Jon and Kate Plus 8, Official Thread-Part 3

[Epcot luvr]

I've been married over 40 years, and if he wants coffee in the morning, he darn well can get it himself LOL. And hopefully he's quiet about it LOL!
Leave me alone in the morning! He does, and that's one reason why we have such a wonderful marriage!
Oh, and he had no problem getting the kids (3) ready in the morning, and he often took them to school. I did other things that he didn't care to do.

All marriages are unique because each person is unique. Obviously Kate and Jon were not meant to be together guess that is why she did not want to spend her morning with him. 40 years that is great guess you are in your 60's that is normal to sleep in as we get older I guess, lol.

 

[Epcot luvr]

Well, JK8 have only been married for 9 years, so they're only a quarter as right. It's really all about the math.

Unfortunately I have a lot of time on my hands while on bedrest, so you won't be rid of me all day, people.

I hope you have a good day bed rest is awful. I had it last year and I was about to pull my hair out at the root! Take care I have to go and get supplies for the troops this weekend. Graduation party!

 

[DMRick]

All marriages are unique because each person is unique. Obviously Kate and Jon were not meant to be together guess that is why she did not want to spend her morning with him. 40 years that is great guess you are in your 60's that is normal to sleep in as we get older I guess, lol.

LOL..I was married at 18, so not quite 60..but I didn't say I only sleep in now. I've never done mornings and had no interest in seeing anyone early in the day. My hubby has always done mornings..even when I was much younger. He was always up at 5:30, I wasn't up until 7 or 8..so for me, that is sleeping in. Just so you know, I don't lay around and watch soaps in my elderly years. I ski, I hike, I foster kittens and work with a rescue group, very active in church, and I spend time with my grands camping and run my own business (which I started when I retired from a very demanding 'regular' job) along with my husband. I just don't do mornings...still.

I'm not sure why you think that someone isn't meant to be together if they don't want to spend their mornings together. I hate early mornings, but I love my husband!

 

[MichelleVW]

To each is own, I have been married 20 years so guess I am doing something right

I'm glad that coffee in the morning is keeping your marriage together. In order for my marriage to work however, the key is to not speak to me until I've been up for at least a half hour!

I couldn't believe that episode when she said she wasn't a morning person. Jon had to get the two girls up and ready for school while he was getting ready for work. The babies stayed in their cribs while Kate slept.

Hello - I had seven kids and it never even occured to me that I had the choice of "not being a morning person". Come on, everyone who has babies or younger children would like to sleep in in the morning but that's not real life.

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It is real life for some people. I knew a few mothers that slept in while their husbands took care of the kids in the morning.

I hate the "mother has to get up with the children" mentality. My ex husband had that...one of the many reasons why he is my ex.

Obviously the kids weren't screaming in their cribs or she wouldn't have been sleeping. I gave my DD18 a bottle in her bed in the morning way past the age she should have gotten a bottle, but it meant two extra hours of sleep for me, so I did it and she stayed in her crib while I slept.

I've been married over 40 years, and if he wants coffee in the morning, he darn well can get it himself LOL. And hopefully he's quiet about it LOL!
Leave me alone in the morning! He does, and that's one reason why we have such a wonderful marriage!
Oh, and he had no problem getting the kids (3) ready in the morning, and he often took them to school. I did other things that he didn't care to do.

 

[jpaxton1118]

On the weekends my husband will take care of the kids if I need some extra sleep but I could not imagine asking him to do it while he was getting ready for work. I know I might get flamed for this but he works outside the home and I work inside the home, I chose this life. My responsibilty is to get my kids ready for school in the morning, it is my job. My husband needs to get ready for his job. I may not enjoy doing it and I know I would rather be in bed sleeping, but I chose this.

I will say when I worked outside the home we both got the kids ready for school. That was nice but now that I am home fulltime it is mine,

Also I do remember them showing the kids crying in their cribs while she was in bed and Jon was getting the older kids ready. They could have edited it that way but that was what I saw.

