In other news, it was heartwarming to see the Red Cross blankets providing their intended comfort to those who need it. Several people were spotted wrapped in the blankets attending a memorial service on Sunday in Newtown.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Discovery pulls 'American Guns' from line-up
The Discovery Channel announced yesterday that they've cancelled their successful reality series about a Colorado family that restores firearms. They also won't be showing any reruns. Other shows have delayed or pulled episodes, including TLC's new special "Best Funeral Ever," which was pushed back to January. Actually growing a heart, or just concerned about bad PR? Sadly, probably the latter.
In other news, it was heartwarming to see the Red Cross blankets providing their intended comfort to those who need it. Several people were spotted wrapped in the blankets attending a memorial service on Sunday in Newtown.
In other news, it was heartwarming to see the Red Cross blankets providing their intended comfort to those who need it. Several people were spotted wrapped in the blankets attending a memorial service on Sunday in Newtown.
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It was respectful and hit the right note. I had the tv on watching the bells ring in CT and the National Cathedral, and opened my window listening for local church bells to ring.
Hate to defend Kate, but since Kate's house is not a public building I actually think according to this, she's allowed to lower her flag whenever she wants. Personally I think it is a nice sentiment that wasn't over the top and hopefully it had an impact on her kids.
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I agree.
Our flag hangs at 45 degrees in front of our house, and instead of lowering half mast (can't do), we do bunting.
But yeah, the point is to show solidarity and I think Kate did that today. She'll just always toddle to the beat of her own drum, and in this case, that's certainly fine.
Kate actually tweeted about the web sites going dark. Did she bother to put the code in to make HERS go dark too?
Kate Gosselin @Kateplusmy8
@SouthernMomma85 I totally 2nd ur feeling&if I have a 'bad day' everyday 100 in a row, I'm still the happiest mom alive...Because my kids r!
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She has had bad days 100 days in a row??? Good heavens. Her life is so freaking privileged she can't even begin to grasp anything else.
Working Woman
The sorrow that Kate is truly feeling for the families that have lost a child, and the deep appreciation I am sure she has been feeling for her own children since last week... she should remember those feelings next time her kids peel off part of a globe or make another typical kid mistake.
Hopefully, instead of acting like it's a federal court case like she did with globe-gate, she will remember that it's so insignificant and that these parents in CT would give anything to have their children back to peel all the globes in the world.
Hope she always remembers that.
How did the 5 minutes of silence go on the blog? I wasn't plugged in yet.
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It was respectful and hit the right note. I had the tv on watching the bells ring in CT and the National Cathedral, and opened my window listening for local church bells to ring.
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We lost power last night, so everything was dark, but not by choice. We had high winds, the windows rattled, the house shook, heavy rains and I thought this was the beginning of the Mayan prophecy. Power is now back on, we're still here, at least for now!
I hope she genuinely did do that and she actually knows how and that she did not just go through the motions in her mind. But somehow I missed that she actually has a genuine flagpole?
Once again I am struck by my first thought that she just said she did. I guess sometimes she just can't win for losing. No one believes her. So sad.
I have to wonder, though, why she has payed this so much attention and didn't have much of anything to say about hurricane Sandy, besides how it affected her home.
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Perhaps because she screwed up SuperFunSandy, Milo reminded her that it was a bad move, and now she has a chance to redeem herself this time. Horrible thought, I know, using tragedy for setting things right, but given her history of making everything about her, this time she thought she'd do better.
CJ harassed the guy who wrote that book about Kate and her comments are still visible on his blog. She thought he was someone else and she just wouldn't let go of her crazy ideas.
I saw her talking about the family of the baby that just got his heart transplant. The mother came on and told her to stop using her child's name. CJ replied by posted a long rant to the mother! She even researched the mother and then included her last name in the rant. (She was actually outing the mother of a sick baby????)
CJ also told this mother that she needed to know how horrible HER MOTHER was-- the baby's grandmother! CJ hates the grandmother and proceeded to tell the baby's mother that she needed to be aware of her mother's terrible activities. The woman doesn't have a single boundary.
Our Christmas meal is going to be a Christmas present from my brother that arrived yesterday. After my no food Thanksgiving I am so excited. It's a Turducken! Never had one. A chicken stuffed with cornbread/sausage crammed inside a duck crammed inside a turkey. Take THAT Ebeneezer! I did get clearance from my Gastro to eat SMALL amounts (he said something about reserving a bed and IV pole in the ER for me - funny guy). So we are roasting the 22 lb 1/2 turkey my SIL gave us and hauling it to the homeless shelter for their feast while we experience our first creole spiced dinner. Y'all are invited!
Shirlene - How about we do a weekly forecast for ya? Central OH Winter Snow Advisory thru Sat. Then Snow and Cold. Storm with Snow Tues and Wed. Then Cold again.
Oh my God noooo!!!! Can you imagine if everyone here did the daily weather reports you seem to feel you are obligated to do every darn day. Who cares what someone's weather is? I sure don't.
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It relates to the Mayan calendar, so there's an ironic relevance.
So, shoo! Shoo!
Go away troll.
ps.... it's windy and rainy where I am and I really wish it was snow ;-) It's such a tease!
TotK, your diving into the deep end with turducken! That's a really lovely gift. Now, could someone send a @heavenlyham this way?
Anyone tried Heavenly Ham? We adore spiral ham and I think this Christmas we may splurge on a 1/4 spiral for just us. Otherwise, we'll get a spiral at Costco and I'll eat it until my fingers become sausage-y.
Kiwi...13 "Shirlene - How about we do a weekly forecast for ya? Central OH Winter Snow Advisory thru Sat. Then Snow and Cold. Storm with Snow Tues and Wed. Then Cold again."
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lol! We have some snow going through here right now and it is North Pole cold, with icy conditions expected tonight. White Christmas? YAY!
I want to wish every one good and healing wishes for their medical issues and the pets who have them too. I don't do it often enough. I do think of you all even if I don't post to each of you.
Happy Holidays to everyone on this board who have given me something to think about, laugh about. This is such a wonderful community and I am glad to be part of it.
I like sharing weather reports sooo... I survived the blizzard of Dec.2012 in Wis! Stayed in the house since Wed. Luckily I didn't have to work Thurs. Still windy today but the sun is out. Only about 6" here but lots of 2-4 ft drifts. Very cold. 17 deg. with windchill of 2!!!!!
Kiwi, can I come over? I am trying to get the family to decide when they want me to cook the big dinner, what if I let them fend for themselves?
By the way, how is the weather there, did you get snow?
Parent in Lancaster, we got the torrential rain and fierce wind late last night. Glad its sunny now!
Way back in this thread, the question was do people in our real lives know we post here. Some of my friends and family know. The dh knows there is a fun group of folks that sometimes take virtual road trips together, he can appreciate the humor. He also knows I get recommendations for documentaries and books and recipes here. one good friend was a huge fan of J& K+8, she got disgusted after Aunt Jodi disappeared from the show, she can't stand Ms Kreider. I tell her when Ms Kreider has done anything she may be interested in. that has been quite a while!
The oldest dd was a huge J&K fan when the kids were toddlers, she lost interest in the show when it became a travelogue. She knows I post here, but thinks Ms Kreider is so 2008, she has no idea why anyone would be interested in her antics now.
I thought the show was BORING from the start. Ms Kreider is BORING. What keeps me posting here is grandchildren stories, recipes, book recommendations, documentary recommendations, funny stories about family, pets, ghosts, weather reports from all over, and most of all, the opportunity to borrow the 1980s era brown faux leather lazboy recliner/ time machine belonging to Rocket Man, husband of Flight of the Kiwi. Where else but on the virtual verandah could you meet such a group?!
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Perhaps because she screwed up SuperFunSandy, Milo reminded her that it was a bad move, and now she has a chance to redeem herself this time. Horrible thought, I know, using tragedy for setting things right, but given her history of making everything about her, this time she thought she'd do better.
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I'm afraid I share this sediment, although I do think the kids will understand the tragedy better than their own mother does, from peers, school, Jon, and even Kate's gesture with the flag and sediments expressed whether they are sincere or not..
Joy - Absolutely - and I'll even push back the furniture in the living the room so we can dance and dance and dance and dance. We can do the safety dance, Snoopy dance, any old dance. Good for digesting turducken! We always have budweiser! Warning. It's cold and snowy outside. And frikkin' windy. But who cares? It's Christmas!
Parent In Lancaster County said... 9
Perhaps because she screwed up SuperFunSandy, Milo reminded her that it was a bad move, and now she has a chance to redeem herself this time. Horrible thought, I know, using tragedy for setting things right, but given her history of making everything about her, this time she thought she'd do better.
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I'm thinking, since Kate tweeted a picture, she was hoping for at least ROL to pick up on it. I haven't checked ROL so I don't know if she succeeded.
No real snow in Berks, just some flurries, but it is windy and cloudy and a raw day out there. We may have snow on Christmas Eve. Keeping our fingers crossed! The only time I can tolerate snow is over the holidays, and then I'm done and ready for spring.
Want to know the craziest thing about CJ? She isn't a big Kate fan. She admits not even seeing most of the shows. She & her husband are infamous for arguing & harassing people. If you google her husband's name you'll find people on infertility blogs warning people not to engage him because he is a noxious bully.
The whole cruise thing was about CJ bragging that she can be a Kate insider & because she was the only sheeple who could afford the trip. CJ loves the fight, the hunt, the hate. She doesn't give a rip about Kate Gosselin.
Cindy Cardella made a deal with the devil & she was burned.
A chicken stuffed with cornbread/sausage crammed inside a duck crammed inside a turkey.
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Ouch! Painful! Is that what contributed to the turkey's demise? Had it lived, that turkey would have been constipated for the rest of its natural life.
