JD and Abbie: Captured Before the Rapture

[ginger90]

I saw an Amazon gift registry for them. The date was 9/8, and everything on it has been purchased. Was it real? No clue.

[Salacious Kitty]

1 hour ago, ginger90 said:

I saw an Amazon gift registry for them. The date was 9/8, and everything on it has been purchased. Was it real? No clue.

I think it was real. Abbie asked for very practical, affordable items.

[Salacious Kitty]

Have we missed a baby announcement? Abbie has certainly had the baby by now. 

[beckie]

2 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:

Have we missed a baby announcement? Abbie has certainly had the baby by now. 

I was just wondering that myself.

[Gemma Violet]

nm

Edited September 27, 2022 by Gemma Violet

[cmr2014]

I checked the Duggar family blog (so you don't have to). The baby still hasn't arrived. There was a notation that Octobers birthdays are already up, and they expect the baby to be born in September, but will update October if necessary.

[Snow Fairy]

Are those information there relevant?

Do they include any possible babies like the new one from Josiah or Joe?

[ginger90]

[Ljohnson1987]

Gracie and Charlie. Cute. 

[Cinnabon]

[Salacious Kitty]

So they're not going to give us a birthdate? She was due somewhere around 9/7, so I think they've been sitting on this for a few weeks.

[GeeGolly]

Cute little family. They all seem to always look so happy and content.

[Jynnan tonnix]

29 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

Cute little family. They all seem to always look so happy and content.

It's a really nice photo, too. Gracie looks so happy (as do Mom & Dad).

[Salacious Kitty]

Gracie is a little cutie.

[Adeejay]

Congratulations!  What a beautiful family!  Can't help but wonder why they waited a month to announce Charlie's birth.  

[dargosmydaddy]

2 minutes ago, Adeejay said:

Can't help but wonder why they waited a month to announce Charlie's birth.  

Because they could? Because they have never had a heavy social media presence and are trying to scale back even more? They don't owe the world a public announcement, and I think their post was a pretty pointed way of saying "we're sharing our news on our terms"-- no exact birthdate, no full name, not even a full face shot of the baby.

[FizzyPuff]

Lovely photo 🙂

Charlie makes me think Jessa and Ben could’ve called Spurgeon that name or Charles, poor kid stuck with Spurgeon.  

[Ohiopirate02]

Cute picture of the family, but that composition is not working for me.  White on white on white on white on white on white is a bit too much.  

[BigBingerBro]

I don't care for the sterile look of the photo.  J&J need to learn from them.  Infrequent posts and no blurring/cutesy blocking the kids faces.

[mythoughtis]

3 hours ago, dargosmydaddy said:

Because they could? Because they have never had a heavy social media presence and are trying to scale back even more? They don't owe the world a public announcement, and I think their post was a pretty pointed way of saying "we're sharing our news on our terms"-- no exact birthdate, no full name, not even a full face shot of the baby.

Add to that the fact that John David was never really all excited about being filmed. I always got the feeling that he tolerated it because JB told him to.    I don’t begrudge him his privacy now. 

1 hour ago, mythoughtis said:

Somehow I quoted myself here 

Edited October 1, 2022 by mythoughtis

[oliviabenson]

Wonder if JimB/Mich even care about newest Duggar grandkid… I vote for no.

[lookeyloo]

they look cute.  I hate their beliefs though.  I don't mind the white stuff because it creates focus on their faces vs. studying the background.

[madpsych78]

Getting an "-ie" name theme which includes Abbie...John is the odd man out.

[oliviabenson]

On 10/1/2022 at 5:36 PM, madpsych78 said:

Getting an "-ie" name theme which includes Abbie...John is the odd man out.

Edited October 4, 2022 by oliviabenson

[andromeda331]

Charlie's cute. Gracie's always cute.

[Cinnabon]

4 hours ago, BigBingerBro said:

I don't care for the sterile look of the photo.  J&J need to learn from them.  Infrequent posts and no blurring/cutesy blocking the kids faces.

They don’t need to start exploiting their kids again. The kids deserve better.

[Adeejay]

4 hours ago, madpsych78 said:

Getting an "-ie" name theme which includes Abbie...John is the odd man out.

Maybe his wife calls him "Johnnie".  

[awaken]

7 hours ago, Adeejay said:

Congratulations!  What a beautiful family!  Can't help but wonder why they waited a month to announce Charlie's birth.  

According to woacb it’s because josh has a court date coming up, so of course a Duggar will chime in with happy news to distract us. 

[Salacious Kitty]

1 minute ago, awaken said:

According to woacb it’s because josh has a court date coming up, so of course a Duggar will chime in with happy news to distract us. 

She's so full of shit. The last time JD spoke of the FF, it was with contempt. It's been several years, but I haven't seen anything that indicates that they mended fences. 

IOW, JD doesn't give a rat's ass about the appeal. I seriously doubt he knows the court dates. 🙄

[Cinnabon]

1 hour ago, Salacious Kitty said:

She's so full of shit. The last time JD spoke of the FF, it was with contempt. It's been several years, but I haven't seen anything that indicates that they mended fences. 

IOW, JD doesn't give a rat's ass about the appeal. I seriously doubt he knows the court dates. 🙄

JD also cared more about Josh cheating on Anna than he did about Josh sexually abusing his sisters . . .

[Salacious Kitty]

2 minutes ago, Cinnabon said:

JD also cared more about Josh cheating on Anna than he did about Josh sexually abusing his sisters . . .

They all did. Such fucked up priorities.

[BetyBee]

17 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

Cute picture of the family, but that composition is not working for me.  White on white on white on white on white on white is a bit too much.  

Someone on reddit commented that they look like they're at a 40s tuberculosis sanitarium, awaiting the results of their test!

[Snow Fairy]

I like the white setting better than the acutal beige trend

[Absolom]

It beats a field of weeds.

[realityfan26]

I was reading CNN online and saw this picture. It looks like JD to me. Have we underestimated medicorps? It looks like they're actually helping. With all of the evacuations needed on Pine Island and Sanibel, wouldn't there have to be coordination with officials?

ETA to add caption. Members of mediccorps.org help evacuate Tom Acerbo on Pine Island, Florida, on Saturday.

Edited October 2, 2022 by realityfan26

[ginger90]

[oliviabenson]

What a bad idea to bring a newborn to a superspreader event…

its COVID, flu, cold season.

[Scarlett45]

1 hour ago, oliviabenson said:

What a bad idea to bring a newborn to a superspreader event…

its COVID, flu, cold season.

I wouldn’t bring a newborn to a wedding. I understand being away from the infant for long isn’t possible if the mother is breastfeeding, but I would’ve made other arrangements (as in a sitter for a portion of the evening and heading back early, or arriving late to pay my respects to the bride and groom). 

[Ljohnson1987]

Abbie is a nurse. Shouldn't she know better than to bring a newborn to a wedding? 

[ginger90]

1 minute ago, Ljohnson1987 said:

Abbie is a nurse. Shouldn't she know better than to bring a newborn to a wedding? 

Common sense and education do not necessarily go hand in hand.

[Ljohnson1987]

8 minutes ago, ginger90 said:

Common sense and education do not necessarily go hand in hand.

Especially when  you're married to a Duggar. 

[crazy8s]

1 hour ago, ginger90 said:

Common sense and education do not necessarily go hand in hand.

so true. my DIL is a dr and has a 2 mo old daughter. In 2 months the baby girl has been to a major league baseball game at 3 wks old, a wedding where the music was very loud at 5 wks old, has flown on a plane and has been to at least 30 of her siblings sporting, school and social events. Today she was taken along to her brother's birthday party at one of those indoor trampoline places. 😬

I just sit here thinking WTH pretty much all the time.

Edited October 3, 2022 by crazy8s

[mythoughtis]

18 hours ago, realityfan26 said:

I was reading CNN online and saw this picture. It looks like JD to me. Have we underestimated medicorps? It looks like they're actually helping. With all of the evacuations needed on Pine Island and Sanibel, wouldn't there have to be coordination with officials?

ETA to add caption. Members of mediccorps.org help evacuate Tom Acerbo on Pine Island, Florida, on Saturday.

My local newspaper has an article mentioning Medic Corps.  It states that they went door to door on the island asking if anyone wanted to be evacuated.  Good for them.  The area needs all the help it can get. 

[SunnyBeBe]

On 10/2/2022 at 7:44 PM, crazy8s said:

so true. my DIL is a dr and has a 2 mo old daughter. In 2 months the baby girl has been to a major league baseball game at 3 wks old, a wedding where the music was very loud at 5 wks old, has flown on a plane and has been to at least 30 of her siblings sporting, school and social events. Today she was taken along to her brother's birthday party at one of those indoor trampoline places. 😬

I just sit here thinking WTH pretty much all the time.

I can relate with something similar.  It’s difficult to watch.  

[lascuba]

On 10/2/2022 at 6:39 PM, Ljohnson1987 said:

Abbie is a nurse. Shouldn't she know better than to bring a newborn to a wedding? 

Because nursing is one of very few professions that evangelicals approve of for women, there is a disproportionate amount of evangelical Christians in the profession, which results in a whole lot of technically highly educated people saying and doing incredibly ignorant shit. That Abbie married a Duggar always meant that her nursing degree meant nothing.

[mimionthebeach]

On 10/1/2022 at 11:54 PM, Cinnabon said:

JD also cared more about Josh cheating on Anna than he did about Josh sexually abusing his sisters . . .

Was it that he cared more or that they'd had years to process the abuse and, at the time he made his views known, the Ashley Madison stuff was news to him? John was only about 13 when the abuse came to light and clearly his parents crafted the narrative around that, downplayed the seriousness of Josh's actions, focused on forgiveness and redemption. Then John finds out it was all lies. Big brother is just a bad human. I think he was horribly disappointed in a few people he'd looked up to. 

[Salacious Kitty]

33 minutes ago, mimionthebeach said:

Was it that he cared more or that they'd had years to process the abuse and, at the time he made his views known, the Ashley Madison stuff was news to him? John was only about 13 when the abuse came to light and clearly his parents crafted the narrative around that, downplayed the seriousness of Josh's actions, focused on forgiveness and redemption. Then John finds out it was all lies. Big brother is just a bad human. I think he was horribly disappointed in a few people he'd looked up to. 

But wasn't the party line that the FF was "forgiven" for the molestations? That he'd repented and all that bullshit? I wonder how much the boys actually knew other than that the FF had done something bad and was sent away for a while?

[mimionthebeach]

2 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:

But wasn't the party line that the FF was "forgiven" for the molestations? That he'd repented and all that bullshit? I wonder how much the boys actually knew other than that the FF had done something bad and was sent away for a while?

That's really what I'm saying. Josh cheating on Anna would have seemed worse to John because of the time elapsed since the molestations and the way in which his parents had framed those events. Had he learned of both those behaviours within the few weeks that we did we don't know how he would have evaluated them. 

[GeeGolly]

How I remember it is, JD said he was pissed when they stepped up to support Josh during the molestation leak, and all the while he was on a cheating website. JD felt betrayed.

[Salacious Kitty]

But between the scandals, did JD stand up for the FF? I get he was pissed after Ashley Madison, but what about before that? Did he toe the family line then?