 

[JaxJags08]

On the weekends my husband will take care of the kids if I need some extra sleep but I could not imagine asking him to do it while he was getting ready for work. I know I might get flamed for this but he works outside the home and I work inside the home, I chose this life. My responsibilty is to get my kids ready for school in the morning, it is my job. My husband needs to get ready for his job. I may not enjoy doing it and I know I would rather be in bed sleeping, but I chose this.

I will say when I worked outside the home we both got the kids ready for school. That was nice but now that I am home fulltime it is mine,

 

[MusiqChic99]

I couldn't believe that episode when she said she wasn't a morning person. Jon had to get the two girls up and ready for school while he was getting ready for work. The babies stayed in their cribs while Kate slept.

Hello - I had seven kids and it never even occured to me that I had the choice of "not being a morning person". Come on, everyone who has babies or younger children would like to sleep in in the morning but that's not real life.

I've kept out of these threads but I have to say I thought Kate was one of the most self-centered people I've ever seen. To me she really had an entitlement position. It was like I have 8 kids, people owe me.

Well I had seven and we never asked anyone for anything. No one was giving us the gymboree clothes or Disney trips. We worked and paid for everything we had, and everything we gave to our kids, including college.

Maybe Kate will have to wake up and see what the real world is like. I can't believe TLC will keep the show running.

Now I did have cleaning people come in once a week but nobody was rushing to my house to do my laundry and ironing. Maybe Kate should have spent less time washing her kitchen floor three times a day and paid more attention to her family. I think her real panic right now is not being a "celebrity" anymore.

I am not a morning person either but with kids you kinda don't get a choice.

Heck I can be in the worst mood in the morning but when my son wakes up and comes to get me outta bed with a "hey, how you doing" (he's almost 3)...my day just gets better!

I'm not for her keeping the babies in their cribs that long either. I dont know I would rather ask for some help in the mornings then do that but that's just me.

 

[Dr_Finkelstein]

We're a couple of series behind here in the UK, so maybe things have changed - but from what I can see Kate is most definately 'hands on' with the parenting of the kids!

As for the comment she was pleased to see Jon when he got home - after a day of being home with my twins when they were toddlers I was ecstatic when my DH got home from work! I can only imagine what it would be like for her with 8! And yes, I know she had help, but she did a LOT with those kids.

As for the whole Uncle Kevin and Aunt Jodi 'interview', it just leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. If that was them trying to help, I'd hate to see it if they were wanting to cause trouble. Hope the payoff for dishing the dirt on family was worth it.

Di x

 

[3prettyprincesses]

I couldn't believe that episode when she said she wasn't a morning person. Jon had to get the two girls up and ready for school while he was getting ready for work. The babies stayed in their cribs while Kate slept.

Hello - I had seven kids and it never even occured to me that I had the choice of "not being a morning person". Come on, everyone who has babies or younger children would like to sleep in in the morning but that's not real life.

I've kept out of these threads but I have to say I thought Kate was one of the most self-centered people I've ever seen. To me she really had an entitlement position. It was like I have 8 kids, people owe me.

Well I had seven and we never asked anyone for anything. No one was giving us the gymboree clothes or Disney trips. We worked and paid for everything we had, and everything we gave to our kids, including college.

Maybe Kate will have to wake up and see what the real world is like. I can't believe TLC will keep the show running.

Now I did have cleaning people come in once a week but nobody was rushing to my house to do my laundry and ironing. Maybe Kate should have spent less time washing her kitchen floor three times a day and paid more attention to her family. I think her real panic right now is not being a "celebrity" anymore.

I liked your post. I've always felt Kate feels "entitled" because she has 8 kids. Nobody twisted her arm to have fertility treatments, heck Jon didn't even want more kids after Cara & Mady. But Kate did so of course they did. What was that ridiculous quote of Kate's? Something about it takes a village to raise kids. Also, she's said that the kids are society's responsibility because of fertility drugs!

