Joseph Maxwell is MARRIED!!!

[uber frau]

Meh, it doesn't really bother me. I've never used a box mix life but I probably would if I was cooking for the Maxwells in a church kitchen halfway across the country from my home. If they can't tell the difference between burritos with beef and burritos with overcooked bean slop, they can't tell the difference between box mix and scratch cupcakes either. It's not worth the extra 5 minutes.

[Eternalbluepearl]

(I make my own vanilla, btw) congratulations, we all have different hobbies and interests. Cake mixes vs homemade...the real sadness is someone marrying into the maxwell family, not the baking practices of helpful friends.

[nelliebelle1197]

(I make my own vanilla, btw) congratulations, we all have different hobbies and interests. Cake mixes vs homemade...the real sadness is someone marrying into the maxwell family, not the baking practices of helpful friends.

That is not my point. MY point is that these women blather on about how all their daughters are good for is homemaking - PhDs in homekeeping, doncha know - and very often on these blogs all you see is short cut baking and slack homemaking. Don't limit your children to a life in the kitchen then hand them a box of cake mix and a recipe for tater tot casserole. If that is what you are educating them in, then educate them.

It was a good point above about how it might be the limitations of travel and the church kitchen. I have just seen the ubiquitous cake mix box on so many "keeper of the home" counters as they rail on working mothers and their own superior skills that I didn't think of that!

[twin2]

That is not my point. MY point is that these women blather on about how all their daughters are good for is homemaking - PhDs in homekeeping, doncha know - and very often on these blogs all you see is short cut baking and slack homemaking. Don't limit your children to a life in the kitchen then hand them a box of cake mix and a recipe for tater tot casserole. If that is what you are educating them in, then educate them.

It was a good point above about how it might be the limitations of travel and the church kitchen. I have just seen the ubiquitous cake mix box on so many "keeper of the home" counters as they rail on working mothers and their own superior skills that I didn't think of that!

Yeah, that is the point. I have no objection to cake mixes, all they are are all the dry ingredients in a box. Hell, I grew up in the midwest, the vast majority of dessert recipes start with, "1 box of cake mix." But like Nelliebell says, and what Anna Maxwell said in her own "Why I'm not going to college post", these helpmeets in waiting NEED that time they could be spending at college/at a job, learning how to be keeper of their home. However, they all seem to be schooling themselves not in the Julia Child way of cooking, but in the Sandra Lee way of cooking. Plenty of time to do things outside the home taking that rout to homemaking....

Also the Maxwell ladies are the self-proclaimed Queens of Packing and have shown numerous photos of their food packing abilities prior to heading out in Uriah or going to Colorado on what some might call a vacation. Prepping their own dry ingredient mixes for cupcakes should have been a snap.

[Jessica]

Even if she could read some real literature, her writing would improve so much. Actually no, if shecouldleavethehousewithouta chaperone and see how other people work and think, thatwouldhelp. Shewritesabout what she knows, and allsheknows is leaning, taking cookies to people on Christmas, andnursinghomechurch. Ugh.

[Jessica]

Yikes. ^ my space bar is not working very well!

[usmcmom]

Yikes. ^ my space bar is not working very well!

This made me :lol: :lol: :lol: I just thought maybe you were "talking" really fast because you were getting more and more frustrated.

[twin2]

Yikes. ^ my space bar is not working very well!

Clearly Steve is not amused by this thread and picked up his direct phone line to God, and told him to start cursing us.

[church_of_dog]

This made me :lol: :lol: :lol: I just thought maybe you were "talking" really fast because you were getting more and more frustrated.

My eye went to the bottom of the post first and I noticed "nursinghomechurch" and totally thought that was intentional, even thought "yeah, that's a clever way to say that" -- only when I saw the others did I realize you didn't mean for it come out that way! :lol:

[thoughtful]

Sarah is now giving sessions on How To Write to the young people at the conferences.

Matthew 15:14, KJV (of course):

they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

[Toothfairy]

So if Teri dies. Steve isn't going to remarry? Or if Steve dies, does Steve expect Teri to live out the rest of her days alone doing nothing?

[Toothfairy]

We always talk about Jana Duggar and Sarah marrying to escape the family compound. Did anyone consider that Elissa may be doing the same thing? Maybe she is leaving her own version is Steve. Perhaps she sees marrying as a way of at least living in her own house and having nice things as it does appear that the Maxwell buy quality, which cannot always be said about fundies. It is possible she is leaving a situation worse that where she is going. Marrying is the only way a fundy woman knows to improve her situation in life and you only get one shot at it.

Look at Anna Duggar. She is the epitome of "marrying up" in the fundy world. She went from what was obviously poor circumstances to nice houses and traveling around the world.

I hope that for Elissa, this is an improvement on where she is coming from or at least the status quo, because if not, she is pretty much screwed.

There can't be anything worse than marrying Steve Maxwell. She going to escape just to be captured again.

[feministxtian]

The sunflower cupcakes were made from Duncan Hines. That drives me nuts. I have two kids who I pick up everyday at 2:30, run a major nonprofit fundraising office, and help my husband run his business. I made a lemon blueberry cake with just the stuff in my kitchen last night. Why is it so hard for these professional housewives to take some sugar, flour, eggs and vanilla (I make my own, btw) and made an actual cake rather than opening a box? I don't get it. If I had the luxury of staying home, my house would be a pinterest nightmare and my kitchen an insane wonderland.

