Priscilla and David Waller 11: Pecanling Number Six Is Here

[libgirl2]

5 hours ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

The thing is that they actually let their kids get dirty. I’ve seen them be pretty lax about that sort of thing. So I’m not sure if it’s from blanket training or she was just confused by being given an entire cake. My son was never blanket trained a day in his life and he was so weirded out on his first birthday because we sang to him and gave him a cake of his own. He cried 😬

So my son wasn't the only one who did that? 

[JermajestyDuggar]

1 minute ago, libgirl2 said:

So my son wasn't the only one who did that? 

I swear if 1 year olds could talk on their birthday, they would all say, “why is everyone singing to me and staring at me? Why is this cake on fire? What am I supposed to do? Why am I wearing this stupid pointy hat? Is this whole cake just for me!?”

[SisterCupcake]

36 minutes ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

I think it’s completely possible they blanket train. Especially now that they have 6. I always figure the quiverful fundies are more likely to blanket train when they get desperate. You may not be desperate when you only have 3 kids. But Michelle had her meltdown with 7 kids. I could see Priscilla needing her youngest ones to obey and always stay in place now that she has 6. I just didn’t think her confusion about the cake was blanket training. It really is strange to give a one year old an entire cake out of the blue. But I did it for both of my kids because it’s cute. 

TBH I'm only 5 months pregnant and already thinking about a smash cake for my 1 year old that's not even here yet, so there's that!

[SassyPants]

Well, #7 was Joe. And Meech had 3 kids in 26 months. Heck even 5 YO Jana couldn’t keep up with that sistermoming.

[JermajestyDuggar]

I grew up baptist and witnessed tons of full immersion baptisms at the front of our church. I’m cracking up at David wearing a full fucking suit in the baptismal pool. It reminds me of when he water skied in a full suit. Pecan is so ridiculous. When I was baptized, I wore a long white robe with a bathing suit under it. My preacher who baptized me also wore a long white robe with swim trunks and a t shirt under it. 

[libgirl2]

18 minutes ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

I grew up baptist and witnessed tons of full immersion baptisms at the front of our church. I’m cracking up at David wearing a full fucking suit in the baptismal pool. It reminds me of when he water skied in a full suit. Pecan is so ridiculous. When I was baptized, I wore a long white robe with a bathing suit under it. My preacher who baptized me also wore a long white robe with swim trunks and a t shirt under it. 

I'm Catholic, our priests stayed out of the water 😆

[JermajestyDuggar]

15 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:

I'm Catholic, our priests stayed out of the water 😆

Do want to know what I remember best about getting baptized? I remember it was the perfect temp. Which meant I didn’t want to get out! I wanted to stay in there forever like a bath, lol. 

[HereticHick]

I've always assumed that fundy Baptist preachers like the Reverend Pecan, and lot of other white fundamentalist and Pentacostal Christians preachers, wouldn't be caught dead in any sort of religious leader "costume"  or "vestment" (robe, cassock, surplice, stole, clerical collars) because they think its too "Catholic" (or simply too "high church").  

Heck, I'm Unitarian, and even our ministers wear stoles. 

[SassyPants]

Our Catholic deacon said at mass 2 weeks again that he had recently performed  a baptism, wedding and funeral. He called it “splashing, matching and dispatching.”

[FeministShrew]

The Pastors at Southern Baptist churches and one IFB I attended wore white robes for baptisms. I never knew what they wore underneath. The pastor of the Freewill/later non-denom /charismatic church I attended the longest wore waders (like for fly fishing) with a suit jacket, and a white robe over all that. Because in those days ( 1990s -early 2000s), he believed the “man o’ Gawd” should never be at any kind of church service without a suit & tie. These days, he preaches wearing a Hawaiian shirt,  jeans, flip flops, and a scruffy beard. Still spouts the same hateful dogma, though.

Edited February 8 by FeministShrew

[Hane]

I remember my Baptist cousins’ baptisms. Three siblings were once baptized the same day. I felt awful for them because it was a chilly day and, because blowdryers weren’t a thing back then, they had to go home with wet, drippy hair and blue lips, even though the ceremony took place in the church.

[Nothing if not critical]

11 hours ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

I grew up baptist and witnessed tons of full immersion baptisms at the front of our church. I’m cracking up at David wearing a full fucking suit in the baptismal pool. It reminds me of when he water skied in a full suit. Pecan is so ridiculous. 

 

I absolutely don’t want to snark on full immersion but I’m genuinely wondering: what happens afterwards? Does he stand there in his dripping wet suit for the rest of the service, until the congregation has left? Or does he go and change into dry clothes and keeps everybody waiting in the mean time? Or is there no service surrounding the baptism at all? My inquiring little (ex-) Catholic mind has so many questions…

[JermajestyDuggar]

4 hours ago, Nothing if not critical said:

I absolutely don’t want to snark on full immersion but I’m genuinely wondering: what happens afterwards? Does he stand there in his dripping wet suit for the rest of the service, until the congregation has left? Or does he go and change into dry clothes and keeps everybody waiting in the mean time? Or is there no service surrounding the baptism at all? My inquiring little (ex-) Catholic mind has so many questions…

I bet each church does things differently. But for us it was usually at the end of the service. Since we were wet. So after the baptism, everyone sings a hymn while people dry off and get dressed in the back room or bathroom. Our reverend could just dry off and put his suit back on. But David is nuts with his full suit. Maybe he brought another suit? Weirdo. 

[gustava]

16 hours ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

I grew up baptist and witnessed tons of full immersion baptisms at the front of our church. I’m cracking up at David wearing a full fucking suit in the baptismal pool. It reminds me of when he water skied in a full suit. Pecan is so ridiculous. When I was baptized, I wore a long white robe with a bathing suit under it. My preacher who baptized me also wore a long white robe with swim trunks and a t shirt under it. 

Pris has to deal with it.  Take it to dry cleaners.  Pick up from dry cleaners.  No big whoop for Pecan Preacher.

[NoseyNellie]

Grew up Church of Christ. Baptism happened on demand (no specific day /service) so there was a set of waders that the preacher would slip on over his suit.  Most people just were in regular clothing and there were towels for drying off.  

The church I work in  does *Baptism Sunday* a few times a year but they also do on demand baptism.  We have Mens/Womens changing rooms with personal care items, hair dryers, towels and a linen closet filled with black tshirts/shorts in all sizes for all parties to use.  When you are back toss the wet clothing and towels into a container and they get washed and refolded.  

So very grateful for those linen closets as we have raided them in the summer when the older kids in our summer program have gone crazy and made themselves so filthy we could not send them home🤣. ( thinking water balloon fight found the one patch of grassless dirt and the mud fight happened faster than staff could stop it)

[Cupcake79]

The Wallers recited Psalm 127 at a service and share it on IG. That’s the quiverfull psalm. 

[JermajestyDuggar]

Little Debbie is way too cute. And her sister Destiny definitely cut her own bangs, lol. Hey it happens to most parents. 

[Howl]

Love Debbie's binkie tether.  Brilliant invention! 

Awhile back we were at a mountain bike race at a state park with a lake in East Texas.  The races are always on Sunday morning. 

Not too far away, there was serious full immersion baptism underway with numerous adults getting dunked in the lake.   IIRC, the dunk-ees were dressed in white.  

 

Edited Tuesday at 02:14 PM by Howl