I imagine so LOL. Perhaps a "holistic" alternative to immodium?
I have to apologize - my littlest GS just reminded me via Skype it's not Christmas yet - it's Christmas TIME.
I'm gonna go listen to Dan Fogleberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" one of the most depressing holiday season songs ever that my DS insists marks the beginning of the holiday season. But then, he also insists the line in it is "she said she'd married her an army tent". I checked. Webster's lists architect as a 6th definition of army tent. So there ya go (j/k honey bunches...now finish that ATM rendering so I can invoice this fiscal year. Clap Clap. Momma needs a mani/pedi.) The man does keep me warm and dry. Just like an army tent.
Actually, I need to go out but it's snowing really hard at the moment, almost a white out, so I'm procrastinating. People around here go batshi*t crazy driving when it snows. I do a bit better having learned to drive on the shores of Lake Erie - may have been an even better driver had I learned to drive on the streets, but that's a story for another day. Ugh.
"People are impacted emotionally by different things, I totally get that, you just have to wonder why she had paid so much tribute to this and nothing to other tragedies."
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Remember her tweet about how close go home this tragedy struck for her because of she has kids close to the same age?
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"I'm thinking, since Kate tweeted a picture, she was hoping for at least ROL to pick up on it. I haven't checked ROL so I don't know if she succeeded."
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While I give her credit for expressing the appropriate emotions for this tragedy, I can't help but think she was expecting recognition/props for this.
I hope her emotions behind this are genuine and that it'll will resonate with her for a long time. And, I hope that she can remember how precious her children are and stops herself before she is abusive with them again. I really don't like questioning her motives, especially about something like this, but... Dare I hope this is a step in the right direction?
I wonder if she was the one who kept insisting Robert Hoffman had no relation to that reporter. Everyone here was like um that is his WIFE what don't you understand about that?
I'm sure Khate paid more attention to this because as a mom of 8- "she" could relate to children. However, I was watching some of the entertainment shows and they had celebrity tweets of the tragedy and NONE of them even mentioned Khate. Tweeting insincere things is very grating!
Regarding my post at #190, I forgot to add the author's name: Cameo Smith. Don't know who this person is, but a co-worker loved the poem, copied it, and posted it at work.
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She's a local woman, in the next county over (Mount Wolf, PA, York County). Thanks for posting it. It's beautiful.
Yet ANOTHER shooting spree just hours ago. This time in Penn.
There. Are. Just. No. Words.
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Working Woman
Lbelle, I share your frustration. It's heartbreaking. One would think that witnessing the pain and sorrow the world experiences after a deadly mass shootings would encourage mentally ill individuals who fantasize about carrying out a similar act, to get help. It seems to be quite the opposite: after a massive shooting event like last week's, there tend to be attempted "copy" shootings immediately following.
Although I try to be an optimist, I don't believe we will see a day where violence , including shooting events, do not occur. Too many disturbed people out there. All we can do is pray for the future and do everything we can to make mental health resources easily accessible to those who need it, and to trust that necessary reformations will be made to keep us safe.
I missed the going dark for the Sandy Hook victims, wasn't a possibility where I work :(
What a coincidence (or maybe it's the galactic alignment) that mental health is the hot topic AND the super-sheeple is being discussed!!!
Show of (virtual) hands...who thinks CJ needs serious help? What? is that unanimous? Thought so.
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Yet ANOTHER shooting spree just hours ago. This time in Penn.
There. Are. Just. No. Words.
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It was over in Blair County; four dead, three state troopers injured. One woman was killed in a church when she was decorating for a children's party. Shooter is dead. Shot was fired through the window of the church. Details are sketchy. News conference is scheduled shortly.
This is horrible...and it continues.
I was looking at Robert's blog. Can someone please enlighten me (us)? What did he say about Collin and the doughnuts? I have seen it referenced a few times but have no idea what it means. Thanks in advance.
But Collin is the main reason this book is being written so I will share this personal story. One day, back in 2009, knowing how strict Kate is with the kids about them not eating anything even remotely fun, I brought them two big boxes of Dunkin Donuts. Their eyes lit up like Christmas morning and they dug into them and couldn’t eat them fast enough. (I had checked with Jon first to make sure that nobody had a peanut allergy or anything of the sort.) After a few minutes, Collin had icing all over his face and a donut in each hand and there was one left in the box and he said to me in his precious little voice, “Robert, will you hold that donut for me until I finish these two? I really want it but I can’t carry it.” Then one of the little girls reprimanded me in a stern voice, “mommy doesn’t let us eat sweets!” and I acted surprised and said, “Oh, I’m sorry. I won’t bring anymore donuts to the house, I promise.” And she said in a quieter voice, “Oh no Robert, you bring us more donuts.” My heart melted.
Hoffman, Robert (2012-09-27). KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD (Kindle Locations 295-301). . Kindle Edition.
Parent In Lancaster County said... 33
Lbelle said... 30
Yet ANOTHER shooting spree just hours ago. This time in Penn.
There. Are. Just. No. Words.
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Don't know if this is a copycat, but hopefully we'll get some details soon. How awful.
In some cities, guns were turned in by the hundreds/thousands and in other areas, people are trying to snatch up Bushmaster rifles like they're twinkies.
What a world.
melted. Also regarding Collin, whenever I was with the kids, or my kids were playing with them and it was time for us to go, Collin would ALWAYS make sure to come and give us big hugs and kisses and say goodbye. Always. And when I’d look back as I was walking away, he’d still be waving to us. He has so much love to give and his heart is so big. So the reason for the book.
Hoffman, Robert (2012-09-27). KATE GOSSELIN: HOW SHE FOOLED THE WORLD (Kindle Locations 303-306). . Kindle Edition.
Taking bets that Kate puts not ONE scrap of Christmas garbage on her curb this year :) Can't-do Kate will be having a Holiday bonfire!
Working Woman
Yes butterfly, from what I have heard it sounds like CJ could use some serious help, to say the least. I don't know why she feels the need to try to indimidate or disturb people as she does. It's a shame and I hope she does get help.
I have to be honest, from what I know I am not a fan of Robert's. I say this respectfully as I know that others support him.
I just feel like he is out to ruin Kate, under the pretense of caring about the kids and wanting to reveal the truth. In my humble opinion, writing that book was not the right way to go about this. Why not call CPS if you have proof of past abuse? Some of his actions have made him look invasive and a bit skeevy, in my opinion.
kateplusmy8
@ljohnson2006 good girl. Life is what you make of it.. Aka all about perspective! Move forward from here and learn instead of being bitter:)
Very funny, Kate. She's still bitter three years after the divorce!
Thanks very much, aggiemom.
"Why not call CPS if you have proof of past abuse?"
Robert did call CPS, twice, very soon after he read what Kate had written in her journal.
CPS has been called. Pa doesn't exactly have a good track record of protecting kids. I can understand his frustration.
She's still bitter three years after the divorce!
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I don't think Kate gives one damn about the divorce.
She's bitter 'cuz Jon ended her teeveeee show and all her trips. (true, the divorce was the nail in the coffin that killed her show, but she had shown Jon the door to the upstairs apt way before the divorce was filed).
I bet she is STILL pissed.
Working Woman
MJ, thank you for informing me. I apologize for mispeaking. Good for him for calling CPS, but I still don't personally agree with his decision to write the book. If the children did live that, I highly doubt they will want to see a published book about it someday. That's humiliating at best, in my opinion. But, nothing to change it now.
Kate tweeting about proper perspective? I normally don't agree with non fans tweeting her, but omg do I wish someone would throw any one of these in her face:
1. Coupon incident (clap , clap)
2. Ice cream at Disney World
3. Gumgate
4. Divorce from Jon
5. Everything about the RV episode
6. Globe incident
7. Her negative attitude and horrible treatment of Tony on DWTS
Where was her so-called "perspective" then?
kateplusmy8
@ljohnson2006 good girl. Life is what you make of it.. Aka all about perspective! Move forward from here and learn instead of being bitter:)
Then why does she still keep throwing Jon under the bus, and she has to brag that the kids will be with her for Christmas?
As usual, Kate never follows her own advice.
MJ, thank you for informing me. I apologize for mispeaking. Good for him for calling CPS, but I still don't personally agree with his decision to write the book. If the children did live that, I highly doubt they will want to see a published book about it someday. That's humiliating at best, in my opinion. But, nothing to change it now.
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I see your viewpoint, but did you read the book? Robert had first-hand knowledge of what went on, and probably continues to this day, in that household.
Say for instance, something horrible happened in the future..then there would be people who would vilify Robert, saying, why didn't you say something?? He reported her for abuse to CPS, and nothing was done. Being a reporter, he used the only skills he knew how. He put it on paper.
It's the only thing he could do to give those kids a voice of what they are actually experiencing.
Look at what Kate has put out there to embarrass or humiliate her kids...telling one of them they are clueless, or that they gambled and lost...or praising them for pooping in the potty...or posting a hooker pose on twitter. Kate not wanting to touch one of her bleeding children...not wanting to take her kids to the doctor..one of them having a severe stomach ache for a MONTH and not taking her to the dr...list goes on and on and on......
Where was her so-called "perspective" then?
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how bout 'not THESE kids!' (when referring to grass stains)
no cupcake for you!
no markers!
'there's never enough money' (Jon almost fell out of his chair)
'don't listen to daddy'
I believe when Kate was ranting about the NO COUPON!, she said something like 'if I had a gun;, or something like that.
Working Woman
Aggiemom, that's an excellent point. It's so sad and disappointing that CPS did so little to help.
To answer your question, I have only read the portions of the book that were posted on this blog.
And I hate how Kate continues to hide behind her over-the-top chipper tweets and just acts like nothing happened, like YAY everyone and everything in this house is so perfect and happy!
