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Category Archives: The Jonas Life
Kids Decorating the Christmas Tree
This year, when we went to get our family Christmas Tree, Mom had the brilliant idea of getting a tree for the front porch of the soaproom. The only problem was that we didn’t have any ornaments for it. So the kids made some! They took some of our packing paper from the shipping area. […]
Jade and the Umbrella
A couple of weeks ago, we bought some big red and white striped umbrellas to keep in the soaproom, so that we could let people on tours use them if it was raining. Well, we haven’t had a tour use them yet, but the Jonas family has been loving them. The other day it was […]
Kids Sledding
A few weeks ago, we had our first snow for this winter. The kids kept disappearing. A few hours later, they would be back. With frozen hands. And bright red cheeks. “We were sleddding!” “And it was AWESOME.”
The Cross Country Season
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the boys winning the title of Homeschool Cross Country Champions. That was only the final highlight of a fantastic season. This season, the team spent hours listening to Coach Sweetland. This season, the team spent hours running warm ups, cool downs, and practices together. This season, the team […]
Ginger and Jade
Our house cat, Ginger, is a Daddy’s girl. But Jade thinks that Ginger is hers, and will spend hours with her. Ginger has always been good with Jade, despite hours of too much snuggle time. Bonus points if she gets to spend time with Daddy and Jade at the same time! (This picture is from […]
Cross Country
My brothers are a part of the local homeschool Cross Country team. We don’t talk about the team much on our blog, but I had to brag about my brothers for a little bit. The Home School Union Tommies Varsity Boys (including Colter, Emery, and Fletcher) just won the title of National Christian Homeschool Cross […]
The Sprinter Died On Me
Many of you know about The Beast, our Sprinter with all of our faces on it. But we also have a slightly smaller, grey, 15 passenger Sprinter, which is the car that I drive. We’ve had the Sprinter for as long as I can remember. It was our first Sprinter (we’ve had 3), which is […]
Hang 10 Episode 6: Food Shopping for a Large Family
Ever wonder how we manage to feed a family of ten? While we have a “never ending” supply of milk and eggs, it all starts with grocery shopping. During this video, you can see what food shopping for our family looks like! Impressive, huh?!?
Hang 10 Episode 5: Getting the Chores Done
There are ALWAYS chores to be done at the Jonas house. Find out which chores the children handle and how they try to manipulate the chore system! How do you work chores at your house?
Hewitt’s Shoes
I have five brothers who are still growing. Constantly. We’re always buying them new clothes, because as farm kids, they wear them out before they can pass them down to the next brother. Another thing we’re always buying is shoes and boots – you’d think those would last them a while, but they go even […]
Hang 10 Episode 3: Getting and Staying Fit
My life is crazy busy and I need to make some hard choices on how to spend my time. One of the items that is important to me is exercise. It is important not only for my own health and sanity, but it is important that the children learn from an early age to build […]
Ball Chairs
When we first started Goat Milk Stuff, we needed an office to work from. Jim set one up for me and surprised me with this ball chair*: I admit, I was a little unsure of this chair when Jim proudly presented it to me, but after one week of using it, I was hooked. The […]
Hang 10 Episode 2: The Jonases Invade New York City
We LOVE to travel! We don’t get to do it as often as we would like because of the goats, but we always take advantage of every opportunity that comes our way. Normally it takes a LOT of time to plan a vacation for the ten of us. We have to figure out sleeping arrangements […]
Washing the Beast
We’ve had the Beast for a while now, and it was getting really dirty. Because of the wrap (the pictures) we can’t take it to a car wash – not that it would fit in there anyway. So Dad told the kids one hot summer day that it was time to clean the Beast. “First […]