It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman -- she's pregnant with her 18th child.
Michelle Duggar is surrounded by her children and husband Jim Bob, after the birth of her 17th child in 2007.
Michelle
Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join
seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins.
"We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing.
The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer, is nine months old.
The
fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a
7,000-square-foot home. All the children -- whose names start with the
letter J -- are home-schooled.
Duggar has been been pregnant for
more than 11 years of her life, and the family is in the process of
filming another series for Discovery Health.
The new show looks
at life inside the Duggar home, where chores -- or "jurisdictions" --
are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a
"jurisdiction swap," where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to
the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.
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"The girls
swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing
the grass," she said. "The boys got to cook supper from start to
finish, clean the bathrooms," among other chores.
Duggar said
she's six weeks along and the pregnancy is going well. She and her
husband, Jim Bob Duggar, said they'll keep having children as long as
God wills it.
"The success in a family is first off, a love for
God, and secondly, treating each other like you want to be treated,"
Jim Bob Duggar said. "Our goal is for each one of our children to be
best friends, and everybody working together to serve each other makes
that happen."
The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and
Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger,
14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9;
Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2