Wait, I found the article....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400462/posts

Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:27:46 PM by Wolfie

Mother of sextuplets faces loss of Medicaid-funded nurse

WYOMISSING - A Berks County woman with year-old sextuplets and 4-year-old twins will appeal for continued nursing help from Medicaid beyond a one-year cutoff.

Kate Gosselin, whose husband has a 90-minute commute to a state job in Harrisburg, said she cannot safely manage eight small children.

The sextuplets - only the second set born in Pennsylvania and among fewer than 30 sets born worldwide - arrived 8 weeks premature but are thriving as they near their first birthday Tuesday.

"I will shout from the highest mountain that these are my children and I love them and I need help," Kate Gosselin said.

While the Gosselins appreciate the volunteers who streamed through their home in the early months, the children's routines improved with the arrival of Angie Krall, a licensed practical nurse who spends 30 hours a week with the family. Medicaid provides the temporary nursing support for premature babies, Gosselin said.

"She's fine-tuned and I trust her," Kate Gosselin said of the nurse, Angie Krall. "She's as good as a parent in this home."

The family cannot afford to pay Krall on their own, she said. Jonathan Gosselin, an information technology specialist who now works in the Gov.'s Office, was unemployed for much of last year.

Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births.

She has talked by telephone with Bobbi McCaughey, the Carlisle, Iowa, woman who delivered the world's only set of surviving septuplets in November 1997. McCaughey named the loss of privacy and the oversight of volunteers as among her biggest difficulties, Kate Gosselin said.

On the bright side, the Gosselin babies seem to have skirted the health problems that can plague premature babies and multiples. Each now weighs between 18 and 22 pounds.

"I look at six healthy babies and I feel a lot better, because it could be a lot, lot worse," Jonathan Gosselin said

 

[MichelleVW]

I am not a morning person either but with kids you kinda don't get a choice.

yep...if your husband is willing to get the kids off to school then you do have a choice. Or just give them a bottle like I did and get 2 extra hours of sleep....or keep them up late so they sleep later (worked for a friend of mine).

As for the whole Uncle Kevin and Aunt Jodi 'interview', it just leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. If that was them trying to help, I'd hate to see it if they were wanting to cause trouble. Hope the payoff for dishing the dirt on family was worth it.

Di x

I couldn't agree more.

 

[Dr_Finkelstein]

I liked your post. I've always felt Kate feels "entitled" because she has 8 kids. Nobody twisted her arm to have fertility treatments, heck Jon didn't even want more kids after Cara & Mady. But Kate did so of course they did. What was that ridiculous quote of Kate's? Something about it takes a village to raise kids. Also, she's said that the kids are society's responsibility because of fertility drugs!

If he really didn't want more kids I'm sure he didn't need to go through with the fertility treatments again.

I'll have a look for it, but there was an article over here a year or so ago, and it quoted him as saying HE was keener on trying for more children. Kate was worried about the risk of multiples again, but he said said something like "at worst I thought it would be twins again".

Di x

 

[MusiqChic99]

yep...if your husband is willing to get the kids off to school then you do have a choice. Or just give them a bottle like I did and get 2 extra hours of sleep....or keep them up late so they sleep later (worked for a friend of mine).



I couldn't agree more.

yes that would be a choice if it's there. Some of us have hubbies that get up early to go to work so we can't sleep in. Like myself...heck I get up early,get my son up and ready and myself and go to work too. I guess my choices are limited though.

 

[mistydoodles]

I wonder if the real reason Jon wanted to stop doing the show was because he was just beginning his affair with his 23 year old friend and wanted to be out of the spotlight so he wouldn't be caught. I can't imagine that he would want to end the show for the benefit of the kids. He seems to enjoy the spoils and riches they receive just as much as Kate.

 

[MichelleVW]

yes that would be a choice if it's there. Some of us have hubbies that get up early to go to work so we can't sleep in. Like myself...heck I get up early,get my son up and ready and myself and go to work too. I guess my choices are limited though.