And yet, on public appearances and interviews, I don't find that she puts on that same sunny, ultra chipper persona at all. Usually, I feel like she look miserable, sadly.
She's a big question mark, that one.
Working Woman
Aggie, yes you are correct, I believe her exact words were. "I'm gonna shoot him."
Said with such loving kindness from a darling wife.
kateplusmy8
So what does a mom do once she has her kids home 4 a long break?She washes 8 winter coats,scrubs 8 lunch boxes&cleans 8 bookbags, of course!
Oh, sheesh. You throw the coats in the washing machine, then hang them up to dry. I do it all the time. In fact, I washed two coats this morning and they are almost dry already.
You take the eight lunch boxes and put them in the dishwasher on gentle cycle and they come out spotless, like new. Backpacks? You can put them in the washing machine as well, on gentle cycle, and you hang them in the bathroom to dry. I've actually have some that I've put in the dryer on airfluff and they've come out perfect.
She makes everything so difficult x 8.
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I don't think Kate gives one damn about the divorce.
She's bitter 'cuz Jon ended her teeveeee show and all her trips. (true, the divorce was the nail in the coffin that killed her show, but she had shown Jon the door to the upstairs apt way before the divorce was filed).
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Yes, I believe she probably blames Jon for the show coming to an end. I believe she is mentally incapable of seeing her own role in the show's demise. I believe Carrie Ann Inaba once said that Kate was the most un-self-aware person or something along those lines. Her brain cannot compute a scenario in which she, Kate, is at fault, is wrong, or is in any way to blame for anything.
The book is hard to read. It takes a long time to get through it.
It's really hard to read journal entry after another about how she abused her kids.
I believe there are tons of excerpts in older posts, if you ever have time to go and look for them.
How that woman shows her face in public confounds me.
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But on this thread alone it seems like so many of you are still typing in names. That's fine, but understand that's why I can't get rid of anonymous because it would get rid of you too.
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Working Woman
Why would Kate need to wash 8 winter coats or scrub 8 lunch boxes? Does she have 8 kids or something? LOL
So is that tweet a meant to ba a complaint or yet another reminder to her tweeties of how much busier she is than they are?
Either way, I'm not impressed. You're a mom Kate, those are the types of things you should be doing and every other mom out there is doing the exact same things.
The kids are plenty old enough to clean their own lunch boxes and book bags. The drama.
For Carrie Anne to say that about kate after meeting and spending a lot of time around some of the most narcissistic celebs in Hollywood is astounding.
kateplusmy8
@juliectimmons yes but only after school yr... lunch boxes are hand washable and they take a LONG time to dry.Otherwise I spot clean insides
Stop with the BS Kate. My grandkids lunch boxes are washed by hand EVERY day when they come home from school! They are dry by morning(if not earlier).
Why is she washing their coats? Guess she doesn't plan for them to leave the house during Christmas break?
Why is she washing their coats? Guess she doesn't plan for them to leave the house during Christmas break?
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Guess the kids are spending the holiday in the basement?
Ya know Kate's gotta be p-o'd that she isn't going away on a tropical vacay...since she is a 'sun worshiper',lol.
Kate, welcome to mediocre-land.
:)
Working Woman
I do not live at the Gosselin house (thank goodness) so I can't say for sure, but I find it almost impossible to believe that Kate doesn't have her 12-year-olds cleaning their own lunch boxes or washing their own coats, or at the very least helping out with it.
Nothing wrong with that at all, in my opinion kids that age should be at least starting to help with that kind of stuff. I just would hope that, if Mady and Cara are in fact pulling their weight, that she would give them credit instead of portraying herself as doing everything by herself "times 8!"
I live in North Florida where we have a cool winter with periodic cold snaps. In the winter it's usually cool enough for a jacket in the mornings and evenings and I wash my kids jackets weekly. She only washes her kids jackets 2x a season (Christmas/Spring Break)? Ewww, gross.
She started today with a nice tribute to the victims in Sandy Hook. Now, she's playing SuperMom again X8.
How many parents of those kids in SH wish that they had to worry about lunchboxes, coats and backpacks?
IMO, she just negated everything she said this morning.
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I am one of those anonymous posters. I am not a trouble maker, nor do I post anything hurtful or disrupting. I know there are some who come here with the sole purpose of causing trouble, and they use the "anonymous" feature. I'm sorry to be lumped in with them, but I choose not to sign up for an account because I've tried in the past and it was somewhat of a hassle. So I stick with anonymous. I appreciate that feature being available to me, thank you :)
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You can type a screen name under "anonymous", this is what Working Woman does and it makes it so much easier to follow the conversation. Why don't you take a page from her book and, at least, try it?
Kate is a Twit 61, amen.
Whether this is her intention or not, especially after recent events, those kind of tweets make her seem unappreciative of her beautiful, healthy, LIVING children.
If she must tweet how oh-so-busy she is, why does she need to preface everything with "8"? Seriously, EVERYBODY AND HIS BROTHER knows that she has 8 count em 8 kids. Can't she just say, Gotta wash my kids' coats and scrub their lunchboxes!
Always having to clarify that it's "8" makes it seem like she is either complaining or thinks it doesn't make her sound good enough if she leaves out the incredible number of kids she works her fingers to the bone for.
Guess what Kate? I'd be a million times more impressed with you if you only had three kids, but treated them better and were a kinder human being. Think about that.
Kate Gosselin@Kateplusmy8
@littleangels5 ha ha. Great moms think alike lol! After Christmas break,we go2next size sneakers so new 1s means no cleaning-->play shoes
Huh? She waits for Christmas break for them to wear their next size in shoes? Don't most mothers replace their children's shoes when they outgrow them? She waits until after Christmas?
What does she tell the kids when they say their shoes are too tight or hurt? "After Christmas, you will get ones that fit?" Or what if they don't need new shoes? They get the next size even if they don't need them?
She's an idiot--
In the winter it's usually cool enough for a jacket in the mornings and evenings and I wash my kids jackets weekly. She only washes her kids jackets 2x a season (Christmas/Spring Break)? Ewww, gross.
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I know. I was thinking the same thing. Last week I washed the jackets three times. How can she only wash them only on breaks?
"I know there are some who come here with the sole purpose of causing trouble, and they use the "anonymous" feature. I'm sorry to be lumped in with them, but I choose not to sign up for an account because I've tried in the past and it was somewhat of a hassle"
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You don't need to sign up for an account. In the box, where it says Comment as, you scroll down where it says select profile. Go to Name/URL. Make up an ID, such as "Make Up ID." You do not have to put in the URL. Each time you post, you do the same thing and use the same ID.
If that doesn't work, you can still use anonymous and "sign" an ID at either the top or bottom of your post. That way others can recognize your ID.
Kste's not washing the coats or cleaning the lunch bags. She has help to do that. All she's doing is SAYING she does it, no proof that she actually does. Just another lie. I don't believe a word she says.
She puts the 8 in front of everything 'cuz that's her 'brand'.
As far as Kate appreciating her kids, she never has. I *honestly* think if she was given a choice between living the life of luxury all her days, or having to life like she has now with the 8, she'd pick the life of luxury.
I agree with Amy2!
Kate has help for laundry, cooking, tutoring, babysitting, cleaning.
She does nothing but tweet and get her nails and hair done.
How did Kate identify herself before she was a mother?
Almost everything she tweets, hell just about every word that comes out of her mouth, is somehow shoving it in our faces that she is mother (often, she reminds us that she is a mom of EIGHT).
Motherhood is a blessing, and it should be considered one of the greatest gifts by everybody who experieces it. But seriously, it's like she has to remind everybody that she's a mom, constantly, like she's afraid they might forget for half a second. Does she feel like it's all she has to offer? It sure sounds like it. And that's a shame.
I have always loved children and I know I will be a mother someday. I can't wait for that day, and I will cherish my relationship with my kids above all us. But I also want to be seen as a devoted wife; a philanthropist; hopefully a successful Speech-Language pathologist; a dancer and fitness advocate; a child advocate; a good, kind-hearted soul in general. It's important to have other identities as well.
Not only does she pimp out her kids, she pimps out her motherhood to the nth degree.
"Why is she washing their coats? Guess she doesn't plan for them to leave the house during Christmas break?"
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Or if you want the kids coats to be clean when they go back to school, you wait until AFTER break to wash them. Let them get dirty playing outside over break.
Better yet, wash them when they're dirty!!
madatmama
@Kateplusmy8 You have to send all their lunches?! I would love to read about what you pack and how you do it!
No, she doesn't HAVE to send all of their lunches. She chooses to do this because it makes her sound like more of a super mom X eight. After all, their lunches are the envy of every child in the school. She said so herself.
With the money those kids have earned, they can afford to buy hot lunches in the school cafeteria, every school day of the year if they want.
aggiemom09121416 said... 53
The book is hard to read. It takes a long time to get through it.
It's really hard to read journal entry after another about how she abused her kids.
I believe there are tons of excerpts in older posts, if you ever have time to go and look for them.
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Shout out to you, Aggiemom, and all others who posted some of the excerpts. I wasn't posting here at that time but I really looked forward to reading the posts about the book (which eluded me).
Kate Gosselin @Kateplusmy8
@littleangels5 ha ha. Great moms think alike lol! After Christmas break,we go2next size sneakers so new 1s means no cleaning-->play shoes
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Kate treats her kids like a big teaming mass of humanity like The Borg. When The Borg needs shoes...The Borg loves my cooking...mass humanity with one opinion, one need.
Tweet-le De Tweet-le DUMB said... 73
I've always thought of her enablers as the Borg--one mind, group think. Whatever the Queen Borg says she does, they agree and say they do the same thing.
