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Thank you @OliveGarden and Derick’s church family for the baby shower today! We were so blessed! #babydilly #OliveGarden #babyshower

A photo posted by Jill Dillard (@jillmdillard) on Mar 8, 2015 at 7:52pm PDT

Here are some photos of Jill Duggar and her cat-hating husband Derick Dillard celebrating their baby shower over the weekend. They had their baby shower at… Olive Garden. I honestly didn’t know Olive Garden would host a baby shower, or maybe the Duggars just organized a private room or something? Financially, I guess it makes sense. Jill Duggar does seem to go in for thrift – last fall, we discussed her baby registry at Walmart, and how people could buy Gatorade and Purell for the baby. Olive Garden has pretty reasonable prices, so if you’re going to do a baby shower there, lots of people could eat for less than $15 each.

I was trying to figure out if this baby shower signaled a larger movement, like the Duggars and Olive Garden are getting into bed with each other politically (like Duck Dynasty and Cracker Barrel). I thought I remembered something about Olive Garden and their parent company, Darden, being in bed with conservative politicians. I had to look it up – Darden is a big political contributor overall and they do give a lot to Republican politicians. But they hedge their bets and give to some Democrats too. Darden also looked for ways to get out of complying with the Affordable Care Act. My verdict: Darden is probably not in bed with the Duggars, but the Duggars do like that Darden has mostly conservative views. Plus, who knows? Maybe Jill Duggar has just been craving unlimited breadsticks.

Also, Jilly is due really soon! She’s due exactly nine months after her wedding date, June 21, 2014. Which would mean… end of this month. She waited a while to have her baby shower, right?

Photos courtesy of Jill Duggar-Dillard’s Instagram.
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