Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

[queenanne]

5 minutes ago, louannems said:

Baby Janessa has a fasinator bigger than her face!

I like how JiilR neglected talking about leaving Snuggles behind, getting kicked out of the campground, and taking the selfie in front of the dead children's coffins.

It was some story, wasn’t it?  My favorite part was the self justification for being a contentious scene throwing jerk, because Kaylee said she likes a quarrelsome mother (“fights and fights with her sword”).

[doodlebug]

In the photo of Jill with the kid who gave her flowers, she looks like Vampyra, Mistress of the Dark.  I've seen people made up as ghouls for Halloween whose eye makeup was less scary.  I won't mention the kid's looks except to say that I hope Jill's fundie orthodontist friend who gives them free braces gets to him soon. And, in addition to bragging about how one of her underfed spawn spent money on flowers for her; we also get to hear the story about how one of the girls wrote poetry praising Jill.  The woman's ego is insatiable, can you imagine being the kids who DIDN'T buy her flowers or write her a poem?  Locked up in an RV traveling cross country with Jill haranguing them to do things for her to show their appreciation would be my idea of hell on earth.

That poor baby and those unfortunate head coverings!  She is sorta cute, considering who her parents are.

[PradaKitty]

That entire family looks like the walking dead...

[galaxychaser]

I read about half before I gave up...

[ginger90]

2 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

I read about half before I gave up...

I copied it, pasted it, and haven’t read it yet ?

[BitterApple]

Poor Gabriel. He probably hoped if he gave Jill flowers she'd take him to a desperately needed orthodontist.

[doodlebug]

12 minutes ago, BitterApple said:

Poor Gabriel. He probably hoped if he gave Jill flowers she'd take him to a desperately needed orthodontist.

And what exactly was Jill going to do with flowers on a cross country trip in the first place?  She said he showed her the flowers and told her he was going to buy them for her.  I cannot picture most mothers telling their kid to go ahead and spend money on them like that. Mine would've said, 'Oh, honey, it's so nice you want to do that for me, but we really can't keep them in the RV.  I'd rather you spent money on something fun for yourself on vacation.'  And my mom was no saint, she just wasn't a self centered witch.    To brag that she let a 12 year old waste his spending money on flowers all the while not bothering to give her eldest son enough money for books for school.  She is the worst.

[DkNNy79]

We rarely ever buy my mother flowers.  She has been telling us since we were kids that it was a waste of money.  If we did buy her flowers (i.e. mother's day) she would accept them but then she would make comments throughout the day that it was a waste of money.  We were poor but we were never hungry.  My mom would spend money on food (home cooked meals, not going out to eat).

 

That poor little girl.  The headband with the flower that is the same size as her face.  I don't understand how people think this looks cute on baby girls.

Edited August 28, 2018 by DkNNy79

[Jynnan tonnix]

I liked the part about Janessa's typing. Not sure why that makes her a prodigy. My cat once typed ppppppp;rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr while she settled on my laptop keyboard to keep warm. Janessa may have typed more letters, but I still say Cora's nice, succinct description of her feelings trumps that! LOL

 

Edited August 29, 2018 by Jynnan tonnix

[Dimi1]

I see the picture of that little boy and my heart wells with tenderness...I just want to give him a big hug and tell him he is perfect the way he is...if adults point out what they percieve as flaws ...just imagine how cruel other children will be....beauty is only the norm society dictates...rare is the person who looks beyond what they have been conditioned to see as beautiful ....

[doodlebug]

18 minutes ago, Dimi1 said:

I see the picture of that little boy and my heart wells with tenderness...I just want to give him a big hug and tell him he is perfect the way he is...if adults point out what they percieve as flaws ...just imagine how cruel other children will be....beauty is only the norm society dictates...rare is the person who looks beyond what they have been conditioned to see as beautiful ....

I think this particular child's dental problems are significant enough to affect his overall health.  Google 'overbite' and you'll see what sorts of problems kids can get into.  It's not a 'flaw', it is an actual medical condition that needs to be addressed for his overall health and well being.  Considering most of the older kids have already had braces, I am kind of surprised he hasn't had them yet.

[toodles]

25 minutes ago, Jynnan tonnix said:

I liked the part about Janessa's typing. Not sure why that makes her a prodigy. My cat once typed ppppppp;rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr when she sat on my laptop keyboard to keep warm. Janessa may have typed more letters, but I still say Cora's nice, succinct description of her feelings trumps that! LOL

 

I laughed at the typing part.  There is no way a small baby has that kind of eye/hand coordination to type on a keyboard.  JillRod is just nuts, although I do enjoy her posts.  They crack me up.  On the flip side, the way she treats her children infuriates me.

[lianau]

2 hours ago, ginger90 said:

 

 

I hope she doesn't show up in my nightmares.

[latetotheparty]

15 minutes ago, lianau said:

I hope she doesn't show up in my nightmares.

Escapee from the cast of Beetlejuice. 

[Horrified]

2 hours ago, doodlebug said:

In the photo of Jill with the kid who gave her flowers, she looks like Vampyra, Mistress of the Dark. 

I thought she looked like the secret half-sister of Nancy Grace and Stormi Daniels!

[kokapetl]

Wasn’t it nice of God to create Mount Rushmore?

”Your prayers are working and what some doctors may have considered an “abortion worthy” baby, ? has defied the odds and continued to develop at record breaking levels. “

That jibberish the baby typed left me with absolutely no doubt!

[Pingaponga]

What exactly is wrong with Janessa that made her an "abortion worthy" baby?  I've tried reading the other posts on her blog, but holy hannah, she writes and writes and writes and writes...and then she writes some more.  And somehow she misses the point she must be trying to make.

[Wishing Well]

This asshole makes it sound like the rest of her kids are stupid, since Janessa is the smartest.  There’s a way of saying she’s cognitively advanced without putting down the other kids.

Also my brother flies from Seattle to Chicago to New York about a dozen times a year for school, work, and family.  Jill makes it sounds like they’re joining the Ingalls on hitching up a covered wagon and making it out west.  

[doodlebug]

3 hours ago, Pingaponga said:

What exactly is wrong with Janessa that made her an "abortion worthy" baby?  I've tried reading the other posts on her blog, but holy hannah, she writes and writes and writes and writes...and then she writes some more.  And somehow she misses the point she must be trying to make.

I presume Jill is talking about the malformation of the baby's brain that was found on ultrasound prenatally.  it was thought she might've suffered a stroke in utero and, after she was born, it was discovered she is missing a fairly important part of her brain, the corpus callosum, which allows the hemispheres to communicate.  There is a wide spectrum of outcomes with this issue: from perfectly normal child to significant intellectual and cognitive impairment.  

I've had about a dozen moms whose babies were diagnosed with some sort of neurologic abnormality on ultrasound and I cannot recall a single one who chose to terminate the pregnancy.  Some of the kids are fine, some have minimal deficits, some more serious problems; all of them are loved and wanted.  For Jill to refer to her daughter as being 'abortion worthy' in any context sickens me and denigrates the thoughtful and loving and traumatic experiences that any parents go through when their baby is diagnosed with a problem before birth.  She is disgusting and cruel, IMO.

ETA: there is no possibility whatsoever that an infant Janessa's age could purposefully type on a keyboard.  I don't care if she's the second coming of Einstein, Galileo and Da Vinci rolled into one.  That Jill thinks the kid is intentionally typing on the keypad says a lot more about Jill's intellect than Janessa's.

[kalamac]

My best friend's 5 month old is fascinated by her phone (especially when she has the camera on and he can see himself) - he too can type random strings of letters when she has the keyboard up, because it's a touchscreen phone and his fingers work.

What does it say about her other kids that JillR thinks Janessa is the smart one, because she can make stuff happen on a touch screen phone by touching it.

[latetotheparty]

53 minutes ago, doodlebug said:

That Jill thinks the kid is intentionally typing on the keypad says a lot more about Jill's intellect than Janessa's.

Remember, this is the woman who believes the demon story.  Someone that gullible should not be raising children. 

[lookeyloo]

Oy, that "fascinator" on baby Janessa!  Felicity Nicole Vuolo's headbands are tame by comparison.  Janessa is a cute baby.  I guess when they start starving her she might look less cute.

[Fuzzysox]

8 hours ago, ginger90 said:

I did not include all of the pictures.

 

 

Our Trip WEST and the INCREDIBLE places we went!! Aug. 2018

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Rodrigues Family

As most of you know already, we headed WEST in the months of July and August 2018 for the purpose of safely delivering our oldest son Timothy (second oldest child) to Bible College to learn Missionary Aviation which he had been burdened to do since he was 4 years old.  It was an unexpected trip because Timothy had planned to do his first year of college ONLINE (from home) to save money for the next 4 years when he would need to live ON campus.  However, policies changed and we discovered that he was required to live there his first year also.