With her tweets today about washing the backpacks, lunch boxes, etc. and their getting the "next size shoes" after Christmas break, you would think that some of them would say WTF?
I'm sure many may be thinking it--but they cannot go against their Queen and won't mention it.
With the money those kids have earned, they can afford to buy hot lunches in the school cafeteria, every school day of the year if they want.
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LOL, Kate tweeted a while back that Jon's child support didn't even cover the cost of the kid's school lunches...
It was later reported that his monthly child support was $22,500.00.
Tax free to Kate!
(how's that for 'like money in your pocket!)
I thought Kate had a routine she CC'd about where she washes the lunch boxes everyday, having been placed on a specific counter? Her germ column (I think. )I also wiped my kids' lunchboxes daily with Clorox Towelettes although now it seems Kate really does it once a season, yuk.
And now for FUN!Santa Paws movie night! Cute film but 12 year olds likely want to be doing other things.
Working women few comment on this but I agree with you, she sets women back as if our only value is a uterus. Motherhood is a most special and wonderful calling but it is not our only calling.
Kate is a twit said...I've always thought of her enablers as the Borg--one mind, group think. Whatever the Queen Borg says she does, they agree and say they do the same thing.
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They're all quite Borg-ish, no individuality in her fans thinking and none in the way Kate treats the kids. She makes it sound like they're all of one mind and one opinion and one need.
Formerly Duped said... 76
She said that there was a "special" place to place to bookbags and lunchboxes to avoid kitchen contamination. She never mentioned about cleaning them. Unfortunately, all her CC blogs have been swiffered by CC, but I don't think she ever said anything about cleaning them.
One writer at babble.com used to write about all her CC posts. This is her take on Kate's blog about germs:
"Lunch boxes and backpacks go in a special area, too. Dropping them randomly around the kitchen could expose the food-prep area to harmful bacteria."
handinhand said... 72
''Shout out to you, Aggiemom, and all others who posted some of the excerpts. I wasn't posting here at that time but I really looked forward to reading the posts about the book (which eluded me).''
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handinhand, you can go to Robert's blog, and read many posts that were in his book. His blog archives have a lot of content.
http://gosselinbook.blogspot.com/
"They're all quite Borg-ish, no individuality in her fans thinking and none in the way Kate treats the kids. She makes it sound like they're all of one mind and one opinion and one need."
Tweet-le--Couldn't agree more. She has 8 kids, divided into two separate groups--the "littles" and the "big girls". She makes it seen like they all think alike and ARE alike. She doesn't seem to think of them as 8(count em 8) individual children.
I can just imagine her saying to them "This is way WE do thing"--and unfortunately for them, "Resistance is futile".
Kate is a twit said...
I can just imagine her saying to them "This is way WE do thing"--and unfortunately for them, "Resistance is futile".
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Exactly, for now. It should be interesting when "the littles" are all teens at the same time. Their saying might be, "There's strength in numbers."
Interesting hearing about the charging for the donuts and coffee for soldiers in WWII, but to me the worst nonsense in WWII is that the RC segregate the white blood from the black blood. That stop after WWII but what did that mean sorry dude you're white and we've only black blood so you will have to die cause we can't transfuse you with that black blood. But no problems in the 80s and on to not be bother to test and get rid of deadly blood infected with HIV and Hep C. And almost 30 years they still can't keep the blood supply safe in the USA. Why did Canada tell them no more of this and the Canadian Red Cross was out of the blood biz but in the USA ... why acceptable losses? I bet if the government hadn't given them the title of the official agency they'd get the boot too, I really am still very disgusted that my BIL is Hep + due to a contaminated pint of RBCs during surgery and now can't get his heart lung transplant. Thanks American RC.
Kate has treated these children as one unit. They are eight individuals with their own likes and dislikes. When the first child decides to break out from her rules, will Kate call Jon and demand he take care of the problem. And then ship the child off to him.
So tonight's movie night and Kate is twittering away. Two tweets she made tonight really disturb me. She's been playing her tweeties but this is going too far, IMO. What is she thinking by saying things like this?
cinderella.@staceyjenkinss
wish @Kateplusmy8 was related to me!!
Kate Gosselin@Kateplusmy8
@staceyjenkinss aw, you can be my girl... 'kay? :)
@ng@IAM8179
@Kateplusmy8 you're so on top of things, would you be my Mom :)
Kate Gosselin@Kateplusmy8
@IAM8179 sure! Why not? ;)
I have no words--she's totally lost it.
Kate is a twit said... 79
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Oh, ok. Can't say I recall all the CC columns contents lol. Then that is gross if she only scrubs the lunch boxes once a season. Good catch.
I'm gonna go listen to Dan Fogleberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" one of the most depressing holiday season songs ever that my DS insists marks thebeginning of the holiday season 25
Sorry, I must disagree. The holiday season starts with Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" on Thanksgiving.
Heard this on NPR on my way home and want o share.
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/21/167787941/free-toy-shop-brings-cheer-to-sandys-displaced-families
OMG--she did it again!!
Lexie @xlexiemariex
@Kateplusmy8 can we be best friends? Yes? Okay awesome xoxo
Kate Gosselin@Kateplusmy8
@xlexiemariex done deal!:) xoxo
Kateplusmy8 yay! Lets go shopping tomorrow :) I'll buy you anything you want!
Kate Gosselin@Kateplusmy8
@xlexiemariex I have a wicked shoe, kitchen gadget and beauty product habits...you sure bout that? Lol!
Then later on this tweetie tweets:
Lexie @xlexiemariex
@xxxxx I'm like crying. She agreed to being my best friend like wth is life
Lexie @xlexiemariex
@Kateplusmy8 we can be best friends and I can be your twitter daughter. :') I love you twitter mommy xoxo
I have no words. I hope this tweetie is yanking her chain, but it Kate so totally clueless, to encourage something like this?
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18mLexie @xlexiemariex
@Kateplusmy8 LOL! I'm sure! Anything for my best friend :) what time shall I pick you up tomorrow?
Kate is a twit said... 88
OMG--she did it again!!
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She is out of her mind. Is she drunk tweeting?
Is that what drunk tweeting sounds like?
Fleecing, I guess we think alike.
This twitter thing is getting creepy. Anyone else think this isn't going to end well?
I don't know what kind of cracker jack security system purse-boy installed, but Kate and those 8, count'em 8 kids are out in the middle of the country like sitting ducks.
If someone did break in,what's she going to do? throw Jimmie Choos at them?
I'd be, like 'totally', freaked out!
Sorry, that my post looked a bit of a mess, I really should check the whole thing when I c/p.
But the gist is that Kate is encouraging this tweetie and the others before that. Has she no boundaries?
Drunk tweeting, maybe--absolutely, stupid tweeting--YES! WTF is she thinking?
Dmasy said... 90
Is that what drunk tweeting sounds like?
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I don't know. I never tweeted, let alone drunk tweeted. I have tried posting here when I've had a bit too much Rumspringa, but I fell asleep before I finished the comment.
She is nuts. No question about it. You just don't tease strangers like this. She has no idea who they are, where they live, or if they, too, have some screws loose. How does she know that the person who asked what time she should pick her up to go shopping lives a few streets around the corner or in the next town over? The person shows up, is rejected, and then what?
Kate's crossing the line here, drunk or sober. She should be mature enough to know this. What's she trying to prove? That she's friendly, down-to-earth and one of them? What an idiot.
Yikes, but then again LOL, yeah, sure Kate buying anybody a gift! Hah, virtual only I'm sure. She'd die if Lexie showed up on the door step tomorrow, hit the panic alarm and have the police there pronto. She'd never cough up cash for another person's benefit. Unless some how she knows Lexie will buy her more.
Heard it all now.
I don't tweet, nor follow twitter. Is this normal celebrity/fan tweet exchanging?
creepy. I hope it never happens, but she is really setting herself and her kids up for some nutcase to gain access to her property. Frankly, I am shocked no one has been arrested for trespassing.
That has to be socks and she knows who they are. Could even be M/C. No way they all pile up in her room playing "scabble" on the phone supposedly in between all her tweets without knowing all about the twitter. She probably shows them all the praise she gets. She would think that was hi.lar.i.ous like only she could do. I don't think even KT would be dumb to tweet that to total strangers. Just the wording of it makes me think it is an inside joke.
Fleecing The Sheeple said... 94
Thoroughly agree with you comment. Kate may think this is "twitter fun", but does she ever think of the consequences of encouraging people like this? It just takes one nutjob for a disaster to happen, and she seems to not even think about her safety or her children's safety, by encouraging these fans.
She doesn't know who they are or where they live, yet because they "love" her and her kids, she justs plays with them and encourages them. If I can see the danger, and other people here see the danger, why can't Kate see the danger?
ellisemoose
Sat in bed all day watching seasons 1 and 2 of Jon and Kate plus 8. I miss that show. @Kateplusmy8 's kids are so adorable! 😍
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Here's another one who stays home watching Kate all day. There are quite a few of these. Don't they have anything else to do? How could this be fulfilling...what kind of weird pleasure could anyone (especially teens) get out of watching Kate marathons for days on end?
Speaking of teens, whatever happened to the Austin kid who wants to meet up in Missouri for a fan get together with Kate? Did she ever answer him? I see that perhaps he's moved on, in love with Britney Spears and has a big hang-up for Kirstie Alley's rack. He tweets some crude stuff to her. The meet and greet that he had planned with Kate awhile back never happened. Maybe this one time Kate got lucky by ignoring him.
Kate has no boundaries in any other area of her life, why should her twitter account be any different?
Seriously, her tweets tonight have crossed the line. I have never before seen a celebrity encourage obsessive fan behaviour like she does.
It really worries me. "You can be my girl"????
