Jon & Kate Plus 8 – Get OVER It!

OK, been a little quiet on the blog lately.  Getting a business off the ground, raising two little ones, and having a third baby have been keeping me a little busy.

But I can’t resist this one.

In doing some research on the web today (actually trying to select some relevant parenting news feeds for the upgraded and AMAZING soon-to-be-launced MomsOutLoud.com website), I saw a few snippets on the Jon & Kate Plus 8 “controversy”.  As every working Mom on a deadline would, I tabled my interest just then, only to be picked up once the kids were in bed, dinner dishes cleaned up, and living room/kitchen tidied.  Well….at least the kids were in bed.

I stopped watching Jon & Kate Plus 8 a few years ago because it made me uncomfortable.  I hate the way she treats him.  I hate the way they talk to each other.  They snip and snap, sit with arms crossed as far apart from each other on the sofa as possible.  Talk about tension you can cut with a knife!  Clearly they are not happy people, and honestly I’m not sure how anyone could be happy living with her.  Sorry, I hate to talk bad about another woman, but really …. she is over-the-top.

Anyway, so much to my surprise, I’m reading tonight about Jon’s “outing” with a former college “friend”, the rumors about divorce, speculation about Monday night’s season premiere.  Best article, by the way, is from the Vancouver Sun – “Jon & Kate Plus 8:  Is Kate Grosselin No Better than the Octomom?”.

And the only thing I can say is:  is anyone surprised?  Could you NOT see this coming with all the bites back and forth between them, all the dagger-eyed looks from her to him across the couch, the “beaten-down” look Jon generally wears?

Well, maybe there is a second thing I can say:  who really cares?

Why we as a society prefer to spend our evenings peering inside other people’s dysfunctional homes instead of staying in our box of our own (sometimes) dysfunctional ones is beyond me.  Maybe it makes us feel better somehow?  (I personally have not seen Kate’s haircut, but maybe I should because it possibly would make me feel better about my own 15-years-running-straight-hair-mostly-in-a-ponytail look.)

I, for one, will NOT be watching the season premiere.  I will probably be cleaning up the house, doing laundry, or some other task in my own reality vs. watching someone else’s.

But, I likely will be checking the headlines Tuesday morning for what I missed.