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Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Monday, October 27, 2008 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
I watched the marathon..hadn't seen it before. It was eerily fascinating. The children are all so attractive and the mother very sweet so why does the hair go up on the back of my neck? Something is off and I can't put my finger on it.

Panda
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07-15-2005

Monday, October 27, 2008 - 1:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
that is exactly how I feel Supergranny!!! You could have read my mind-I was thinking this the other night as I watched it, I think the kids are cute, very sweet parents but something is off.

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Monday, October 27, 2008 - 3:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
up thread, we talked about the akwardness of this episode..or maybe it still in the original thread. regardless, the hand holding thing, yeah. eewww! they even hug sideways. not even a proper hug. even by the parents to him.

the bates family and their dresses were so much like the utah families. even the duggar girls thought they dressed funny.

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Monday, October 27, 2008 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
I totally agree with thinking this life style is hummm strange. But, this family seems so happy & peaceful. There is so little stress. The parents just seem too happy to me - IMO it's for the cameras. You know they make mega bucks doing this show & prob. depend on the income. I'm thinking they keep popping out more kidlets to guarantee the show goes on. Michelle must really like being pregnant or the attention she gets when she's pregnant probably. IMO they have their own little business going on & they just keep adding more employees. Harsh, I know.

Ten years from now when they have - like 10 more kids, I wander if some of the older ones will have abondoned ship or worse. Will any of those kids ever have a life beyond "that" family? Are there enough "acceptable" spouses out there for all of those kids? Will all the girls end up as spinsters or worse - married to one of their brothers? You have to wander.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Monday, October 27, 2008 - 9:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Reruns of this show are on right now. Actually, it's a rerun of the rerun I saw part of earlier. What floors me is their house!!! Holy cow!!!!! I know I saw a show about them a couple of years ago and maybe they were building this place, but yikes! It's huge and beautiful. They said later in the show that they own some industrial places they rent for income, but it seems to me, you have to be making a ton of money to even feed that family, even with buying discount food. The mother does seem nice and all, but I still don't "get it."

Does anyone else remember the show I saw where they were organizing some kind of baseball game in a park?

Sia
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03-11-2002

Monday, October 27, 2008 - 11:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Watching, I remember the episode with the baseball game. I think they were hosting an annual charity event that they have done for some years. I do watch this show and cannot imagine having that many children. I can barely handle the TWO that I have, ages 12 and 10!!

Seabreeze
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09-05-2004

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 12:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seabreeze a private message Print Post    
I thought the family that had the annual charity baseball event is the family with all boys and one girl. I forget their name.

Sia
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03-11-2002

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 12:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sia a private message Print Post    
Seabreeze, you may be right. There were a bunch of boys playing that game, and I don't remember seeing the girls. I must watch too much TV, eh? I do seem to watch an awful lot of hours of nonsense.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 5:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
The baseball family had a last name that started with J. Jueb or something... And yes, all boys except one. Mary is her name I think. And the one boy (Mark) with that no hair disease. He was really sweet.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 5:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Ooops, it is the Arndt Family: http://www.famteam.com/meet/

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alisons a private message Print Post    
They don't creep me out at all. How frightening can a family be that does 180 loads of laundry a month? They don't have time to be serial killers.

Now what *is* frightening is the thought that the Duggars with their 17 shopping carts could end up in line in front of me at the grocery store! Can't you just picture running into the store for a carton of milk and ending up behind them?

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Hopefully they would let you go in front of them, LOL. (I always let the person with 1 item in front of me if i have a lot. i find that others do that for me too)

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 12:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Aha... I THOUGHT this family seemed different from the one I'd seen before. Thanks. :-)

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Monday, November 03, 2008 - 8:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
It's a Girl!!!!

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Monday, November 03, 2008 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
The Creation Museum is about 15 minutes away from my house. I would have loved to meet the family.

Nice episode tonight w/ the family reunion in Ohio. Grandpa is so cute. How exciting it must be for him that his little girl (Michelle) is on TV. He seems to have his wits about him, at lease from what I saw. Nice family memories for the family.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Monday, November 03, 2008 - 11:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Those swimsuits. I have no problem with modesty, in fact I think it is often in short supply but one can go too far the other way as well.

I have some friends who grew up in pretty conservative religious families and they all had various "struggles" with relationships and sex.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 5:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I just noticed on the rerun of Josh's engagement episode, that his fiance (now wife) and her mother were wearing identical shirts. They were pink with white (?) stripes, white collar, and white in the v-neck area.

What is even more strange, is that it is the exact same shirt that all of the Duggar girls wear a lot of times. I think they were wearing them when they went to the creation museum.

I thought they buy all of their clothing at the Salvation Army. What are the chances of finding all of those matching shirts, AND, of Josh's wife and MIL finding the same ones?

I thought the creation museum was one of the most boring places ever! They all acted like it was Disneyland or something! Ooh, let's take pictures of the Adam and Eve statues...lol Sometimes I think they are getting more odd by the episode.

Oh, and my vote is for Juju Duggar for the new baby girl.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 6:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
I thought she wasn't due til New Year's Day...

Serate
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08-21-2001

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 6:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Just watching the creation museum now. Yep most of the girls have that same pink shirt on.

They make some of their clothes too, especially for the girls.

Juju Duggar gets my vote too! And hey if they are surprised and it's a boy Juju still works!

Msbullwnkl
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08-16-2005

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 7:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Msbullwnkl a private message Print Post    
She is due on New Year's, but last night they went to the OB/GYN office and had an ultrasound done. So, they know that they are having a girl.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
And the went to the Dr as a family affair. I was appalled when some of the girls were present for the birth of the previous baby. I don't care how natural childbirth is, I think Mom, Dr, nurses, other necessary medical staff and possibly hubby only in the room. Frankly, if I had had children, I'm certain I would not have looked myself, no mirror. Why have your kids watch you writhing and screaming in pain?!?!?! And it is gawdawful messy!

Sherbabe
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07-28-2002

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sherbabe a private message Print Post    
For what it's worth, she clearly stated last night, that no one see's her skin, only new baby skin when it is time for the birth.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Still, ICK!!!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 3:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Sugar, for you 'ick', but for me it is a beautiful sight. I love watching births on tv.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
My husband was in the room both times and couldn't "look"....we did make my 16 year old sister who had a serious bf at the time be in there......good birth control we figured. For dd#2, DD#1 was not even at the hospital.

*sigh* I miss babies.