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Spencer Hastings
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Tough crowd!  She's wearing modern shoes with closed toes, pants, and a shirt that literally calls back to her family's ridiculous rules and there are still 35 things wrong with what she's doing. 

Churchhoney
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That's okay. He's forgotten it a few times himself. 

GeeGolly
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My push presents after having my kids were my kids. 

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They're trying to relate to those of us that do (or did) juggle 40+ hour workweeks, take care of one or more kids, and have nobody to help out.  Mr. Xword and I worked different full-time shifts for many years, and it was a rarity when we had a day off together.  A day off together on a Saturday or Sunday, when our daughter wasn't in school, was even harder to come by.  

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Babe:  I'd say you have it pretty easy.  Don't pretend you're using a washboard at the nearest river to wash clothes.

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2 hours ago, Lunera said:

 I follow a few new moms on IG and these, "You know you're a mom when....", posts annoy me. 

Wasn't she the one in charge of the Duggar laundry? 

I feel the same way about retired people posting TGIF messages or how much they hate Monday. Annoys the crap out of me. 

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Not for nothing but I live alone, work from home, yes have a 40+ hour work week, but even with my laundry room literally 20 feet from me, I have been known on more than one occasion to wash the laundry more than once because I didn't remember to move the wet/damp laundry out when it was done washing. And I don't have a 2-3 month old that is presumably disrupting my sleep patterns. I'm not saying (or not NOT saying) J&J hold work hours throughout the week like I do. I'm just saying I literally WORK OUT OF MY HOUSE and still can't manage to get the laundry dry on multiple occasions despite the fact that it's actually IN MY WORK OFFICE and I don't even have a baby (and from what I hear, they are fairly high maintenance).

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Annb67

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18 hours ago, Fosca said:

Haven't some suggested that a possible reason Felicity is never seen without a hat is because she has no hair?  And a bald baby girl is not acceptable to Jeremy and/or Jinger?  Sounds reasonable to me.

Or maybe....they just like to put bows on her head because it's fun and she's a girl. My daughter puts bows on her daughter's head almost every day as I did when she was a baby. Why? No horrible ulterior motive, it was fun. Lol

18 hours ago, Fosca said:

Haven't some suggested that a possible reason Felicity is never seen without a hat is because she has no hair?  And a bald baby girl is not acceptable to Jeremy and/or Jinger?  Sounds reasonable to me.

Or maybe....they just like to put bows on her head because it's fun and she's a girl. My daughter puts bows on her daughter's head almost every day as I did when she was a baby. Why? No horrible ulterior motive, it was fun. Lol

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xwordfanatik

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8 hours ago, Ijustwantsomechips said:

Damn near impossible if you spend all day gazing goosily at your headship. 

LOL!  I love that.  Goosily, what an apt description!

I'll give Jin kudos for at least not showing us a picture of shitty diapers.

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DCCme

DCCme

12 hours ago, MichaelaRae said:

Not for nothing but I live alone, work from home, yes have a 40+ hour work week, but even with my laundry room literally 20 feet from me, I have been known on more than one occasion to wash the laundry more than once because I didn't remember to move the wet/damp laundry out when it was done washing. And I don't have a 2-3 month old that is presumably disrupting my sleep patterns. I'm not saying (or not NOT saying) J&J hold work hours throughout the week like I do. I'm just saying I literally WORK OUT OF MY HOUSE and still can't manage to get the laundry dry on multiple occasions despite the fact that it's actually IN MY WORK OFFICE and I don't even have a baby (and from what I hear, they are fairly high maintenance).

We have the same life!  I just scripted an almost an identical response when I saw yours.  Which reminded me, I should probably do laundry soon.

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On ‎10‎/‎15‎/‎2018 at 7:05 PM, Madtown said:

She's got some cute chunky cheeks. This would be even cuter if she didn't have that damn knot on her head!

That one looks like its made from old pantyhose.  Why would anyone want that on their kid's head?

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doodlebug

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On ‎10‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 12:06 AM, Gemma Violet said:

I'm not a mother but I do know an infant's head needs to be shaped so it doesn't end up looking like an upside-down pear.  I can remember my mother telling me she spent many moments shaping my head, turning my head this way or that in the crib.  (I've had hair stylists tell me I have a beautifully shaped head. Thanks, Ma.  LOL.)  So my question is:  Will these turbans have any effect on head shape or size.  If a baby wears it all the time, it seems like it would impede growth or something. 

