Farrah
Farrah is finally back from filming Big Brother UK and everyone is oddly glad to see her. Farrah is hatching a plan to take the family to Italy to get her mother away from her fiance David. Farrah really, really hates David.
Farrah talks to her kid about whether are not they should let her grandmother come on the trip to Italy. She says, “What if she’s bad again?” But what was more irritating than the conversation itself was that the kid was making a bowl full of shaving cream and glue and God knows what else in the kitchen. Is that how you make slime?
Farrah and Michael go shopping for an engagement because he is going to propose to his girlfriend. Michael’s girlfriend Amy seems so nice and normal. She gives Farrah some advice about rebuilding the relationship between her mother and Sophia, and Farrah actually listens to it.
Maci
Things haven’t changed regarding the issue with Ryan. He has not gotten back to her about the drug testing situation. Ryan’s parents really want to see Bentley with or without Ryan. Ryan’s mom seems worried to death about Ryan.
Mack says that while Ryan was in rehab for heroin, she was shopping in Dallas for a new wedding dress. She needs the new dress because the old dress reminds of the fact that she let a guy who was high on heroin drive her to the ceremony and married him despite the fact that he was so high he had no idea what was going on. I guess that is as good a reason for a new dress as any. Perhaps a lobotomy will be a good investment as well. Ryan tells the producer that he hasn’t seen Bentley yet because he has to be drug tested and he doesn’t want to do them yet because the drugs are not completely out of his system. That’s interesting.
The next day, Mack takes some random friend to Dallas with her to shop for her wedding dress. Mack may be the dumbest female ever to be on Teen Mom. And that is saying a lot. She is worried that Maci won’t let Bentley come to the wedding, and he’s the best man! It’s just so hard for Mack! How am I just finding out that Mack has a very young son? Did I forget this? Surely I would have already ranted about dating a drug addict when you have a small child involved. Where was he at the heroin wedding? While Mack was in Dallas, Ryan ponied up for his own hair follicle test to see if the heroin would still show up. My understanding is that the hair follicle test can tell how long ago the drug was taken. If not he is just going to have to shave his head and wait for the clean hair to grow in.
Amber
Matt continues to text Amber with all of the things guys say when they realize they have fucked up. I am proud of Amber for getting sucked back in. She needs to block him on her phone. Oh wait. She says she is going to go visit him in Vegas. Apparently, she hasn’t even been seeing her daughter.
Gary and his new wife talk about the fact that they do more inviting her to see Leah than she does asking to see her. They are trying to include her on things like the first day of school, but Amber doesn’t always participate. Leah seems very happy at their house with her baby sister though. Leah has only seen Amber twice all summer. She did manage to meet her at the school for Leah’s first day.
Later, a producer tells Leah she seems to be in a much better mind-set lately. She says she is back on her “head meds” and she a whole different person without them. This is why she says she can’t have more kids because she can’t go off her meds. And yet, she’s pregnant with the new loser guy already. We will meet him next week.
And once Matt realized his gravy train was over, he married a cocktail waitress with a kid in Las Vegas.
Catelynn
After two years of begging, Carly’s mother has finally agreed to a visitation day. Unfortunately, it is in the middle of a big family vacation. I don’t see the problem. Either fly in and out of the vacation for a day or leave the trip early or arrive late. Or God forbid cancel the trip. These two seem so entitled to see Carly when they have no rights to see her at all. At this point I think the adoptive parents have gone above and beyond the call of duty for these two.
Carly’s mother offers them a different date. The woman is a saint. For some reason, they rent an entire house in Raleigh. I suppose production paid for the rental so that they could film there. I’m disappointed in Tyler’s snotty attitude toward Carly’s parents. We never see the visitations, but next week we will here how it went.
When Macy first met Mack she mentioned that she too was a teen mom. I think Mack sees this as her chance to be on the show and possibly make a spot for herself even if she doesn’t stick it out with Ryan.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that makes total sense. Thanks.
I’ve always wondered why Mack didn’t have custody of HER kid… or
Are we sure she doesn’t have custody? I need more info on this! We sure don’t see the kid when she is jetting of to Dallas to wait for Ryan to get out of rehab.
I’ve only seen him at Ruan’s once. I’m assuming, but you know how to spell that ?
I hate to admit I know this, but she has a blog. It’s exactly as bad and whiny as you would assume it was. It gives some insight into what a self-righteous little twat she is.
She claims she has full custody. She was online a while back, arguing with people who claimed she had lost custody of her son.
Maci’s scenes are usually my favorite so I hate that half of them are Mack now. She’s irritating and boring.
Well, on the bright side, half of Amber’s are Gary’s now… Who knew he would end up the most likeable person of them all?