SO, we rushed, rallied, and gathered our thoughts and plans to plan a trip WEST!!  God proved Himself SO faithful and we made phone calls and within a half hour, we had our trip planned, and meetings scheduled at various churches we called along the way. Praise the Lord!!  We decided to make this trip VERY memorable and special as we traveled West because it would be our LAST trip together as a family (all together).  sniff, sniff

It was SO hard saying goodbye to Timothy (to read more about that, look on our previous post – about saying goodbye to Timothy and new baby).  Although it was hard to say our goodbyes, it was a SPECIAL trip that we will not soon forget!

We hope you enjoy the posts below that we posted on our FB page as we traveled across this GREAT nation!!  It starts in Kentucky (where our first meeting was) all the way to the Oregon Coast to see the Pacific Ocean. Then, we do a little bit of pics, etc. of our trip BACK East. ENJOY!!

Traveling WEST……..

Stop One:

Meeting in Kentucky.  

Still in Kentucky…..

I sure do love this little angel!  Check out those Mama kiss marks on her chubby little cheeks.  You are Mama’s miracle baby, Janessa! 

Post about our week in Kentucky…….

This week at Palomar Baptist Church for their Camp Meeting -in Lexington, Kentucky- has been a GREAT week!  Souls have been saved and lives changed! Pastor and Kathy Moore, we LOVE you guys! Thank you for your kind, sweet spirits.  Church Family, thank you for your kindness and generosity bestowed upon our family!  Joseph and Sarah Moore, thank you for all your hard work in setting this up.  We are HONORED to have friends like you all!  May God richly bless you as you continue to so faithfully serve Jesus!  With Care, The Rodrigues Family

On our way to our next stop!!…….

Gateway to the West Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.  Here we come Washington State! 

In our travels, it was a blessing to meet up with some friends (Lisa Hermann and her sweet 3 children) at a lovely park.  We love you, Hermann Family! 

Kansas City. 

Little note about Janessa in our travels….

Okay, what 3 month old do you know can do this (check out the random typing below)? However, after she intensely watched me type on my phone, THIS is what Janessa typed out…with her own little hand. It was adorable!  I know this is going to sound weird, but she seems one of our SMARTEST children so far.  Your prayers are working and what some doctors may have considered an “abortion worthy” baby, ? has defied the odds and continued to develop at record breaking levels. 

People, this tells me GOD knows what He is doing! Trust Him. Rest in His creation as EXACTLY how HE formed and fashioned it……  even if the results had been (or will be) different in the future. Abortion should NEVER be an option! God will provide.

Jesus, we praise YOUR holy Name! You have shown and given us mercy! You have always been MORE than good to us!  We TRUST Your design and plan for our little Janessa. God Almighty, you are WORTHY of praise! We lift our arms in worship to You and You alone!  

Janessa’s attempt to “copy Mama” in typing. LOL ….

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Stopped at a Culver’s for dinner in South Dakota. Phillip visiting with Janessa while we waited for our food. Also, the landscaping is starting to change. 

Wall Drug, South Dakota and Badlands National Park.  I LOVE the Indian heritage here. Check out the handmade items made by an authentic Native American Indian lady.  What a GREAT land we live in….filled with amazing history!           

-Traveling West, The Rodrigues Family

This (below) happened in our travels….

I am a TRULY blessed Mama.  The other night, when I ran into Walmart to pick up some groceries, Gabriel (along with 2 of his siblings) went in with me. I walked into another aisle and Gabriel was not with us.  So, I told his siblings to go get him. They came back and told me he was gazing at the flowers. I thought, “Oh, he must think they are pretty and wants to look at them.” Pretty soon he meandered into the aisle with this beautiful bouquet.  He said, “Here, Mama, I am going to buy these for you!” WOW! He went up to the register and paid for them. What a thoughtful 12 year old boy I have!  I am SOOO blessed, my heart could burst! 

Next Church Stop….

This is the church we visited and sang at Wednesday night in South Dakota.  What SWEET people. Come to find out, I had already basically met the Pastor’s wife back when I was a teen in NY.  I especially knew her family VERY well! 

You know as the saying goes…”we live in a small world”. However, we don’t! LOL. ? So, I would like to re-phrase it to say…”We serve a BIG God!”  

About my husband…..

