PJ Jonas

Category: The Jonas Life

  • Cute and Creative

    Cute and Creative

    The other day I caught Brett holding a green thing and putting things in her mouth. I couldn’t figure out what she was doing until she showed me this: It seems that she was picking raspberries from our bushes and didn’t have any place to put them. Since she didn’t want to get her clothes…

  • Confession Time

    Confession Time

    People say to me all the time, “I don’t know how you do it all.” I would just like to go on record that I definitely DO NOT do it all. For example, I let Hewitt wear these pajamas all winter: A good mom would have made time to go upstairs to the storage area…

  • I Miss My Nanny

    I Miss My Nanny

    Ok – I’ve never really had a nanny. But I did (do) have a really good friend who would come over a LOT and help with the kids, and watch them, and make me and Jim spend alone time together. But do you know what she did? She got married! And then she moved away!…

  • Jade’s Turn

    Jade’s Turn

    Ok, now it is time for Jade‘s Birthday Celebration Hugs. Indigo first: Then Hewitt: Now Greyden: And Fletcher: Emery had to get fancy: Colter: Brett got a kiss: Mom just got a hug: And Dad just got a snuggle: Even Grandma got in on the tradition: We all had fun. As for Jade, she just…

  • Fourteen Years

    Fourteen Years

    Do you know what happened fourteen years ago today? I officially became Mrs. James Jonas. Yep, it’s my anniversary! How cool is that? Guess how Jim and I celebrated? By making soap, of course. And gathering square bales of hay out of Farmer Frazier’s field. And going shopping for more book shelves. (You can never…

  • Readaholic

    Readaholic

    I’m afraid that Brett has an incurable disease. It’s called readaholism. Yes, she’s a readaholic. I’ve tried to stage several interventions. But they just don’t work. I think there must be a genetic component to this disease. And yes, it is inherited.     

  • Famous People

    Famous People

    Guess who we met at one of our recent shows? I have to share the story that Mary Todd Lincoln told me. It seems she and her husband were visiting an elementary school. They were walking down a hallway toward a group of students, when they heard one young boy exclaim, “Hey look! It’s Abraham…

  • Charlestown Founders’ Day

    Charlestown Founders’ Day

    We spent the weekend selling soap at our hometown Founders’ Day. We actually moved into our home 5 years ago on the day of the Founders’ Day parade. I remember because instead of unpacking the moving van, I got to take all the children to the parade.  Here is a photo of everybody at this…

  • An Email from Brett

    An Email from Brett

    Last night we left the children with sitters while Jim and I took a 6 hour shopping date. I had given Brett instructions on making dinner for everyone. When we got home, the house was peaceful and looked better than when I had left it, despite the fact that they’d eaten dinner, milked goats, and…

  • Shopping Spree

    Shopping Spree

    Jim and I went shopping last night. Just the two of us. It was very strange. And very quiet. We got to hold hands with each other – instead of chaperoning little hands across the parking lot. We got to buckle just our own seat belts. It was very quiet. We got to look at…

  • Disappearing Act

    Disappearing Act

    I can’t believe it’s been almost 2 months since my last blog post. Where did I disappear to? Well, in the past 2 months, we’ve soaped thousands of bars of soap, fed 8 hungry children daily, cared for 12 goats and shoveled all their manure, visited the Emergency Room, washed over 100 loads of laundry,…

  • Daddy Playground

    Daddy Playground

    The Jonases have a special name for nylon pants – the kind that you use for jogging suits. We call them “bubble proof pants”. “Why bubble proof pants?” you ask. I’ll tell you. The children were playing with bubbles one day. Every time the bubbles would touch something – a shirt, a counter, a hand…

  • Breakfast Dinners

    Breakfast Dinners

    I’ve posted before about my family’s love of having pancakes for dinner. Well, Brett tried a new twist: Yes, those are chocolate pancakes with smiley faces in them. Isn’t she a creative cook? They were REALLY popular.     

  • My Emery

    My Emery

    Today is Emery‘s 9th Birthday, so – Happy Birthday, Spud!I’m going to take this time to brag on Emery a little bit. I can do that, because I’m his Mom. Emery is one of the “lovingest” (I know that’s not a real word) kids I know. He delights in taking care of his little sisters,…

  • A Crazy Start to the Day

    A Crazy Start to the Day

    I’ve had a few people ask if I was feeling better, so I thought I’d give a short update. I think the last thing I wrote about my health was that I was diagnosed with pleurisy and given steroids, antibiotics, and codeine. Well, a few days later, I woke up at about 5:00 am. No…