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Saturday, May 10, 2008

#18 On The Way

The Dugger's are at it again! I just checked this site two days ago and it did not have this!

Happy Mother's Day:
Woman pregnant with 18th child
By JILL ZEMAN,
Associated Press Writer28 minutes ago.
It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman as she's pregnant with her 18th child.
Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins."We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing.The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square- foot home. All the children have names that start with the letter J and are home-schooled.Michelle Duggar has been been pregnant for more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of filming another series for Discovery Health.The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores or "jurisdictions" are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a "jurisdiction swap," where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said."The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass," she said. "The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms," among other chores. Duggar said she's six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they'll keep having children as long as God wills it."The success in a family is first off, a love for God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated," Jim Bob Duggar said. "Our goal is for each one of our children to be best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes that happen."The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.

Not the best written article....Congrats for Michelle!
Some fun Dugger facts :

Michelle’s been pregnant for 135 months of her life
Average number of months between Duggar births is 18
The Duggars do approximately 200 loads of laundry each month.
Every Duggar child learns to play both violin and piano.
The only person in the Duggar family whose name doesn’t start with "J" is Mom — Michelle.
The Duggars feed their entire brood for less than $2,000 per month.
The Duggars are debt free.

1 comment:

CG said...

Wow. The last time I read about this family they only had 14. And I was jealous. I cut out the article and read it over and over again and prayed (begged) we would have ANY children. 18 now? Wow! And I'm afraid I'm still jealous... Will I NEVER improve? I thought I was doing pretty well today with accepting His will for us- til I read this and the pain returned. Aaargh! I'm so darn weak.

I would love to see these shows they are recording. I'll have to keep an eye on Youtube!

I LOVE hearing that they are debt-free! What a testimony to a world that doesn't like children because they are "inconvenient" and "too expensive!" I wonder how many they'll have before it's all over?