Lisa Pennington blogs again

[spud]

I've been trying to figure this woman out.

I'm torn between these options:

1. She thinks she's hilarious and the life of the party. That's why it's acceptable to run around a hotel in footie pajamas like a toddler.

2. She struggles with depression more than the average person. The footie pajama and stage selfie incidents were overcompensating. She's really crying inside.

3. She has a serious mental health issue and that explains the over-the-top comments and erratic behavior. If this is the case, I feel bad for her. People with mental health disorders are frequently self-absorbed and cannot fully grasp how their behavior affects others until they begin treatment. When they start to get better, they gain more perspective.

I wonder why her husband or a close friend hasn't tipped her off that her on-line personality comes across as squirrely and attention seeking.

It was a pyjama party

First it’s a pajama party, which I prepared for by getting myself some footie pajamas. In fact, just down the hall from our event was a beautiful Quinceanera going on. So my friend Sheri convinced me to tiptoe down and get my picture taken with the belle of the ball.

thepenningtonpoint.com/2015/01/one-one-go/

[whoviana]

I don't want to lie, I love the blue dress her friend is wearing, it reminds me of Queen Elsa.

Lisa looks damaged and demented. There is something wrong with her, something horribly wrong, much more than the usual wrong in the fundie way-wrong. I hope that the grandparents rescue the remainder of her children before she flips and does something she cannot undo. (Beside the soul and mind-wrecking.)

[VVV]

I don't want to lie, I love the blue dress her friend is wearing, it reminds me of Queen Elsa.

Lisa looks damaged and demented. There is something wrong with her, something horribly wrong, much more than the usual wrong in the fundie way-wrong. I hope that the grandparents rescue the remainder of her children before she flips and does something she cannot undo. (Beside the soul and mind-wrecking.)

That isn't her friend in the blue dress. That is a random 15-year-old girl (aka minor child), a complete stranger to Lisa, celebrating her quinceanera. I am sure that Lisa got signed permission from the child's parents (15 is a child, Lisa) to post that picture online for anyone in the world to look at./sarcasm off

[whoviana]

That isn't her friend in the blue dress. That is a random 15-year-old girl (aka minor child), a complete stranger to Lisa, celebrating her quinceanera. I am sure that Lisa got signed permission from the child's parents (15 is a child, Lisa) to post that picture online for anyone in the world to look at./sarcasm off

Thanks for the correction. This chick is getting worse and worse by the nanosecond. She is a nutjob. Is it safe to say she needs medical attention? Seriously, no drama, she needs a doctor.

[LadyPriss]

She posts about her tight budget, but I am not seeing one iota of a thrifty side to her. Between the clothes, makeup, decorating (right down to a specially decorated invisalign bucket to hide the case???) and essential oils, I'm wondering what her somewhat thrifty blog friends really think of her.

I think her possessions and outward (read-blog/fb) appearance are the only things she has that she can 100% control.

[Cartmann99]

It was a pyjama party

thepenningtonpoint.com/2015/01/one-one-go/

I guess I'm too modest for Lisa's homeschooling group. I would not be comfortable strolling around a hotel in my pajamas. :shrug:

[whoviana]

I guess I'm too modest for Lisa's homeschooling group. I would not be comfortable strolling around a hotel in my pajamas. :shrug:

The whole image is just too much. The onesie for a pijama, the pattern of the pajama, then the stuffed animal in her hands and that hair of hers in 2 ponytails. She is obnoxious. And, she isn't cool, she is scary.

I also think that she likes to flaunt a very frivolous lifestyle.

I think the whole "tight budget" thing is just an invitation for readers that are really homemakers on a tight budget.

People tend to associate low budget and all-natural lifestyles whereas natural remedies, essential oils and minerals, natural alternatives to everyday chemicals are expensive. Very costly. And the shabby chic style, unless you have mastered some serious DIY crafts, like sewing, renovating furniture, carpentry, etc, it can cost you a pretty penny. Shabby chic isn't all about placing random secondhand items all over the house. It is quite time and money consuming to turn rusty, rundown items into something usable or presentable.

