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Carver did karaoke to Taylor Swift's Love Story. at a place in their hotel in the Bahamas.' ETA: Hayley made it into a main post on her IG for anyone who may see this after Carver's story expires.

It seems Qelon's hold on Twitter/X is rapidly deteriorating. All of the signs pointed out in your recent posts are quite troubling - loss of major advertisers, prominent accounts going silent, and now even one of his biggest supporters calling for him to be fired. His erratic behavior on the platform surely isn't helping matters either.

Either it’s not genuine (anyone remember the “apothecary table” from Friends 😂), or she paid a lot more than she admitted. It’s easier to justify overbuying when you pretend every purchase was a major bargain.

That baby looks huge to be a newborn. But my newborn also currently wears preemie and only weights 6 pounds even tho was born at 38 weeks

I posted about this in the new baby thread (I missed your post). It does look like Rachel had her baby. @JermajestyDuggar

I made the mistake of watching Lawson's latest. That's 18 minutes I'll never get back. First, we get a commercial for a new e-bike, obviously done in return for a freebie. He talks about it being perfect for their RV life. Oh, and make sure you click the link in the description box for a coupon code. I foresee either the bike will gather dust once the baby comes or Lawson will be tooling around on it while Tiffany is stuck in the RV with a crying baby. They are in Knoxville for the I Love You Day party. I wish he'd stop playing with the timeline. Why even bother showing something that happened two months ago and was covered by several of your siblings on their vlogs? They are headed for the couples bowling party. As they arrive, Lawson says this is "bougie bowl." I don't disagree with him, but the private space is lovely and what we can see of the food looks good. Lawson is going around making bets with the guys as to whether they'll be over or under 200. The guys are all super-competitive, the girls throw gutter balls, chat, and hold baby William Paine. Nobody seems particularly good at bowling. Lawson's final score is in the 140s, and that sounds as if it's in the high end. Now they are in Wal-Mart with Nathan and Esther, who are shopping for a cute way to tell the family they're expecting. Why couldn't they do this before they arrived in Knoxville? They say there's a chance they'll have twins. Esther's sister apparently has twins. Nathan is all for this - "buy one, get one free!" Yeah, I bet Esther will be feeding and diapering any extra kids. Of course, Lawson has used "Bates Twins?!" as the tagline for the video, in a shameless attempt at clickbait. They finally decide on a shirt saying "Best Sister." Lawson coaches them to say Kenna's outfit was on backorder so they had to pick something else. He also tells us there are rumors of as many as three baby announcements that night (which we now know was true). Esther and Tiffany pose with a pregnant mannequin, cradling their own non-existent bellies. Lawson returns to Wal-Mart on his own to get presents for the family and birthday presents for Tiffany. He says he's already got something for her but wanted to get other stuff. The presents for the family are all hunting and fishing-related - lures, etc. He doesn't say what he's got for Tiffany, but we see balloons and flowers in the cart. We are at the Big House, where Chad has put together the little wagon and the women are decorating with prairie-themed items. This gives me uncomfortable flashbacks to my childhood, where the women did most of the work at family gatherings while the men sat and chatted. Lawson shows us some of the many kids, including three of Tori's kids, several of Erin's kids, and Kenna. One thing to his credit, he always labels the kids, so we know we're getting glimpses of those not on social media. Less favorably, he seems to favor certain nieces and nephews. Kenna and baby William Paine (with whom Lawson constantly reminds us he shares a name) get a lot more time in his videos than the other kids. And then the video cuts off. I suppose we have to wait until next week for the party, the baby announcements, Tiffany's birthday. They've been teasing their gender reveal for a long time, too. I was initially convinced they were having a boy. But after multiple videos of Lawson saying he's convinced it's a boy while Tiffany is equally convinced it's a girl, I'm now thinking it's a girl, if for no other reason than to prove Lawson wrong.

Per story on Kress's IG, Rachel Morton had her baby. Born the same day as Issa.

Jill was parentified and forced to provide parental like care for Joy. That adds a level of complexity to everything.

I feel so bad for her kids. She shouldn’t be putting this on her children’s shoulders. What if she had miscarried? Would he then blame himself? We know she blames the kids every time they get sick. She tells them it’s due to sinning. So if she had miscarried, would he blame himself? Those poor kids.

Yep. And it’s not actually true either. We know they hired out plenty of stuff. If she actually made a list of the stuff they hired out, it would be long.

Even one of Qelon's biggest cheerleaders is saying fire Qelon now

And that's the core of why "women's submission" is so twisted. Paul, following the teachings of Jesus, teaches *everyone* submission to one another. He teaches it clearly, constantly, and relentlessly. So it's not surprising that occasionally he gets a bit specific in reminding this-or-that person or group of people that mutual submission is a basic Christian ethic in all of their relationships. There's really very few things that the Bible instructs for women anyplace that it does not elsewhere give as a general instruction to everyone. (The only one I can call to mind is the Timothy instruction towards 'home-ish-ness' which is really hard to guess the meaning of, but it definitely doesn't mean doing your own chores or childcare.)

I don't think her mind goes to functionality because she's not using that space for much. She's all pretty! Shiny!! NEW!! I would be getting that looked into (ie seeing a continence nurse), that's unusually late to be still in diapers, particularly with older siblings. If she can't see that that is a problem it's a bit of a worry.

Ugh, she is constantly reminding everyone that they built the house themselves. 🙄

Joy commented on the IG post. Saying she was heartbroken for them or similar. She comments occasionally, the usual “ how cute” about a kid pic or whatever. All the married daughters seem supportive of each other. I don’t think we can really judge off social media interaction, or even photos together. They are all busy, with lots of small children, and most of the events we get photos of are crowded with not everyone present necessarily in the picture. They may text or send each other funny memes or get together for coffee and we know nothing about it.

I think about Lori's chicken-juice soaked (🤢) Norwex cloths every time I hang fresh clean dishtowels on the rack in my kitchen--which is every single day.

This is what I don't understand about "biblical womanhood," especially in relation to marriage. The New Testament is FULL of admonitions on treating one another with kindness, gentleness, love, patience, etc.--and of course this includes your husband. And the teachings come from Paul as well as Jesus. If all the passages related to wives were eliminated, you still would be taught to treat your husband well.

In Chelsea's Easter pictures George is wearing an outfit that I literally have never seen ever. It almost looks like weird plus fours. She is slowly inching him into pants I guess. Is Pentecostal fashion very big and blousy like what the older girls wear? It looks like the shape would be comfortable but the fabrics wouldn't be. I guess if you are aiming for a potato sack shape you need to add as much lace and ruffles and florals as possible to make sure that people know it is clothing.

There's no way her kids are magically not bed wetters. They've probably just learned she doesn't give a shit so they grab an older sibling or their grandmother for help. No doubt Braggie has no clue what's going on with her kids over the course of a day. She's an aggressively incompetent parent. Braggie strikes me as the type of parent who has this idea in her head of what her children do over the course of the day while her older children and her mother would be standing there wondering what strangers she's talking about.

Just because you've known someone for a long time, doesn't mean you like them. It was mostly in response to the "I know that the intertwining isn't news, but it still fascinates me," comment.

Again??

If the kids all get a bath before bed and then put on their clothes for the next day, it’s not too gross. But I always had bed wetters so changing everything in the morning was a non negotiable. But if her kids don’t wet the bed, then I guess it’s not a huge deal.

to where ? The kitchen to work as a performing monkey for social media ?

Can I just say how much I love Justice Jackson!