ThisGatheredNest | Part 2

[HCB]

Did she really say they weren’t going to go ice skating because the toddlers and baby wouldn’t have fun? So never mind the 5 other children that would enjoy it. That just shows me they have too many kids when she says without an extra set of hands it wouldn’t be worth it. Yeah...wouldn’t be worth it for the majority of your children to have a blast because you’ll have to parent your young ones. The older kids barely get to do anything. Sad that their fun is dictated by their younger siblings that their mom just had to have. Angie seems to have lost interest in all her children besides the baby. Did anyone see in a recent video when Rosie was hugging on her and Angie was just patting her back and looking miserable? She barely listens to the older girls talk anymore. The boys and Rosie are left to play outside and draw to entertain themselves with barely any face to face time with their mother. And the twins run wild and just collapse wherever and whenever they want as long as there’s a pacifier and a TV on. They barely get cared for or taught anything besides cute tricks for the camera. I couldn’t believe my ears when recently in a vlog one of the parents said the twins stunk and needed a bath. How the hell do your 2 year olds get like that? At that age, baths were the best thing ever to my kids and they got at least one a day. What would even make them stink besides sitting in their own filth? They aren’t 9 year olds who smell like outside and sweat after hours in the yard! I can’t believe how much 2015 me loved this woman! I mean, I don’t even recognize Angie anymore (face or personality). The doting mom and witty woman I watched back then just doesn’t exist anymore. In my opinion, Angie has checked out completely from her family (including CR...I do not see love toward him in her anymore) in the pursuit of perfecting her career, her online image, and her physical appearance. And CR is completely overwhelmed, up to his ears in responsibility, and is not recognized or appreciated for the way he holds that house and family together. They need to leave YouTube. Suck it up that you’ll lose your lavish lifestyle because it’s what drove Angie to the point she’s at now anyway. CR needs to go back to his career and she needs to hire a nanny so she can work from home and attempt to be present in her kids’ lives again.

[Amsouthernbell]

I can’t believe that the twins are not speaking at all....also take your kids ice skating and just deal with the fact that you had to accumulate 8 kids and stand up to the challenge. CR needs to man up and rain her crazy ass in. The noise level in her vlogs is extremely annoying as well. I get that 8 kids make noise but there needs to be a little bit of order every once in awhile. Chaos is just nit good for children and especially not on high level like that.
There is no parenting going in what so ever.

[Beccaboom22]

Did she really say they weren’t going to go ice skating because the toddlers and baby wouldn’t have fun? So never mind the 5 other children that would enjoy it. That just shows me they have too many kids when she says without an extra set of hands it wouldn’t be worth it. Yeah...wouldn’t be worth it for the majority of your children to have a blast because you’ll have to parent your young ones. The older kids barely get to do anything. Sad that their fun is dictated by their younger siblings that their mom just had to have. Angie seems to have lost interest in all her children besides the baby. Did anyone see in a recent video when Rosie was hugging on her and Angie was just patting her back and looking miserable? She barely listens to the older girls talk anymore. The boys and Rosie are left to play outside and draw to entertain themselves with barely any face to face time with their mother. And the twins run wild and just collapse wherever and whenever they want as long as there’s a pacifier and a TV on. They barely get cared for or taught anything besides cute tricks for the camera. I couldn’t believe my ears when recently in a vlog one of the parents said the twins stunk and needed a bath. How the hell do your 2 year olds get like that? At that age, baths were the best thing ever to my kids and they got at least one a day. What would even make them stink besides sitting in their own filth? They aren’t 9 year olds who smell like outside and sweat after hours in the yard! I can’t believe how much 2015 me loved this woman! I mean, I don’t even recognize Angie anymore (face or personality). The doting mom and witty woman I watched back then just doesn’t exist anymore. In my opinion, Angie has checked out completely from her family (including CR...I do not see love toward him in her anymore) in the pursuit of perfecting her career, her online image, and her physical appearance. And CR is completely overwhelmed, up to his ears in responsibility, and is not recognized or appreciated for the way he holds that house and family together. They need to leave YouTube. Suck it up that you’ll lose your lavish lifestyle because it’s what drove Angie to the point she’s at now anyway. CR needs to go back to his career and she needs to hire a nanny so she can work from home and attempt to be present in her kids’ lives again.

This ^^ i watched Angie while pregnant with my second and marvelled at how she did so well with 5 and was always so upbeat and organised took her kids everywhere with her etc. She seems so nasty and sarcastic about CR and bored with her kids.

