PJ Jonas – Page 141 – Teaching Families to Work Hard Together

Pause, Grandma

Grandma was reading a story to Fletcher and Greyden. I asked Fletcher to run upstairs and do something for me. I was pleasantly surprised to see him jump up and run up the stairs. As he disappeared, he yelled back to his Grandma, “Can you pause that a minute?” Hmmm….. are they watching too many…

February 27, 2009

She’s Getting So Witty

During one night of Grandma’s visit, the following conversation took place: Grandma: “What’s for dinner?” Me: “Pancakes.” Grandma: “Pancakes?!?!” Me: “Yep.” (Now, I must point out that my children and my husband are THRILLED when I make pancakes for dinner. But I’m afraid my mother was horrified). Grandma: “I could really go for pizza.” (Me…

February 27, 2009

Disney’s Animal Kingdom

One of our favorite shows at Animal Kingdom is the Birds of Wonder (or Flights of Wonder) show – I can never remember exactly what they call it. I just think it’s awesome to see a Bald Eagle this close. And Jade was completely enthralled by the whole thing. Emery wanted me to share this…

February 16, 2009

The BEST Bathroom EVER

Jim was so impressed with this bathroom that he had to take a picture of it. He also declared it, “The BEST Bathroom EVER.” Now, those of you with only one or two children may not be so impressed. But when you’ve been taking young children to the bathroom as long as we have been,…

February 16, 2009

Why I’m Still Awake After Midnight…

It’s getting below freezing tonight. So why should that keep me awake when I have a nice fire going and the house is plenty warm? My goats. You see, we took advantage of the warm weather last week to clean out the goat stall. (I say we, I mean Cole.) We usually allow the bedding…

February 16, 2009

My Princesses

One of the best memories of our vacation was our Princess Breakfast. It was a special treat for the girls. Brett and Jade really enjoyed it, but it was the most magical for Indigo. Here is a photo of Indigo getting ready: And here are all the girls with Belle: The other princesses that visited…

February 16, 2009

New Blog Domain

Did you notice the new blog domain? Instead of http://manychildrenmanyhugs.blogspot.com, now my blog is at www.goatmilksoapers.com. Isn’t that easier? You can still get to the blog by typing http://manychildrenmanyhugs.blogspot.com, or by using your old link. It will redirect you automatically. The blog will also be getting a new look, but that won’t happen for at…

February 12, 2009

Goat Chores

I had the duty of drawing blood on all of our dairy goats this evening. Normally Jim is the “vet” around here, but for some reason, I’m good at finding the vein, and well, Jim isn’t. I must point out that there are very few things that Jim isn’t good at, but finding a goat vein…

February 9, 2009

Happy Birthday, Poppy!

Just had to wish Poppy a HAPPY 70th BIRTHDAY!!! You look good for such an old man. We love you!

February 8, 2009

Making More Soap

Every time I make soap, it always surprises me how much I really do enjoy soapmaking. With how busy I get with the children, in between soapmaking sessions I tend to forget how relaxing making soap can be. Today we made: 90 purity bars 60 organic castile bars (olive oil only) 60 pink grapefruit bars 60…

February 8, 2009

Freedom

Jade had an awesome vacation. She was at that age where everything was magical and unexpected. But I have to admit that probably her favorite part was enjoying her freedom. We used Disney transportation for everything which meant… NO CAR SEATS! She just thought that was the greatest.

February 4, 2009

Disney All Star Sports

We had a lot of fun staying at the All Star Sports resort at Disney. There were lots of fun characters for the kids to climb on: There was also a fun playground on sand: There was a great pool that the kids loved (but apparently I forgot to get a picture of…

February 4, 2009

Indy Garage Sale

A couple of days before we left for Florida, we traveled to Indianapolis to sell soap at the Indy Garage Sale. One of the other vendors gave Indigo this “princess crown”. It was also the first time Indigo went to work handing out our free soap samples. Isn’t she cute? We always meet some great…

February 4, 2009

We’re Home!

We’re back from our awesome Disney Vacation. I’ll post photos later, but wanted to list our favorite moments while it was still fresh. Fletcher: Test track in the dark Indigo: Seeing Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse and all them Hewitt: Cars! Fletcher: The Lion King Show Colter: Summit Plummet at Blizzard Beach Brett: Blizzard Beach…

February 1, 2009

Disney Day 2

We’re staying at the All Star Sports. Here are the children under one of the stars: Colter on the boat ride to Fort Wilderness: Indigo riding Chip, her white pony: Another great, but long day. And now I’m going to sleep.

January 24, 2009