The Lonely Js Club: James, Jackson & Johannah

[Nysha]

9 minutes ago, RedheadZombie said:

Didn't Josh get married not too long after the period of food deprivation?  I think the oldest probably have food issues to this day.

It wouldn't surprise me if all of them do. Didn't one of the shows have Johannah standing at the freezer door eating frozen fruit? 

I had 5 kids and had to lock my pantry door or they would devour a month's worth of snacks, treats, and pop in a weekend. But, there was always bread, peanut butter, jelly, and fresh fruit available for anyone who was hungry or who didn't get full at mealtime. My husband passed away when they were 15, 14, 13, 11, & 8 and for the next two years, I struggled horribly with depression and while I always made dinner, they were on their own for the rest. To this day, dinner is the only meal that all of them plan and make.

[MyPeopleAreNordic]

On 4/22/2018 at 9:58 AM, Barb23 said:

Looks like MEchelle got all dressed up for the party as opposed to Joy who looks like she threw on whatever  T-shirt that was available. Jessa is wearing her signature Old Navy swing dress (or whatever it's called).

Eh, Joy has an infant and doesn't live right next to the house of sister-auntie-moms, so I'll give her a pass. 

On 4/22/2018 at 10:37 AM, bigskygirl said:

I am surprised JB and Josh were not shoving everyone out of the way to get to the food.

Maybe the other Duggars don't tell them to come down/over for the party until after people have started eating the food. 

13 minutes ago, Nysha said:

It wouldn't surprise me if all of them do. Didn't one of the shows have Johannah standing at the freezer door eating frozen fruit? 

I had 5 kids and had to lock my pantry door or they would devour a month's worth of snacks, treats, and pop in a weekend. But, there was always bread, peanut butter, jelly, and fresh fruit available for anyone who was hungry or who didn't get full at mealtime. My husband passed away when they were 15, 14, 13, 11, & 8 and for the next two years, I struggled horribly with depression and while I always made dinner, they were on their own for the rest. To this day, dinner is the only meal that all of them plan and make.

OT, but I just want to say (as someone who has struggled with chronic depression most of my adult life) that you're a rock star, @Nysha.  I can't even begin to imagine.  I know your kids think you're a rock star, too. :)

(And dinner is the only meal anyone in my family ever planned or made, all others were kind of decided as we got hungry & made it work.)

Edited April 25, 2018 by MyPeopleAreNordic

[MyPeopleAreNordic]

On 4/25/2018 at 12:59 AM, DragonFaerie said:

Speaking of lazy in the photo with Johannah? there is a piece of masking tape on the top of the dishwasher that says - Broken, pls do not use.  Which begs the question, since all they seem to use is paper and styrofoam plates and plastic silverware, how many years has it been broken?  

 

And why do they buy multiple private planes and real estate properties but don't replace or repair the dishwasher in their own home??? 

Edited April 26, 2018 by MyPeopleAreNordic

[awaken]

Lol, my daughter is well fed and she still stands at the freezer and eats frozen fruit out of the bag!  

And I hear ya on the pantry snacks!  My 3 will devour all their lunch snacks for the week or a gallon of ice cream!  We have to hide the good stuff!  

[Barb23]

8 hours ago, BitterApple said:

I can't recall a time I've ever seen the Duggars use real dishes and silverware. Even if the dishwasher is broken, they've got twenty freaking people living in the house. They could easily rotate dish washing duties if they actually gave a damn about the environment. 

They still have the industrial dish washer & another regular one (thinking they have 2) so no one should have to wash anything.  They must not have a "family friend" to sponge a repair off of. 

[Nysha]

7 hours ago, MyPeopleAreNordic said:

OT, but I just want to say (as someone who has struggled with chronic depression most of my adult life) that you're a rock star, @Nysha.  I can't even begin to imagine.

Thank you.