Or maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. :-/

No, babies' heads don't need shaped.  If a baby is left to lie flat on its back in the crib, sometimes the back of the head will be kinda flat.  That's become more common in these days where SIDS prevention is well known.  However, no amount of manual shaping will fix that.  The kid will need to wear a special orthopedic helmet for a awhile to reshape the head if it gets too flat.

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15 hours ago, Lunera said:

 I follow a few new moms on IG and these, "You know you're a mom when....", posts annoy me. 

Wasn't she the one in charge of the Duggar laundry? 

I'm not a mom, but I forget and leave stuff in the washer all the time.  So, it's not a mom thing.  In my case, it is a full-time busy job, washer is in the basement and I am too darned tired to haul up and down the stairs right now thing.

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Jynnan tonnix

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3 hours ago, DCCme said:

We have the same life!  I just scripted an almost an identical response when I saw yours.  Which reminded me, I should probably do laundry soon.

I'm more than capable of forgetting laundry in the washer until it needs a rewash myself (those front-loading machines can get kinda funky faster than one might think), and I don't even have the excuse of kids. I feel I'd have been justified in pleading busy-ness back in the days that they were still at home, though.  Now, not so much, yet even with Mr. Jyn retired and both of us rattling around the house I still manage to forget it on occasion.

The other day when my cousins were visiting, I showed them a quote from the preface of an old Polish cookbook (translated/adapted for the modern kitchen in 1958, but original to some time around 1900). This is actually pertinent to the subject at hand, if not to Jin/Jer directly, so bear with me :)

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"....[the cookbook's] original purpose, stated rather primly by the author, is to 'give brides a knowledge of how cooking is done so that they may supervise the servants properly.' This, the lady tells us, is a sine qua non in any properly-run household, be it palatial or modest, since 'everyone knows how apt the servants are to cheat, especially if the lady of the house makes no attempt to interest herself in planning menus or fails to check bills and accounts'. Mme Monatowa adds, rather pettishly, that she sees no excuse for any young woman to refuse to assume her proper responsibilities, and that to plead a lack of time is plain malingering. 'If,' she concludes, 'there is room in one's schedule for singing lessons, piano practice, water coloring and fine embroidery, surely there is also a half-hour each day which can be made available for one's housewifely duties.'"

- Polish Cookery by Maria Ochorowicz-Montanowa translated by Jean Karsavina

 

My cousin laughed, commenting that she wished she had that sort of life (she works very long hours), and I agreed. "But you DO have that life!", she commented. I was a bit taken aback, realizing that, yes, I do, don't I?  While I don't actually have the servants to do the housekeeping and cooking (which was pretty much what I meant), neither do I get much done in the way of all those other pursuits. And the sad thing is, really, that I did used to spend time on things like playing the piano, painting, singing, etc, but even those gentle pleasures somehow sort of went by the wayside over time. And it's really strange how when we have a thousand things demanding our attention, we somehow manage to fit them all in, but as all those demands dwindle, we can still feel as though it would be really nice to have someone there to take the few other responsibilities off our shoulders. So I'm certainly not going to fault anyone for feeling as though a pretty significant new responsibility in their lives is shaking up their ability to get things done on occasion. I'm pretty pathetic by anyone's standards, really. Wish I knew how to tap back into some motivation.

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kokapetl

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1 hour ago, doodlebug said:

I'm not a mom, but I forget and leave stuff in the washer all the time.  So, it's not a mom thing.  In my case, it is a full-time busy job, washer is in the basement and I am too darned tired to haul up and down the stairs right now thing.

Just don’t forget surgical sponges.

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yogi2014L

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I hope that her being unable to complete a load of laundry really makes her rethink having a lot of children. 

BUT kids are hard, and Lissy might be a high needs non sleeping baby. I have a baby around the same age and there were plenty of days nothing got done. But now she's getting older and just today I was able to  workout, vacuum, do 2 loads of laundry, make muffins, premake pancake mix for my brunch tomorrow, play with my baby during awake time, and eat. But if your baby isn't sleeping, laundry is low on the priority list when you might need to sleep or eat during the naps instead

Too bed Jeremy must be too busy reading to operate a washing machine. lol

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GeeGolly

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18 hours ago, MichaelaRae said:

Not for nothing but I live alone, work from home, yes have a 40+ hour work week, but even with my laundry room literally 20 feet from me, I have been known on more than one occasion to wash the laundry more than once because I didn't remember to move the wet/damp laundry out when it was done washing. And I don't have a 2-3 month old that is presumably disrupting my sleep patterns. I'm not saying (or not NOT saying) J&J hold work hours throughout the week like I do. I'm just saying I literally WORK OUT OF MY HOUSE and still can't manage to get the laundry dry on multiple occasions despite the fact that it's actually IN MY WORK OFFICE and I don't even have a baby (and from what I hear, they are fairly high maintenance).

