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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 8:19 pm
I don't like all the Kids by the Dozen, I do enjoy that they switch up the families. Some are just more enjoyable to watch than others!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 8:26 pm
That's for sure!
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Biginjapan
Member
07-23-2005
| Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 9:57 pm
Oh i thought that Nana was Kate's mom on Jon & Kate....but she is a grandma to Kate. Is that right?
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 9:03 am
I don't think she is related at all Biginjapan. They said at one point that she is just a very dear friend who is a stand-in for the kids real grandparents who are not actively in the kids lives. Could just be the real grandparents don't live nearby, they haven't really said except that Jon's dad has passed away.
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Sabbatia
Member
08-15-2005
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 10:21 pm
Wow!! I was online checking out the Cason family. There is something wrong when you are pg with #14 and talking about #15. Looking at her newsgroup postings, these women actually TRY to get PG. I mean keep charts and everything! I guess I was disillusioned and though they all just happened.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 7:01 am
I think I was referring to another show or something up above. I just didn't like the family in which the dad played instruments, the girls opened a clothing store on their property. I didn't realize that this show isn't about a single family. I sorta liked the Casons, they were pretty "normal" to me.
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Racsan
Member
04-09-2004
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 7:34 am
The episode before this one, the family lived on something like a compound it seemed. I'm not sure what religion they were but the girls all wore the long dresses and they were having barn raisings. This is the Winters family. If I remember correctly she stated at the beginning of the show that they had "embraced" the Amish life. I didn't like this family that much. Well I should say the parents. I was born and raised around Amish. Something about this couple just irked me. Maybe it was the thought that they were trying to make money off of the Amish lifestyle. [Everybody around where I grew up knows that if you get something that is authentic Amish built, it is built good and will last.] The Gonya's, on the other hand, I loved! Neither parent were "out there" one bit. Just normal family. Just getting ready to watch the Cason's.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 7:42 am
THAT'S the family who I thought were forcing things, the Winters. Thanks, Racsan!
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 9:51 am
Yeah, that was what I was talking about, that they show different families each week. I love that. Even the ones that are a bit out there for me, I enjoy seeing how people live or manage their lives. I have to say that I love Jon and Kate but she was a bit over the top for me last night. I guess more power to you but why do you HAVE to go THAT day to the chocholate factory thingie? First, her husband really wanted to go with them, and second to act like it was going to be this harrowing event, it isn't like anyone MADE them go that day. Take the kids out to your backyard and let them run through sprinklers or do a kiddie pool, why the field trip? And if you felt like you had to take them out, take them to a park with the babysitter. I don't know, admittedly I was cranky last night, but she really lost me on that field trip.
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Racsan
Member
04-09-2004
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 11:38 am
First, her husband really wanted to go with them I thought if Jon didn't have to work he was going to a cabin somewhere with Kate's brother? That's why she was making all the food.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 11:49 am
He was but he said that he really missed being able to go with the kids. So why not save it for a weekend that he could go? Just seemed like an over the top thing to fret about.
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Sabbatia
Member
08-15-2005
| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 8:06 pm
Rascan, I liked the Gonyas also! I liked the Cason family in that they seemed like just a normal large family. Maybe it's because they didn't make it seem like they were doing something devine....just wanted a big family. My thing is that all this time I've thought that these families just let nature take it's course....I just never dreamed that anyone actually kept charts and TRIED to get PG that many times. As for John and Kate, I wondered why she picked that particular day for an outing....and that particular place. I figured it was because she's never had an outing without John....but something a bit more tame might have been better. I have to hand it to her, she does a great job of keeping everything going and in order, and those children KNOW they are loved...BUT, she's got to learn to let go a little bit or she's gonna make herself insane!
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Rehtse
Member
08-17-2005
| Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 10:15 am
My like for Kate of Jon and Kate has gone way down after I read somewhere on the internet that she'd been griping to the PA Legislature about getting some government aid in order to care for the babies that she had after she went voluntarily to obtain fertility treatment.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 10:57 am
I am sorry but I was not a Kate fan last night. She was so over the top in the furniture store. I can't imagine that a better choice would not have been for her to ask Jon to stay home with the kids and she just go out and get what she wants with out bring them all in on her over the topness decision making. I felt sorry for the sales guy last night. Though he made a nice sale at the end.
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Dfng
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 6:20 pm
A part of me thinks the producers of the shows ask her to bring the kids into these type of situations for the drama.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 6:40 pm
My mom said that today as well. I don't know it is possible. When I see all of those kids it reminds me of when I worked daycare, we had our 2 and 3 year old room around 6 each. We would take them on field trips. So when they go out and about I think of the field trips, I know she wasn't on a field trip but it made about as much sense as taking my day care group of 3 year olds on a field trip to the furniture store!
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Friday, February 22, 2008 - 10:40 am
I think Jon and Kate plus all 8 are going to be on Oprah today. I think there are new shows of J&K+8 showing these days on TLC. I'm not sure though.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:32 pm
Shoot I missed this, did you watch Happy? They are on now, a new 30 min episode every Monday. I have been watching. Overall, the kids get cuter and Kate gets harder to watch, IMO
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:33 pm
I watched them on Oprah. They weren't cooperating very much. LOL They are just adorable. I still can't imagine. Kate is so very organized, it's incredible.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:45 pm
Jon and Kate plus 8 is often on TLC.
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Stacey718995
Member
07-06-2007
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:54 pm
Thanks Mamie, I am bummed I missed it. I am sure they re show it all the time on TLC. I know the new episode runs on Monday night for the first time in the week, but probably every day after that as well!
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 5:18 pm
LOL, I think Kate is easier to watch! I don't see her on recent episodes fussing so much about them wearing matching clothes etc. Things that I never did and I only have 3 kids and they were all single births! (I may have missed a few of the more recent eps. though.) I did see them on Oprah. It was a quick segment, no new info. really. Great to see them all though. The kids were not all sitting there nicely and quietly. I was glad too. They are 3 and acting like 3! Kate did say 3 is harder than 2. (age 3) She told Oprah, "3 is the new 2!" It was interesting to see all the camera people from some of the shows. You rarely or never see them on TLC.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 3:37 pm
I just watched the 2nd ep. where they went to Utah. What a trip! On the first ep. the airport closed and they were rerouted. Even Kate was crying. The resort (Canyons, I think it was called) was beautiful and so was the house they stayed in! I think Jon and Kate make such a nice couple. The kids are all getting older really quickly it seems.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 4:49 pm
I like how happy Jon was to be able to share something with Cara.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 1:08 pm
I liked that too. I love this show! It's great that they recently were able to take each kid (or at least some of them) on trips just one kid and one parent or one kid and two parents. One of the twins went ice skating and out to lunch with Jon and Kate. One of the younger boys went with Jon somewhere, maybe to a farm. One of the younger girls went with Jon and Kate to ride horses. They felt she was a bit lost w/o her siblings around. I don't always catch the show and have missed some eps. lately. I think I'll have the dvr try to record this. I thought I'd set it up for a series recording, but I guess I didn't.
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