Posted on 09/01/2009 8:24:28 AM PDT by blueminnesota
You guessed it -- Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar were just thrilled to announce that they're expecting their 19th child. As usual, Viera just oohed and ahhed over the fantastic news, which comes only a few months after the eldest Duggar kid, Josh, announced that his new wife Anna is expecting their first child.
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Television didn't ruin that couple. They were already ruined.
The Duggars already have a television show and it hasn't ruined them.
The oldest (after a career in education) became the church organist in her retirement years. The other 2 daughters had lifelong careers as music teachers. I don't know about the sons -- one played the violin all his life, but made his living as a chemist.
My father managed to learn to play enough piano (his assigned instrument was cornet) to impress my mother enough to marry him! BTW, he was taught the little bit of piano he did know (a very impressive rendition of the first page of The Swan) by his sister who actually was a cellist. Surely that was an imposition on her free time as a teen when she could have been out "having fun". s/off!
The Duggars are fantastic people who just happen to love children. We were watching them on Huckabee one night and not one of them was misbehaving, not even the babies. They were so happy and smiling the entire show. In fact, I have never seen them when they didn’t have a smile on their faces and very calm and composed.
If I had that many children I would be hanging from the ceiling somewhere.
Yep, that’s me ... totally lazy!
Believe it's on tonight (Tues--Sept 1) at 9PM on TLC.
I can't respond to that sort of thing without making a total redneck trash spectacle of myself, right on teh public interwebs and everything ;-).
Best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Duggar and the whole crowd. I want their laundry room!
>> This family does not live in a dump. Those poor Duggar kids have to trudge around in this:
http://pvgfun.blogspot.com/2009/07/duggar-family.html <<
I know they are living better than 99% of the rest of America. I just know from personal experience of another family that was large that “put up a good front” but lived in squalor and off government cheese. The funny thing was that this family claimed to be republican.... He was nothing more than a hand out cowboy.
And if the father decided to run for public office you can imagine how the leftards would try to attack them.
congrats and God bless this wonderful family....this country used to be full of families just like this, respectful, hardworking, happy... and now.. now we have out of control kids, lazy parents, broken homes, teen pregnancies, substance abuse, neuroses up the ying yang..
These people are a testament to the original American spirit.
Weren’t they debt free before the TV show came along? They live very frugally, all things considered. I imagine if more of us lived that lifestyle, we’d have a lot more money, too!
They do have a TV reality show.
Isn’t that laundry room the best? I keep telling my husband that if he keeps knocking me up then he has to buy me a second washer and dryer. I’ll take second hand, doesn’t have to be new! LOL!
She was a college graduate herself, and she made sure that she had enough money saved to provide the 1st year of college for each of the 9 kids during some horrible years in our economy. Furthermore, she raised her brood so that the older ones helped out the younger ones with $$$ for the other 3 years of school. The oldest son graduated from Annapolis (free education). All of them, as soon as they were employed, contributed to the education of their younger brothers and sisters, as they were able.
When the family moved from Long Beach to Chowchilla (to the farm) around 1918, my grandfather drove the truck with some of thhheir kids, and Grandma drove a big old Model A touring car with the rest. For those unfamiliar with the road from LB to the Central Valley in the years 1918, you had to go over Grapevine, which is a SINGLE LANE, twisty mountain road to get from LA to Bakersfield. Grandma used to tell me about the scariest part when you had to BACK DOWN the mountain if you met an oncoming car. That was the rule, the car going up had to back down to allow the car going down to pass. This in a day when most women didn't even drive! My grandmother was a remarkable woman.
I remember the year she died. I was 16 and I went to visit her in the hospital. I was "dressed up" in heels and a dress that showed off my figure. She squinted at me and then took my hand and said, "Never let a man know where he stands with you. I wore Mr. -----'s ring for 10 years and never once promised to marry him! I made him come get me when it was time to marry." At her funeral I found out that was true. My grandfather was 10 years older than she. She graduated from college and took a job on an Indian Reservation in Oklahoma as the music teacher. Mr. _____ showed up and asked her to marry him, and she agreed. They were married on the Choctaw Reservation and worked their way to CA building churches on contract for congregations that hired them. My older aunts and uncles were each born in a different western state as they worked their way west where they settled. My grandfather had a costruction and cabinet making business in Long Beach that was destroyed by fire. The insurance money prompted their move to the Central Valley to try farming. They'd only been farming about 20 years when my grandfather died. She kept the farm operating with her youngest son for another 17 years after her husband died. They don't make them like that any more.
You must be exhausted ;)
Yeah, and to add insult to injury, I see that the Duggars have lapped us ;)
Don’t they have four of each? I only have ONE, and I have half the number of people, so I should have at least two!
Probably. I only have one set, too. You definitely deserve at least one more set! My husband and I were looking at possible homes on some land and one of them had a business attached to it. It was a laundromat. I can’t tell you how bad I wanted that place! I could have been done with all the laundry in an hour and a half. Ha!
LOL - us, too!
If my husband and I got hit by a (tiny little) meteor while standing at the end of the driveway, and our nine kids went to live with their would-be legal guardians, who also have nine, that *still* wouldn't be as many as the Duggars.
My own laundromat ... that would be heavenly!
When the Duggars were young newlyweds, the wife took birth control pills and became pregnant in spite of that fact. If I recall the story correctly, that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage or still birth, and the Duggars were destroyed. They prayed earnestly, as they do everyday, and told God that they would take as many children as He had planned for them, and the next pregnancy resulted in perfect twins.
The Duggars have children because God gives them children, and each one is cherished by the parents. I can find no fault with that.
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