Someone is always watching!

Holy Crap! I just read where the Duggar family is happy to announce they are having their 19th child. 19th child!!!!! WTF??? First there was Kate plus 8, then Ocotomom and her 14, now the Duggars are way ahead with 19. Is there a contest I haven’t heard of? Let me tell you, I had one child and it damn near killed me, so how can this woman have 19 and be happy to announce it. Frankly, if it were me, I would have stopped it around child number two. How? Loreena Bobbit him! I may have been brought up on legal charges of preforming a medical procedure without a license but there would not have been a child 3-19. Can you just imagine the logistical nightmare of caring for that many children? I know she says the older kids help with the younger ones, but in that case you are not raising them the other kids are and life in the Duggar house must be more like a commune than a family. If I were the older kids in the family I would be pissed that MOM keeps having babies that we have to raise them for her. Cooking and cleaning for that troop would have to make you feel like you have been conscripted.

How much time in a mother’s day can she devote to giving love and attention to 19 children? Not much. So needless to say the odds one of them will grow up to be the next Jeffrey Dahmer are pretty high (he claimed he didn’t get any love as a child either). You just know one of those kids will go crazy and kill someone for having to grow up in that army.

Of course, on the other hand, the parents have a good shot one of the kids will take them in a care for them in their old age. They have a 19 shots at it, whereas most of us only have one or two at best. Screw that one shot up and we are nursing home bound. But the Duggars can keep moving on down the line until one takes them in. Pretty good odds they will not be nursing home bound.

Last year I forgot my anniversary date. Can you imagine remembering all the dates 19 children will generate? It begins with their birthdays and continues with anniversaries, grandchildren’s birthdays, etc.  No way would  I would be able to keep up. Ms. Duggars only hope will be to fake short term memory loss. But that’s the price for having so many children.

This reminds me of the Groucho Marx Show and the man being interviewed said he had seven children. When Groucho asked how he accounted for having so many children the man replied “I love my wife.” To which Groucho remarked, “I love my cigar too but I take it out once in awhile!”

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