For example, if you would like to place an old bicycle inside and turn it into a flower stand, you have to burnish the framework of the bike bare naked, then apply several layers of paint, replace the worn-off supplements with old fashioned looking ones, except everything has to be brand new.

Making a simple table shabby looking but not lousy is serious work, too, and is costly.

Shabby looking cloths and curtains aren't thrown out yellow, sun-dried, dusty materials, those are brand new textiles, except sewn in an old fashioned way.

Smaller items like old mortars, kitchen aids have to be treated with chemicals in order to look acceptable. And, even if you buy them used, they won't just throw it after you, especially not the heavy brass ones.

I might not be a master of making the house look like a dollhouse out of pennies, but shabby chic and DIY items aren't exactly about being frugal. I'm willing to learn the secret to it, tho.

[AllisonWndrland]

Every photo of Lisa reminds me far too much of Jennifer Kinney (MckMama). It's not just their attitudes, either. They have a definite physical resemblance. The photos of Lisa with the birthday girl and Lisa doing the stage selfie made me do a double-take. I literally wondered why the heck Jennifer was in Lisa's photos. Maybe I just need more sleep....

[whoviana]

Isn't it just their eyes? People that have crazy eyes tend to look alike. Their craziness show mostly in their eyes. Those eyes can totally distract you from the rest of the details and draw all your attention to their scary eyes. And if they have the same frame (the hair) too, then you can say the resemblance is uncanny.

[Cartmann99]

Something about the picture of Lisa in the footie pajamas was bugging me and I couldn't put my finger on it. This morning my addled brain finally spit it out for me. Footie pajamas from the waist down are pants!

In every picture I've seen, Lisa Is either wearing a dress or skirt with layers on top. I honestly thought she and her daughters were in the "dresses or skirts only" group.

[whoviana]

Good thinking. It's pants from the waist below indeed and she was parading around in it before dozens of people in public and she also posted it on the internet.

MY addled brain couldn't get any further from the fact that a forty-ish woman, wearing a footie pajama and her hair in 2 ponytails, with a stuffed animal on her arm, is showing herself in public thinking that she's cool. I'm yet to see anything more desperate or sad this year.

[16strong]

Whoviana nailed it. What bugs me about it is the fact that she's a grown ass woman sneaking around a hotel wearing FOOTIE PAJAMAS. Not only that, but with her no pants policy with her daughters, she is not only wearing them in public, but showing off a photograph of her with a girl close in age to her daughters wearing a strapless dress. She bragged about it so publicly, when they would never be able to wear that dress, or have that party. That stinks. I wonder how they feel?

[Feministe9000]

Lisa has a new post up on the Pennington Point blog updating about Faith, since "many, many" people have been asking.

Seems like her daughter still doesn't want much or anything to do with her, and according to her response in the comments:

"We only communicate with our daughter through occasional texts and emails, which are usually light and she doesn’t always reply and when she does she doesn’t give us any information.

Only once has she been very open at all and it was to let me know what a terrible job we did in raising her. (believe me, I didn’t let it get to me….she is young and has a lot to learn and I saw it mostly as an opportunity to see things in myself and open up the dialog with the other kids)

We have had no communication with my parents or any of the other family members. As far as we know she lives with my parents, but we haven’t been told that directly. I have no idea how/if she is supporting herself."

Maybe you should "let it get to you" a little bit Lisa! This is a daughter you raised, moulded and controlled for the past almost 2 decades! Just like all your other children in your little Lisa world, maybe you should let it get to you that someone you forced and controlled down to a minute detail all of their lives, thinks that you did a TERRIBLE job. But of course, that couldn't possibly be true could it?

The way you see yourself, you are practically a damn Saint raising a brood of Godly children, oh what a deluded woman you are.

I see nothing in this post apart from an incredible amount of martyrdom and more of her self-pity.

If that was her only child in the whole world she would be desperate to speak to her and begging her to communicate, wanting to know exactly how her daughter feels without having her other children channeling her self appointed grief and sobbing in her lap (literally) and getting so many people "praying" for her.

