PJ Jonas – Page 109 – Teaching Families to Work Hard Together

Creativity and Wasted Time

Jim recently shared with me a quote from Albert Einstein who once said, “Creativity is the residue of wasted time.” What a brilliant way to put it! I have always felt that lots and lots of free time is essential. I believe it so much that we’ve made it foundational to how we homeschool and…

July 23, 2012

Discipline Yourself and Your Children

Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 020. How peaceful our homes are hinges on how effectively we discipline our children. There are a lot of things you can do as a mom to improve the way you discipline and help your children to respond better. But it starts with you and it takes a lot…

July 18, 2012

Overflow!!

We’ve been saying that we are out of space in our soaproom for a year and a half. Yet, we still managed to cram in more stuff. Until today. Yes, the soaproom officially cannot hold anything else. As a result, we’ve had to overflow all the soap that Jim is making (and that still needs…

July 17, 2012

Magic Pencil?

Several weeks ago, I finished the book, “Write it Down, Make it Happen“*. The author, Henriette Klauser, believes there is something “magical” (my word) that happens when you commit something to writing. This “magic” can be attributed to the inner workings of the brain. At the base of the brain stem, about the size of…

July 16, 2012

Happy Birthday, Fletcher!

It’s another birthday at the Jonas house. Fletcher turns eleven today! It’s our first birthday celebrated with a cast and crutches. But it doesn’t seem to be dampening his day. After all, you can still eat donuts and cake and open presents* just as easily with a broken leg. He may not be able…

July 12, 2012

Restore Margin To Your Life

Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 019. One of my all-time favorite books is Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives* by Richard Swenson. This is a concept that is really important to a well-balanced life and it is a book that I highly recommend. If you have margin in your…

July 11, 2012

Fox 59 Interview

We have so much fun sharing our story and our stuff with people. It’s one of the greatest things in the world to be able to support your family doing something that you truly love. Last week, we were able to go to Indianapolis to be on the Fox 59 morning show with Jenny Anchondo.…

July 10, 2012

Taking Responsibility

When I started Goat Milk Stuff, somebody recommended that I read the book, The Success Principles – How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be* by Jack Canfield. I bought it, but never made the time to read it. Since today is my anniversary and I decided to be “lazy”,…

July 8, 2012

Jade’s Favorite Soap

You may be aware that I did a video series where everybody (except me) shared which is their favorite goat milk soap. The problem started when I let Jade be the last person to record her video. Because I put the videos up on the Goat Milk Stuff website, I only wanted one video per…

July 5, 2012

The Importance of Chores

Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 018. I want to raise children that have a strong work ethic. I think laziness is so destructive to our personal success, especially when it comes to our careers and our relationships. It takes hard work to succeed in both those areas. I use chores to build a strong…

July 4, 2012

Waking Up Early

You may remember that we had a big video thing the other day. (It’s still a secret what it was for, but I’m hoping I can reveal it in the next few weeks.) We spent all week preparing for it. We cleaned up, bought new clothes, and got new flowers for the front porch hanging…

July 3, 2012

Do You Limit Yourself?

As a very busy Mom, I know that I can’t do everything I want to do. So I choose to limit myself. I find that it is more important for me to do less and have time to relax and spend time with my family, than it is for me to take advantage of every…

July 2, 2012

A Big Video Day

This past Thursday we had a big day, with a video guy (Paul) coming out to video us. I can’t tell you yet what the video is for, but I will let you know as soon as I am able! For the event, we bought new clothes for everyone (which was not easy – I’m…

July 1, 2012

Our First Big Break

Well, it has finally happened. We have our first broken bone. And since he’s never been one to do things half way, Fletcher decided to break not just one bone, but both bones in his leg. Yes, he broke both his tibia and his fibula near the ankle. If you add up all the years…

June 30, 2012

A Big Change

Brett has been having some exciting things happening lately! First she got her driver’s permit. I still haven’t had a chance to blog about it yet, but she’s doing really well with that (especially considering she’s driving the Hulk). And yesterday was even more exciting! She woke up with something she’s had for the past…

June 28, 2012