Jessa, Ben and Their Brood: Making a (Diaper) Mountain out of a Mold House

[Jynnan tonnix]

21 hours ago, jcbrown said:

I read it that way, too, and thought, "eh, Duggars, yeah, not too clean." Perhaps we can compromise on there having been fifty filthy people in the house.

I've probably been reading Dr. Seuss' ABC book to my granddaughter too much, but my mind just wanted to expand that to something more like "fifty filthy feet upon a fiffer-feffer flea"...

Edited December 30, 2018 by Jynnan tonnix

[MamaMax]

Yeah, I don't think her feet are THAT filthy. Also, I'm going to cut them some slack on the cleanliness of their floors.  I can't believe how dirty mine get with just 4 people living here, I can not imagine how you could keep up with floors with that many people. 

[Temperance]

18 hours ago, Sew Sumi said:

I thought Jessa wore ballet flats (or slippers), but I can't find verification and am too lazy to go down a rabbit hole looking. All I remember is that you can't see her feet in any pictures. Conversely, Joy's sandals were visible when she came down a flight of stairs at the church before the ceremony. 

I think Jessa was barefoot at her wedding. In the wedding rehersal, Jessa is wearing a knee length dress and her feet are clearly bare. It's possible she wore shoes to her wedding, but I think the point of her being barefoot at the rehersal was to get used to being barefoot at the ceremony. I remember Joy was walking aorund barefoot on her wedding day, but she probably did have shoes for the wedding. 

18 hours ago, DangerousMinds said:

Religious reasons to go barefoot?

I went down the rabbithole trying to find where Chelsy Maxwell said this, but there was something about being barefoot in a "sacred space".  I wasn't able to find it again. 

[ChiCricket]

39 minutes ago, Temperance said:

I went down the rabbithole trying to find where Chelsy Maxwell said this, but there was something about being barefoot in a "sacred space".  I wasn't able to find it again. 

Is it because their role in  life after the ceremony will to be continuously 

barefoot and pregnant? Pregnant is a given. Maybe the bare feet signifies "staying at home."

(This has probably been said here before, and I'm just regurgitating the thought) 🤔

[Absolom]

I think the sacred space refers to Moses and the burning bush.

[lookeyloo]

3 hours ago, Temperance said:

I remember Joy was walking aorund barefoot on her wedding day, but she probably did have shoes for the wedding. 

And remember also back in the TTH, her feet were filthy when she was digging through the shoe bin before a date with Austyn?

[Sew Sumi]

That was disgusting.

[BitterApple]

37 minutes ago, lookeyloo said:

And remember also back in the TTH, her feet were filthy when she was digging through the shoe bin before a date with Austyn?

That was nasty. I remember the soles of Joy's feet looked liked she'd stepped in black paint. Then she puts communal shoes on and walks out of the house. Austin must've been horrified when he first started living with her.

[crazycatlady58]

6 hours ago, Absolom said:

I think the sacred space refers to Moses and the burning bush.

Yes, but if they believe that Church is a sacred space then they need to act like it during the ceremony, no rings being delivered by drones ect.

[kokapetl]

dirty floor close up

[DangerousMinds]

So gross.

[Temperance]

In the latest photos, Jessa looks like she might be pregnant, but you never know. 

[Jynnan tonnix]

14 hours ago, Absolom said:

I think the sacred space refers to Moses and the burning bush.

"TAKE OFF THY SANDALS FROM OFF THY FEET!" (Typed in my best Charlton Heston in God mode voice).

(he did double as God's voice, if I recall, though the voice was slowed down for effect)

[GeeGolly]

I live in New England and the ground in December is cold in 60 degree weather. I know this because I have ran out to retrieve something from my car in bare feet during all seasons. 60 degrees in December is not play-outside-in-your-bare-feet weather, it's oh-it-feels-warm weather because it's December.

[lookeyloo]

9 hours ago, Jynnan tonnix said:

"TAKE OFF THY SANDALS FROM OFF THY FEET!" (Typed in my best Charlton Heston in God mode voice).

(he did double as God's voice, if I recall, though the voice was slowed down for effect)

Oh gosh I remember watching that a lot of times.  And then David Steinberg did a send up of some of it.  "Take off thine shoes from off of thine feet" God said in that redundant way of his, hahaha

[Nysha]

I don't think her feet are that dirty. I go barefoot at home, including running out to check the mail, or to my best friend's apartment downstairs. By bedtime, my feet are usually somewhat dirty. After I brush my teeth & wash my face, I wipe off the bottom of my feet. It's no big deal and takes less than a minute. 

[doodlebug]

1 hour ago, Nysha said:

I don't think her feet are that dirty. I go barefoot at home, including running out to check the mail, or to my best friend's apartment downstairs. By bedtime, my feet are usually somewhat dirty. After I brush my teeth & wash my face, I wipe off the bottom of my feet. It's no big deal and takes less than a minute. 