Can’t say enough good about this man!  He drives and drives and drives…and does it well! He bears the load and responsibility and financial burden of providing for 15 people PLUS our dog!  He empties our sewer on our RV and is constantly fixing things that break. He does it all OVER and OVER and OVER and never gives up.  He serves Jesus full time! He loves me and is faithful to me! He preaches truth and righteousness and old fashioned values…a message rarely preached now a days. He dearly loves all 13 of our children and is willing to have more if God chooses to give them to us. He is a GEM! I am one blessed lady!  Love ya, Babe. -Your Jillybean 

Next Attraction We Visited…..

Right near the church we sang at Wednesday night, they had this museum. So, Timothy, Kaylee and I took a bit of time to go explore. SPECIAL…especially to Timothy- whose heart is aviation. 

My FAVORITE site to see on this trip!!!…

To see Mount Rushmore, was TRULY a dream come true for me!  I love and respect my forefathers and this monument to them, is truly breathtaking!  The Black Hills are quite possibly the MOST beautiful hills/mountains I have EVER seen! The quaint town at the foot of the hills, is a LOVELY spot!  God’s creation is beautiful and I am SO grateful to Him for allowing us to travel to see it….on a shoestring budget- nonetheless. LOL. ? However, our God is faithful and is providing as we slowly trek West to drop Timothy off to college for Missionary Aviation!  Jill and Rod Family

Every minute, hour, day, week that we travel, I realize just HOW FAR away we are going to be from Timothy! ? This is NOT easy! 

We FINALLY made it!   God was especially good to us! Going through the Rocky Mountains with 15 TONS of weight, was NO easy task! We had to pull over several times to allow our engine to cool down…but we MADE IT!  The views were quite literally awe-striking! If you look close, you can even see snow capped mountains! ? Our hearts have been renewed at the beauty of God’s creation and His faithfulness in getting us here safely!  Now, to learn the area and settle Timothy in. 

This was our caravan the entire way to Washington State…special.  We will be minus Timothy’s car (red caboose at the end) going home. 

We spent a lot of time ministering at Timothy’s Church in Washington….singing, helping with the VBS, etc.  It was a BLESSING getting to spend that time at the WONDERFUL church Timothy will be attending and getting to know these DEAR folks.  It was also nice being able to get Timothy all settled in his new place of residence.

105 degrees in Spokane, Washington today! ?However, we are headed WEST (through Washington’s desert) to the Pacific Ocean and one last “meeting” we have scheduled together as a complete family at another church this Sunday.  We officially leave Timothy this coming Tuesday – August 14th.  I have to say, I can’t wait to see the Pacific! ??

Another fun post about our cutie – Janessa!

Janessa has been marked by her older sister- Nurie. LOL. She wears a onesie labeled- “Current Family Favorite”. LOL.  SO true! 

The Pacific Ocean in Oregon! Literally on the OTHER side of our GREAT Nation! What a dream come true this trip has been! 

Next Church we ministered at…..

It was a TREMENDOUS honor it was being with this church yesterday!  They treated our children extra special (which was such a blessing for them) and Pastor Rose, his dear wife and family and church were precious! 

Wow! What INCREDIBLE friends we have met here on the other side of America! 

What fun it was for the children to play volleyball at the Pastor’s house after church.

The last photo is me *Jill* with Mike (the Pastor and Pastor’s wife son) who is a quadriplegic due to malpractice at birth. It was a blessing to my heart to meet him and I told him about my dear sister Amy Foster. 

A VERY thoughtful post by Kaylee…

This is Kaylee (number 3 in our family) and I just wanted to praise my WONDERFUL Mama. My mama is the most encouraging person I know, to me and so many others around her. She is VERY caring and kind all the time. I love you so much, Mama. Thank you for being such a good mama to me. You are the BEST!!!! Here is the poem that I wrote.

A mama who’s there to hold my hand and listen and always understand. A mama who forgives me time after time and is so caring and kind. A mama who loves the Lord and fights and fights with her sword. A mama who’s there to wipe my tears away and will always be there to pray. A mama who will not loose the fight, but press on with all her might. ( written by Kaylee Rodrigues) 

I love you, Mama. You are the BEST!!!!

Enjoying slowly working our way back East in this BEAUTIFUL country we call the United States of America!  Although I must admit I missed Timothy SO much the first day after we left, it was hard to pick back up my spirits and go on in joy. I felt like crying and crying! ?However, when I remember that Timothy is happy following God’s call upon his life, I am comforted.  I thank God for the memories we form along our journey of life. 