[queenanne]

On 4/24/2018 at 6:18 PM, ginger90 said:

The ice cream cake recipe has been posted:

Ingredients:

24 ice cream sandwiches

8 ounces of Cool Whip

2 King-size Butterfinger candy bars, chopped up

10 ounces chocolate syrup

1 8oz. bottle caramel topping

Directions:

Arrange in six layers in a 9x13-inch pan

First layer: 12 ice cream sandwiches, placed over bottom of pan.

Second layer: half the container of Cool Whip®.

Third layer: half of the chopped-up Butterfinger® bars topped with half of the chocolate syrup and half of the caramel topping.

Fourth layer: the rest of the ice cream sandwiches.

Fifth layer: the rest of the Cool Whip®.

Sixth layer: the rest of the chopped-up Butterfinger® bars, topped with the rest of the caramel topping and the chocolate syrup.

Freeze and eat as desired.

 

Well, I think that's a clever recipe hack, and probably cheaper than store bought.  They even got the crunchy cookie layer effect with the candy bars.  I'd eat a piece if you set it in front of me, though I'm just "OK" on ice cream sammiches in general so I can't imagine fiending over it.

[GeeGolly]

The cake is a message to his future wife. Anyone can make him ice cream sandwiches. 

Edited April 26, 2018 by GeeGolly

[Nysha]

I'm supposed to bring a dessert to friend's house this weekend. I think I'll make this. I'm going to use good quality ice cream bars and cut them into bite-size pieces and real whipped cream, though. 

[queenanne]

7 hours ago, Nysha said:

I'm supposed to bring a dessert to friend's house this weekend. I think I'll make this. I'm going to use good quality ice cream bars and cut them into bite-size pieces and real whipped cream, though. 

Let us know how it goes over!  You'll have a good story to go along with it too.

[YupItsMe]

On 4/22/2018 at 9:58 AM, Barb23 said:

That gift bag with the pink hearts & ribbon for a manly Duggar guy is driving me nuts. Was that JB approved? Maybe that's the only gift bag the giver had.  

That looks like a small diaper bag to me, but I could certainly be wrong.

[Bayarea4]

On 4/24/2018 at 3:27 PM, Natalie68 said:

This sounds like a stoners paradise

Hey, I'm stoned right now, but the list of ingredients alone made me feel like gagging.

[Natalie68]

9 hours ago, Bayarea4 said:

Hey, I'm stoned right now, but the list of ingredients alone made me feel like gagging.

Tea out the nose!!!!

[ginger90]

[Ohiopirate02]

25 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

While I am a serial plant killer, they live in Arkansas, shouldn't they have already done this?  It's almost blueberry time here in eastern NC. 

[jcbrown]

2 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

While I am a serial plant killer, they live in Arkansas, shouldn't they have already done this?  It's almost blueberry time here in eastern NC. 

But the Duggars do everything a little more half-assed differently than the rest of us, you know.

[DragonFaerie]

3 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

While I am a serial plant killer, they live in Arkansas, shouldn't they have already done this?  It's almost blueberry time here in eastern NC. 

Yes, but I'm guessing they are also on Duggar time when it comes to everything, including gardening

[Churchhoney]

5 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

While I am a serial plant killer, they live in Arkansas, shouldn't they have already done this?  It's almost blueberry time here in eastern NC. 

Why do I think that they don't give a crap about the garden. They just like to ride around on motored machines. 

[DragonFaerie]

17 minutes ago, Churchhoney said:

Why do I think that they don't give a crap about the garden. They just like to ride around on motored machines. 

I think that's true for the boys.  I know I'm in a different part of the country but that grass is the shortest I've ever seen.  I don't see how it would be comfy to play on or walk in, especially barefoot.  It's barely more than dirt.  Jana probably enjoys the garden just so she can get out of the house, such as that is.

Edited May 16, 2018 by DragonFaerie

[Zella]

Yeah, they're late. I murder all plants in my wake, but my grandparents always plant a big garden here in the Arkansas Ozarks. They've easily had everything planted a couple of weeks, if not longer. 

[Jynnan tonnix]

10 hours ago, Zella said:

Yeah, they're late. I murder all plants in my wake, but my grandparents always plant a big garden here in the Arkansas Ozarks. They've easily had everything planted a couple of weeks, if not longer. 

