I do not belong in a world of broken pieces...

[kimana83]

+ I think I'm allergic to winter. Okay, not really, but during winter I get frequent inexplicable sinus headaches that come and go as they please, and are usually without any other symptoms. Just another reason to be glad for resuming normal high temperatures tomorrow. We set a record low last night. I'm glad to be done with that for a while

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[kimana83]

I think they're nuts. But it's their prerogative to be nuts (we're not China yet) and while I think the parents should raise the kids, rather than their philosophy of the older kids raise the younger kids, Ken, Amanda and John said all the kids who were in E.S. with them were sweet, fun, and well-adjusted. Amanda, whom I guess you probably didn't get to know very well, but she is a crazy fun outgoing never-homeschooled college girl, became friends with some of the older girls when they were down there and so, clearly, if they can be friends with Amanda they can't be that sheltered. LOL. I know Sarah hated raising her younger siblings, but apparently these kids love it. I'm guessing it's because there was so much other negativity in Sarah's family that it permeated everything, but the Duggars are in a much better situation.

All that said, I've never seen their show and until the parents were on The View a few weeks ago I'd never actually seen any of them on anything (except some of the pictures on the bulletin board in the church hallway!). I had only heard of them because people on my f-list occasionally ponder the rightness of their lifestyle. I'm looking forward to seeing their experience in El Salvador.

Also, coming from the perspective of always having wanted to adopt my kids, it makes me sad to think of the 18 already-born kids that they could have given a home to. As I said, that's their prerogative, and I don't think having that many kids is sinful at all, but it still makes me sad. Although, apparently while they were in E.S., the dad mentioned to Ken something about adopting one of the older kids from the orphanage.