More about our little Janessa….

Can’t believe our little sweetie is already 4 months old! I thank God each night for my treasure!  You know, my husband and children are my GREATEST earthly treasures I own!  I am abundantly blessed! 

(Check out the big, red bow my sister Angie made for Janessa.) LOL. 

We enjoyed spending time at Basswood Baptist Church in Minnesota for Revival Services.  David Preached and we sang.  It was a LOVELY week and the church took SUCH good care of us!  We also had fun swimming at a couple of folks’ homes on the beautiful lakes there in Minnesota!  Then, we FINALLY headed home!!

Our cuties and more odd and end pics we had from the trip….

So thankful for the good, quality, family time we had on the road.  West Virginia bound! ????? “Almost Heaven, West Virginia….blue ridge mountains”…..????? HOME. 

Let us end with this thought below….

In ALL of our travels, work, play, ministry, etc. – our DRIVING force is to serve Jesus Christ with a passion and to spread the news of the GLORIOUS Gospel!  This is a sobering verse below…

Is YOUR name written there? I sure hope so! If not, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, repent of your sins, trusting and believing that HE is the One and Only True Way to Heaven!  Settle it today! Today is the day of salvation!  With Care for Your Soul,    The Rodrigues Family …speaking of God’s desire for YOU! 

Dear Lort,

Please, please, please do not give this woman any more children. No child should have a krazy self-centered makeupaholic loony toon as a mother. She can't seem to feed the brew she has. No child deserves to go hungry so Momma can have green eyeliner, flowers and worship thrown at her constantly just so she can feel special. 

Love, Fuzzy

[Annb67]

8 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Jill....oh my God. What the hell is wrong with her face?

[CalicoKitty]

1 hour ago, doodlebug said:

 

I've had about a dozen moms whose babies were diagnosed with some sort of neurologic abnormality on ultrasound and I cannot recall a single one who chose to terminate the pregnancy.  Some of the kids are fine, some have minimal deficits, some more serious problems; all of them are loved and wanted.  For Jill to refer to her daughter as being 'abortion worthy' in any context sickens me and denigrates the thoughtful and loving and traumatic experiences that any parents go through when their baby is diagnosed with a problem before birth.  She is disgusting and cruel, IMO.

 

I have cared for only one newborn with agenesis of the corpus callosum, and it was a very sad time.  This baby had cleft lip and pallet, and was unresponsive to any touch or sound.  She had very poor muscle tone (floppy baby) and could not eat.  Basically, all she could do was breath. We were giving palliative only, and basically making her comfortable until she died. Her condition was not compatible with life, and it was very hard on her parents.  She only lived for a couple of weeks.  I'm pleased to see Janessa surviving, and I truly hope her family gets her the support she will need (yeah, I know).

[Westiepeach]

40 minutes ago, Fuzzysox said:

Dear Lort,

Please, please, please do not give this woman any more children. No child should have a krazy self-centered makeupaholic loony toon as a mother. She can't seem to feed the brew she has. No child deserves to go hungry so Momma can have green eyeliner, flowers and worship thrown at her constantly just so she can feel special. 

Love, Fuzzy

Totally off topic, but I feel a bond with you. The password to my WiFi at work before we changed carriers was “fuzzysox.”

[awaken]

My first thought was “she looks like a ghoul!” But everyone else had the same thought!

how old is Kaylee?  My 7 yr old writes poems to us exactly like that!  “You’re the BEST, mama!”

[Sew Sumi]

Kaylee is the 16 year old, IIRC. 

[DragonFaerie]

Odd thing.  I was in the hardware store a couple of days ago and was going down a lane looking at different aisles.  I passed an aisle.  Stopped and backed up.  I almost asked the guy in the aisle if he was a Rodriguez.  He was about 50 lbs lighter, but the same hair, ears, teeth and such as David.  Scary.

I believe Jenessa is trying to type:  Help me.  Send food.  Call 911.  Who are these crazy people?  What is with the the dang bows?  STOP putting lipstick kisses on me you IDIOTS!  Where is the dog???

[Jynnan tonnix]

1 hour ago, DragonFaerie said:

Odd thing.  I was in the hardware store a couple of days ago and was going down a lane looking at different aisles.  I passed an aisle.  Stopped and backed up.  I almost asked the guy in the aisle if he was a Rodriguez.  He was about 50 lbs lighter, but the same hair, ears, teeth and such as David.  Scary.