You hit the nail on the head. It's not a "mom thing", it's a busy human thing.

And for me it's actually the opposite - I was way more on top of the laundry when my kids were little. It was part of my stay-at-home-mom routine and I was fitting it in between 'mommying' - kids sleeping, or in high chairs or absorbed in toys - quick run downstairs switch the laundry and make it back up before the kids notice. Otherwise, it was me and my ducklings 'doing laundry together', which could turn a 5 minute trip to the washer into a half hour exploration of the basement and clean wet clothes never making it into the dryer, etc.

Now when a put a load in, I actually set a timer because I'll get busy with something else and forget.

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Nysha

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I really doubt that Jinger was admitting to leaving clothes in the washer. I think she's just so thrilled to be part of the mommy crowd that she reposted one of the many mommy memes that come across everyone's feed because she thought it was funny. My former babysitter repost a meme about having to escape to the bathroom to use the phone and she quit babysitting 4 years ago and her youngest is a freshman in high school. It's all part of the social media game.

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Ijustwantsomechips

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3 hours ago, Gemma Violet said:

She's cute as a button but is it my imagination or is she a little thin?  I don't see the baby rolls of fat on her legs and arms.  I'm guess I'm just used to little fatties in my family. :-)

Nope, I see it too.  She’s kind of built like Giddyup.  I guess it’s a family trait.  Maybe she has a small appetite like her mom. 

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Totally

Totally

1 hour ago, MunichNark said:

What's with all that dryer stuff? What's wrong with putting laundry outside or hang it up in a drying room? Such decadence really ,a dryer. It eats up enormous amounts of electricity.

I’ve never owned a dryer 

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Churchhoney

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5 hours ago, MunichNark said:

What's with all that dryer stuff? What's wrong with putting laundry outside or hang it up in a drying room? Such decadence really ,a dryer. It eats up enormous amounts of electricity.

This is Americans' national pastime! 

I agree about hanging the stuff up. I did when I had a house, if nobody was going to be in a hurry for the stuff. Still do, sometimes, on a drying rack in the bathroom-- but only if I'm sure nobody's going to be wanting the shower any time soon...

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Jynnan tonnix

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2 hours ago, Churchhoney said:

This is Americans' national pastime! 

I agree about hanging the stuff up. I did when I had a house, if nobody was going to be in a hurry for the stuff. Still do, sometimes, on a drying rack in the bathroom-- but only if I'm sure nobody's going to be wanting the shower any time soon...

I hang things outside as well, as long as it's nice enough. In the winter, I do use the dryer more frequently as I don't like having to dry things indoors...they always stay so wrinkled if they don't get a good breeze, and I'm all for being able to get away without ironing something. Plus, it's always so nice to grab something warm out of the dryer to put on when it's chilly. Mr. Jyn insists on towels being done in the dryer, though - they do always come out all stiff and crunchy out on the line. I don't mind them myself. They always feel a bit more absorbent that way. But he hates having to use a towel that's not soft and fluffy.

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Barb23

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My mom was ecstatic that she inherited a dryer from a family member when I came along in 1962.  Not only was she able to dry the family clothes in it but my cloth diapers as well.  When the new family moved in next door years later, she let the mom use her pop up clothes line.  I think the small holes that held the clothes line  are still in my mom's patio and neighbor's yard. 

I like to hang up certain pieces of laundry on our back porch to dry. I used to do the sheets but later read that pollen would get on them.  I don't need that since I have allergy problems.  But they do smell  nice.

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Snow Fairy

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13 hours ago, Gemma Violet said:

She's cute as a button but is it my imagination or is she a little thin?  I don't see the baby rolls of fat on her legs and arms.  I'm guess I'm just used to little fatties in my family. :-)

I was saying that for at least 2 pictures,but no one other than me commented.. 

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MunichNark

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I love brittle towel, one of my major gripes with a dryer is that everything is soggy and soft.

Dryers aren't common here at all, I know you lot have it pretty much everywhere, but personally, I find them mostly unnecessary. You can hang out clothes to dry, even if you live in a flat like I do - there are usually attics or basements with drying rooms.

More on topic, I don't find the child thin at all, her legs are pretty chunky, perhaps just not as mahoosive as  Jessa's children.

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farmgal4

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12 hours ago, Ijustwantsomechips said:

Nope, I see it too.  She’s kind of built like Giddyup.  I guess it’s a family trait.  Maybe she has a small appetite like her mom. 

