wants 0-1 and they end up with 2-3.   

[Salacious Kitty]

Didn't Jana just turn 35? Just given her age, she probably couldn't have more than 4, max. 

I could see her with two. 

[Absolom]

Two sounds fine.  We have three or four married Duggar offspring with a chance for a normal sized family.

[oliviabenson]

Justin still has 0 kids.

 

Jill might have 1-2 more tops.

Jinger might have 4.

[Notabug]

55 minutes ago, oliviabenson said:

Justin still has 0 kids.

 

Jill might have 1-2 more tops.

Jinger might have 4.

JD and Abbie seem to be taking a reasonable approach to family size, too.  She'll be 33 this spring, so it seems very unlikely she will have a passel.

Since Justin got married so young, it is still possible for them to have a late start but still wind up with a baseball team

[oliviabenson]

I forgot about JD! I think they are done. Abby didn't have easy pregnancies either. maybe that's why they are probably done!

[Gemma Violet]

Re the photo upthread, in case anyone would like to see some more photos/videos of Jana/Stephen holding the twins, see below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFAqkCCOIYc/

[zoomama]

so has jana announced a pregnancy or is it all spam and speculation?

[Gemma Violet]

19 hours ago, Gemma Violet said:

Re the photo upthread, in case anyone would like to see some more photos/videos of Jana/Stephen holding the twins, see below:

I see the response to my post is basically laughing emojis.  Color me confused.  Just to make clear, I was not ridiculing the person who posted the original Jana/twins picture.  I honestly thought some people might want to see the additional pictures she posted since video was included.  I'm posting this clarification because I just didn't want the original poster to get the wrong idea.

[EmeraldGirl]

No announcements. Just the usual comments on her post about how she should be pregnant by now. Why is she wearing such a big jean jacket, must be pregnant for sure, etc. (not my words). And some who don’t pay attention and thought they were her babies.

It’s so intrusive to go into her own comments and talk about her uterus. I know we speculate here all the time about the different families, but not in her own comments for her to read. I have no idea if they want children. I would assume that a newly married fundie man would want a family. But I’m sure that is something they talked a lot about while they were courting. All couples should have that discussion before they marry. That’s a major dealbreaker if you disagree on children.