I didn't really have that choice either and my ex DH wouldn't even help me on the weekends which is why DD got a bottle in bed so I could sleep in.

BUT Kate obviously had that choice and Jon was willing to do it, so to bash it over and over is just ridiculous......especially since Jon isn't getting the kids off to school before he goes to work anymore....beating a dead horse...

 

[3prettyprincesses]

If he really didn't want more kids I'm sure he didn't need to go through with the fertility treatments again.

I'll have a look for it, but there was an article over here a year or so ago, and it quoted him as saying HE was keener on trying for more children. Kate was worried about the risk of multiples again, but he said said something like "at worst I thought it would be twins again".

Di x

I've never read that Jon was the one keen on having more babies after Cara and Mady. Actually I've read the complete opposite.

http://www.realitytvworld.com/realitytvdb/jon-and-kate-plus-8

When the girls turned one, Kate began to think about the possibility of having another child, while Jon was not so sure. On the couple's appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show that aired on February 222008, Kate admitted that she wanted to have another child because she wanted to know what it felt like to not have to split her time between two babies, while Jon was hesitant because he felt like the world is built for a family of four.


And this is taken right from J&K's own website:

"The girls turned one and I started thinking about more children…after all, the girls had been pure fun and I wanted to do it again! But, Jon wasn’t convinced."

"I mourned for the better part of a month and it was then that Jon agreed to let us return to try and have another baby. He saw just how badly I wanted to be a mommy again."

 

[MusiqChic99]

I didn't really have that choice either and my ex DH wouldn't even help me on the weekends which is why DD got a bottle in bed so I could sleep in.

BUT Kate obviously had that choice and Jon was willing to do it, so to bash it over and over is just ridiculous......especially since Jon isn't getting the kids off to school before he goes to work anymore....beating a dead horse...

Very true. And like you said..he did it. What works in one marriage may not in another.

Horse is dead. LOL

 

[MichelleVW]

I've never read that Jon was the one keen on having more babies after Cara and Mady. Actually I've read the complete opposite.

http://www.realitytvworld.com/realitytvdb/jon-and-kate-plus-8

When the girls turned one, Kate began to think about the possibility of having another child, while Jon was not so sure. On the couple's appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show that aired on February 222008, Kate admitted that she wanted to have another child because she wanted to know what it felt like to not have to split her time between two babies, while Jon was hesitant because he felt like the world is built for a family of four.


And this is taken right from J&K's own website:

"The girls turned one and I started thinking about more children…after all, the girls had been pure fun and I wanted to do it again! But, Jon wasn’t convinced."

"I mourned for the better part of a month and it was then that Jon agreed to let us return to try and have another baby. He saw just how badly I wanted to be a mommy again."

Something else that doesn't matter at all now.....the kids are here....they are his....he agreed to them or they wouldn't exist....

 

[Dr_Finkelstein]

Something else that doesn't matter at all now.....the kids are here....they are his....he agreed to them or they wouldn't exist....

Exactly, it's a moot point to say who did or didn't want to try again as if there is blame to be apportioned. They both did obviously, if he really didn't, the sextuplets wouldn't be here.

 

[MichelleVW]

Exactly, it's a moot point to say who did or didn't want to try again as if there is blame to be apportioned. They both did obviously, if he really didn't, the sextuplets wouldn't be here.

Or a Moo point as Joey from friends would say!!

 

[3prettyprincesses]

Something else that doesn't matter at all now.....the kids are here....they are his....he agreed to them or they wouldn't exist....

Um, it's the J&K thread so we were free to discuss things pertaining to them. I didn't realize there were certain things off limits... I only brought this up because the poster below said she knew of an article where Jon was the one keener to have more babies after Cara and Mady.

Exactly, it's a moot point to say who did or didn't want to try again as if there is blame to be apportioned. They both did obviously, if he really didn't, the sextuplets wouldn't be here.

You were actually the one who said you were going to try and find the article that said Jon was keener on having more kids and Kate was worried about multiple births. I was only trying to show you that from what I've read, the opposite was true.