PJ Jonas – Page 138 – Teaching Families to Work Hard Together

Green Smoothie

It is easy to eat healthy myself. But one of my goals is for the children to grow up and decide that they are going to maintain a healthy lifestyle. So I always try to balance things out so that healthy living isn’t a burden. I don’t deny them unhealthy food; I just limit it.…

January 3, 2010

Operation No Fingers

Most of our pictures of Jade have her fingers in her mouth like this: Even when we tell her to smile, she smiles around her fingers like this: So, the objective of this photo shoot was to get Jade to willingly remove her fingers from her mouth and smile. Daddy is coaxing and encouraging while…

January 3, 2010

Jady Bug

Jade has gotten so big in the past six months. She’s talking really well and expressing herself fully. She had me laughing really hard the other night with something she said. But I need to give you a bit of background first. We have six “House Rules” at the Jonas homestead. The sixth rule is…

January 3, 2010

So Glad It is 2010

I am so glad that 2009 is over. Don’t get me wrong. It was an awesome year. But it was the craziest year I’ve ever lived through and there were times I wasn’t sure we were going to make it. You can always tell how insane my life is by the number of blog posts…

January 3, 2010

GRAND Seal of Approval

Guess what? Our goat milk soap has been awarded the GRAND Seal of Approval! What is the GRAND Seal of Approval, you ask? (See, I can read your thoughts). I’ll tell you. The great folks over at GRAND magazine, the magazine for Grandparents, really like our soap and are recommending it to their readers. But…

July 27, 2009

Buddy

I’ve wanted to paint our house since we moved into it five years ago. Jim hates to paint, so I’ve always been the painter in the family. But I just have not been able to paint. There is always too much other stuff to do. But the walls have been getting worse and worse and……

July 18, 2009

Little Bird Houses

We’ve had a whole bunch of little birdhouses hanging around the barn for several years. Jim decided to let the children each have one. They got to decide where to hang it, and the boys put them up. This one is Hewitt‘s: Don’t you just love Hewitt’s smile? He seems to have forgotten how, and…

July 17, 2009

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…

July 15, 2009

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…

July 14, 2009

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!…

July 13, 2009

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…

July 12, 2009

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…

July 9, 2009

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.

June 30, 2009

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…

June 30, 2009

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…

June 27, 2009