Kate with the twins and sextuplets

So I was channel hopping, and landed on the second Gosselin 1 hour special Surviving Sextuplets and Twins: One Year Later. It showed (in extreme detail, may I add) the graphic tummy tuck surgery that Kate had one year after giving birth to the sextuplets.

It makes me sad how Jon and Kate went from loving parents to ripping each other to shreds via press releases and glossy mag articles. And it makes me sad how much of a douche Jon is. There was one clip where Jon was snuggling in her neck when she arrived back home.. it was a bit bizarre!

I’m so happy that Kate was able to get the surgery that she wanted – but isn’t it disgustingly ironic that on one side, you see the kindness of Dr. Glassman and his wife by contacting Kate and giving her the surgery for free and opening up their home to her during her post-op recovery and then on the other side you have their daughter, Hailey Glassman, who was Jon’s girlfriend after/(while) he was married to Kate. Yuck.

And then, to top it all off, Hailey did an interview last week saying how hot Kate is with her new hair and how much of a super douche Jon is. Yes, she is right on both counts, Kate’s hair does look cute and Jon is just ridiculous.. But I’m sure all of the sucking up on Hailey’s part won’t pay off.. These two won’t be going to get their hair done together any time soon.. I bet Kate is glad she doesn’t have this mess hanging around anywhere near her beautiful kids – what a great role model!!!

I’m glad that the Gosselin children have their mummy. It really gave me the sads watching Kate return from her surgery and being with her babies and they were so cute and happy to see her! One of the little girls kept saying “hi…. mummy….. hi…… hi……”! So precious!

In this new weekly segment, I’m going to do a little round up of what I’ve found to be the most interesting bits of news for the last week. For some reason, this week has felt really long, there has been a LOT of stuff going on – there have been lots of conspiracy stories, lots of leaked info..

Firstly, Twilight hit theaters last weekend. Twilight is truly a money making franchise! Find out how much money it made here!

In TV news, Jon & Kate Plus 8 is now done. The series finale was this week and the couple will now move on in their separ8 directions – hopefully with their beautiful childrens’ best interests at heart. What did you think of the finale?

Biometrics – more and more countries are pooling their biometric data: fingerprints, retina scans, facial mapping. Is anything private anymore?!?!?!? I don’t think so!

New criticism about the cover of W Magazine. Is it Demi Moore’s head on model Anja Rubik’s body? or is it 100% Demi? You decide!

9/11 messages posted on Wikileaks. Is it wrong? Unethical? Necessary to uncover the truth? What do you think?

Mininova has taken most of its content offline in a bid to prevent copyright infringement because of some lawsuit. Read the full story here!

Finally, I have joined Twitter.. Tweet Tweet!! Follow me! I JUST set it up, so not everything is on there.. Bear with me!!!

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This little roundup will be a weekly thing. So if you don’t want to visit every day, then at least check in before the weekend!

Alrighty, I hope you all have a fantastic weekend.. To those of you in the USA, Happy Thanksgiving!

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I hope Kate gets full custody of her kids and that they grow up to be happy and successful in whatever it is they do. And I love Hannah for not putting on the fireman hat because it would mess up her hair! x

When Jon & Kate Plus 8 first aired, I loved it. No, I was obsessed with it. Half Asian babies are So cute!!! ahem…

As a family unit, they seemed to work really well, and it was clear that they both really loved their children. The children… They’re so charming, and precious… And all of them are so beautiful. But then after watching for a while, something was different. Instead of finding Kate witty and her comments funny, I started to think that she was demeaning and belittled Jon with her snide remarks. Subsequently, I didn’t watch the show for quite a while (also, I didn’t have a TV, which didn’t help…).

Then came all the drama. Jon was cheating, Kate was putting her kids in the spotlight for the wrong reasons, they were bad parents, etc, etc.. They’ve been in the glossy mags without fail every week – Jon did this, Kate said that.. It was a bit too much – all the time! But was it all true?

When I realised yesterday’s episode would be the last of the series, I decided to watch it – thinking it would be interesting. Oh my, I got so angry! I didn’t realise Jon was so much of an awful person. So now he’s dating this Hailey girl, which is basically him having an early mid-life crisis. He said something about it being because he married and had babies too young and now that he’s not with Kate, he’s going back to life as a 23 year old. Dude, you’re 32 now.. with 8 kids! Step it up! Not being with your wife anymore doesn’t mean all the responsibility you had has gone. You’re a PARENT, not a 23 year old bachelor! And when he started talking about how he has work and family separate with his apartment in New York and his family in the country – “the best of both worlds”, I wanted to jump into the TV and smack him. What a prick! He kind of seemed proud of himself… yuck. It was as if he was entitled to act like a frat boy. But the thing that gets me is that these people aren’t normal people. They’re followed by the paparazzo every day, and everything they do is made public and in some cases blown completely out of proportion. His kids are going to see this when they’re older and I wonder if Jon has thought about that..

Then with the lemonade thing. oh my god. He was so mean to his girls. The twins, Cara and Mady, were making a poster for the lemonade sale they were doing, and they were having a mini hissy fit about the coloured pens, “she has my pen”, “I want that pen”, “the yellow pen has run out”, “mommy has lots of yellow pens” – OUCH! And then one of them said “I like stuff we do with mom”. Jon got SO mad at her and immediately took her pens and poster and told her to go inside and said he’d put her poster in the trash, and she wasn’t allowed to go to the lemonade sale. Then the other twin was being a bit grumpy and she wasn’t allowed to go either. He was definitely being too harsh – he said they were rude. They must be going through so much, and at only 9 years old, he should be more caring to them, and listen and try to find out why they find “mommy time” more enjoyable. The twins are going to be teenagers soon, and will probably act out more!

Kate on the other hand.. I really like her. She’s a really good mummy to her kids. I’m sure having kids is a challenge.. and having 8 kids and now facing everything alone must be mentally and physically EXHAUSTING! Poor Kate.. I actually feel really bad for her. And she said her kids miss the crew. I know some people are like “yuck, she’s such a bad parent for putting her babies on TV at such a young age and they’re going to be all screwed up”. I know that with how the media is today that it will be difficult for her to give her kids a 100% normal life.. They’ll probably be on TMZ in 30 years time with the caption “What They’re Doing Now” or something stupid. But I hope that she can raise them out of the spotlight. She said that they don’t know about “girlfriends” and that that’s the last thing she wants them knowing about. Kudos Kate!

She took the sextuplets to their neighbours farm to milk the cows. They all walked, and by the way she spoke to the kids, you could tell that she is a really tough cookie and is going to raise them to be very strong. One of the boys was crying a bit from all the walking, and she told him to man up and stop crying. I think if the kids were with her all the time, it would really be beneficial. And she kind of spoke to them really matter-of-fact-ly.

When they were walking in the road “don’t worry the paparazzi will keep everyone else away from us”. Being that she has such a tough outer shell, it seemed that she was being very genuine when she said that she was said that her marriage had finished. She said that she has to be the hard-working parent model to her kids, and doesn’t want them to remember her tearing Jon apart, as it’s not constructive or helpful. How true is that!! She acknowledges that it’s so important for her kids to spend time with their father and that they need that time. Maybe it got edited out, but Jon didn’t mention anything like that. It was clear that she really misses the partnership that they had, and wishes that it turned out differently. And she doesn’t look at her babies and see dollar signs, she sees the opportunities that they had to go to different places, and she’s grateful for all the memories that they now have on tape.

I hope Kate gets full custody of her beautiful kids and that they grow up to be happy and successful in whatever it is they do. And I love Hannah for not putting on the fireman hat because it would mess up her hair! x