Oh. MY. There is a fine line between harmless joking on twitter and .... well, as far as I'm concerned, she basically flirts with her twitter followers, in a way.
When she was about to jump off the Sky Tower in New Zealand, she made a comment like "I don't do anything without thinking it through."
So has she even thought through the potential consequences of teasing her fans like that? Of being so accepting of their invasive questions and comments?
It's unbelievable. This stuff belongs in a textbook, I'm telling you.
Really upsetting. She has eight children that she should be thinking about.
What disturbs me most of all is, any time a fan tweets her with a creepy comment about their undying love for her children, she always writes back an encouraging response, like "Aw, so sweet!" or "I will tell them you said so!"
EW. It's like she gets extreme joy out of knowing that perfect strangers are obsessed with her children.
As a mother, nothing would creep me out more. Absolutely nothing.
She would think that was hi.lar.i.ous like only she could do. I don't think even KT would be dumb to tweet that to total strangers. Just the wording of it makes me think it is an inside joke.
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Check the person's tweeting history. It's not one of her daughters. It's a kid with a nasty mouth. Profile -- Lets waste time, chasing cars, around our heads ~ Paula Abdul ~ Simon Cowell ~ Kate Middleton ~ ex oh ex oh Paris, France
Pity Party said... 97
Even if it was an "inside joke", what does it convey to her other fans? That she's willing to be their "mommy" or "BFF" too, that they're welcome in her life?
IMO, she's treading on dangerous territory, whether it's a joke or not.
Let's pretend for one minute that this is Cara and Mady's best friend from school and Kate knows exactly who she is. Inside joke, like someone said and everyone, including the tweetie, is laughing about it.
OK, so THIS interaction is innocent enough.
BUT, what if another tweetie sees this, says
"hey, Kate can be TweetyMommy to HER, what about me?" and starts to badger Kate about it.
And gets ignored. Now we've got jealousy going on. All for a joke? Not worth it, Kate. Please shut it down.
Pity Party said... 97
''That has to be socks and she knows who they are. Could even be M/C. No way they all pile up in her room playing "scabble" on the phone supposedly in between all her tweets without knowing all about the twitter. She probably shows them all the praise she gets. She would think that was hi.lar.i.ous like only she could do. I don't think even KT would be dumb to tweet that to total strangers. Just the wording of it makes me think it is an inside joke.''
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I only wish KK knows who they are. The first one has over 25000 tweets, and the second has almost 5000 tweets. From their ''full profiles'' they are not children...the first one says she is in Paris, France...and the second one says she is the mother of two boys, and is in California.
Hope I found all the typos!
I'm sorry to say that I totally believe that KK is dumb enough to tweet those responses to total strangers. As unbelievable as it is to us, she is way too stuck on stupid to comprehend how dangerous that behavior is to her and her children.
kate is so stupid. Shoka would of given his life for those kids, fight to the death, and that idiot let him eat those plastic Easter eggs till it made him sick, possibly not recovering. I believe she was hoping it would kill him.
Where is Shoka?
I can't stand to even hear her name.
Why do they need to pile in her room to play scrabble? They are playing on cell phones for goodness sakes. Why don't they play one scrabble game with the three of them? Way more fun. And she so likes her fun.
I don't know who this guy is on twitter, but he makes random tweets about Kate. I read this one and laughed out loud.
thing_finder
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What season and episode did the coupon gate occur? I want to go back and see if kate said what one poster said they thought she said, if I had a gun.
I can't imagine Kate is so stupid, unless she really is drunk and doesn't know what she's doing.
Why in the world wouldn't she check out these fans before she encourages them? It's not difficult to do. You just click on the Twitter name and check some of their tweets. It only takes a minute. These tweeties, who are now best friends with her and her new daughter, have potty mouths and are clearly not the people she wants to befriend or have show up at her house.
These tweets were not inside jokes, or tweets from Cara or Mady or their friends.
Speaking of showing up at Kate's house, whatever happened to Big Fan who pestered Kate night and day about babysitting her kids, wanting to be invited over for coffee, and going grocery shopping with her? What if Kate had tweeted to HER that she would go shopping with her? She would have been there in a flash since she lived not far away.
She said that Jon's child support of 22.5K would not cover their school lunches? Is she insane? I figured it up, each one of the kids would get 16 dollars each, each day for their food at school for one year. Those kids should be allowed to buy their breakfast and lunch at the school. Guess what kate? The child support does cover your mani-pedi's, tanning, Starbucks, UPS trips and much, much more, oh, yeah, your yoga classes. Why you don't pay for those kids to do gymnastics class is beyond me.
Kate is a Twit...LOL. I'll let you duke it out with him. I like "Alice's Restaurant". Pair that with Planes, Trains & Automobiles DVD and "I" think the holiday season should commence. Throw in an Emerson, Lake and Palmer "I believed In Father Christmas" and I'm ready for the over-spiked egg nog.
Has Dutch Tulip checked in lately?
She said that Jon's child support of 22.5K would not cover their school lunches? Is she insane?
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She said that child support just covers their lunches, not that it wouldn't cover their lunches, but I don't believe she said that when she was receiving that hefty sum per month. If I recall, she said it AFTER the child support was reduced to $1,500 a month, or whatever it was at the time, but NOT $22,500 a month.
Regardless, if the kids bought their lunches at school every day of the school year, the grand total would be $7,200.00 If he were paying $1,500 per month, the total support would have been $18,000 per year. This, of course, would have easily covered the cost of school lunches. No way would it have "just covered" the cost of the lunches. He certainly was paying more than $7,200 per year in child support.
Fleecing The Sheeple said... 111
"Why in the world wouldn't she check out these fans before she encourages them?"
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That's the whole problem, she doesn't. She has replied to people who make indecent and over-the-top remarks to other celebrities. She retweets tweets telling her how much they love her, but those tweeties are sending the same tweet to many other celebrities. She is so in love with herself, that she thinks those tweets are meant for her and her alone. She doesn't seem to understand that most people tweet her or follow her because she is a "celebrity". They don't care who she is--they just want to get a reply from a "celebrity".
She doesn't understand that she's being used, just as much as she uses her fans. When a "fan" says "Omg, Kate G responded to me", 90% of the time, that "fan" has tweeted a lot of other celebrities--but who responds? Kate--because she thinks any tweet praising her is solely for her, yet the exact same tweet, sent out by the same "fan" was already tweeted to many other celebrities. And guess who is the only "celebrity" to respond to that tweet?
If Kate ever checked her tweeties time-lines, she might just realize that she's not as important to them as she thinks she is.
Ladybug
At age 22, 1989, I suffered a ruptured ovarian cyst. 7 pints of blood saved me here in Canada.
Ever thankfull, I started donating back.
7 people saved my life..I owed them to do the same.
Got a registered letter at my house and so did family doctor: I may have been contaminated with bad blood. We both were ordered to pass yests. I got lucky..clean..hep scared mthink that was about the time Can stood back from RC
.franky
Kate is a twit said... 115
Fleecing The Sheeple said... 111
"Why in the world wouldn't she check out these fans before she encourages them?"
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If Kate ever checked her tweeties time-lines, she might just realize that she's not as important to them as she thinks she is.''
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I think I figured it out. KK's narcissistic brain only sees that someone adores/admires/loves and that triggers the retweet. Her narcissistic mind believes she deserves the adoring/admiring/love and is rewarding them for realizing how wonderful she is. It would never ever ever enter her mind to check any timeline, because that would require her thinking about someone else. She only thinks of herself.
Ladybug,
meant to say letter arrived in 1998, after I had d
franky
Whew just wrapped up cleaning up from our first Christmas party here. A nice carefree evening. If your grocery store sells gingerbread eggnog, run don't walk to get some.
As for this? "Thoroughly agree with you comment. Kate may think this is "twitter fun", but does she ever think of the consequences of encouraging people like this? It just takes one nutjob for a disaster to happen, and she seems to not even think about her safety or her children's safety, by encouraging these fans."
She's nuts. I don't know how else to say it. N-U-T-S. Psycho fans are psycho enough without encouraging them. There are NUMEROUS examples of fans who were given an inch from their celeb and interpreted it as so much more. Even the tiniest interaction makes some crazies think they are in some kind of special relationship, and when you cut it off? They explode.
Jodi Foster is a prime example. She interacted with her fan a few times before realizing the true extent of his craziness and cutting off contact. That was all it took.
Flight of the Kiwi said... 113
waving at Kiwi and wishing you all happy holidays!
Oh my, if that is the case, then she is certifiable. That was my first thought that it was a joke. I can't believe even KT could be that dumb, especially in light of all that is going on right now. Cellar 8?
Remona Blue said... 80
handinhand said... 72
''Shout out to you, Aggiemom, and all others who posted some of the excerpts. I wasn't posting here at that time but I really looked forward to reading the posts about the book (which eluded me).''
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handinhand, you can go to Robert's blog, and read many posts that were in his book. His blog archives have a lot of content.
http://gosselinbook.blogspot.com/
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Thanks for the link, Remona.
That is so wrong about the Lexie person..Kate should not encourage such sediments even if this one was a joke...there are impressionable naive teens who follow her...some might get jellus and try to outdo Lexie.
Why do the tweeties think Kate is so 'high energy?" She turns in early, goes back to bed after taking kids to bus and constantly complains about how much she has to do and how exhausted-ish she is.
Good morning everyone!
A fan tweeted this to Kate:
Kateplusmy8 Kate just a quick question would you put heat or ice on a cheek that hurts after wisdom teeth surgery? <3
You have to wonder, didn't this girl's dentist already give her instructions on how to minimize the pain? Even if he didn't, why wouldn't she just ask him? Maybe she doesn't think her dentist is competent, because, forget those four years of dental school, he didn't give birth to 8 kids who he then pimped out. So he must not know shit. LOL
Do her fans really think a former Labor & Delivery nurse (who hasn't practiced in 8 years) is most equipped to give dental advice?
