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

[sarasue59]

15 hours ago, emmawoodhouse said:

Jill's Laugh of the Day is the claim that she took a church friend out to dinner. I'm sure it was the other way around. 

Well, technically, she could have taken her out to the restaurant.  Doesn't mean that she PAID for the meal.  LOL!

 

[ginger90]

[BigBingerBro]

[emmawoodhouse]

Spoke too soon about Jill abandoning her Make Your Life Count minutes. She posted two this morning, all about being self-righteous, a subject she should know ALL about. 🙄

[iwantcookies]

3 minutes ago, BigBingerBro said:

Jill is somewhere screeching that a suitor got away from her clutches! Bwahaha 

[Cinnabon]

3 minutes ago, BigBingerBro said:

She’d choose him again? They only met 2 months ago when he came to Arkansas to “counsel” someone .

[skipnjump]

3 minutes ago, Cinnabon said:

She’d choose him again? They only met 2 months ago when he came to Arkansas to “counsel” someone .

sounds like an arranged marriage to me...

[libgirl2]

4 minutes ago, skipnjump said:

sounds like an arranged marriage to me...

Yes, why bring it up in the first place? 

[emmawoodhouse]

25 minutes ago, BigBingerBro said:

Getting hammered in the comments! 😂

[Heathen]

14 minutes ago, emmawoodhouse said:

Getting hammered in the comments! 😂

I wouldn't call sixteen comments (as of 4:07) being hammered. Either way, some of them are inappropriate and incorrect. No, she won't be related to the pedophile. And someone who doesn't know her can't say "you know this isn't what you want." 

Topic: Nurie and Nathan will look homely AF next to these two in the wedding photos. 

[BitterApple]

"Nothing about David or I was prearranged."

Oh, honey. Your whole life was prearranged. You're just too naive to know it. 

[JoanArc]

15 hours ago, OpieTaylor said:

She said she's heard others say plexus is as good as botox (or something to that effect)

 Well, metamucil. 

[BetyBee]

1 hour ago, iwantcookies said:

Jill is somewhere screeching that a suitor got away from her clutches! Bwahaha 

Too funny. And if David has a decent job, JillR will be extra upset at all the free meals she could have scored if only he'd fallen in love with one of the NotNuries!

[ginger90]

1 hour ago, BigBingerBro said:

This is an actual account? 
 

Just a bit strange……as would be expected.

Edited July 16, 2021 by ginger90

[Westiepeach]

23 minutes ago, BetyBee said:

Too funny. And if David has a decent job, JillR will be extra upset at all the free meals she could have scored if only he'd fallen in love with one of the NotNuries!

I don’t know. Would a NotNurie be allowed to marry someone named “David?” After all, that name is sacred. It is JillRod’s Hunky-Hunk’s name…

Edited July 16, 2021 by Westiepeach

[Westiepeach]

19 hours ago, Cinnabon said:

Maybe she is planning on using her child tax credits that start this month to publish. Or will she be sending them back? 🤣

Send money back??? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha… I think I just choked… Didn’t the Lord Himself send that money to her… erm… I mean “them”…

[Cinnabon]

56 minutes ago, BitterApple said:

"Nothing about David or I was prearranged."

Oh, honey. Your whole life was prearranged. You're just too naive to know it. 

“And I” - SODRT strikes again.

[ginger90]

Just now, Cinnabon said:

“And I” - SODRT strikes again.

Spelling is apparently hard, also.

[Cinnabon]

4 minutes ago, Westiepeach said:

Send money back??? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha… I think I just choked… Didn’t the Lord Himself send that money to her… erm… I mean “them”…

I just read that the credits are being demonized today by some in the media (I think we know who.) no doubt that won’t affect Jill, she has probably already spent it, but will post on fb criticizing the ebil handouts anyway.

Edited July 16, 2021 by Cinnabon

[iwantcookies]

2 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Yay more cake for daddy! Why is she sitting on the kitchen counter? 

[BradandJanet]

1 hour ago, Westiepeach said:

Send money back??? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha… I think I just choked… Didn’t the Lord Himself send that money to her… erm… I mean “them”…

The Lord named Daniel sent that money. Jill can't find the laundromat again to give the check back to him, so she's keeping it. 

[ginger90]

3 hours ago, BigBingerBro said:

Comments are now deleted, and turned off.

[iwantcookies]

I can see all the comments. 

[ginger90]

2 minutes ago, iwantcookies said:

I can see all the comments. 

Are you using the app? I’m not, maybe that’s why? 🤷🏼‍♀️ I could see them earlier, not in the app.

[Temperance]

The Maxwells' newest grandbaby Madeline is doing better today, but having a rough time. She had a crisis last night in the NICU. It seems to have resolved with putting a second chest tube.  She seems to be better.

Madeline is John and Chelsy's 3rd child. She was born at 30 weeks gestation, according to Sarah. Chelsy is the Bontragers' oldest child.

Editing to add: Both the Maxwells and Chelsy have post about this on their blogs. Chelsy's blog is called Chelsy Renee.

Edited July 16, 2021 by Temperance

[BradandJanet]

It's interesting that Hannah openly admits she didn't always feel valued and seen. And recently her father, against the wishes of her mother, has taken in a child abuser who is awaiting legal action. Maybe women don't count for much in the Reber household. Perhaps a Keller son will do better. 

Edited July 16, 2021 by BradandJanet

[Temperance]

1 minute ago, BradandJanet said:

It's interesting that Hannah openly admits she didn't always feel valued and seen. And recently her father, against the wishes of her mother, has taken in a child abuser who is awaiting legal action. Maybe women don't count for much in the Reber household. Perhaps a Bates son will do better. 

Bates?

[iwantcookies]

13 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

Are you using the app? I’m not, maybe that’s why? 🤷🏼‍♀️ I could see them earlier, not in the app.

Yes on my tablet. Maybe I’m following them so I can see them? 

[BradandJanet]

4 minutes ago, Temperance said:

Bates?

Keller. I'll change it. 

[louannems]

2 hours ago, iwantcookies said:

Yay more cake for daddy! Why is she sitting on the kitchen counter? 

Because she's the size of a toddler?

[drafan]

5 hours ago, BigBingerBro said:

 

Is this the daughter of Joshley's prison warden? .....thought it was a Fundy pregnancy announcement......  Ring Around the Rosy in the standard weedy setting.

[FizzyPuff]

On 7/14/2021 at 3:09 PM, MargeGunderson said:

Great, I know that I would love to be “counseled” by a couple of teenage girls who very likely don’t know how babies are made. 

I imagine there “advice” would sound something like this:

You know Jesus really wants you to have this baby, not just this one but as many as possible! Also I heard you’re not married so how did you get a baby inside you? My mama said only married women can have babies. Do you think God thought you were the Virgin Mary? Maybe you’re having Jesus! Wouldn’t that be so amazing Jesus coming back through your womb. Wow you are so blessed. Shall we pray now? 

Edited July 17, 2021 by FizzyPuff

[Cinnabon]

1 hour ago, drafan said:

Is this the daughter of Joshley's prison warden? .....thought it was a Fundy pregnancy announcement......  Ring Around the Rosy in the standard weedy setting.

Apparently Pa Keller announced in a sermon that these 2 were at the beginning of a “pre courtship” phase only 2-3 weeks ago. Even for fundies, this seems incredibly rushed.

[sarasue59]

27 minutes ago, Cinnabon said:

Apparently Pa Keller announced in a sermon that these 2 were at the beginning of a “pre courtship” phase only 2-3 weeks ago. Even for fundies, this seems incredibly rushed.

Well, there goes a husband for one of the not Nuries.

 

[iwantcookies]

[awaken]

Wait so is this the Keller brother that’s matchy matchy with Nathan, or the one who supported Anna leaving during joshgate 1&2? Or another one?

