PJ Jonas

Category: The Jonas Life

  • Tangled, the Movie

    Tangled, the Movie

    We’ve had a lot of family staying with us for the Thanksgiving weekend. All together there are 17 cousins staying here. We took everybody into town today to watch Disney’s Tangled in 3D. The children were all so excited about the movie (and their glasses): I had fun getting them to pose while Jim took…

  • A Post for Grammy

    A Post for Grammy

    I’ve been going through some old soap photos and found these shots of Grammy and Jade bagging soap: Isn’t Jade cute? She had recently turned two in these photos: Such hard workers: These photos prove that any job can be fun when you have a great helper.  

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving!

     

  • Breakfasts

    Breakfasts

    I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m not an “early morning” mom or a big breakfast eater. So the children usually take care of getting breakfast ready. A lot of times it’s just cereal or oatmeal. But more often it’s eggs or pancakes or waffles. Here was a breakfast where the children really outdid themselves.…

  • Knitting

    Knitting

    Most people who see us at soap shows know that the older three children knit cotton washcloths to sell. They’ve gotten really good at it. The younger children have been learning, so now Greyden, Fletcher, and Indigo can knit washcloths too. We were having a really hard time keeping up with paying the children when…

  • Monster Pizza!!

    Monster Pizza!!

    After we left the St. Louis Arch last year, my brother took us to this amazing place for pizza. I could describe it, but I’m going to let the pictures speak for themselves:               And the pizza was really good too! My brother kept insisting that we weren’t going…

  • The Best Part of Homeschooling

    The Best Part of Homeschooling

    The best part of homeschooling (to me) is that my children have time to explore their imaginations and be creative: I personally feel this is so much more important in their early years than sitting at a desk and learning to repeat facts.  Creativity leads to problem solving and problem solvers will always be needed.…

  • St. Louis Arch

    St. Louis Arch

    As a homeschooling family, we always take every opportunity to explore cool educational things. My brother is stationed near St. Louis, so when we went to visit him last year, we had to visit the St. Louis Arch. The children (and Jim and I) thought it was amazing, and we were very psyched to go…

  • An Easy Day

    An Easy Day

    It’s Saturday and beautiful outside.  The children did the internet orders and then they all disappeared. LOL  I can’t say I blame them.  I’m blogging and then I’m probably going to join them. After all, I may go outside and discover them doing something like this: I’ve already gotten my soap work done. The orders…

  • Photo Albums

    I have photo albums for each of the children. I simply do not have time to scrapbook, so I just bought 9 albums and started printing copies of photos to put in each child’s album. (The extra album is for me and Jim). That means if there is a good family photo, I have 9…

  • Fireplaces

    Fireplaces

    Indigo has appointed herself the fireplace cleaning woman. All on her own, she’ll decide it’s too dirty and she’ll wash it down: She works really hard at it too: Didn’t you love all the banging of the milk pails in the background? (It’s never quiet around here. LOL) I love it when the children take…

  • Balloon Mania

    Balloon Mania

    While Jim and the boys were at the Gift and Hobby Show, the boys spent a lot of time visiting the other vendors and entertainers. Apparently one of their favorite places was the balloon people. The boys said they were the most impressive balloon people ever. Beyond flowers and swords and basic stuff like that.…

  • Play doh

    Play doh

    I’ve been very sleep deprived lately because I don’t sleep well when Jim is away from home. Since it was a Sunday morning (and I didn’t have to ship internet orders), I decided to sleep in. At some point Indigo came in and said (in a whisper voice), “Mommy, can we play with play doh?”…

  • Goofy Jade

    Goofy Jade

    Sometimes I catch Jade looking really goofy. Here’s an example: I’m not sure what she’s contemplating in that second photo.  And yes, her helmet does say “Hick”.  Don’t ask me why –  I have no idea where that thing came from. LOL  

  • Big Brothers…

    Big Brothers…

    … are very good for sitting on: And I think they enjoy it.