Or is just for Kate's attention and "love"? I feel Kate should respond to those types of questions this way, "I'd love to help but that's not my area of expertise. Are you able to contact your doctor? Feel better!"
Just checking in this morning to say that again, this year, DH and I went to an "early bird" sale at Macy's and we're donating 3 very warm coats to Catholic Charities.
You all inspire us!
Lukebandit said
What season and episode did the coupon gate occur? I want to go back and see if kate said what one poster said they thought she said, if I had a gun.
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I am no expert on 'seasons', but it was right after they moved into the big house. Jon had committed an immortal sin by purchasing a shower faucet at a home improvement store WITH NO COUPON. She rants and raves, screaming throughout the house while he is scrambling around trying to find the receipt, she is saying, You WILL take it back, yada yada, and she mutters something about a gun or as the other poster said, i could just shoot him, or something like that.
It ought to be during the last season. When she said it, my eyes bugged out. What a psycho!
As far as the 22,500 child support not paying or barely paying for the kid's lunches, I still think it was when he WAS paying that crazy amount, because it really was a dust-up around here...if it had been the 1500 amount, it wouldn't have been talked about so much.
If someone knows there way around twitter (is that where Kate said the comment?), perhaps this issue can be cleared up.
The thing that grated too about the child support comment was that Jon really has little to do with what number he pays. A formula spits out a number for him. It's not like he decided one day I'm only going to pay enough to cover lunches. A JUDGE decided that.
Child support is a complicated formula, the factors that go into it depend on the state and what they consider. Pennsylvania's factors can be found online if you google around.
The formula spit out a number that was appropriate for Kate and Jon's situation. It's not Jon's fault that Kate wants to live like a rock star, he was paying what the formula dictated. If Kate had a problem with it she can whine to the judge. But to make it seem like Jon was being a cheapskate or somehow not providing everything they need was so low. Jon was following a court ordered formula that Kate had all the opportunity in the world to challenge if she wanted to.
Oh and here's a thought. Woman up, get a job, and support your own damn lifestyle if you want to live like that.
With Jon and Kate splitting custody 50/50 and no child support is being supplied to either parent, it makes me wonder who is paying the kid's school tuition and health insurance.
There were a few times Kate told Jon to take the kids to the dr,(was that on the show?), I took it to mean that if he took them to the dr, HE had to pay the bill.
Kate has to be one of the cheapest people I have ever had the displeasure to witness. What's so infuriating about these people is that they think they are 100% justified in their thinking.
lukebandit said... 110
What season and episode did the coupon gate occur? I want to go back and see if kate said what one poster said they thought she said, if I had a gun.
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The episode was called "The Big Move", and you can watch it here. Coupongate starts about 15:15. Kate never mentioned a gun, but did say "oh, I'm gonna shoot him".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIpjBtKpPA
She really was a bitch to him in that episode.
I remember a couple times my mom saying things like well we as a family decided this, or the family wants to do this. I remember as a teen when you are feeling your own individuality thinking excuse me I didn't agree with that!
It must be infuriating to hear your mom lump you all in the same boat day after day and will get more infuriating the older they get and the more they discover their own identity.
I hate that she even spoke out about Jon's child support at all, even if it was in general terms.
What business is that of anybody's? The support he pays is between the two of them and the judge.
And, Admin, isn't child support determined partially by the father's salary? Indicating that it's nowhere near as much as everyone thinks it is and just enough to cover lunches for the kids, as Kate made sure to do, is just despicable.
Because Jon had just given up reality TV and was working a "mediocre" job with his head held high, trying to support himself and his family, which is more than Kate has ever done. It probably wasn't the best salary he ever made, but he was doing it with integrity (don't know what his work status is now) and I bet he worked damn hard.
How dare she undermine that by sticking her nose up at the amount of child support he was paying?
Please pardon me, but what an inconsiderate bitch. Take away all of a man's pride, why don't you.
Kate, Jon may have given up on "fame" before you did, but he has more class in his pinky finger nail than you do in that entire overtanned, unhealthy body of yours.
Working Woman said... 124
Good morning everyone!
A fan tweeted this to Kate:
Kateplusmy8 Kate just a quick question would you put heat or ice on a cheek that hurts after wisdom teeth surgery? <3
You have to wonder, didn't this girl's dentist already give her instructions on how to minimize the pain? Even if he didn't, why wouldn't she just ask him?
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Good grief! My daughter had hers out this summer. They sent her home with a double ice pack that velcroed around her head like Marley's ghost, with written instructions on how to use it for the first 24 hours only.
Men have told me just about the worst thing in the world you can possibly do is insult a man's ability to provide for his family. This bitch knew exactly how low she was cutting. There are studies that losing a job to a man, is the same amount of grief that a woman feels upon miscarrying. Of course women loathe to be unable to provide too but for most men it's emotionally more trying. She is awful.
Yes income is a factor or what the judge thinks you can be earning (for instance if you have your MBA you can't try to go work at McDonalds to avoid paying a big support order). What is so obnoxious is why complain to the public? Go march your greedy little hiney over to the judge. Shouldn't she be bitching about the JUDGE if she has an order she's not happy with? That's not JON'S fault a judge told him to pay X amount. Her anger was not only uncalled for, but misplaced at the wrong person.
Lukebandit said
What season and episode did the coupon gate occur? I want to go back and see if kate said what one poster said they thought she said, if I had a gun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIpjBtKpPA
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Here it is:
The Big Move
At 15:51 Kate says she is going to shoot Jon for not using a coupon. Plenty of other controlling remarks and discussion of 'rules' follow.
(Google acct not working today?)
oops, put the link in with Lukebandit's question. Anyway, this it again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIpjBtKpPA
Good grief! My daughter had hers out this summer. They sent her home with a double ice pack that velcroed around her head like Marley's ghost, with written instructions on how to use it for the first 24 hours only.
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Of course they do. They have computerized instructions for everything. They send those home with each patient. Perhaps the sheeple can't read or is just very needy and wants a response from Kate. They'll do anything to get a tweet from her.
Whew just wrapped up cleaning up from our first Christmas party here. A nice carefree evening. If your grocery store sells gingerbread eggnog, run don't walk to get some.
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You spiked it with plenty of good old rumspringa, did you? ;)
I just watched The Big Move episode on YouTube. I don't think I saw it when it aired.
So many comments can be condensed into one word -- HINDSIGHT.
Kate was throwing away happiness with both hands, just as fast as she could.
I am glad Jon has kept his mouth shut for the most part, but for the life of me I can't figure out how he did it.
I am terrified of confrontation, terrified, and consider myself a peace maker. Yet if someone publicly humiliated me by implying that I wasn't doing everything I could do to support my children, I would call them out on it so fast they wouldn't know what hit them.
Also, Kate, pick a side. Either you don't regret choosing to do a reality show for a second because it has supported you and your kids financially the way you needed to be supported, or you're still a struggling single mother whose husband doesn't contribute squat. You CANNOT have it both ways.
Boy she's lucky I never interviewed her. I no longer watch her televised interviews in the very rare instances she does them. But when I used to watch them and would see her give some bs rationalization or dig at Jon, I would always decide in my head what I would have said to her in response if I were the interviewer. It was actually kind of a fun game lol.
For example, if I had been the one interviewing her when she made the comment about him "trying" to be a good dad, I would have politely and respectfully said, "Well, for what it's worth, as a viewer of the show it was quite evident to me that he loved his kids deeply and they loved him as much. So that counts for a lot, do you agree?"
I don't know if talkshow hosts and journalists are very limited in what they can say in response to those who they interview, maybe they are. But to me, there is nothing wrong with gently challenging a ridiculous claim that is made that tarnishes a father's integrity.
I don't know what Kate ever meant about Jon'trying' to be a good dad. Who did all the parenting chores ( most meals, dressing, bathing, making beds, cleaning up, vacuumed and cleaned bathrooms as well as playing and talking, hugging, and explaining things to the kids)The show supported them all, so she can't call him out on not working as they both chose that route. She does not have a job now, mediocre or otherwise.The kids cried to have him leave, even on errands and had to call him. That scene at the gate when he dropped them off after the divorce was heartbreaking, as was Alexis' remarks at the 5th birthday-- 'don't go away again, Daddy.'The kids obviously love him, a sign of a GOOD parent!!They don't seem to cry for Kate.
After watching "The Big Move" video, I saw a link to the "Kate Plus 8 School Time" episode where she and the kids went shopping for back to school stuff.
They should have named this episode "Let's see Kate's Boobs", because that's basically what you do see--on the interview couch, in her shopping attire, and even in how she was dressed at home.
Link for the back to school episode:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=HWvgQ_1o7kQ&NR=1
At the end of the episode, it shows them getting ready for school(at 5:30am), and Kate was asked if "this was a typical morning" and Kate responded "no, this is their orientation morning AND THEY BETTER GET IT RIGHT FROM NOW ON!" This was also the episode where she had them repeat the order in which they should eat their lunch.
I don't understand how her fans can watch these episodes and not think that something is wrong with her.
After reading Robert's book, I'd hate to think what happened if they didn't get it right.
Dutch Tulip!
My Dutch is rusty, so please forgive but:
Prettige feestdagen!
