Twenty Kids and Counting...Why is This News?

So Michelle Duggar, mom on “19 Kids and Counting” is pregnant again. And this is news. I don’t understand it.

There they are on the cover of all the gossip magazines, not to mention celebrity and pop culture websites and even CNN! The Today Show “unveiled” her latest “surprise” just the other morning.

A “surprise”? Seriously folks?

And now twitter is all a blaze over whether this pregnancy is “safe” or not.
Who are we to judge?

Having twenty kids on the Irish-Catholic block I grew up on was the norm (ok, maybe not 20…) but having ten kids running around was normal. My mother, who only chose to have three was seen as a slacker. And I’m eight years younger than my sister (so we all know she really only wanted two)! Growing up, we were surrounded by Finnegans, Flanagans, Simons, Toolans all with 5-10 kids… and usually one or two would end up eating at our house.

If this is her choice, then more power to her. It’s not like she’s the “Octo-Mom” who needs to be in jail for child endangerment in my humble opinion… for those jacked up lips!

Michelle Dugger just might be smarter than most eternally-pregnant woman—she’s got a show that people like to watch. A show that pays the bills and pays for the addition(s) to their home and gas for their bus and allows the whole fam-damily to now travel to Europe.

While I’m personally not a viewer, I could care less how many kids this woman chooses to have—God knows she has the help! And the money…which many large families in this economy these days do not have.

Good for her. Now if she’d only fix that hair…