I think Carly’s adoptive parents have gone above and beyond also. I know it was supposed to be an open adoption, but it seemed like Tyler and Catelynn thought that meant they could still consider themselves the parents in a way. I know the adoptive parents didn’t want Carly to be exposed on the media and that caused problems. I’m surprised Tyler acted snotty to them – he should be glad they’re letting them visit at all. Haven’t seen this episode yet, but looking forward to it now.
Tyler has the worst attitude about Carly’s parents and the adoption in general. It’s like he thinks that he and Caitlyn are still the official parents and that Brandon and Theresa are just sort of contracted to raise her and provide her with food, clothing, a nice house, gifts, family vacations, a good education, and a stable home. Like Brandon and Theresa are just some high class boarding school that Tyler and Cait have sent her to for the first 18 years of her life. They still expect visits, letters, pictures, and to be in charge of making big decisions for Carly like whether or not she should be on the show. They also seem to want to take credit for what a great person Carly has become and they assume that Carly still thinks of Cait and Tyler as her “real parents.” If Tyler had his way, I bet Carly would spend every birthday and holiday and vacation with Cait and Tyler and would just go to Brandon and Theresa for her day to day needs—just like a boarding school. I don’t think he actually understands what adoption means or what it really is. I think they’re terrible “authorities” on adoption and should not be the face/voice of adoption, as they seem to not even fully understand the concept. Caitlyn seems to get it more than Tyler does.
In the beginning I was team Tyler and Caitlyn but now that it is clear that Caitlyn spends a good deal of her day in bed or smoking pot and then having a SERIOUS case of the munchies I don’t think I would want to subject my little girl to their antics either. Aside from getting OG checks, what are their skills for a real job? Neither completed College (right)? A HS diploma will get you a burger, a hat, and $8.00 an hour but not much more. As an adoptive parent this child’s welfare is 100% their responsibility. Her wellbeing, body and mind. She is too young to process the things happening in her “birth parents” household. If I were her parents, and by the way, a parent is the person who makes sure homework is done, helps you when you don’t feel good, and listens when you have problems with other kids at school, or boys, or WHATEVER not only biology. Tyler and Caitlyn signed over their rights at birth, they are LUCKY to get snaps of this little girl as she grows up, anything they get after that, is cake. That kid is not their daughter PERIOD and if they don’t want her to be seen on the show then that is that, end of story. Even when she becomes an adult, maybe she can create a relationship with her birth parents but they will never have a right to make decisions regarding anything that happens to this little girl, and thank goodness, I am fearful for the welfare of the child they are raising now.
Completely agree. I wonder what will happen if Carly and Nova ever get together and compare notes when they’re adults. Who will believe they had the better, happier homelife? I’m guessing Carly.
And if Tyler and Caitlyn want to keep having even the little contact they’re currently having with Carly, then Tyler especially needs to change the way he talks about her parents (Brandon and Theresa) on tv and on social media. I have issues with my mother, my child’s grandmother, and sometimes if she’s being extra crazy and hurtful to me, then I really have to think about whether or not I want her to be spending so much time with my son. And she’s my mother that I’m semi obligated see often for birthdays, holidays, etc, especially if I want to see my father and brother and other relatives. Brandon and Theresa are not at all obligated to see Caitlyn and Tyler and they’re not getting anything positive out of maintaining a relationship with Tyler and Caitlyn. All the perks are on Cait and Ty’s side—so if Cait and Tyler want to keep seeing Carly, they need to stop making it such a negative experience for Brandon and Theresa to maintain relations with them. Who is going to want to do someone a huge favor out of the kindness of their heart when the person asking for the favor is a dick to you personally and is contantly slandering you on a national television show and to their thousands of social media followers?
Trust, I was adopted at birth and went to alot of trouble to find my birth mother. I did and it was fine but the relationship quickly became a burden. It turned out she needed much more from me emotionally than i needed from her.
OMG, these OGs! A giant slop-fest of addiction and mental illness! (Farrah has A LOT of issues, but addiction does not seem to be one of them, yet.). I fear for the lives of Ryan and Caitlin. Maci and her husband are drinkers. Amber is off her meds and knocked up by a dangerous idiot. Amber does not parent Leah, she’s an occasionally visiting Crazy Aunt. Tyler and Cait do nothing with their lives except smoke pot.
All that money is going to kill them all.
Tamara, you are a Saint to still be blogging on a Sunday Christmas Eve! Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Agreed! It’s a bit silly how much joy I get from coming to this site. It’s my favourite by far. Thank you Tamara. The very best to you and yours this holiday season=)
Oh.., and thanks y’all. I love having people I can rant about Teen Mom to.