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

[farmgal4]

2 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

Jill's radio show was up today.

Where can one find an audio copy of the show?  Asking for a friend. 😏

[Sew Sumi]

10 minutes ago, farmgal4 said:

Where can one find an audio copy of the show?  Asking for a friend. 😏

Not sure. A member of FJ listens to it and transcribes it. She never provides a link. 

[JoanArc]

5 hours ago, Absolom said:

They just randomly decided to gallop down the street carrying a flag?  ::smh::

“ Why isn’t 30-year-old Jana married? I don’t understand! “ 

 

[lianau]

9 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

Not sure. A member of FJ listens to it and transcribes it. She never provides a link. 

is anyone else actually listening to this or is it just snarkers? 

[Jynnan tonnix]

11 hours ago, MargeGunderson said:

Well, the horses’ asses are an appropriate visual.

An internet-winning comment if ever there was one!

[doodlebug]

11 hours ago, farmgal4 said:

Where can one find an audio copy of the show?  Asking for a friend. 😏

https://tunein.com/radio/Make-Your-Life-Count-with-Jill-Rodrigues-p589019/

There are 8 people who claimed it as a favorite.  No doubt, her fans are David, the Dingii and the adult kids.

Edited July 5, 2020 by doodlebug

[BradandJanet]

Here's the Sunday schedule for the radio programs: https://wvgvradio.com/listen-in/program-guide/. The station operates out of West Virginia, and the programs are mostly 10-15 minutes. 

My favorite in the lineup is the 5:00 program: Patterns for Christian Living with Mark Biter. 

 

[GeeGolly]

18 minutes ago, BradandJanet said:

Here's the Sunday schedule for the radio programs: https://wvgvradio.com/listen-in/program-guide/. The station operates out of West Virginia, and the programs are mostly 10-15 minutes. 

My favorite in the lineup is the 5:00 program: Patterns for Christian Living with Mark Biter. 

 

Here's a good one:

10:30 pm - Poorhouse to the Palace with Doug Cassel (10m)

[galaxychaser]

I’m still not over Jill mugging for the camera at a funeral. 

[GeeGolly]

This post from Alyssa Bates is sad. At least with the Duggars no one other than Anna has a daughter old enough to be a sister mom... yet.

websterforever

Ladies and gentlemen, WE HAVE ARRIVED!!!!! This morning Allie woke up, dressed herself and then dressed Lexi AND Zoey. I’m not going to lie... it was a very big and proud “mom moment” for me. Suddenly all my hard work is starting to pay off 😂 Having a 5 year old is pretty awesome!

[DangerousMinds]

15 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

This post from Alyssa Bates is sad. At least with the Duggars no one other than Anna has a daughter old enough to be a sister mom... yet.

websterforever

Ladies and gentlemen, WE HAVE ARRIVED!!!!! This morning Allie woke up, dressed herself and then dressed Lexi AND Zoey. I’m not going to lie... it was a very big and proud “mom moment” for me. Suddenly all my hard work is starting to pay off 😂 Having a 5 year old is pretty awesome!

But now Anna is also training girls from other families 😢.

[Jeeves]

Yep. The next generation of sister moms is well on its way. Ivy's got maybe 4 years to go before she can start cleaning up after her older brothers, so Jessa can rest and relax and enjoy her exalted status as a breeder for Jesus.

[Onecattoo]

About Alyssa’s post....having a 4 year old I actually don’t see it as anything nefarious at all. Mine doesn’t have any younger siblings, but I can totally see her doing this with great pride and fierce defense of her wanting to “do it myself”.  I am seldom allowed any input these days into what she’s going to wear (other than very high level approval such as sleeveless being okay or it being too cold and wet for shorts, for example”.  Heaven forbid I offer to help her, unless she’s in a mood to act helpless and suddenly lost her ability to move her arms and legs.  Much of the time she insists on dressing herself and yes, if she had younger siblings she’d be adamant that she can both choose their clothes for them and dress them too.  It’s a pretty common stage of independence and even bossiness.  She will even yell at me if she just thinks I’m heading to her bedroom to open her closet...as she will do it herself.  

