Family

So you don't know, but I will tell you that I am finally netflixing and catching up with Jon and Kate Plus 8. I started watching some of the episodes last year while I was living with Nick's family and ended up stopping right after season 2 because we were moving and I didn't want to get episodes that I would not be able to watch during the day, and not want to watch at night. (If you know me it is understandable, I have to have suitable movies for Nick and me both to watch at night or it is just "not fair") So I started back up where I left off, and let me tell you had I not know that there was a medis frenzy over child exploitation or whatnot I would have thought that they were the cutest little family, and that I reminded myself of Kate. (Oh, God did I just say that!?!) I know I am high-strung, a touch OCD when it comes to how things look and how clean things are, and possibly a little naggy towards Nick. It's a side of me however, that I probably would have issues having filmed and out there for people to see. (Note: I never hit Nick like she hits Jon, that is not a love tap, that is a "you pissed me off, so there!" slap)

Anyway, the kids are ADORABLE!! I am probably the last person on the earth who figured this out. At the point I am at in episodes they have not yet turned 4, but are close to it, and already the father seems a little disconnected, and snarky towards his wife. There are times that I want to slap Jon and tell him "Hello!!" like his wife does, and tell him that at a moments notice, all of those moments are going to be gone, so he better soak them up. Mind you though, I am not a parent so I don't know how stressful this stuff is, however I did take care of three kids that were not mine for almost a year, and that was cake. So, at this point the father is a tad bit disconnected from his family, and most of all his wife, and it is troubling to me. I don't see how that could happen, but I guess people have their turmoil and they find a way to get through it, in their case divorce, poor kids!

So back to how g-darn adorable these kids are. They talk to the cameras which I believe follow them around year round, and they go on these little outings and act too cute for words, throwing fits here and there and being oh so loud! They somehow find a way to remind you in EVERY episode how charming they are, yet reason with you with their tempers on how they can be a handful, or 6 handfuls. I have grown to love and loath them, mostly love, with the loathing saved for the second oldest and rather troubled daughter Mady. I think by now I would have strangled her. Thank God I am not her mother!! At one point in a past episode she was being quite a terrible child and hitting her siblings left and right saying that it was an accident when it was clearly not, and after a couple times getting in trouble she was talking to her mother about accidents and asked a question similar to this "If I take out my pencil and poke someone "accidentally" is it still an accident?" Um HELLO!!! (Kate's voice can be used here) that kid needed an attitude change! She ends up learning through watching the show how horrible she had been, and it was cool for her to learn not to hit, but her way of fixing it was hitting the kid, seeing the camera, and thinking 'oh no!' and going back and saying sorry. Which I guess instills a sense of right and wrong, but in a way only because the cameras are there.

I think now that the kids are five or six, the cameras should be shut off on their lives, it was cute while they were young and the family really did need the help, but it is scary to see the changes, especially in the older ones. I think all of the things that happen are possibly staged, and if that is the case, it really sucks. I think that there should be social outings and game nights and things where the family does things together, and where they do things apart. I don't think that divorce should have been an option. I don't think that it is right to leave a situation like that in any sense and leaving is like abandoning your young. It's a sad situation and I thought I should reflect on it today as I am thinking about convincing Nick to get a cat. Yes I want a little one around, but no, I do not want a rolly-poly-shit machine. I want to start a little family lol but with animals rather than humans! So attached you will see Brad, my hopeful adoptee, and the pic of the cute little family. How hard it must be to get a good picture of them! I have a hard enough time with the six in my family at Christmas!