I believe Jenessa is trying to type:  Help me.  Send food.  Call 911.  Who are these crazy people?  What is with the the dang bows?  STOP putting lipstick kisses on me you IDIOTS!  Where is the dog???

If she truly turns out to be the smartest of Jill's bunch, maybe she will be the one to break free. I wonder how Jill would react to her miracle baby coming out as an atheist! 

[mynextmistake]

Does Jill honestly not realize she looks like a D-list porn actress? 

I can’t even snark on the kids. They look malnourished. They’re all pale and underweight and the younger ones look like caloric deficits are affecting their growth. Why are they not getting SNAP and WIC? Surely they’d qualify. Oh, right, because God will provide. Well, he seems to be providing plenty to David and Jill... too bad they’re such horrible people that they don’t share it with their kids. 

I’m a pretty even-keeled person and not much makes me angry but it’s damn hard to see people like Jill and David blessed with multitudes of kids while my sweet, loving friend and her husband have been trying for years to have a single child. I know intellectually that fertility is not a zero-sum game and life isn’t fair but still... it’s hard. 

[Jynnan tonnix]

There's a complete bunch of photos from the trip posted over at Fundie Wonderland, including one of Janessa with a pair of sunglasses crookedly perched on her face. I kept trying to figure out what it reminded me of until it finally struck me -- "Weekend at Bernie's"!

I can't even imagine what Jill would think of that movie! LOL

 

Edited August 29, 2018 by Jynnan tonnix

[Ijustwantsomechips]

On 8/28/2018 at 11:27 AM, ginger90 said:

Why is the baby dressed like Carmen Miranda with the huge fascinator?

Edited August 29, 2018 by Ijustwantsomechips

[louannems]

I'm thinking that huge (Flying Nun) hat flap closes to protect the baby's face from the sun.

[sr7698]

4 hours ago, Jynnan tonnix said:

There's a complete bunch of photos from the trip posted over at Fundie Wonderland, including one of Janessa with a pair of sunglasses crookedly perched on her face. I kept trying to figure out what it reminded me of until it finally struck me -- "Weekend at Bernie's"!

I can't even imagine what Jill would think of that movie! LOL

 

The pic reminds me of Carlos (the baby from The Hangover that Zach Galifianakas puts the big sunglasses on).  SMILE (tm Jill R).

[doodlebug]

59 minutes ago, sr7698 said:

The pic reminds me of Carlos (the baby from The Hangover that Zach Galifianakas puts the big sunglasses on).  SMILE (tm Jill R).

I'm sure that's where Jill got the idea!

I feel so sorry for those kids, especially the little girl on the far left whose skirt is dragging on the ground at Mount Rushmore.  Trying to navigate a National Park while dragging a huge skirt is a recipe for serious injury.  Perhaps Gabriel should've picked up a needle and thread for Jill at Walmart instead of flowers so she could hem her daughter's skirt to a safer length.

[Jynnan tonnix]

On 8/28/2018 at 2:15 PM, doodlebug said:

And what exactly was Jill going to do with flowers on a cross country trip in the first place?  She said he showed her the flowers and told her he was going to buy them for her.  I cannot picture most mothers telling their kid to go ahead and spend money on them like that. Mine would've said, 'Oh, honey, it's so nice you want to do that for me, but we really can't keep them in the RV.  I'd rather you spent money on something fun for yourself on vacation.'  And my mom was no saint, she just wasn't a self centered witch.    To brag that she let a 12 year old waste his spending money on flowers all the while not bothering to give her eldest son enough money for books for school.  She is the worst.

I feel as though the only time these kids get actual praise and attention is either when they fast or buy something for Jill, write her a poem, or otherwise demonstrate undying adoration. Praising Jesus doubtless factors in there somewhere as well, but probably mostly when they are praising him for giving them such a WONDERFUL Mama! (Smile)

[Temperance]

18 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

Kaylee is the 16 year old, IIRC. 

She is seventeen. 

[EVS]

2 hours ago, Temperance said:

She is seventeen. 

I admit to lurking on free Jinger.  There they refer to her as (and Kaylee). 

[Sew Sumi]

3 hours ago, Temperance said:

She is seventeen. 

Even worse then. 

[mimionthebeach]

14 hours ago, EVS said:

I admit to lurking on free Jinger.  There they refer to her as (and Kaylee). 