This whole "homemaker" thing drives me nuts! I work full time and then some at times and I STILL manage to cook from scratch! I have a killer whole wheat bread recipe that I bust out once or twice a month and bake. Yeah, bread takes time, but in the mean time I'm doing other things. I like that cook for a week idea and I usually do that on a weekend. AND...figure in a husband with certain dietary needs...Hell I cooked 21 meals a day (3 meals times 7 people) and worked full time then too. I rarely use box mixes for anything. My mom never taught me to cook, she was a horrible cook. How did I manage to learn, work full time and raise kids?

These women make me nuts!

[Toothfairy]

Does anyone else think Steve is particularly good looking for a man of his age? I'm not saying that I'm into him, but if he and I were stranded alone on an island, I would probably get pregnant.

:ew: Steve isn't ugly for a man his age, but his personality and demeanor is ugly. I can't imagine having kids with him or sex even if he were the last man on this planet.

[Luisainlondon1]

Does anyone else think Steve is particularly good looking for a man of his age? I'm not saying that I'm into him, but if he and I were stranded alone on an island, I would probably get pregnant.

I think he is attractive. Too old for my taste as he could be my father. But when my boyfriend looks like this in thirty years I wouldn't mind at all :D

[ladyamylynn]

Can you imagine how uncomfortable this thread is making Steve-o right now? lol

[Jana814]

There can't be anything worse than marrying Steve Maxwell. She going to escape just to be captured again.

AGREE!!

[Toothfairy]

Can you imagine how uncomfortable this thread is making Steve-o right now? lol

:lol: Steve could do porno. You know the Steveism version. It would have bible verses and everything

[FloraKitty35]

:lol: Steve could do porno. You know the Steveism version. It would have bible verses and everything

I am thinking up some titles right now.

[Coco]

I know that kills me. These women all opine about how much they have to forgo higher education and/or jobs after the "graduate" from homeschool because they have to learn to be keeps of their home. Given that, how can they not make cupcakes from scratch? I mean, it will take what, an extra 5 mins to measure out the all the dry ingredients rather than just dump the box in the bowl. Maybe it was cheaper, those box cake mixes do go on sale quite frequently. That being said, these were cupcakes for a person's WEDDING. You'd think they would at least try and make them top quality (they seem to be really nicely decorated though).

Our Mennonite church tried to do from scratch cupcakes for a wedding, at one of the church lady's actual bakery... and they flopped. I think the batches were too big and someone snafu'd up the math on baking soda. :lol: Almost all of them were flat, and none of the girls wanted to be the leader of the group and start bossing everyone around to get it fixed. So the wedding just had ugly cupcakes. :D

[Coco]

Re: bolded. The former Young Ladies Christian Fellowship (now Kindred Grace) started this. They avidly collected courtship stories & posted them as faith-promoting material for their reader-sheep. The newer incarnation still has the stories but you have to dig around a bit to find them.

lol! Yes. my sisters and i used to get that newsletter back when it was being mailed out. Always felt like reading those stories was something i should have been interested in but never could choke them down, so stupidly "la-la God blessed us singing heavenly choir" crap :hand: Totally ironic that one of the most speshul dreamy neo-celtic weddings didn't work out. Because sometimes, marriages just don't. Those girls set themselves and their readers up for a lot of disappointment.

[It'sFunToRun]

I am thinking up some titles right now.

Fucking for the Father

Maxwell Does Missionary

Necrophilia Part Three (well Steve's so into death)

[ILoveJellybeans]

:lol: Steve could do porno. You know the Steveism version. It would have bible verses and everything

It wouldn't be very sexy porn. He probably only does it in the dark, fully clothed, just with their pants pulled down a bit like when peeing, and with the woman's skirt lifted up a bit but not enough for him to see her vag. And the woman is wearing the frumpiest nightie ever that is nearly floor length, has every body part covered except for the head, and the fabric looks like Lady Lydia picked it. While they are going at it, they recite Bible verses. Then when the schedule says sex time stops, they both get out of bed and start cleaning the ceiling fans.

[NellieBell]

'It wouldn't be very sexy porn. He probably only does it in the dark, fully clothed, just with their pants pulled down a bit like when peeing, and with the woman's skirt lifted up a bit but not enough for him to see her vag. And the woman is wearing the frumpiest nightie ever that is nearly floor length, has every body part covered except for the head, and the fabric looks like Lady Lydia picked it. While they are going at it, they recite Bible verses. Then when the schedule says sex time stops, they both get out of bed and start cleaning the ceiling fans.'

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Ooh I think they're into hardcore kink. Just picture Steve with a latex mask telling Sceri Teri to whip him harder. And then adding in some inappropriate bible reference just to make sure he's still good with Big J.

I now sorely regret never learning Photoshop. I'd have Steve & the Missus fully kitted out in leather, latex, pantyhose & whatever else my demented mind could dream up. They'd be doing a Kansas version of the banana bar show I saw in Amsterdam. Of course I can't get one of the fabulous banana smilies to work on this ipad. :(

[singsingsing]

Ooh I think they're into hardcore kink. Just picture Steve with a latex mask telling Sceri Teri to whip him harder. And then adding in some inappropriate bible reference just to make sure he's still good with Big J.

I now sorely regret never learning Photoshop. I'd have Steve & the Missus fully kitted out in leather, latex, pantyhose & whatever else my demented mind could dream up. They'd be doing a Kansas version of the banana bar show I saw in Amsterdam. Of course I can't get one of the fabulous banana smilies to work on this ipad. :(

Thank God you never learned Photoshop. :wtf: