Meredith update!

[SweetTexasCrude]

Meredith wrote the latest post on the Alexander family blog. Her parents took a cruise and left the kids with her for a couple of days...looks like Stephen has been deployed. She looks great and her house seems nice.

www.alexanderadventuresfamilyblog.blogs ... ammer.html

[Librul]

She does look good, and really happy. She hit the SAHD marriage jackpot with Rhodes Scholar Hammer. I still am creeped out by a Princeton valedictorian who would troll fundieblogosphere for a helpmeet, but , oh well. Now every fundie blogging maiden is going to be disappointed with the much more typical GED homeschool ""entrepreneur" or "family businessman".

The only good thing @his deployment is that it reduces the # of spawn (maybe).

[SweetTexasCrude]

The only good thing @his deployment is that it reduces the # of spawn (maybe).

It's interesting to compare Meredith to Kelly Bradrick -- they're both beautiful fundie prize women. Kelly's husband plays soldier, Meredith's is one. Kelly is constantly pregnant, it looks like Meredith is just enjoying baby Maggie and isn't incubating #2 yet. I wonder if Kelly thought she was signing up for a life like Meredith's instead of what she got.

[silvia]

Cute baby! She seems to take more after Meredith than Stephen in the ears department ;). Agreed that the deployment, while tough on a young marriage, should help space kids out so that family life will be a little less overwhelming. I still hold out hope that they'll eventually ditch the dangerous QF mindset -- check out the testimonial of Meredith's mother, Joy, for some serious "let God decide" horror stories (alexanderadventures.com/gpage9.html under the "Family Size" heading), at least some of which Meredith must have been privy to while growing up.

[bouncyball]

Gosh, what a beauty she is. Nice to see she is doing well.

[Lady Elaine]

They're wearing shorts and tank tops (Meredith and Sheridan). My how things have changed. We may have normal people here.

[Librul]

Meredith has always dressed with more style and less frump than most fundie maidens. She has pretensions of Jackie Kennedy class, but you will never see her in a potato sack frumper with three shirts and bloomers.

[Lady Elaine]

No, but in her blog days she was mostly skirts and covered arms. Never shorts. I guess she adjusted to Steve's standards.

[Noon]

Hrm, is feedjit traffic tracker thing on their blog new, or am I just now noticing it? Apparently FreeJinger generates a lot of traffic, and we have an inordinate love for Firefox. Kinda cool/creepy how that works. (Also, high-five to whoever the Kansas user is that's checking out the blog on Linux!)

[Guest Anonymous]

Also, high-five to whoever the Kansas user is that's checking out the blog on Linux!

One of the Maxwell boys checking out some bare flesh on a secret computer in the one ton ramp basement office... ;)

[itsnikki05]

Cute baby! She seems to take more after Meredith than Stephen in the ears department ;). Agreed that the deployment, while tough on a young marriage, should help space kids out so that family life will be a little less overwhelming. I still hold out hope that they'll eventually ditch the dangerous QF mindset -- check out the testimonial of Meredith's mother, Joy, for some serious "let God decide" horror stories (alexanderadventures.com/gpage9.html under the "Family Size" heading), at least some of which Meredith must have been privy to while growing up.

I just read that. That nearly made me cry. I could not imagine having so many miscarriages. :(

[silvia]

I just read that. That nearly made me cry. I could not imagine having so many miscarriages. :(

Definitely. I think Joy was getting on in years, reproductively speaking, by the time she and her husband drank the QF kool-aid (after a Gothard seminar, natch), so that probably accounts--at least in part--for the high number of miscarriages and other difficulties, which she did not seem to have in her earlier years. In that sense, I think many late-blooming QFers are setting themselves up for years of heartbreak and health issues. But while it's certainly a woman's prerogative to "keep trying" against great odds, some of Joy's reproductive decisions bordered on the lunatic. How can you not let a doctor remove a potentially lethal, non-viable tubal pregnancy when you have several other children at home who need you? WTF?

ETA pertinent details.

[Kishiria]

I see Meredith is at Fort Benning. I refer to that statue as the "Let's go, faggots!" statue, although the title of the statue is "Follow Me".