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I agree that episode should be named that! Also her skirt was totally see-through when she went through the front door in the sunlight...those tops were ridiculous. I bet the kids were embarrassed. This episode also showed Kate wanting to buy herself shoes while school shopping & the kids ran all over the store, misbehaving with the croc prop and other merchandise.Dinner showed us Kate's poor manners as she wolfed her salad and the kids managed with no knives. People got up from the table whenever they needed something- no etiquette here! Yet Kate makes such a fuss over order of eating lunch. The next AM, she is throwing the new shoes to the kids (not lined up on the table with new socks like the previous year's school epi) and stickers rather than sharpie names in the footwear- why the difference? This episode is one that shows Kate in her worst daily behaviors in dress, lack of manners, treatment of the kids, greed and fake
self-perception.
donkeybeshaw
@Kateplusmy8 RT QuoteHive @QuoteHive "The more one judges, the less one loves." -Honoré de Balzac
The sheeple tweet and retweet quotes/platitudes, but they have no idea who is behind the quote. This one wouldn't know Balzac if he hit him/her in the face. Balzac wrote about the dark side of humanity, in the realism genre, and was the favorite author of Marx and Engels. In one of his works, he also wrote...
"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
Kate's crime -- child exploitation. Has her "fortune" really been worth it?
"The Big Move" episode:
Imagine if the roles were reversed and we watched a TV show where Jon spoke to Kate the way she speaks to him. Imagine....the outcry of spousal verbal abuse.
I don't know why the standard should be any different depending on the gender of the angry person.
Just wanted to share this.
Got an email survey from Red Cross today. Took survey and at the end they wanted to know how they can improve. I told them how disappointed I was to see pic of Kate Gosselin wrapped in a RC blanket and appearing to be naked under it. I also asked them to never use Kate as a roll model again.
Waiting for a response, will keep y'all posted.
Flight of the Kiwi said... 143
You said that one flawless, dankjewel!
In the coupongate video, Kate said, "It's not about where you live, it's the memories you make where you live."
If it's not about where you live, then why wasn't she satisfied in an affordable house near the school, or in putting an addition on their existing house? Couldn't memories have been made there?
Dmasy
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Going on the same tangent, what if we witnessed Jon slapping Kate in the face? Hitting her on the leg?
Telling her she was breathing too loudly?
Don't know if we will be back, we 'have some ironing to do?
Do you always have to talk over me???
Double standards, indeed.
What if Jon had full custody, and we saw the video clip of the kids crying and screaming, Mommy don't leave me? as they were being returned to their father??
double standards!!!!
Interesting story from our local news (Kate's "old" hometown)...
"In Elizabethtown, officers watched as students approached the school, but they weren’t the only ones on standby.
It was the last day before the holiday break at East High Street Elementary School. There was still excitement in the air, but it’s hard not to notice that the flag was not as high in the air. It’s lowered to half-staff in honor of 20 kids, the same age as the kids at this elementary school.
“I was watching these kids come out yesterday and they were so happy. I don’t see how somebody could have done something like that,” said Brian Knepp, Elizabethtown.
“I’m just a little emotional, obviously,” said Paula Tobias, a parent.
Though Friday, it wasn’t just the tragedy that was making parents emotional; it was one man, a veteran, a volunteer, doing something out of the kindness of his heart.
“[I’m doing this] to help them feel safer about going to school,” said Knepp.
Knepp served two years in the Navy. He has relatives in the Elizabethtown school district but knows no one at the school, at least not before now.
“Sir I would really like to thank you for what you’re doing out here. My kids mean the world to me and I feel like they’re a little safer with you here,” another parent said when walking toward Knepp.
He stands guard from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. He is unarmed, ready to risk his life, but feels he can hold his own.
“Ah I can handle it,” said Knepp.
He’s not the only one in uniform here, but he’s the one you wouldn’t expect and some teachers are grateful.
“Is there anything we can do for you? Can we get you any food, coffee, anything like that?” one teacher asked Knepp.
School leaders haven’t been as welcoming though. Knepp started out right in front of the school, but they asked him to get off their property so now he stands across the street.
“I understand them not wanting him on their grounds, but I think him standing here is just a wonderful thing that he’s doing,” said Tobias.
The district issued a statement saying, “while certain ideas may seem like excellent prevention measures to some, these same ideas may cause concern to others.”
“It’s understandable with everything that happened…it’s a strange person standing on school property,” said Knepp.
So Knepp has backed off, but he’s not backing down. He plans to come back for a few days after the break.
“There are 20 kids in Connecticut that won’t come home for Christmas. I want to make sure everyone at this school goes home,” said Knepp.
Is that the episode where they ended up at Austin's because the kids "always wanted" to go there. The one where she pawed at their food and divided two plates of foods between the all of them. She put her hands all over it and the kids were watching her and were obviously very hungry. Al*xis was pretending to eat off the table. She patted the food after she got through cutting it up and eventually handed it over begrudgingly. It was bizarre.
Pity Party said... 153
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No, that was Gymnastics and Baseball IIRC. Yes, it was weird how she divided 5 kids' meals up instead of letting them each have one- take a doggy bag home if you want! She wanted the twins to have steamed broccoli! give them a break- she said it was a rare treat. I noticed some kids did not say thank you.They will never learn manners with Kate around!
Formerly Duped said... 154
''No, that was Gymnastics and Baseball IIRC. Yes, it was weird how she divided 5 kids' meals up instead of letting them each have one- take a doggy bag home if you want! She wanted the twins to have steamed broccoli! give them a break- she said it was a rare treat......''
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I went to UTube to watch KK behave badly w/the kid's meals. While there, I saw the episode of potty training was also available, and almost watched it. But remembering KK's abuse of the toddlers during potty training, my stomach flopped, knowing I was unable to watch those babies at the exact time KK was so violently abusive, and I watched neither!
Formerly Duped said... 154
No, that was Gymnastics and Baseball IIRC. Yes, it was weird how she divided 5 kids' meals up instead of letting them each have one- take a doggy bag home if you want! She wanted the twins to have steamed broccoli! give them a break- she said it was a rare treat......I noticed some kids did not say thank you.They will never learn manners with Kate around!
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Just watched some of that gymnastics episode and was slightly creeped out by all the shots of the little girls in the locker room in their leotards. Cute to me as a mom, but I thought how pervs would love those scenes.
After the dinner scene where she oddly portioned out everyone's food in her controlling way, I fast forwarded through most of the rest with Jon and the kids at the game. Watched the last minute or two and then noticed in the credits - sicko perv pedophile Bill Blankenship was the online editor. It turns my stomach to think what locker room footage he had to go through of the kids changing into their leotards for gymnastics.
Spelling correction - Bill Blankinship
Bullsh*t meter on HIGH said... 156
Watched the last minute or two and then noticed in the credits - sicko perv pedophile Bill Blankenship was the online editor. It turns my stomach to think what locker room footage he had to go through of the kids changing into their leotards for gymnastics.
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Interesting. Kate's rabid, idiotic and uninformed fans say there's no proof that Blanknship worked on any of the JK8 episodes. They're wrong AGAIN!
Interesting. Kate's rabid, idiotic and uninformed fans say there's no proof that Blanknship worked on any of the JK8 episodes. They're wrong AGAIN!
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How can they possibly say that? He is listed in the credits for like at least 30 episodes! Denial at its finest.
How can they possibly say that? He is listed in the credits for like at least 30 episodes! Denial at its finest.
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I'm sure they never watched the credits after the Blankinship bombshell was announced. It's that head-in-sand syndrome. Better to be in denial with everything Kate-ish.
Off topic, sorry, but if you are still looking to do something for the less fortunate, or need something for your own family, I just got back from Old Navy and they had puffy coats for $13! All fleece is $6! The coats are not the greatest, but with a fleece under it, it would be good. Scarces, hats and gloves for $2. For less than $25, I got coat, matching fleece/scarf/gloves. I bought 2 sets. Thermal shirts are $5 too. I am going back after Christmas because they'll be clearing everything out. Those are unbelievable deals. I work with several organizations and most are overwhelmed with donations right now, but they will be needing stuff again in January, the coldest month.
You know, I'm going to go ahead and say it. I even wish Kate to have some holiday cheer. Even though from what I've seen the holiday is so over materialistic to some people I at least hope she will be able to sit back and realize she should be greatful for what she has. I hope even if just once she'd enjoy the holidays not for what she's going to get or give her kids but enjoy it because somehow it's surely a miracle she's out of work and still able sit on her butt and Tweet. Happy Holidays Kate and here's to another day of you being blessed to do absolutely nothing.
but enjoy it because somehow it's surely a miracle she's out of work and still able sit on her butt and Tweet.
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It's a CHristmas miracle isn't it?! She has been out of a steady job for a YEAR AND A HALF. Few people are able to do that and be just fine.
She should be down on her knees thanking God every day that she is able to not work and is doing FINE. Most people a year and a half in have resorted to government assistance and are dime, nickel and penny pinching hoping they can some how some way create some kind of Christmas this year for their family.
Ipods??? Go away.
Don't worry, if I played my cards right, you know the onlly thing I asked for on my list to Santa? That he would please make sure Kate gets a dose of rality in her stocking.
I decided maybe to have some fun for Christmas. Hope I get what I asked for. It would be nice.
But my guess is Kate asked for that bag of coal because she'll probably be stupid enough sit there and hope it'll turn to diamonds.
Friend of mine, she's not been out of work that long but even she said she is reduced to having to make homemade gifts and her son might on get one gift this year. So please Kate, remember you are fortunate if you're still somehow able scrap together the money from your bottomless piggy bank for all your kids to have iPods, but don't worry those will be obsolite (heck I just butchered that right?) in a few years so go ahead and keep that reciept.
OT Alert. Unfortunately, I won't be able to see my grandsons this Christmas because both my hubs and my SIL have to work on Christmas Eve. However, so far this has been one of the best Christmas seasons I've had.
We did a Christmas food drive at work, as we do every year. This year I delivered 1223 items to the local food pantry! Last year was our best and I delivered 602 items, so it more than doubled.
