As I stared at the Duggar Family’s 2014 Christmas card, my mouth agape, I actually began to wonder. Why don’t more Christmas cards wish Jesus a happy birthday? Why are we sending specialized Christmas cards when we should really send out birthday cards to Jesus? Happy birthday Jesus! Even though December 25th probably isn’t your real birthday, and the first Christians just co-opted a pagan winter festival years after your death and claimed that for sure, you were born in December, wink, nudge. The biblical passage on the Duggar’s Jesus B-Day card reads:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a child is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulders: and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. – Isaiah 9:6.”
So now you know.
Meanwhile, there’s some somewhat sad news about the oldest Duggar daughter, Jana. Jana is an “old maid” at the age of 24, and she’s basically her parents’ slave at this point. Jana takes care of the house and raises her youngest siblings, all while her sisters get to “court” and act like wanton harlots with boys who are afraid of French kissing. Well, here’s yet another story about how Jana is the saddest of all Duggars:
The Duggars have once again ditched their eldest daughter! While many members of the 19 Kids and Counting family recently took off for a missionary trip to El Salvador, Jana was left at home caring for some of her younger siblings.
On Dec. 12, Michelle Duggar posted a Facebook update about the trip, and fans quickly noticed that Jana was missing from the family photos. “Where’s Jana?” they questioned, noting that the 24-year-old hadn’t been on this annual trip in the years prior, either.
It turns out Jana was left behind in Arkansas to care for the four youngest Duggars, Johanna, Jennifer, Jordyn and Josie. Jessa Duggar and Ben Seewald didn’t make the trip to El Salvador, but they weren’t around to help out Jana, either. Instead, they headed to Malvern, Arkansas, where they were the Grand Marshals of a holiday parade, and then enjoyed a weekend getaway in Hot Springs.
“While Jessa is being treated like the Homecoming princess, Jana is at home cooking, cleaning and tending to four, active young kids,” an insider gripes. “The Duggars make thousands of dollars per episode. If they have to be gone, they can afford to hire a babysitter now and then to give Jana a break.”
This recent unfair treatment has had fans rallying around Jana and constantly coming to her defense on social media.
Poor Jana. But at least her parents give her enough leeway to run their house in their absence, you know? And when Jim-Bob and Michelle are away… well, let’s hope that Jana has some fun. I hope she draws a bubble bath, smokes a blunt and has a glass of wine at the very least. What do you think is “worse” in Duggar-land? The idea that a 24-year-old slave-daughter would front-hug a boy without her parents’ permission, or the idea that a 24-year-old slave-daughter would pour a glass of wine and take a nice long bath?
Photos courtesy of Duggar family social media.
