PJ Jonas – Page 128 – Teaching Families to Work Hard Together

Bright Lights

We’re continuing to grow and run out of space. We just took over what used to be our “festival room” (where we stored all the stuff we took to set up at festivals). One side of the room is now used for making lotion sticks and lip balms. The space is great, but it was really…

November 19, 2010

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…

November 18, 2010

OMH Goat Milk Soap Filled Luffas

Jim cut a batch of OMH luffas today. Because it’s his least favorite job, he saves them up so he can do a lot at once. He got 122 cut, so hopefully that will last for the holidays. If you’ve never used one, they’re surprisingly awesome. Plus they make wonderful Christmas presents because they contain our…

November 18, 2010

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.…

November 18, 2010

Fruit Trees

Our fruit trees looked amazing in the Spring. Beautiful, healthy, and lots of fruit. Pears: Apples: Peaches: Peaches: Apples: Peaches: Then the drought set in: And things didn’t look so good. We eventually lost 3 pear trees due to a combination of the drought and fire blight. Jim ordered three more pears that are…

November 16, 2010

Terry Meiners Interview

A couple of months ago, Jim and I got to be on the radio with Terry Meiners. Although we’ve done a lot of radio interviews, this was the first one we did in an actual studio. Most of the time we just call in on the phone. It was a lot of fun seeing the…

November 16, 2010

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?”…

November 14, 2010

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

November 14, 2010

Gift and Hobby Show

We are selling our soap at the Indianapolis Fairgrounds at The Gift and Hobby Show. We are in booth #573 from November 10th to the 14th. Because it is a five day show, we decided to do it in shifts. Jim took Emery, Greyden, and Hewitt to work with him for the first several days. Today,…

November 13, 2010

Top Ten Reasons to Like GMS

Several weeks ago, we worked with Dustin at Cool World Productions to put together a video in front of the green screen. It is finished and you can see the final video! We made a similar video specifically for Facebook. We’re all really pleased with how it came out and have already watched it about 100 times.…

November 13, 2010

Big Brothers…

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

November 12, 2010

Pumpkins

We were selling soap at a craft show and I saw another vendor with some really cute stuff. The only problem, was that she didn’t have enough pumpkins. So I went up and asked her, “Do you have 5 more pumpkins?” And she did: Pretty cute, don’t you think?

November 11, 2010

Old Fashioned Girls

A couple of weeks ago we went to a harvest party. Lots of the children dress up in old fashioned clothes or like cowboys and indians and such. We never get dressed up (I’m really lame when it comes to costumes). Well apparently there were some extra clothes brought because when I turned around…

November 10, 2010

New Shoes

I think I mentioned that we bought new shoes for the children about a month ago. They’re always so excited to get new shoes. Mostly because they play so hard that their existing shoes are completely falling apart by the time we get around to shoe shopping. Here are some of the old shoes: And…

November 9, 2010

The Room Fairy

Brett has been having a tough time lately getting Indigo and Jade to help in their room. Indi and Jade are excellent when it comes to trashing the room, but definitely lacking on the cleanup part. Always resourceful, I saw the three of them working really hard cleaning it up today. Later Jade came to…

November 8, 2010