PJ Jonas

Category: The Jonas Life

  • Two Fingers

    Two Fingers

    You would think that with 8 children, they would have covered it all by now. But nope, they keep coming up with new things. Out of my first seven children, I had 2 pacifier babies, 4 thumb suckers, and 1 bottom lip sucker. I wondered what Jade would do. I had hoped she’d be a…

  • Speed. I am Speed.

    Speed. I am Speed.

    When Hewitt was in the hospital we watched the movie Cars. Then we watched it again. And again, and again. Twelve times we watched that movie. I blame it on Grandma :). She had gotten Hewitt a Lightning McQueen t-shirt. And then she got him Cars sneakers. Hewitt spent days (actually, he’s still doing it)…

  • Name Those Feet

    Name Those Feet

    I was sitting on the living room floor in front of the fire while everyone else was having breakfast. I should have been eating too, but I had slept in late and wasn’t very hungry. I looked over and saw this. It tickled my fancy, so I ran and got the camera. The children thought…

  • Tools, NOT Toys

    Tools, NOT Toys

    At my house, there are many phrases that are repeated over, and over, and OVER again. One of Daddy’s favorite phrases is, “That is a tool, not a toy.” He’s been saying it for years. Of course, the children would much rather make toys out of tools than out of any toy ever made. One…

  • A Sign of Respect

    A Sign of Respect

    We had a sad week last week. Byron McGuire, a good friend of the family, went home to be with Jesus. Many years ago Byron took his wife and children to be missionaries in Ecuador. While there, he and his eldest son, Duvon, both became extremely ill with a water born disease. Duvon later invented…

  • Garbage Gleanings

    Garbage Gleanings

    I mentioned before that Jim was a science teacher. When we moved to Indiana he chose to forgo all the glamour of teaching in order to have more emotional energy for his family. He surprised us all (including himself) by becoming a garbage man. Jim was (and still is) a great teacher. But there are…

  • Many Chickens, Many Eggs

    Many Chickens, Many Eggs

    In the Jonas house, the youngest person able to do any given job is generally responsible for that job. In regards to the chickens, that generally means that Greyden gathers the eggs from our chickens everyday. It was Emery’s job, but I’m switching it over to Greyden’s. Every once in a while, Greyden won’t close…

  • Seeking Shelter

    Seeking Shelter

    So tell me, have you ever tried to fit 10 people in a 10 x 10 room for half an hour? What if the room is more than half taken up by crates of canning jars? And the ceiling is only 5 feet 2 inches tall? And you’re underground? Oh, and it is waaaay past…

  • The never-ending to do list

    The never-ending to do list

    In a large family, there is ALWAYS something that needs to be done. Always. Not most of the time. Always. Usually I put it on my to-do list, and there it stays, either to die a peaceful death, or to be moved up to emergency gotta do right now status. That is why nobody in…

  • Be glad you don’t have any boys… ?!?

    Be glad you don’t have any boys… ?!?

    While we were in the hospital with Hewitt’s pneumonia, we had some prescriptions that we needed to fill. Normally this is my duty, but I was sticking with my little boy and did what any good mother would do in this situation – I delegated it to my husband. So off Jim went with the…

  • My new look

    My new look

    After 7 years of not having bangs, I decided to have them again! I cut them myself – so don’t say anything negative 😉 I have had several comments that now I REALLY look young. What do you think? Who is older, me or Jade?    

  • No girly dress-ups

    No girly dress-ups

    We have a dress-up trunk. The children pulled it out about two months ago and played with it. After a while, there was general grumbling from the boys that the trunk was too “girly”. There weren’t enough boy things to dress-up as. They were right. The trunk mostly contained my old prom dresses, bridal gowns,…

  • A Messy Family Tradition

    A Messy Family Tradition

    Family traditions are very important to me. I work hard to try to establish ones that are not date specific and require little prep time. I’ve found that when I have a family tradition that HAS to take place on a certain day, inevitably it is a bad day and I have no energy (or…

  • Dad can do anything

    Dad can do anything

    Hewitt got a Cars magna doodle type toy from his Grammy and Gumpy after his hospital stay. It comes with an attached book that shows you how to draw the different characters from Cars. This toy has been a huge hit and something that gives Hewitt quite a bit of control in the family pecking…

  • A Hospital Stay

    A Hospital Stay

    Last week, Hewitt woke up with a “cold”. He had been perfectly healthy the night before. He was having rapid, shallow breathing and was lethargic. Those were his only symptoms. No coughing, no fever. By midafternoon there was no improvement. I didn’t like the way he was acting, so I made an appointment to bring…