But instead, she throws in a couple more bible quotes, preaching about understanding her faith more because her daughter and half her family want nothing to do with her.

If she really understood God, she would know that being HUMBLE and admitting your mistakes is part of loving one another, and instead of sticking her head so deep in her Bible and so far up her own ass, her daughter might have more respect for her.

Instead of having all these people praying for YOU Lisa, why don't you go out into the world you are so afraid of and criticize so much and find your daughter?

Or at least, since she clearly sees you for the terribly controlling, selfish and narcissistic woman that you are, beg for her forgiveness.

--Sorry to rant, can you tell I really dislike Lisa? :angry-banghead: :shock:

[whoviana]

If you want to drive your children apesh** crazy, lose their trust forever and make them so confused that they'll doubt their own sanity, the best way to do so is by being INCONSISTENT of your crazy f***ing sh**. Talk A and do B. So her kids are all wrapped up in large and heavy drapes, not allowed to wear pants or show shoulders, but look, that crazy mother of theirs is showing her grown ass in pajama-pants before people and takes picture of a teen who is wearing a really sexy outfit.

[16strong]

Wow. So she wasn't even interested in finding out where her daughter is living, if she is supporting herself, and if she is safe. Great priorities there, Lisa!

[whoviana]

It is just my guess, but I'm certain of it to the extent of writing it down, Lisa totally disowned her daughter, and for all she cares, she can sleep under the bridge. The hole Faith has poked in her galaxy-sized EGO left her totally uninterested in that poor girl.

[VaSportsMom]

That isn't her friend in the blue dress. That is a random 15-year-old girl (aka minor child), a complete stranger to Lisa, celebrating her quinceanera. I am sure that Lisa got signed permission from the child's parents (15 is a child, Lisa) to post that picture online for anyone in the world to look at./sarcasm off

Wtf? Who does that?

[whoviana]

Wtf? Who does that?

The godlier-than-thou Lisa Pennington with her rock solid and consistent values.

[VVV]

The godlier-than-thou Lisa Pennington with her rock solid and consistent values.

As predicted, the comment I sent her about posting the picture of a minor child without permission from the child's parents was not published, and the picture is still up.

For someone who has instituted an enormous collection of rigid rules for her children, she pays remarkably little attention to actual rules of society.

[VVV]

Lisa has a new post up on the Pennington Point blog updating about Faith, since "many, many" people have been asking.

Seems like her daughter still doesn't want much or anything to do with her, and according to her response in the comments:

"We only communicate with our daughter through occasional texts and emails, which are usually light and she doesn’t always reply and when she does she doesn’t give us any information.

Only once has she been very open at all and it was to let me know what a terrible job we did in raising her. (believe me, I didn’t let it get to me….she is young and has a lot to learn and I saw it mostly as an opportunity to see things in myself and open up the dialog with the other kids)

We have had no communication with my parents or any of the other family members. As far as we know she lives with my parents, but we haven’t been told that directly. I have no idea how/if she is supporting herself."

Maybe you should "let it get to you" a little bit Lisa! This is a daughter you raised, moulded and controlled for the past almost 2 decades! Just like all your other children in your little Lisa world, maybe you should let it get to you that someone you forced and controlled down to a minute detail all of their lives, thinks that you did a TERRIBLE job. But of course, that couldn't possibly be true could it?

The way you see yourself, you are practically a damn Saint raising a brood of Godly children, oh what a deluded woman you are.

I see nothing in this post apart from an incredible amount of martyrdom and more of her self-pity.

If that was her only child in the whole world she would be desperate to speak to her and begging her to communicate, wanting to know exactly how her daughter feels without having her other children channeling her self appointed grief and sobbing in her lap (literally) and getting so many people "praying" for her.

But instead, she throws in a couple more bible quotes, preaching about understanding her faith more because her daughter and half her family want nothing to do with her.

If she really understood God, she would know that being HUMBLE and admitting your mistakes is part of loving one another, and instead of sticking her head so deep in her Bible and so far up her own ass, her daughter might have more respect for her.

