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

I saw this documentary about the Dionne Quintuplets and thought there were some relevant similarities between them and one of Discovery’s reality shows, Jon & Kate plus 8.
According to The Free Dictionary:
The Dionne Sisters were born in 1934, and were the first quintuplets ever to survive their infancy. The odds were one in 57 million.
Two days after Annette Lillianne Marie, Cécile Marie Emilda, Emilie Marie Jeanne, Marie Reina Alma Dionne, and Yvonne Edouilda Marie were born in a Canadian village their father, Oliva, was approached by fair exhibitors.
Reluctantly, after speaking to his wife, Elzire, he signed a contract. Already the parents of five children, he made a deal …read more

Beth, a friend of Kate Gosselin’s, star of Jon & Kate, Plus 8, posted a comment on a post I wrote, of questionable tone, called Sextuplets, My Sympathies.  (I am working on the tone, as you can see in Tone Turtle.) The post got a much more extreme response than I expected. I meant no harm to Kate Gosselin, who should win Time Magazine’s Person of the Year Award, in my opinion. I felt our exchange was worth it’s own post. If only because I feel totally awesome that someone I’ve seen on TV took the time to write to me.
Tracee,
While everyone is …read more

I I saw this woman who had sextuplets on Oprah last week. When they told her she was pregnant with an entire litter of babies she had the only rational and sane response I’ve ever heard of – she had a mini-nervous breakdown and had to be immediately hospitalized for shock. I imagine I might have the same response. I think having one baby at a time is a lot of stress and always prayed I would not have twins to double my stress. But, sextuplets. . . reminds me of that old ‘80s song by, who?, maybe REM, I …read more