I get the feeling that (and Kaylee) kicked Mama in the womb.

[HoboClayton]

Standing in front of Mt. Rushmore, almost makes their heads proportionate. They should use that background from now on. 

[BitterApple]

57 minutes ago, mimionthebeach said:

I get the feeling that (and Kaylee) kicked Mama in the womb.

Was Kaylee the daughter who got really banged up in that accident and was all but forgotten about as Stormi doted on Nuri?

[doodlebug]

1 minute ago, BitterApple said:

Was Kaylee the daughter who got really banged up in that accident and was all but forgotten about as Stormi doted on Nuri?

Yup, she appeared in the happy ER selfies Jill took with her eye bruised and swollen shut but mascara still in place

[MargeGunderson]

1 minute ago, BitterApple said:

Was Kaylee the daughter who got really banged up in that accident and was all but forgotten about as Stormi doted on Nuri?

Yes she was. I think we give her more attention than Stormi.

[Enya Face]

On 8/28/2018 at 10:21 AM, doodlebug said:

In the photo of Jill with the kid who gave her flowers, she looks like Vampyra, Mistress of the Dark.  I've seen people made up as ghouls for Halloween whose eye makeup was less scary.  

I am ?? With you on that comparison. And I’m a broad who’s teenage makeup routine favored HEAVILY on the goth end of the spectrum. Jill looks like she smeared on a few sticks of black Crayola, had water thrown on her face, and was, at some point, resurrected by seriously wrong Craft style witchcraft. 

[sixlets]

On 8/29/2018 at 1:17 PM, louannems said:

I'm thinking that huge (Flying Nun) hat flap closes to protect the baby's face from the sun.

She could save a few bucks and just use a tortilla.  It's not like the kids would be allowed to eat it.

I have mentioned this before, but due to health issues that cropped up 9 years ago, I was advised to not get pregnant.  Not fully understanding what was happening to me, I could not knowingly (or selfishly) try to get pregnant.  I have very few answers as to what exactly is wrong, even now.  It is something I struggle with every single day.  I know there are women who know their dream is to have kids.  And I know women who have decided kids are not for them.  I was never given that choice.  It was taken from me, randomly, in the summer of 2009.  I want to smack Jill every single time I see her damn smug face.  She pisses me off something fierce.  For whatever reason, she decided to procreate with that asshole 13 times, and she treats those children like they are less than a flea on their poor abused dog.  

And Jill, if you happen to read here, you suck.  As Kid Rock once said, "you get what you put in, and people get what they deserve".  I hope karma is handed to you on a silver platter.

[latetotheparty]

1 hour ago, sixlets said:

She could save a few bucks and just use a tortilla.  It's not like the kids would be allowed to eat it.

I have mentioned this before, but due to health issues that cropped up 9 years ago, I was advised to not get pregnant.  Not fully understanding what was happening to me, I could not knowingly (or selfishly) try to get pregnant.  I have very few answers as to what exactly is wrong, even now.  It is something I struggle with every single day.  I know there are women who know their dream is to have kids.  And I know women who have decided kids are not for them.  I was never given that choice.  It was taken from me, randomly, in the summer of 2009.  I want to smack Jill every single time I see her damn smug face.  She pisses me off something fierce.  For whatever reason, she decided to procreate with that asshole 13 times, and she treats those children like they are less than a flea on their poor abused dog.  

And Jill, if you happen to read here, you suck.  As Kid Rock once said, "you get what you put in, and people get what they deserve".  I hope karma is handed to you on a silver platter.

I know this feeling. I do know the problem: cancer and I’m happy to be alive three decades later but not being able to have kids was devastating. I mourned, seriously mourned, for years. When I see the ways the Duggars, Rodregui and their ilk neglect and abuse their children I am filled with rage. 

[Jynnan tonnix]

The weird, and truly heartbreaking thing is that in Jill's mind she is not neglecting those kids in the least - she is saving them. And, in a really skewed way, she honestly probably puts a lot of time and attention into them; kids don't get that beaten down and brainwashed without some serious work on the parents' part.

[Normades]

30 minutes ago, Jynnan tonnix said:

The weird, and truly heartbreaking thing is that in Jill's mind she is not neglecting those kids in the least - she is saving them. And, in a really skewed way, she honestly probably puts a lot of time and attention into them; kids don't get that beaten down and brainwashed without some serious work on the parents' part.

Wow!  That's a chilling thought, and spot on.  So sad.