Instead of having all these people praying for YOU Lisa, why don't you go out into the world you are so afraid of and criticize so much and find your daughter?

Or at least, since she clearly sees you for the terribly controlling, selfish and narcissistic woman that you are, beg for her forgiveness.

--Sorry to rant, can you tell I really dislike Lisa? :angry-banghead: :shock:

So Lisa "opened up a dialog" with the other kids after Faith told her what a terrible job she had done. I can just imagine how that conversation might have gone. Lisa to kids: I've done a fabulous job raising you, right? Practically perfect in every way? Kids back to Lisa: Yes, mommy dearest.

[browncoatslytherin]

So Lisa "opened up a dialog" with the other kids after Faith told her what a terrible job she had done. I can just imagine how that conversation might have gone. Lisa to kids: I've done a fabulous job raising you, right? Practically perfect in every way? Kids back to Lisa: Yes, mommy dearest.

maybe she should have focused more on opening a dialogue with faith to see why she feels the way she does and what she needs from her as a mother, and in repairing one relationship with one child she can help make her relationships with her other children better.

but that would make sense, and we can't have that now, can we?

[Feministe9000]

Right? :cray-cray:

She should be ashamed of herself, her lack of regard for one of her children, who being a mother to according to her is her highest "Godly" calling!!!

If I was Faith I wouldn't want anything to do with her either. But that isn't the point is it?

Faith is the CHILD, Lisa is the ADULT. How could you rest until you had least found out why your daughter couldn't tell you the truth of how she felt? And why your other children will probably have their mouths firmly shut until they have a chance to escape?

Get rid of all the stupid pathetic Godly babbling you do to make yourself less awful, and just be a human being without clutching onto God for a second-- she is your daughter, and you don't even care to move Heaven and Earth to find out that she is safe? Is happy? Has a roof over her head? You can't put aside all that martyrdom and egotism to do that for your daughter? Even if she throws it back in your face, wouldn't your soul rest easier knowing you had done absolutely anything and everything you could to at least let her know that you love her and that you are sorry?

I hate when she says, "Oh she's young, she's got a lot to learn" Yes, of course she does Lisa! But disregarding her feelings and her actions as nothing more than teenage angst will ensure that you will lose that relationship forever.

And then when you are all alone with your few loyal devoted children left in your carpet-walled house while your husband is STILL not around all the time "working" :pink-shock: (wonder why??) and obsessively sniffing your oils and thinking up your next desperate "creative" project,

She'll be gone, your parents will have passed away from old age or whatever else, and your other family will be keeping their distance.

Was it all worth it? :pull-hair:

[whoviana]

Lisa to kids: I've done a fabulous job raising you, right? Practically perfect in every way? Kids back to Lisa: Yes, mommy dearest.

My mother did that, right after I moved out. Kept asking my siblings if she did a great job and if I was wrong for moving out from underneath that roof. And if she was a fabulous mother. And she had to turn up at the apartment I rented and explained crazy eyed, from behind a close door, how the rest of the kids REASSURED her that she was a wonderful mother and that I, alone, am not proof enough of her being a bad mother. She kept going on for about forty minutes. I never opened the door I just peeked out through the hole and sighed. I don't know when she walked away, I went back to watching stuff. Maybe the security escorted her out after seeing her talking to the door for an excessive period of time. But she had to let me know that she was a good mother to me because she asked the rest of the kids that were still dependent on her.

[nelliebelle1197]

Notice that she says that the situation is not at all about her. Well, yeah, it is about her and what she has done to her kids.

[memabelle]

maybe she should have focused more on opening a dialogue with faith to see why she feels the way she does and what she needs from her as a mother, and in repairing one relationship with one child she can help make her relationships with her other children better.

but that would make sense, and we can't have that now, can we?

My exact same reaction to this...why wasn't the dialog with the daughter who obviously needs it and is actually now in a position to be honest with her answers?

I guess my question is also my answer...why would Lisa want honesty from any of her children?