I've already got most of my tomatoes/peppers in. My kale, lettuce, and peas have been growing for a while. Beans planted but haven't come up yet. Still need to get a few more San Marzano tomatoes and some eggplant. I'm a bit early with it, really...we generally plant the more tender things after Memorial Day here in Connecticut, but it's been reasonably nice and there doesn't appear to be any frost on the horizon.

Have to get some zucchini in as well, but haven't prepared that bed. The weeds are certainly happy.

[Marigold]

I saw that the Duggar page (the official family one) had an interview with JD. 

Either they are trying to marry him off or they have an offer and are reminding the fans that he exists!  Beating the drums to get everyone to notice him! 

[Temperance]

I think they're trying to marry him off. It would be nice if they found someone closer to his age than his newest SILs.  There are plenty of single women of different ages all over the religious spectrum including fundie. 

Edited May 19, 2018 by Temperance

[madpsych78]

What I will say about the marriages is that at least there aren't huge age differences between the couples. The largest age difference is JinJer at 6 years. There haven't been any relationships that have veered all the way into Handmaid's Tale territory (e.g., 20- or 30-something Nick and his new 15-year-old wife). Therefore, I think it is unlikely that JD will end up with someone Lauren's age, for example.

[ginger90]

[jcbrown]

4 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

Goddammit. Jana should be able to buy her own plants for her own place. Free Jana!

[Westiepeach]

43 minutes ago, jcbrown said:

Goddammit. Jana should be able to buy her own plants for her own place. Free Jana!

While wearing shorts and a tank top. 

[mythoughtis]

Anyone ever wonder  just who is going to take financial care of Jana in her old age if she never marries? She’s not allowed to work, so she won’t have social security, a pension , a 401k, or even a savings account. 

Edited May 31, 2018 by mythoughtis

[RedheadZombie]

On ‎5‎/‎18‎/‎2018 at 10:35 AM, madpsych78 said:

What I will say about the marriages is that at least there aren't huge age differences between the couples. The largest age difference is JinJer at 6 years. There haven't been any relationships that have veered all the way into Handmaid's Tale territory (e.g., 20- or 30-something Nick and his new 15-year-old wife). Therefore, I think it is unlikely that JD will end up with someone Lauren's age, for example.

They might be biding their time until a young widow comes a long.  Of course that means JD will start with a dozen kids.

[awaken]

2 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Blah.  No excitement or interest sparked here. They’re just putting out another bland post to try and deflect from derelict. 

[DragonFaerie]

Jana manages to take care of the TTH and how many people, not to mention raise a garden and chickens, babysit all of the nephews and nieces and yet here she is clean, wearing clean appropriately sized clothing, clean and brushed hair - take note Jill, Joy and Jessa.

[DragonFaerie]

I have yet to understand why the Duggars, who seem to LOVE the Gaines', have not set up a garden and home decorating blog for Jana.  She could spin it off to some type of pretty photo type coffee table book  - Seasons in the garden or something and the leghumpers would buy it in droves.  She could maybe do a type of show like the Gaines', only instead of redecorating their house, she goes in and designs gardens for people.  

[Churchhoney]

11 hours ago, ginger90 said:

Yeah, it really is great, I'm sure. She gets to be -- what? -- six feet away from the nearest other Duggar -- who's pointing a camera lens at her. And buy plants for the greater glory of Jizm Boob's and Meeeechelle's big tin house .......And wear -- what is that? -- two skirts? .... (or the famous tacked-on-pillowcase look...)

A fabulous, fabulous summar day out for a single 28-year-old woman. 

6 hours ago, DragonFaerie said:

I have yet to understand why the Duggars, who seem to LOVE the Gaines', have not set up a garden and home decorating blog for Jana.  She could spin it off to some type of pretty photo type coffee table book  - Seasons in the garden or something and the leghumpers would buy it in droves.  She could maybe do a type of show like the Gaines', only instead of redecorating their house, she goes in and designs gardens for people.  

She's single. She can't have a blog, can she? 

That's a form of social media -- so  reserved for MARRIED women.

I mean, if you let a WOMAN have such a thing without first having been fully VALIDATED by a fundie-fundie MAN and being placed by Jizm Boob under her new headship's one-on-one control, it would send a VERY bad message to all those other wanna-be-uppity females out there. it wouldn't be complementary! She'd think she was a primary, not a secondary umbrella! JESUS WOULD WEEP!

Edited May 31, 2018 by Churchhoney

[lookeyloo]

Did she really sew a modesty chunk of fabric to the bottom of her skirt?  

[Churchhoney]

16 minutes ago, lookeyloo said:

Did she really sew a modesty chunk of fabric to the bottom of her skirt?  

Sure as heck looks like it. ... .Nobody actually sells a skirt like that, right?   The only other possibility I can think of is that she's wearing a lightweight white skirt under the jean skirt. ... Which would be just as bad. If not worse. 

And yet again -- it's ostentatious "modesty," too.

Just buy a longer skirt, damn it. They sell them. Or if you have to change it, find a hunk of used denim or buy some from the scraps table at the fabric store, maybe machine embroider it a bit, and sew that around there .......If you must be "modest," try for a little beauty or style or quirk or something ... Don't just post a sign about your modesty by throwing an old pillowcase in our faces. 

I don't think Jana's an ostentatious person by nature. But to me this ostentatious faux modesty crap -- like diaper mountain and Jill's "soup" recipes -- is a stupid learned behavior from growing up in the Duggar household...a stupid tic that, like the others, she's swallowed whole and just lives with unthinkingly. 

Edited May 31, 2018 by Churchhoney

[Portia]

Here's what I don't get. To me, the light-colored strip at the bottom of the skirt is an eye trap that draws attention to her shapely calves.  And BOOM--just like that, I turned gay. Nice going, Duggars!

[graefin]

That skirt is one that they've either shared or owned multiples of. Jessa has worn it in the past. Either way, the white hem strip is stupid. It adds only an inch, at most, of extra "modesty." How pedantic can one get?

[mythoughtis]

10 minutes ago, graefin said:

That skirt is one that they've either shared or owned multiples of. Jessa has worn it in the past. Either way, the white hem strip is stupid. It adds only an inch, at most, of extra "modesty." How pedantic can one get?

Truth is, the skirt is a perfectly acceptable length without  the white strip. It looks to be about 2 inches above the knee.  Even I think it’s fine. I’m someone who cringes at the outfits some of my colleagues wear in our office building cause the hemline is closer to the upper thigh than the knee. 

[Churchhoney]

1 hour ago, graefin said:

That skirt is one that they've either shared or owned multiples of. Jessa has worn it in the past. Either way, the white hem strip is stupid. It adds only an inch, at most, of extra "modesty." How pedantic can one get?

I think it serves the same "purpose' as their other modesty items -- it ADVERTISES their holy modesty. LOUDLY.... It doesn't produce any actual modesty, however. 

[Ohiopirate02]

46 minutes ago, Churchhoney said:

I think it serves the same "purpose' as their other modesty items -- it ADVERTISES their holy modesty. LOUDLY.... It doesn't produce any actual modesty, however. 

You are completely correct.  I actually wear more fabric than most of the Duggar girls do on a daily basis.  I would never in a million years call my style modest, I just wear what I like.  Maxi skirts and dresses have been popular for years.  Thousands of girls and young women wear them.  The Duggars are not as special as they think they are.

[kokapetl]

3 hours ago, lookeyloo said:

Did she really sew a modesty chunk of fabric to the bottom of her skirt?  

Who else would do it? Michelle? 

[Fostersmom]

At this point, I'm pretty sure the stupid extra inch is all Jana. Even if she was to get married tomorrow, I just don't see her suddenly wearing pants anytime soon, if ever. 

[graefin]

3 hours ago, Fostersmom said:

At this point, I'm pretty sure the stupid extra inch is all Jana. Even if she was to get married tomorrow, I just don't see her suddenly wearing pants anytime soon, if ever. 

