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| At least she’s finally admitted her goal is to be able to sit on her ample arse doing nothing while her kids run around doing it all for her.
Presumably in a hyper-Christian family, the kids will marry relatively young. How does she plan to cope as a 70 year old when they’re all out of the home? I know she refers to caring for future grandchildren but surely they will only visit on occasion and not become her new little free slaves. After a good 30 odd years by that time of having her kids do most (and by then, all) of her jobs it’s going to be Avery rude awakening when she has to take them all over as an elderly lady. |
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| I don't think the issue is so much same-gender room-sharing, it is that there is such a massive difference in age and life stages in the one room (which, based on the overall house size would not be very large). 3 girls of say 8, 10 and 12 sharing a room is very different than 1, 10 and 12 (or whatever they are).
Same as the boys - the youngest is what, maybe 3? And the oldest is now working and driving. Assuming at least Gabe stays home for college, they'll have adult men in their late teens/early 20s sharing with lower elementary school aged kids.
Even one extra sleeping space to separate the older boys from the 'stooges' would surely have to be preferable (appreciating the constraints of the house and 'ideal' not always being possible). |
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| Imagine if the family of origin did to Jen what she’s done to them.
The nostril flares would never end! |
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| | It was sad to me (as a non-American) Gabe had to spend his Thanksgiving morning studying for a test - if he weren’t working for free for so many hours for his parents, I’m sure he’d have been up to date on his study and been able to enjoy the day off with his family. |
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| | I suspect it would have been Jen, Gravy, Jill, Scott, Bev, Emma, Jaidyn and a boyfriend |
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| My husband's family does a pre-Christmas event that is in a couple of weeks. I'm in charge of desserts - one of the kids is dairy free; last year I did some 'normal' and some DF. This year I'm challenging myself to do an entirely DF charcuterie-style dessert board. There will be about 10 different options/dishes (is it still called a dish when it is a dessert?)
Short of grinding my own grains, every single thing will be made 100% from scratch. I'm already planning it and beyond excited. I also work full-time and given it is a Saturday event won't even have a whole day to prepare.
That is how you do it Jen. |
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| | Tens, as a non-American, I’d be very thankful if you posted a photo of the spread you’ve lovingly prepared… I’m sure it is far more wonderful than anything Jen could even dream of. |
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| QUOTE (WhyAmIHere @ 23/11/2023, 04:52) So she has the kids this Thanksgiving? I thought she gave them all up for Don. Or maybe that was Easter.
That’s Easter.
They trade out Thanksgiving (along with who has them first on Christmas) |
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| I’ve been with my hairdresser probably 10 years or close enough to it at this point.
We are friendly
We follow each other on social media and interact as appropriate
We know what is going on in each others lives - good and bad
We’re not friends.
We don’t see each other outside the confines of my paid appointment
Jen doesn’t realise that friendliness and friends are two(!) different things |
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| QUOTE (NefariouslyHappiestAlone @ 19/11/2023, 01:55) I think she said there were only 8 of them. Scott and Bev, Jill and Gravy, Jen (solo mom), and ?????
Scott and Bev’s daughters + boyfriend?
QUOTE (ShiseidoCottonPad @ 19/11/2023, 02:18) QUOTE (VeganGingerbread @ 11/18/2023, 07:07 PM) So this morning's Instagram story... her furniture placement is still tragic, but at least now that she's added all the red Christmas day-cor, the room isn't so lifeless and cold and gray. How does she not see that and recognize the uplift a bit of colour gives? Sheesh. Definitely better. But, those stockings irk me. Why are they solid red instead of white at the top? What do I know? Is solid red de rigueur these days? 
My question is why is Winnie’s on display? I’m yet to watch - does she explain? |
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| Part of Jen’s problem is lack of vision.
When decorating RM1 she simply opened a PB catalogue and bought everything on the page without considering mixing and matching pieces.
For RM2 she has seen whatever is trendy and bought each individual item without considering whether it works with what she already has. |
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| | Love the last few stories show her working so hard after todays commentary in the bakery 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 |
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| QUOTE (WhyAmIHere @ 14/11/2023, 20:54) I do not think every waking moment Jen has her kids she needs to be with them while doing nothing else
Why not though?
There are 168hrs in the week. Let’s say the kids are in bed for 12hrs/night (at least to make it a fair calc for Jen’s time, at Don’s I’m assuming they get to stay up beyond dinner!), we’re down to 84
Call it 35 hours for school/transport/etc - down to 49
Now Jen only has custody for half that so we’re at 24.5hrs - keep that in check, she spends less waking hours with her kids than they do at school
Let’s take out another say 10hrs over the course of her time for showers, meals, etc- now at 14.5hrs
It should not be hard, given Jen has SO little time with her kids, for her to want to spend less than 15hrs per week actively engaged with them. But even with that, it is two! much for her.
Some day she will look back and think they grew so quickly and yes, time does go quick - but she had every opportunity to be there with them for it and she has locked them away |
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| Man, I feel so honoured - she has basically copied my comment almost verbatim!
Whilst you’re obviously reading here Jessica - the one thing you are completely right about today is that your food does look like vomit. I’ll give you that one.
Ultimately, I think despite what she tries to portray, Jessica is incredibly lazy. She will palm any and every thing she can off to her kids (she couldn’t even be bothered to make the most simple of chore charts herself but rather gave yet another of her tasks to the older boys when they already do SO much of her work), she can’t be bothered to keep up with even a very downsized garden, she admits her house is constantly a mess and at the end of the day the massive breaks in her education schedule are because SHE wants a break.
Apart from washing the dishes and throwing some slop on plates three times a day, I genuinely don’t know what she does to fill her days. She admits she doesn’t need to do much with the older ones for schooling and equally admits she only spends very brief time “educating” her younger ones. She relies on the older ones to provide free daycare and parenting to the younger ones. She has offloaded every chore she possibly can. Make it make sense! |
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| QUOTE (wnywife @ 14/11/2023, 11:01) You left out context. Jessica clearly stated a few of the children had differing opinions & each participated in a debate to present their reasons.
In addition, she also created a reel stating that while she would love for her children around her & choose homesteading, she knows some day they will most likely choose their own path.
Personally I see nothing wrong with your parents being your role models.
Interesting you bring up the “how will the adapt to the whole 9-5 reality.”
It’s been a very long time since most jobs are 9-5 Mon - Fri
Most jobs have varying schedules. Lots of people working 3 day or 4 day weeks.
People adapt as they mature. Are any of us the same person we were as a pre-teen or teen? Goodness, I hope not.
No, she gave them opposing opinions for the sake of a debate - not that they inherently believed it.
You've also chosen to neglect the point I was making that most of us work (however many days a week that may be) with very few weeks off a year. Now granted I live in Australia where we have 4 weeks annual leave and our schools are shut for a total of (generally) 11 weeks over the course of the year but regardless, it is not realistic to take off massive chunks of time just because you've worked 'hard' (hardly) for a couple of months. |
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