And I'm sure Jon would appreciate the break from being yelled at and insulted constantly.
Seriously? We caught the last half, maybe 3/4 of the show with the house in it, and we LOVED them together! Hubby thought she was being so cute, and I thought Jon was, too.
We didn't catch the "stay out of our room" part, but there are *plenty* of families who have that rule. It's mystifying to our family, as we still have a family bedroom, but hubby wasn't allowed in his parent's bedroom ever.
I can't imagine having a house so big you need walkietalkies or a PA system of some sort just to keep track of everyone. Sheesh.
I also think that spending FOUR HOURS on only 1/2 of a fridge is a bit excessive. An hour, hour and a half..I can see that. But FOUR HOURS? What is she doing? Cleaning every single little crack and crevice with her toothbrush?
A friend of mine was the youngest of 3, and their house was so large, and so well insulated, that you could not hear things from room to room, let alone from the top to the bottom. And it was so large that they had an intercom system. Oh I loved sleepovers at her house.
If she was cleaning mold out of the fridge, it could easily take that long. Just cleaning mold thoroughly out of a window area can take a good 2 hours, let alone that enormous fridge.
She's never seen the show before -- I tried to describe the "problems" people have with the show (product placement, free trips, etc.) I must tell you, when you try to describe it to someone who's never seen the show and has no opinion of Kate, it sounds ridiculous.
I agree. I try to tell hubby about the threads where people dislike Kate for whatever reason, and why people are up in arms about them getting financial assistance for opening their lives up, and he doesn't understand. He thinks she's cute, she's stressed, and she's doing her best to keep things running...he laughs about how she'll stress at Jon, and then get all goopy at how goopy they can be together. And of course they should be paid; we would want to be paid if there were camera-people at our house...why wouldn't we be paid?
And I agree with you about some kids battling...my brother and I weren't supposed to, but we were often at war with each other. I can only imagine how bad it would have been with 4 times as many kids as just the two of us!
Yes, it's from the top of her mouth up - it doesn't move as much. Maybe botox?
That actually might be right. It might also be why she looked so much less stressed on that show, I kept thinking that. She's got the same stress face that I do (one of the reasons I'm able to be so empathetic towards her, and hubby too) and I've been really wanting that, even though I am very much against it philosophically, because it would make me look the way I feel. Sometimes I even sleep with a stress face, b/c I wake up with the between-the-eye wrinkle even worse than it was the day before. Awful.
I also thought it was arrogant when she was at the sink and looked out the window and said "as far as you can see, it's all mine, it's all mine" as she waved her hands over the land outside. I was very "queen of the kingdom" to me and made her seem ungrateful for how fortunate she has become.
Got the exact opposite impression.
While standing at the sink, she was looking out, thinking of the privacy she can have when the cameras aren't there.
Living on a street like they have been, can you even imagine the lookie loos that must drive by? With property they can have privacy, they can control who sees them at more private times.
I saw her shoulders so tense, and as she said "mine" her shoulders relaxed. She looked tired and tense, but then she relaxed as she said it.
I thought it was lovely. So did hubby. We smiled as she said it.
I only caught the second half (missed the bedroom), but I don't see why everyone is so amazed at four hours of cleaning. You do realize how mold can effect people, right? I would be on my hands and knees scrubbing until every last bit was gone, no matter how long it took me!!!
Me too. I've been very sick twice from unknown mold. Once when I was single and kept getting sick. Roomie and I parted ways for various reasons, and as I packed up my room and opened my window blinds (I was right off the parking lot so those blinds were never opened the entire year) I was horrified to see the mold/mildew I'd been sleeping under. It was a huge "no wonder" moment.
Second time was as we moved from BIL's condo, when I was pregnant. I thought I was sick b/c of being pg, but as we took our dressers away from the wall and saw the black mold on the wall and dresser backs, we realized that wasn't the only thing making me sick.
Mold is awful. And especially with 6 kids who were born early and might continue to have issues b/c of that, I'd need to be CAREFUL. I have a friend who had triplets, and another friend whose baby who arrived before 30 weeks, and I know that they are very careful. Especially the friend with the one child...it was actually an ecclampsia problem so SHE was sick too (had just had an OB appt the day before, where the OB was happy b/c her BP was normal, and he ignored her telling him that she's usually far below normal BP and that was worrisome that she was "normal"), very sick, and her daughter continues to have a weaker system with lung problems. I'm sure that friend would do anything to keep mold out of her house, even if it meant cleaning one thing for 4 hours.
Also, if she wasn't using harsh chemicals, that would be another reason it took a bit longer than others might take. I don't like using harsh chemicals..even Comet can throw me into an asthma attack (and let's not even talk about my near death experience with lemon-scented Comet)...I'm allergic to bleach...so cleaning things thoroughly means arm-power and TIME.
Last night was a SNL spoof of themselves right? They can't be serious.
-Hannah gets her own room because she sleeps in or gets migraine headaches? What about kindergarten in 7 months? One girl throws up, one has night terrors, stress maybe?
-She asked one of the 8 yr old twins to wipe a boy's butt who will be 5 in May?
-She wouldn't wipe either of the dirty butts but called Jon in from outside to do it? Who wipes butts at pre-school?
-She worried about the fridge for four hours when there was "poop" on the floor. They are all obsessed with poop.
-She loudly forbids the kids to ever enter her bedroom with a threat of "severity" and insists Jon back her up. They'll be grown up so soon.
- She "hadn't thought about" the 6000+ square feet of house being challenging to keep up with the kids in?
-She stated at one point that she "knows where none of the kids are, and it is kind of nice." I know where she was coming from, but who says this? Does she not have an un-uttered thought?
On a previous episode didn't they say the one girl got her own room b/c she woke up the other kids? That way she could be awake without bothering the others.
It's totally OK and normal and developmentally fine for a 4 year old to NOT wipe their own bottoms. Some people force their kids to if they feel the need to send their little ones to preschool, other 4 year olds might be OK with it naturally (I was as a child), but for other kids it's NORMAL. My son won't wipe himself, and I was worried, frustrated, and annoyed and went a'researching, and found out that it's normal and fine.
If I was cleaning MOLD out of something, I would NOT BE TOUCHING my child's bottom. I would absolutely call hubby in to do it! Bleah, mold on a bottom.
I don't see the big drama about Cara wiping a hiney, we had to do the same with our younger sister when I was young. (I'm sure the Duggar girls are expert hiney wipers 
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