She’s a beautiful baby with near-perfect features.  I predict she’ll be a stunner when she’s older.

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12 hours ago, MunichNark said:

What's with all that dryer stuff? What's wrong with putting laundry outside or hang it up in a drying room? Such decadence really ,a dryer. It eats up enormous amounts of electricity.

As an allergy sufferer who lives in the humid south, no one uses the clothes line unless they have too.  Too much moisture and too many allergens. 

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cmr2014

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I doubt very seriously that it would ever occur to Jinger (or Jill, or Jessa, or Joy) that hanging clothes on a line is even an option.

Housekeeping is just not J'chelle's thing, and she taught everything she knows to her daughters. If they hadn't fallen in with Gothard, I think they would have had a couple of kids and J'chelle would have gone back to work once they started school, and they'd have paid for a housekeeper.

If Jinger is anything less than the revolting cook and slovenly housekeeper that her sisters are, it's only by her own efforts -- and perhaps some encouragement from Jeremy. Even if she's a giant pig, too, she's at least shown the sense (so far) not to advertise the fact on SM.

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13 hours ago, MunichNark said:

What's with all that dryer stuff? What's wrong with putting laundry outside or hang it up in a drying room? Such decadence really ,a dryer. It eats up enormous amounts of electricity.

I only hang up bras, work pants, denim. Everything else goes in the dryer on medium  heat. Many communities won’t allow you to hang clothing outside in your yard. 

Its probably a combination of cultural mores and personal preference, I’ve never considered a dryer a decadence, the same way I wouldn’t consider automatic ice makers or dishwashers a decadence. 

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xwordfanatik

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43 minutes ago, Ijustwantsomechips said:

As an allergy sufferer who lives in the humid south, no one uses the clothes line unless they have too.  Too much moisture and too many allergens. 

A former co-worker from SC told us that people there didn't have to water their lawns, due to the humidity.  So I can see a dryer being a necessity there.

I line dry some of my laundry in my laundry room.  I'm in the Northwest, and it's too cold out for a lot of the year to hang stuff outside.  I've strung up a line in the summer on occasion.

Felicity seems to have huge eyes, and she is very alert.  I don't see the need for a hat indoors, but I'm old, and I've never been a hat wearer.  

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Gemma Violet

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I live in a small town and I can honestly say I haven't seen anyone's clothes hanging outside on a line in years (or decades).  I'm stunned to read here that some people don't use dryers.  I thought it was a house staple these days, like a washing machine.  The only thing I hang up in the house is bras because I figure they'll last longer that way.

Count me in as shocked at Jill's encouraging her toddler to climb, especially on a rolling toy.  It's like my mother used to say when she saw stupid parenting, "It's survival of the fittest." 

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lookeyloo

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I used to hang all clothes outside even though I had one of those baby Maytag porta dryers that didn't need venting.  I also had a washer that hooked up to the kitchen sink, made by Sears.  I rolled it to the sink and hooked it up and released the thingy that allowed it to go flush against the floor without the wheels, so it wouldn't roll.  then we moved to a place with a dryer and no clothes line and the rest is history.  I do hang a lot of my clothes to dry on hangers in the laundry room, but couldn't have a clothesline here if I wanted to because of community rules.  Then there are the pop up storms in the summer and the pollen.  As far as Felicity's thinness, my babies were "svelte" like she is.  They are grown healthy men now.  One of their cousins and spouse moved here with their baby.  He is 19 months old now.  I watch him eat, like a little truck driver, but, he is thin.  His development is very normal, so regarding Felicity, I am thinking that is her nature.  I don't think they are underfeeding her, at least not on purpose. But, then again, what do I know...

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Scarlett45

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12 hours ago, lookeyloo said:

As far as Felicity's thinness, my babies were "svelte" like she is.  They are grown healthy men now.  One of their cousins and spouse moved here with their baby.  He is 19 months old now.  I watch him eat, like a little truck driver, but, he is thin.  His development is very normal, so regarding Felicity, I am thinking that is her nature.  I don't think they are underfeeding her, at least not on purpose. But, then again, what do I know...

Yes I’m sure they are feeding Felicity adequately. Some babies are slim, some are more chunky, some babies go through phases. 

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xwordfanatik

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Now that's a nice alternative to a hat, that I can get behind.

Beautiful little girl.

10 minutes ago, BitterApple said:

She's cute, but I love chubby babies. My heart's with Henry and Spurge.

It's little Henry all the way for me.  His big brother is cute, but Grumpy Turned Sweetie is my favorite.

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