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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 9:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
More people, more taxpayers.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 9:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Just got caught up on Jon & Kate, they are going to move next year? Guess that will give them more show material trying to find helpers and housekeepers and what not.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

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i think they want to cause they have outgrown their house and would like to live in a warmer climate, but i don't think anything is firmly in place.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

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I am surprised they'd leave Kate's brother--doesn't he live just around the corner from them?

Serate
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08-21-2001

Saturday, August 16, 2008 - 8:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Yes he does live close by but some have said they aren't getting along very well. Doesn't matter to me. If they move it means more drama so more shows. More is good.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 3:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Jon and Kate Plus 8 Say Aloha and I Do in Hawaii

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 4:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
How cute the children all look!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Monday, August 18, 2008 - 7:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Did you see the chocolate pudding body painting? Kate sucked it up and let the kids have a ball. I'm proud of her.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Monday, September 08, 2008 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
I did see the pudding painting. I know that must have been hard for her.

I saw an episode where they took all the kids back to the hospital where the sextuplets were born. I thought this was a very interesting show. There was a lot of reminiscing by Jon and Kate. They talked very briefly about how simple life was before the sextuplets and how there are cameras around now. (I think they said that.) It was nice to see them that way, so human and vulnerable. I get the feeling that they would not have this series if it wasn't going to better the lives of their kids.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Loved the backyard campout. Kate is getting so laid back. Who'd a thunk it?

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

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I bet that her newlyfound "laid-back-ness" is in part due to her ability to see what she is like on film. I bet I would likely see some unflattereing habits I have if I saw myself on video and would work hard to correct them...

Texannie
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07-16-2001

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Could be which, I think, shows that her 'meanness' is not an inate trait. I also thinks it's due in larger part to the fact that the kids are older, and she is feeling more confident in being able to handle 8 children. I know if I had to parent 8 children I would be a complete wreck. I know I was more calm with just my two kids 4 years apart once they were a little older and I felt more confident in just parenting two kids

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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I was holding my breath, four year olds, fire and sharp forks are an accident waiting to happen.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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Tonight, loved Alexa and her fixation on alligators.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

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Aldergators! so cute!

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Friday, September 19, 2008 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
Just heard the Duggar Family will be getting their own reality series. Not sure which channel, but, probably TLC or Discovery.

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, September 19, 2008 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Thanks Sherbabe! I hadn't heard about it yet.

Duggars to get reality show

Move over "John & Kate Plus 8." You ain't got nothin' on the Duggar family. For those of you unfamiliar with the Duggars (as I was), they're a family of nineteen, seventeen of which are the children. And now, according to reports, they're being given their own television show.

Like it or not the world has yet to see the last of reality television. The Duggars are to get their own stint in the world of reality showing what it's like not only to have seventeen kids (do I need a reality show to imagine what that's like?) but also what it's like to travel the talk show circuit and bathe in the limelight of stardom through (constant) procreation.

What's more, the show will follow the family as they grow--that's right, Mom Michelle is expecting another child! That will make enough for two baseball teams. What could we learn from the Duggars? I'm not really sure, but the Discovery Channel will give us the opportunity to find out. Will you watch the show, or are you too wrapped up in your own kids to try to watch someone else manage ALL of theirs?

I'm sorry, but dang--that is a LOT of kids!


Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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Well you sure won't see the arguing that Jon and Kate do, with the Duggars. They are too sweet.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

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I just pray her uterus doesn't explode. I knew a family with a lot of children. At the last birth the mother's uterus ruptured and she bled to death.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 8:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Most prolific mother ever: The greatest recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (Russia). In 27 pregnancies between 1725 and 1765 she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. Only two of the children failed to survive their infancy. The mother also holds the records for giving birth to the most sets of twins and the most sets of quadruplets.

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Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 10:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Makes me wonder how many direct decendents she has.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
Wow.

My dad is one of 15 children, and his father was one of 21 and his mother one of 10. I definitely understand the big family thing, at least on my father's side. My mom was an only child!!

And the Duggar series will not be on Discovery Channel. I believe it will be TLC.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
I will probably watch out of curiosity if it is on when I have time to watch tv, but I won't go out of my way to see the Duggars or set my dvr to record their show.

I have seen most or all of the specials. I don't find this family as interesting as Jon and Kate plus 8.

I am sure the Duggars are happy people. I feel that they are somewhat isolated from society. In some ways, I envy them a bit, sometimes I want to pack up my family and live off the land in the middle of nowhere...but those feelings are few and far between. We are social creatures and I think we thrive on lots of interaction with others. I think it is good for people to be exposed to different people, cultures etc. I don't see that happening with the Duggars based on their specials. I think the kids miss out on a lot because they are somewhat isolated and insulated from society. I think it's great that they are a close knit family who all really care about each other. I also am sad for the kids who didn't choose this way of life and are missing out on the fun times such as I had growing up and my kids have growing up,being with friends, dating etc. Not to replace family time or closeness, but in addition to family time or closeness.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Oh, y'all are going to love this one...

TONTITOWN, Ark. -- Jim and Michelle Duggar live in Tontitown, Ark., and have 17 children with one more expected in January.

Their second-generation family will begin on Friday with the marriage of their oldest son.

Josh Duggar, 20, and Anna Keller, 20, met at a home-schoolers conference and will have a church wedding near Jacksonville, Fla., Josh Duggar said Tuesday.

The couple will move to Fayetteville afterward, and will have a wedding reception Oct. 18 at a church in Springdale.

Anna Keller, who lives near Gainesville, said she plans to have as many children "as God gives us."

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Holy mother of too many children.....good luck.