Then, I found out about 2 families that I work with that have to go to a food pantry to make ends meet. I knew about one family, but didn't know about the other 2. A few of us got together, pooled our money and bought them meats, fresh vegetables and fruits, 10 lbs of potatoes each, plus a 9-10 lb ham for Christmas with all the trimmings.
We tried to give it anonymously, but they found out/guessed. On Thursday, someone at work came up behind me and gave me big hug. I turned to see it was one of the women that we provided food to. She thanked me for the pork chops that she made for dinner the night before. Then she said that her 12 year old was so grateful and said mom, we haven't pork chops in years. That just really hit home with me.
This child was excited about pork chops, yet is is something that many of us take for granted; having steak, chicken, chops, ground beef, apples, oranges, etc.
These families do not get produce or meat at the local food pantries; everything is canned. I couldn't help but say a prayer to God and thank him for blessing some of us with enough that we could share with those that are struggling.
This is honestly not a brag, it's a reminder to those who have a little extra to help those who have little to nothing.
Merry Christmas to all of you.
Love,
LoveMyGrandsons
Oh my gosh. I read my post and hate how I worded one of the sentences. I know so many of you here have done so much to help others and give to those less fortunate. I admire you all for that and I'm so sorry if that sentence came our wrong. I honestly didn't mean to offend anyone. I need to read my posts better BEFORE I hit publish.
So please Kate, remember you are fortunate if you're still somehow able scrap together the money from your bottomless piggy bank for all your kids to have iPods, but don't worry those will be obsolite (heck I just butchered that right?) in a few years so go ahead and keep that reciept.
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I certainly hope that, in her drawer of coupons, she had eight of them for the iPods. You know that she never buys anything without a coupon.
Maybe, though, she didn't need to buy them because sheeple stepped up and either sent them to her, or mailed her gift cards.
Nah, only coupons in her drawer is for 50% off on fat chance stardom with her next cup of Starbuck blondie.
Marie, you are on fire, thanks for the belly laughs!
You COUNTED every delivery you made? For what purpose?
A straight out brag, I work at a food bank and often they want a count before they sort and it also is used for accounting and receipting purposes. Boy Scouts do a huge drive here and count thousands ofitems in 1 day
straight out brag, I assume you are referring to my post. Yes, we count each item because we have a friendly inter department contest as to what department contributes the most. We have a "Most Charitable" trophy that goes to the winning department, as well as a special certificate. The certificate the department keeps, but the trophy gets transferred, if you will, to the the department that contributes the most to the next food drive.
The ultimate winners are not the department that gets the trophy, it is the food pantry and families that use it.
Thank you, PJ's Momma, for explaining it better.
LMG, don't let them get under your skin. The food bank adjusts what they give to each family against what they have at any time as well.
a straight out brag said... 170
This must be a sheeple. People do give to charity, sheeple. Normal people don't grift when they have millions of dollars sitting in the bank. Normal people think about how they can help others instead of how others can help them even though they have millions of dollars sitting in the bank. Contributions have to be counted and accounted for but I guess you didn't know that.
I think if you don't like what someone is saying you should keep it to yourself. Besides, if we are "all anonymous" it hardly makes sense to say someone is bragging. They are as anonymous as you are here. Who cares.
Thank you, Jo.
You COUNTED every delivery you made? For what purpose?
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Of course every delivery is counted. I headed a social services organization, and each delivery is recorded, as well as what goes into the delivery. Records are also kept on the families as well; paperwork and accounting is important to make sure that all families that are helped get their share according to their needs.
Perhaps those who never helped in such volunteering and contributions should do some research to see exactly how these organizations are run, and then do some volunteering themselves.
Counting of donations is also very important to see what techniques are working and what aren't. For instance if you handed out flyers and got a huge spike in donations you can link it to the flyers. If you made phone calls and donations went down, you would know that's turning people off.
Try volunteering sometime and you would know this.
LMG,
Thank you for being a cheerful giver. It speaks so much to who you are, that although you won't see those precious grandsons for Christmas, this is still one of the best Christmas's you've had. It speaks volumes to selflessness and helping others.
I've read your posts for a long time now, and everything you write speaks of love and compassion.
And to turn it back to Kate, I bet Scrooge is a philanthropist compared to her.
Midnight Madness, you rock.
Sorry all, I didn't mean to derail this blog by posting that comment. I was proud of what my coworkers did and how we banded together to help those less fortunate. Giving is what Christmas is all about.
LovemyGrandsons, you are truly a good and generous woman.
As are the rest of you wonderful posters. I love reading about what you do to make a difference in the lives of others.
There's really nothing like it in this world.
LMG, your have such obvious, genuine love for your grandsons. Reading your posts often makes me sad to think that the Gosselin children will never have that kind of loving relationship with grandparents :(
Thank you, aggiesmom. We have shared stories back and forth and I love it. If you're ever in Chicago, I want to treat you to a rumspringa!
Admin, thank you for your support. More importantly, thank you for all you do to make this the wonderful blog that it is.
Working Woman, that was very sweet, thank you. I know you are a "youngun", but you are wise beyond your years. Merry Christmas, darlin'.
LMG,
How 'bout you come to TX instead?? It's warmer down here, LOL.
I don't do cold weather. BRR!
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Your post made me teary eyed, warmed my heart and hurt it as well. So sad to hear of that little boy's plight.
Merry Christmas, LMG.
I'm too far behind to catch up on all the posts so this may be a repeat.
From Time Magazine that I received in the mail today - Dec. 31st - Jan. 7, 2013. Article entitled "The Year Highs and Lows - Our Guide to Winners and Losers" - Kates - Good Year - Middleton is pregnant, Bad Year - Gosselin was fired from her coupon-blogging job.
Now aggie darlin', you know I can't come to Texas. Every time I get time off, I go to Iowa to see my boys! Besides, my SIL lives in Texas and tells me how hot it is. With my menopause hot flashes, I couldn't take any more heat!!!
I enjoy hearing about all the community and charitable activities everyone is involved in!
Remember, this us the usual time a few stray baabaas wander over here. Ignore, age, or just wish them a merry Christmas, and they will get bored and wander off.
Straight out humble brag, Merry Christmas! Just because Love My Grandsons has unspotted me, I am taking a donation to our church food pantry tomorrow! Thank you, LMG!!
Joy, be sure to say how many items you take, to get them all stirred up again! LOL! Just kidding, good on you!
Love My Grandsons has INSPIRED me!
And agree! That will confuse 'em!
Auto correct strikes again.
Awww, shoot, all I want for Christmas is for this to come in Twitter
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JoyinVirginia, thanks for explaining that. I was scratching my head wondering how I "unspotted" you! Lol!!
I know from your mamy posts, you don't need inspiration, giving comes natural to you.
You know all, I love nights like this when the last of my laundry is in the dryer, and I'm on this blog, and we're all just talking back and forth like old friends. Thanks to all of you for making this blog so special, especially you, Admin!
Here's the Time article:
http://poy.time.com/2012/12/19/the-year-in-highs-lows/
Remember, this us the usual time a few stray baabaas wander over here. Ignore, age, or just wish them a merry Christmas, and they will get bored and wander off.
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I think what happens is that it's getting cold outside and even colder under the troll bridge. Eventually they have to come out of the frigid weather, and they land here. They like it here so much because we are warm and friendly. Wish them a Merry Christmas and then offer them a hot toddy with a rumspringa chaser. 'Tis the season.
Everyone -- keep warm thoughts. Celebrate the season with all your goodness.
I am enjoying all the stories of giving.
I'm going to put out some warm gingerbread eggnog with or without spiked with Rumspringa and invite the trolls in out of the cold. In the spirit of the season.
Well, I will follow everyone's gracious lead.
Merry Christmas to Kate and all of her fans. A very special Merry Christmas to the Gkids, Honey BooBoo, and all the children.
Good night all.
Thank you LMG, how kind :)
Wishing everyone who celebrates a bright, merry, love-filled Christmas.
I am Jewish, but Christmas is still one of my favorite, if not my single favorite, time of the year. The spirit, the love and generosity that are rampant, the music. It's just fantastic and you can't help but feel blessed.
Has anyone seen This is 40? The movie with one of my favorite actors, Paul Rudd. That will probably be the movie my family and I go see on Christmas this year (we do the movie/chinese food thing lol). Was just curious if anyone has seen it or heard anything about it?
Also, kind of looking forward to the Kate's Worst Moments of 2012 post, not gonna lie...
Well, there they have it -- hospitality with warm gingerbread eggnog, humor, kindness and stimulating conversation.
What? They still don't like us?
You just can impress some people...
Is it true Barbara Walters named Honey Boo Boo one of the 10 most interesting people?
See ya, Kate. You're old news.
On a serious note, what child deserves to be on that list? What child should have that kind of intense scrutiny. It's so wrong.
It's terrible how Honey Boo Boo is exploited.
I never watched her show, I've actually never even seen what she looks like, but I have heard people say really nasty things about her. :(
What child deserves to be put out there for the public to say cruel things about her?
Please don't judge me for this... but far before the Kate Gosselin saga came out, during my high school years in like 2005-2006, I was OBSESSED with TLC's A Baby Story. Gosh, I remember one day I stayed home from school due to being sick and watched it all morning. I loved that show, absolutely loved it. Loved hearing about the husband and wives' journey to becoming pregant and seeing how they were preparing for the birth of their baby and all of that.
It invaded couples' pregnancies and birthing experiences, sure, but it seemed innocent enough. They were clearly choosing to have their stories broadcasted and in the birthing room, nothing inappropriate was shown.
8 years later, everything TLC touches is shit. I swear it's now run by a bunch of sadists. They don't care what shit they put out there, the more invasive and exploitive the better.
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