[CalicoKitty]

3 minutes ago, Onecattoo said:

About Alyssa’s post....having a 4 year old I actually don’t see it as anything nefarious at all. Mine doesn’t have any younger siblings, but I can totally see her doing this with great pride and fierce defense of her wanting to “do it myself”.  I am seldom allowed any input these days into what she’s going to wear (other than very high level approval such as sleeveless being okay or it being too cold and wet for shorts, for example”.  Heaven forbid I offer to help her, unless she’s in a mood to act helpless and suddenly lost her ability to move her arms and legs.  Much of the time she insists on dressing herself and yes, if she had younger siblings she’d be adamant that she can both choose their clothes for them and dress them too.  It’s a pretty common stage of independence and even bossiness.  She will even yell at me if she just thinks I’m heading to her bedroom to open her closet...as she will do it herself.  

I would agree with you.  I once had a Kindergarten student show up for school in a spaghetti strap dress in January.  She had a note pinned to her telling me that she dressed herself that morning and would not change her dress into something more appropriate for 50 degree weather.  However, Alyssa's post states how her "hard work" has paid off, and that they have "arrived" at the place that her oldest daughter can now take care of dressing her sisters.  At least that is how I read her post.

[3 is enough]

If Allie did this on her own with no prompting that is great.  My concern is that she will be expected to keep doing it every day, even if the novelty wears off and she doesn't feel like it.  

I have no issue with giving children age appropriate chores, such as making their beds or putting their dirty laundry in the hamper.  But no 5 year old should be expected to be responsible for her younger sisters.  

Alyssa grew up having to care for younger siblings while her mother pumped out more and more babies.  I was hoping that she would not do the same thing to her own daughters.  Admittedly, I may be reading more into her post and she is just proud of her daughter's independence.  But given her history I am skeptical.

Edited July 5, 2020 by 3 is enough

[Sew Sumi]

Oh STFU Jill.

eta: they took Renee to "live theater." 

 

Edited July 5, 2020 by Sew Sumi

[GeeGolly]

Has JillR ever thought folks can do both? Be safe and be saved? Because I'm fairly certain being saved doesn't give anyone a pass on disease and illness.

Anyway, it doesn't look like anyone I know in that line. There's no masks or distancing. Must be JillR's crowd.

Edited to add. JillR didn't waste any time replacing Nurie with her new twin.

Edited July 5, 2020 by GeeGolly

[Oldernowiser]

3 minutes ago, Sew Sumi said:

Oh STFU Jill.

 

Exactly why is this an either/or only choice? You can’t believe in Jesus AND protect yourself from getting sick? So, so, so stupid.

[galaxychaser]

🙄🙄🙄 like 1000 times. 

[DangerousMinds]

Ugh, the flip flops.

[Sew Sumi]

They're not home this weekend. Guess Jill just found some good wifi. 

 

[Future Cat Lady]

An 18 y/o dressing exactly like her mother. Poor thing. 

[Chicklet]

A grown woman telling people that her 18 yr old is her "best friend". Meaning she doesn't have any real friends. 

I admit I only want to watch Jill's former best friend what'sername marry that Duggar-adjacent guy to snark. I hope Kaylee noticed that her sister lost her position as her crazy mother's "best friend".

[emma675]

16 minutes ago, Sew Sumi said:

 

 

Which one is the girl on the left? It looks like she tried Sun In and things didn't go well. 

[3 is enough]

I don't know which girl is on the right, but her smile looks like a grimace.  Every single time.   I feel for those poor kids.

[crazycatlady58]

19 minutes ago, Sew Sumi said:

They're not home this weekend. Guess Jill just found some good wifi. 

 

The first picture, for one reason I want to cry when I look at it. If I did not know better I would say it was a picture of two young girls who's dear friend had passed and they were trying to some for the picture when they really wanted to cry.

Just now, crazycatlady58 said:

The first picture, for some reason I want to cry when I look at it. If I did not know better I would say it was a picture of two young girls who's dear friend had passed and they were trying to some for the picture when they really wanted to cry.

 

[Sew Sumi]

Renee is on the left, Kaylee and her grimace on the right.

[galaxygirl76]

Oh look, it's Jill and her hostages.

[galaxychaser]

Perhaps Kaylee is in SEVERE dental pain or it’s her TIME of the month 🤣🤣🤣

 

Kaylee can play the Joker she always looks sad

[GeeGolly]

The JRod's have a big van?

[galaxychaser]

Just now, galaxygirl76 said:

Oh look, it's Jill and her hostages.

You mean her BEST friends 

 

 

[Sew Sumi]

That's Kaylee's default expression.

[ginger90]

20 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

The JRod's have a big van?

Probably the one this video was filmed in last year.