But, does anyone think the Duggar kids actually wash themselves before bed (or any other time?).  The kids sleep in their clothes, often on bare mattresses.  There seems to be no set bedtime, the kids just go until they drop.  I don't have problems with kids getting dirty as long as there is routinely time set aside for them to clean up.  It's part of basic hygiene and I think the Duggars are lax in that area.

I don't do bare feet anymore due to heel spurs, but, back in the day, yes, I wandered around barefoot in the summer. but my mother made us wash up, if not bathe, prior to bed.

Edited December 30, 2018 by doodlebug

[sixlets]

I hate, with a passion, teeth, feet, and belly buttons.  Every time I see a pic of any Duggar in bare feet, I shudder, and it has nothing to do with cleanliness.  I literally wear 3, yes 3, pairs of socks year round.  I never went barefoot as a child either.  I will drop off trash bags, get the mail, or grab something from one of the cars in my slippers, but otherwise, I'm in shoes outside of the house.  Instead of the prayer closet, I'm off to the loony bin with my really weird hangups.  I promise I'm (mostly) normal in real life.

[galaxychaser]

23 hours ago, BitterApple said:

That was nasty. I remember the soles of Joy's feet looked liked she'd stepped in black paint. Then she puts communal shoes on and walks out of the house. Austin must've been horrified when he first started living with her.

I don’t think so. They live in a trailer so I doubt they even have a showers.

[GeeGolly]

Even with the added bathrooms at the TTH, I don't believe showering was a high priority for the Duggars. I'm thinking nobody was assigned the shower/bath encourager jurisdiction. And I'm guessing nobody has that task now.

[latetotheparty]

1 hour ago, doodlebug said:

 

I don't do bare feet anymore due to heel spurs, but, back in the day, yes, I wandered around barefoot in the summer. but my mother made us wash up, if not bathe, prior to bed.

Damn hell spurs. I’ve never been able to go barefoot outside (my feet are very tender) but I really miss the freedom around the house. 

[QuinnInND]

2 hours ago, galaxychaser said:

I don’t think so. They live in a trailer so I doubt they even have a showers.

Motor homes have showers. The Duggars are just dirty people. We're a no outside shoes in the house family. You can walk around barefoot and not have your feet look like that. Yeesh. Even walking around in socks, the socks stay clean. Well, not just washed clean, but not filthy looking. I have 3 kids and a dog, but I keep the floors as clean as possible. I would be mortified if my kids feet were that dirty from walking barefoot in the house. 

[CatS]

Uh, we walk around barefoot at my house all the time. I have two kids under five, four cats, and a very lax cleaning schedule. No one has black feet. 

[McManda]

7 minutes ago, QuinnInND said:

Motor homes have showers.

While true, I would not want to do any long term showering in an RV bathroom. My parents' first RV (our summer vacations were camping) had a small tub/shower combo, but we used it for storage and used the showers at the campgrounds. My grandparents' RV had a showhead mounted above the toilet ... and it was intended that the whole room was to function as the shower stall. I don't think Joy and Austin are living in one of the RVs that cost most than a home and have two actual bathrooms, so my guess is their bathroom situation is relatively primative.

Plus they'd either have to have a water hookup or keep filling the water tanks in order to sustain a bathroom (and the kitchen sink, too, I suppose.)

I know posting actual locations in a no-go, but do we know whereabouts Joy and Austin have parked their RV home?

[Brown eyed girl]

Jessa’s wearing the shredded dress in the third picture. It looks more like a nightgown to me. 

[Ohiopirate02]

3 minutes ago, Brown eyed girl said:

Jessa’s wearing the shredded dress in the third picture. It looks more like a nightgown to me. 

While I do really try not to criticize other people's parenting, where are Felicity's socks?  If it is cold enough that she needs that hat and a coat, then her poor little toes have to be freezing. 

[Sew Sumi]

I guess Jessa just shut down any pregnancy speculation. Looks pretty skinny, even under those sack dresses.

[Lunera]

I guess she's putting the rumors to rest because half of the comments on Jinger's post were speculating about Jessa. The shredded dress wouldn't look so bad if it wasn't shredded. 

[Temperance]

The shredded dress looks very Goldie Hawn in Overboard. 

[BitterApple]

Jessa looks cute. The shredded dress isn't my favorite, but it would look okay with a belt to cinch in the waist. 

[Spencer Hastings]

Jessa looks good in the first dress. 

Also, I think she is the first person who has posted a picture of Felicity that wasn’t cross posted with Jinger or Jeremy. 

[QuinnInND]

1 hour ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

While I do really try not to criticize other people's parenting, where are Felicity's socks?  If it is cold enough that she needs that hat and a coat, then her poor little toes have to be freezing. 