[Freecali]

Did she really say they weren’t going to go ice skating because the toddlers and baby wouldn’t have fun? So never mind the 5 other children that would enjoy it. That just shows me they have too many kids when she says without an extra set of hands it wouldn’t be worth it. Yeah...wouldn’t be worth it for the majority of your children to have a blast because you’ll have to parent your young ones. The older kids barely get to do anything. Sad that their fun is dictated by their younger siblings that their mom just had to have. Angie seems to have lost interest in all her children besides the baby. Did anyone see in a recent video when Rosie was hugging on her and Angie was just patting her back and looking miserable? She barely listens to the older girls talk anymore. The boys and Rosie are left to play outside and draw to entertain themselves with barely any face to face time with their mother. And the twins run wild and just collapse wherever and whenever they want as long as there’s a pacifier and a TV on. They barely get cared for or taught anything besides cute tricks for the camera. I couldn’t believe my ears when recently in a vlog one of the parents said the twins stunk and needed a bath. How the hell do your 2 year olds get like that? At that age, baths were the best thing ever to my kids and they got at least one a day. What would even make them stink besides sitting in their own filth? They aren’t 9 year olds who smell like outside and sweat after hours in the yard! I can’t believe how much 2015 me loved this woman! I mean, I don’t even recognize Angie anymore (face or personality). The doting mom and witty woman I watched back then just doesn’t exist anymore. In my opinion, Angie has checked out completely from her family (including CR...I do not see love toward him in her anymore) in the pursuit of perfecting her career, her online image, and her physical appearance. And CR is completely overwhelmed, up to his ears in responsibility, and is not recognized or appreciated for the way he holds that house and family together. They need to leave YouTube. Suck it up that you’ll lose your lavish lifestyle because it’s what drove Angie to the point she’s at now anyway. CR needs to go back to his career and she needs to hire a nanny so she can work from home and attempt to be present in her kids’ lives again.

I can snark on some things but don’t agree with everything here-

Angie was talking about a family activity and ice skating not being a good choice. They do have times they separate the older and younger kids for age appropriate activities (not to the extent they did/would for 1-2 kids, but it has happened here and there for amusement parks or horseback riding). I have 6 kids and am not on YouTube and wouldn’t want to take them all ice skating since many are so young. I’d be so focused on little ones I wouldn’t be bonding with the older ones and that would take away from the “family” outing. Had she taken all the kids ice skating and had the older ones helping in any way we’d also snark- so there was no winning there unless she didn’t mention it or her and CR took them alone which again would not be the family activity she mentioned.

Also, how would hiring a nanny and working another job make her more present? How would CR being at a more traditional job help the kids get more time or attention?

She could work on focusing on each individual kid, or many other things- but I don’t think hiring a nanny is the answer.

[HCB]

CR going back to his career would be for money and insurance when they got off YouTube. And having a nanny or mommy’s helper would allow her to get a 3 hour window of work done with CR being gone and then she would have the rest of the day cleared to be with her children. She wants to work from home and she needs childcare while she does so; like any working parent. They’ll need both their incomes to keep up a fraction of their YouTube money lifestyle and K&S don’t need to be the only babysitters while mommy does 2-3 hours of work in her shed.

[Freecali]

CR going back to his career would be for money and insurance when they got off YouTube. And having a nanny or mommy’s helper would allow her to get a 3 hour window of work done with CR being gone and then she would have the rest of the day cleared to be with her children. She wants to work from home and she needs childcare while she does so; like any working parent. They’ll need both their incomes to keep up a fraction of their YouTube money lifestyle and K&S don’t need to be the only babysitters while mommy does 2-3 hours of work in her shed.

Differences of opinion make life fun-

I think there are a lot of assumptions made in how they’d live and in that the yt $ may stop rolling in anytime soon.

I think they will be around for awhile- and even when they are not, I don’t think they work and live the way many do in a “traditional” sense. The family dynamic they have is not the same as a 2-3 kid traditional job type family.!

[HCB]

Ok cool. Nowhere did I say their YT money will stop rolling in. I said this family needs to leave YT. No more ad revenue or sponsorships after leaving the site equals less money. In my opinion, becoming “big” on the internet was the downfall of the Braniffs and getting off might help give them some normalcy.

[Freecali]

Ok cool. Nowhere did I say their YT money will stop rolling in. I said this family needs to leave YT. No more ad revenue or sponsorships after leaving the site equals less money. In my opinion, becoming “big” on the internet was the downfall of the Braniffs and getting off might help give them some normalcy.

That’s my point- their “normalcy” is not the same as others may be defining it

[Pina]

At least the church activities will widen the kids social networks. I know the boys play with the local kids but they never mention the older girls or Rosie having friends or play dates. Hopefully, K+S get to do age appropriate activities/events and arent relied on to pacify the twins.

[MamaM]

Does anyone watch Ashleigh’s channel? She lost her mind, she wants to foster a child in a house that doesn’t have a room for said child, she doesn’t teach her kids (I absolutely don’t buy her ‘unschooling’), she’s broke and ‘minimalistic’ but hey needs to show of her new iPhone. I really hope they won’t be able to foster. She’s troubled and it’s obvious

[Here_2_talk]

Ashleigh is doing intermittent fasting don’t you know?! And reads her bible before her children get up!