[Cinnabon]

19 minutes ago, iwantcookies said:

How PrEcIoUs

[iwantcookies]

5 minutes ago, awaken said:

Wait so is this the Keller brother that’s matchy matchy with Nathan, or the one who supported Anna leaving during joshgate 1&2? Or another one?

Matchy matchy 

The one who wants to help Anna is Daniel 

[ozziemom]

5 minutes ago, awaken said:

Wait so is this the Keller brother that’s matchy matchy with Nathan, or the one who supported Anna leaving during joshgate 1&2? Or another one?

Matchy one, lol. Daniel is the older, ex-Fundie brother who offered help to Anna.

[emmawoodhouse]

12 minutes ago, awaken said:

Wait so is this the Keller brother that’s matchy matchy with Nathan, or the one who supported Anna leaving during joshgate 1&2? Or another one?

It's the youngest matchy matchy boy. Daniel, who offered to help Anna, is in his mid 30s, divorced and remarried.

[JoanArc]

12 hours ago, Cinnabon said:

Apparently Pa Keller announced in a sermon that these 2 were at the beginning of a “pre courtship” phase only 2-3 weeks ago. Even for fundies, this seems incredibly rushed.

 Announcing they weren’t coerced into the relationship is pretty damn sketchy. 

 They’ll get married before Josh goes to trial.  Hell, they probably have him at the. wedding to thank him for getting in trouble with the law and bringing their love story with Jesus together. 

[BigBingerBro]

1 minute ago, JoanArc said:

 Hell, they probably have him at the. wedding

He can't be there if there are any children in attendance.

[JoanArc]

1 minute ago, BigBingerBro said:

He can't be there if there are any children in attendance.

 Oh, that will stop these paragons of virtue. 

Sorry, but what goes on between his families and their weird agreements is just so off putting.  This is the woman who lives in the house that Josh is currently inhabiting.

[BradandJanet]

Is this daughter the piano teacher who now can't teach children at home because of Josh's presence? Even if she's found another space, that's an inconvenience for her. 

Also, what is she holding in her hand in the water photo? It looks like a flip phone but I can't tell. 

Edited July 17, 2021 by BradandJanet
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[ginger90]

7 minutes ago, BradandJanet said:

Is daughter the piano teacher who now can't teach children at home because of Josh's presence?

Yes it is.

[iwantcookies]

1 hour ago, BradandJanet said:

Is this daughter the piano teacher who now can't teach children at home because of Josh's presence? Even if she's found another space, that's an inconvenience for her. 

Also, what is she holding in her hand in the water photo? It looks like a flip phone but I can't tell. 

It looks like a smart phone to me

[Teriacky]

My take on this is that Hannah wants to leave her parents’ home ASAP to get away from Joshperv and getting married is pretty much the only way she can do this. 

 

[iwantcookies]

I bet not Nuries cried when they realized Not David and the boy who drowned wouldn’t be marrying them/saving them from best MAMA eva 

[BradandJanet]

4 hours ago, Teriacky said:

My take on this is that Hannah wants to leave her parents’ home ASAP to get away from Joshperv and getting married is pretty much the only way she can do this. 

 

Mrs. Reber didn't want Josh to stay at their home, so maybe she will accompany her daughter in the escape.

[kstar821]

If I may weigh in on the preemie baby.  My sister, due to HELLP syndrome, delivered her twins at 23 weeks 4 days.  E was 10 ounces and A was 15 1/2 ounces.  E lived 5 days and died in my sister's arms.  A was transported shortly afterward and spent 9 months in the children's hospital in our area.  She went home on a trach and a ventilator and was on it until she was 3.  She's had numerous tests, surgeries, hospital stays, and setbacks along the way.

Today, she is a 9 1/2 year old getting ready to go to 3rd grade.  She is immunocompromised (we have to be SO careful during these covid times) and mildly autistic, but she is amazing.

Baby Madeline has a long road ahead of her.  I do believe in God and prayer and I pray for the best outcome for this family.