If Felicity is anything like the younger of my twins, she yanks the socks off and won't tolerate them. As soon as she was able to, she would take off her socks, shoes, anything. It was hilarious watching her try to yank off her one piece footy pajamas. Just saying this might be the case with Felicity. Of course with the Duggars, who knows. 

Edited January 9, 2019 by QuinnInND
Because "ass" and "was" are two completely different words.

[kalamac]

My best friend's 9 1/2 month old is the same. He'll happily wear any hat she puts on his head, but put a pair of socks on his feet, and they'll be off in seconds. She just doesn't bother anymore.

I always assume this is the case when I see babies like Felicity barefoot once they've reached the age of figuring out they can grab their feet.

[Churchhoney]

10 hours ago, Brown eyed girl said:

Jessa’s wearing the shredded dress in the third picture. It looks more like a nightgown to me. 

 

Or it would look like a nightgown except for that very weird mess at the bottom, which I gather is supposed to be some kind of fringe but really looks like a pack of dogs have been chewing on your nightgown. 

10 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

While I do really try not to criticize other people's parenting, where are Felicity's socks?  If it is cold enough that she needs that hat and a coat, then her poor little toes have to be freezing. 

Well, the hat is just so we can see the bow and not see her short hair, so we know for certain she's not a boy. (because the Bible makes clear that jinder roles are of the utmost importance and they are set in stone.) . And I'm thinking that she's not actually wearing a coat, but only a kind of heavy sweater -- and it's almost unbuttoned....So I would bet that it's not actually all that cold. ... Just looks like it is because of the apparent snow hat that's pulled down over her eyes. 

Edited January 9, 2019 by Churchhoney

[Minivanessa]

Oh, Lord. Jessa and the ducklips. Is that still a thing?

[libgirl2]

11 hours ago, Spencer Hastings said:

Jessa looks good in the first dress. 

Also, I think she is the first person who has posted a picture of Felicity that wasn’t cross posted with Jinger or Jeremy. 

I agree. She looked good in the second dress but the shreds have to go. 

[galaxychaser]

Jessa is pregnant 

 

https://people.com/tv/jessa-duggar-seewald-pregnant-third-child/

[libgirl2]

23 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

Jessa is pregnant 

 

https://people.com/tv/jessa-duggar-seewald-pregnant-third-child/

Well she won't be so slim for long. 

[Christina87]

I'm calling it now...this one will be a girl, to go along with bestie Jinger's girl! Then they can be a clique-ish "girl club."

[Minivanessa]

39 minutes ago, galaxychaser said:

Jessa is pregnant 

https://people.com/tv/jessa-duggar-seewald-pregnant-third-child/

I notice that the story ends with the announcement that the next season of Counting On begins February 11. 

[BitterApple]

7 minutes ago, Christina87 said:

I'm calling it now...this one will be a girl, to go along with bestie Jinger's girl! Then they can be a clique-ish "girl club."

The snarky part of me wonders if Jessa was jealous of all the attention Jinger was getting from Felicity and that motivated her to try for a girl. She didn't seem too thrilled with the possibility of another baby way back when Bin suggested it.

[libgirl2]

1 minute ago, BitterApple said:

The snarky part of me wonders if Jessa was jealous of all the attention Jinger was getting from Felicity and that motivated her to try for a girl. She didn't seem too thrilled with the possibility of another baby way back when Bin suggested it.

Well, things to happen. 

1 minute ago, BitterApple said:

The snarky part of me wonders if Jessa was jealous of all the attention Jinger was getting from Felicity and that motivated her to try for a girl. She didn't seem too thrilled with the possibility of another baby way back when Bin suggested it.

Well, things to happen. 

[lascuba]

4 hours ago, Jeeves said:

Oh, Lord. Jessa and the ducklips. Is that still a thing?

I thought ducklips were what thin-lipped people do to look like the have lips?

[JoanArc]

Congrats, I guess?

May she have boys forevermore!

[ChaChaSlide]

All I keep thinking of is 5 people crammed into a two bed one bath 800sqft mold house with two parents (because Ben is also responsible for the status of the home) who have less than stellar cleanliness standards....yikes.

Best of luck to ‘em, couldn’t be me.

[BetyBee]

Jessa's due late spring?  She wasn't showing at all in the photos from Amy's shop.  I guess she just doesn't pop.  

[doodlebug]

5 minutes ago, PoshSprinkles said:

Late spring could mean tail end of May/early June. 

Even if she's due mid June, she should be 18 weeks minimum at this point, meaning her uterus would be just below the navel.  Most women expecting their 3rd kid would be fairly obviously showing by now. She must've been sucking in her gut and holding her breath the past few weeks in pictures.

[Portia]

How many bedrooms and bathrooms in the mold house?

[doodlebug]

Just now, Portia said:

How many bedrooms and bathrooms in the mold house?

Two beds and one bath.  She's going to be stacking kids like cordwood. 

[PradaKitty]

Like diapers!