Michelle Duggar on children and grandchildren

Michelle recently shared this sweet message after her daughter, Jill, welcomed her second child into the world. Samuel marks the eight grandchild for Michelle and her husband Jim Bob. The couple is currently expecting their ninth grandchild to arrive later this year.

"There is something so surreal about seeing your children grown, living their lives and even having their own children. As a mom, I have sweet little ones at home and grown children, too. Both stages of life are beautiful in their own way and so very different As our children become adults, we have the opportunity to be their friends and to enjoy their friendship. Watching them walk through the milestones of life such as marriage, having children, buying a home, etc. is a bit unbelievable at times! As a momma, I continue to pray for them always. I am so thankful for each of our children and their lives and I love, love, love the addition of sweet grandbabies to our family! They are for sure a major bonus to your children growing up! So to all the mommas out there, keep praying, enjoy the friendship of your adult children and love those grandbabies!!!! #mommaspray" - Michelle

Trivia questions answer!

This week's trivia questions
This week's for this week's episode. All can be found on the blog @Duggarsfans.blogspot.com
1. What did Michael do at the store? touch everything in the store but at least he did not break an egg like he did when he was a year old.
2. What did Anna make for the friends that were coming over? Chicken
3. who painted a gun pink? Josie
4.  Who is engaged? Erin Bates
5. When did they get engaged? August 5

back to school!

Back to Homeschooling with the Duggars

FAMILY MATTERS on 09.03.13

Michelle Duggar19 Kids and CountingBIO

 

Photo: DCL

Question from a "19 Kids and Counting" fan on Facebook: How do you monitor how the kids are doing with homeschooling? Do they have tests that they take every year? And how do the kids feel about going “back to school” in the fall?

In the state of Arkansas, we take tests every year just like the public school kids do, so at the end of each school year, we will go and take our standardized tests. Every state is different on how their homeschool laws work, but we file our letter of intent to homeschool at the beginning of each school year. We start in August and do a little through the summer, to keep up with things like music lessons and reading. My kids are always reading. They’re usually reading either science or history books -- keeping their minds busy with good reading material, a lot of biographies and that sort of stuff.

Our schedule changes depending on the season of life that we’re in. Right now, we’ve got a lot of older children that are working, driving, and coming and going. Often, I will have a schedule on the wall and then six months later, I’ll switch it up a little bit and change the times that they’re going to be practicing their music or doing their science, history, or law, etc. I switch it up just because it makes it a little bit more interesting than always doing the same thing at the same time. Usually we do breakfast, lunch and dinner about the same time, but all those other things can move around in the schedule. And that makes it more fun for them.

Their excitement about going back to school is probably the same as everyone else’s kids. When they’re young, it’s always so exciting to get back or at least get started on schoolwork. The first time, they feel like big kids and they’re in school. They’re just thrilled.

My bigger ones that have been through it year after year see it more like going back to the grind. Once we’re in that routine, I can tell everybody really is glad to be back -- even though they might not say it! There is the comfort of being in that routine again. We’re checking off our list. We’re accomplishing this stuff. And we’re actually remembering all this great stuff we have learned!

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Duggar trivia questions!

Trivia questions are taken from the recent blog from Michelle's TLC blog! We have so kind of posted on our blog: http://fanpageofduggars.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-duggars-share-love-on-valentines-day.html
1. Which family does the duggar spend it with? (TLC blog)
2. What do the duggars do with them? (TLC blog)
3. Which month did Jim Bob and Michelle not have any children?
4. How many Valentine's days has Jim Bob and Michelle spend together?
5. How many Valentine's day has Josh and Anna spend together?

The new season starts March 12, 2013! 

How we celebrate the duggar birthdays?!

Many of you are wondering how this blog is celebrating the duggar's birthday! Well our first duggar birthday is Josh on March 3! We have planned a blog for Josh!