Maybe those who criticize the marriage of Jon & Kate plus 8 haven’t figured this out:
Happily Ever After was a damn lie. No one rides off into the sunset. The days are not all rosy and loving and no one is spending hours every day lying in bed telling each other how wonderful the other is. It’s just not the reality of marriage.
The reality is this:
Half (50%) of Americans get divorced.
Statistically, it’s probably accurate to assume that ALL married people find marriage challenging and MOST married people are sometimes unhappy in their marriage and EVERY married person sometimes does something imperfect.
In fact, the state of …read more

Last night as the kids and I were snuggle up with popcorn to watch Jon & Kate, plus Ei8ht I saw the teaser for the Nanny episode and I thought up the perfect episode.
TLC, if you’re listening, here’s the episode I want to see:
I want to see the viewers who are critical of Kate’s mothering of twins and sextuplets be the nanny for a few days!
Wouldn’t that be good, wholesome, karmic fun?
You think it’s so easy? We’ll see how YOU do with every eye in America watching you babysit 8 kids under 7.
I want to see Kate behind that little monitor she was using …read more

Last night the kids and I settled down for a little snuggle with Jon and Kate plus Ei8ht.
Truly, it’s one of the few shows on television without any inappropriate language or sexual connotation. And my kids like to watch it as much as I do.
They fight and love each other like you and Daddy, my 6-year-old daughter Ainsley remarked.
That’s right, we fight and love each other. Most married people do, marriage is hard, honey, I told her.
They got special treatment all the way through the Pittsburg Zoo with close up petting and feeding of animals and the zookeeper bonding with animal …read more