Maybe Jana was the one who sewed it on, but I'm sure the edict for its necessity came from Michelle. I mean, do you remember her reaction when Ben and Jessa held hands pre-engagement during *prayer*? Or when Derick and Jill full-frontal hugged instead of side hugged while still courting? "NO, not *THEM*!" <with bug eyes in full force>; "Needless to say, *THAT* won't happen again!" <insert fake smile/laugh here>

[Christina87]

Does anyone think Jana is looking reeeeeally skinny these days? She is naturally small, but she looks so thin through the midsection. I reeeeally hope they aren't fat shaming her with weight watchers, or making her diet to attract a headship. 

[DangerousMinds]

16 hours ago, DragonFaerie said:

I have yet to understand why the Duggars, who seem to LOVE the Gaines', have not set up a garden and home decorating blog for Jana.  She could spin it off to some type of pretty photo type coffee table book  - Seasons in the garden or something and the leghumpers would buy it in droves.  She could maybe do a type of show like the Gaines', only instead of redecorating their house, she goes in and designs gardens for people.  

I don’t really like the Gaines, but aren’t they legitimately educated people? None of the Duggars could compare.

[Temperance]

Maybe Jana likes to sew and looks for reasons to break out the sewing machine. 

[Lisa418722]

Jana's skirt reminds me of one I had in the 1980's during the "prairie" fashion craze.  It was a denim skirt with probably 2 inches of eyelet at the bottom, but it also looked like the middle of it was laced up with the eyelet underneath.  Yeah, luckily it was the 1980's and I wasn't the only one that dressed like that.  Back on subject: Jana should be able to buy plants for her own home, not for Jim Boob and MeChelle.  Or not buy living plants that she needs to take care of and buy silk instead. 

[jcbrown]

1 hour ago, Lisa418722 said:

Jana's skirt reminds me of one I had in the 1980's during the "prairie" fashion craze.  It was a denim skirt with probably 2 inches of eyelet at the bottom, but it also looked like the middle of it was laced up with the eyelet underneath.  Yeah, luckily it was the 1980's and I wasn't the only one that dressed like that.  Back on subject: Jana should be able to buy plants for her own home, not for Jim Boob and MeChelle.  Or not buy living plants that she needs to take care of and buy silk instead. 

Oh holy cow, you remind me that I also had a lightweight denim skirt with eyelet at the hem in the 80s. *shudder*

[drafan]

21 hours ago, awaken said:

Blah.  No excitement or interest sparked here. They’re just putting out another bland post to try and deflect from derelict. 

Actually, this is an advertisement for a Fundie mate. Look !! Jana is a gardener ! Quick, Fundie guys ...she's available ! Another season of Counting On is coming up and we need the wedding of the century..... and you could be in it !  Blech.

And no advanced gardener would buy their plants at Home Depot, where the pots dry out all day in the sun, then the after-school worker drowns everything with a hose at around 5 o'clock. No thanks.

That denim skirt is beyond stupid. Just buy a midi one at GW, then hack it off at that Fundie length. Raw hems are in style right now. And while she's hacking, she could hack about a foot off that dry-ended hair.

[cmr2014]

I'd like to have some hope for Jana, but I think we're projecting positive traits on her simply because she hasn't proven herself to be as odious as her siblings. Once Jill and Jessa got social media accounts, and their "personalities" were put on display, their popularity dropped pretty quickly. Remember how we though Miss Cathy was a normal fundie-lite mom who would be a great influence on Jill? Remember how happy we all were for Jill when she married the slightly dorky, but sweet, Derick? Remember when we hoped that Jinger and Josiah would run away to a big city and lead normal lives?

Not being as hopelessly dumb and incompetent as Jill or as bitchy and slovenly as Jessa or as lackadaisical and inert as Joy is a pretty low bar to clear. I hope that she is living the life that she wants to live, and that she is happy, but I think my optimism is probably as misplaced with Jana as it was with the others.