🤦‍♀️
 

 

 

[sondraK]

Idk,my kids were still knocked out and slept all the way home when they had their teeth out.I guess it affects everyone differently

[BradandJanet]

2 minutes ago, sondraK said:

Idk,my kids were still knocked out and slept all the way home when they had their teeth out.I guess it affects everyone differently

The Rodkids probably got less anesthesia to save money, but they also experienced exhilaration for the first time. I hope they can remember the feeling of being carefree 'cause their lives are designed to promote misery.  

[MargeGunderson]

After I had my wisdom teeth out I was loopy and surprisingly talkative. It didn’t wear off for about 5 hours, and then I was so, so miserable (4 teeth removed, 4 dry sockets. It was bad). This was perhaps the most animated and genuine I’ve seen them.

[BradandJanet]

Why does Jill wear leggings under her dress? Is she delusional enough to think she's so hot some man might be defrauded by looking at her legs? If so, I guess the Hulk will defend her honor if he can make the effort to pull himself up from the dinner table. 

Poor Nurie sure fell off the most valuable list pretty fast. Easy come, easy go. 

I'd stand in line for a cure rather than to sign up to have some nutjob evangelical science denier cough virus on me. I didn't even get the joke in the cartoon until I read her comment. 

[Nysha]

The ugly mother/daughter dresses didn't need leggings they're plenty long for modesty. Poor Kaylee, her eyes and her grimace scream "Help Me!". 

I do find it interesting that they seem to have an actual social life where they're living. I don't remember a lot of pictures of friends the teens age from the other house. Usually their best friends were whichever pastors' kid was roped into entertaining them at the church they where they were singing grifting.

[doodlebug]

7 hours ago, galaxychaser said:

I’m still not over Jill mugging for the camera at a funeral. 

And not just any funeral; the services for a group of young children, all related, who died in a terrible house fire. The family being people that Jill did not know, had never met; but she decided to crash their childrens' services and take photos anyway.

[3 is enough]

Who wears full makeup to an oral surgery appointment?  Their priorities baffle me. 

[doodlebug]

17 minutes ago, 3 is enough said:

Who wears full makeup to an oral surgery appointment?  Their priorities baffle me. 

Not only did they wear full makeup, but the girls seem to have re-applied their lipstick afterwards.

[galaxychaser]

On 7/4/2020 at 5:45 PM, kaleidoscope said:

Is TLC Filming the Nurie Rodrigues and Nathan Keller Wedding?

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/nolongerquivering/2020/07/is-tlc-filming-the-nurie-rodrigues-and-nathan-keller-wedding/?fbclid=IwAR2O-1YWwU2unFyf-vC3gRCFfac1-ATvkY6y4u_mRUVIB5bUAUjetWe_VN0

I think Jill would announce it on Instagram if it happens!

[riverblue22]

46 minutes ago, BradandJanet said:

Why does Jill wear leggings under her dress? Is she delusional enough to think she's so hot some man might be defrauded by looking at her legs? If so, I guess the Hulk will defend her honor if he can make the effort to pull himself up from the dinner table. 

 

Maybe the leggings are to make up for the fact that she is showing her toes and feet in her flip flops. Gothard would go for the trade-off~

[EAG46]

How uptight and restrained are these kids if dental anesthetics make them feel giddy and happy?  After my wisdom teeth came out I just wanted to sleep. [And I didn't wear any makeup, even if the oral surgeon was cute.] So disturbing...and they should have worn seatbelts too.

[Totally]

I e had several mouth surgeries and have never been anything but tired and in pain afterwards... also are seatbelts not compulsory where they live?

Edited July 6, 2020 by Totally

[sondraK]

Maybe the Dr gave them less anesthesia since they all look so thin and undernourished

Edited July 6, 2020 by sondraK

[Sew Sumi]

1 hour ago, Totally said:

I e had several mouth surgeries and have never been anything but tired and in pain afterwards... also are seatbelts not compulsory where they live?

I thought seatbelt laws were compulsory everywhere. No?

[skipnjump]

14 hours ago, 3 is enough said:

I don't know which girl is on the right, but her smile looks like a grimace.  Every single time.   I feel for those poor kids.

I agree - both those poor girls never have a smile that reaches their eyes.  It's just a grimace 😞

[Guest]

8 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

I thought seatbelt laws were compulsory everywhere. No?

Not when Jesus takes the wheel.

[ginger90]

The law at the time: