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Stacey718995
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07-06-2007

Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Stacey718995 a private message Print Post    
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!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 8:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
That's for sure!

Biginjapan
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07-23-2005

Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 9:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biginjapan a private message Print Post    
Oh i thought that Nana was Kate's mom on Jon & Kate....but she is a grandma to Kate. Is that right?

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 9:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
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.

Sabbatia
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08-15-2005

Monday, November 05, 2007 - 10:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sabbatia a private message Print Post    
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.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 7:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
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.

Racsan
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04-09-2004

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 7:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Racsan a private message Print Post    
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.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 7:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
THAT'S the family who I thought were forcing things, the Winters. Thanks, Racsan!

Stacey718995
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07-06-2007

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 9:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Stacey718995 a private message Print Post    
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.

Racsan
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04-09-2004

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Racsan a private message Print Post    
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.

Stacey718995
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07-06-2007

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 11:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Stacey718995 a private message Print Post    
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.

Sabbatia
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08-15-2005

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 8:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sabbatia a private message Print Post    
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!

Rehtse
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08-17-2005

Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 10:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rehtse a private message Print Post    
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.

Stacey718995
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07-06-2007

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Stacey718995 a private message Print Post    
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.

Dfng
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08-04-2005

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfng a private message Print Post    
A part of me thinks the producers of the shows ask her to bring the kids into these type of situations for the drama.

Stacey718995
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07-06-2007

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 6:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Stacey718995 a private message Print Post    
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!

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Friday, February 22, 2008 - 10:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
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.

Stacey718995
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07-06-2007

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Stacey718995 a private message Print Post    
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

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
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.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Jon and Kate plus 8 is often on TLC.

Stacey718995
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07-06-2007

Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Stacey718995 a private message Print Post    
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!

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Monday, February 25, 2008 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
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.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
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.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 4:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I like how happy Jon was to be able to share something with Cara.

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - 1:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
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.