Surely these are the only qualifications needed to foster children


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[iheartyt]

Did anyone see the Goth Mom's community tab message about Youtube turning off comments vs. the creator turning off their own comments. Looks like Angela turns off her own comments. Has she mentioned why?

[Belladonna]

Wow, seems like things between CR and Angela have gotten really tense since they adopted again. CR, in particular, seems really unhappy and stressed. It's quite telling that he wasn't on board with having another kid and that it was Angie's decision.

Like, recently, they said that one of their kids (most likely either Shelby or Kennedy) acted out and it resulted in a particularly difficult parenting day and they wonder where they went wrong. Um, It's probably the fact that you have way too many kids - more than you can handle and your relationship is on the rocks as a result; None of your kids are getting enough attention. Your older kids are especially picking up on all this and acting out because of it. Bless little Benji, but adding another baby into the family dynamic is where you went wrong. ESPECIALLY when one parent wasn't fully on board with the idea in the first place. WTF, Angie can be so fucking stupid sometimes.

There have been a few really awkward moments between CR and Angie where he just seems so miserable and resentful and she just sits there, looking guilty. He's no longer putting on a smile and super happy angie-pleasing attitude and that's honestly great. Good for him! I really hope he starts putting his foot down.

Surely, being constantly around each other and not having other stuff going on in their lives is also a contributing factor. Imagine having to put up with Angie so much :/

Angie, please, for the sake of your existing children and your marriage.. do not continue having more kids after this. The hole you're trying to fill in your life requires a therapist, not collecting children.

[brytbratbar]

Does anyone watch Ashleigh’s channel? She lost her mind, she wants to foster a child in a house that doesn’t have a room for said child, she doesn’t teach her kids (I absolutely don’t buy her ‘unschooling’), she’s broke and ‘minimalistic’ but hey needs to show of her new iPhone. I really hope they won’t be able to foster. She’s troubled and it’s obvious

I hope that if they get approved that it'll keep her from having another baby unassisted, since they'd be at the max limit for where they live. I remember she used to talk about fostering but where they lived before they had too many kids. It rubbed me the wrong way when she'd talk about possibly moving and fostering, but that she didn't know if God would have other plans as in getting pregnant and being at the max limit again. Apparently God also spoke to her and wants her to be dairy and gluten free.

[MamaM]

She just rubs me the wrong way. I think that all of that religious fervor is part of mental disease. Maybe bi polar or npd ? I don’t think she goes to the doctor but that unassisted birth was them probably trying to save money. Very smart considering how many kids they have and if something was to go wrong... Pete’s weight is also such a major red flag. He does have a huge pot belly and it’s just a major heart attack waiting to happen. I keep watching so it must be true that train wrecks are irresistible... They eat horribly, I mean kids do... Ashleigh gets some veggies for herself. She also gets her bedroom to herself while they roam the rest of the tiny house taking care of each other. I feel bad for her kids, uneducated, unfed, undernourished...

[Tweedles3]

They undoubtedly have too many children, they spilled over the top with Benji. I feel like the tough parenting day is what most parents experience with tweens. Maybe Angie thinks the big girls would be immune to typical teenage behavior if the girls homeschool. As well-spoken as the girls are, they’re still tweens, and they rarely leave the house without the family. They even share horseback riding. Something has to give, eventually. This is assuming it was an older child making trouble, but Angie is most protective of K and S and more likely to out the little ones by name when they act up.

I think the honeymoon phase of being a SAHD is over for CR. At least most of their kids are old enough to play with little supervision, and the weather in NC allows them to play outside. I have three little ones and caring for them is so time-consuming, you don’t get a break until they nap/sleep. CR has to be losing his mind off camera,


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[Dreamkeeper+1]

I disagree. There is more work for Chris now than ever before, as Angie seems to be focused on 3 things: Benzheemon, finding the perfect artisan handmade intergalactic drawer pulls, and sticking a pacifier in her unintelligible twins mouths. Chris has to oversee 3 of the older kids schooling, Drive 2 to school. Make breakfast, dishes, laundry, do bottles, find more pacifiers, clean up after twins, feed dogs, clean bathrooms, cook lunch, dishes, get supper started, pick kids up from school, help with some homework, load up bottles again, get gas clean vehicles, laundry, find pacifiers, etc...then Angie walks in and gives twins bottles. Oh yeah, and every 3 days they give the kids a bath.

[Liz_444]

I thought they home schooled all the kids? Who is in regular school?

[Lionking23]

I thought they home schooled all the kids? Who is in regular school?

Rosie and Jonah were in school last year but they are homeschooled now


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[Dreamkeeper+1]

Oh. My..God. Am Speechless... uh, doesn't Rosie need some intense 1 on 1? What about Jonah..
Didn't he have some difficulties? No friggen way. I wonder if CR could convince her to Myka Stauffer it and just put kids in school?