As many of you know, we’re taking a much anticipated (and much needed) vacation at the ocean in North Carolina. All ten Jonases love the ocean. We spend hours and hours in the water and on the sand. We do come into the house periodically to eat and sleep, but that’s about it. Due to Hurricane […]
When I was Jade’s age, there were no personal computers. There were no cell phones or iPods or iPads. There weren’t even any VCR’s, let alone Blu-Ray players. The children are all very adept with modern technology, but I guess I didn’t realize how much until this week on vacation. I brought my iPad with […]
The weather here has been gorgeous lately. (Nope, hurricane Irene didn’t reach us here in Indiana.) We’ve had hot days, cooler nights, and low humidity. We took advantage of the lovely weather to exercise outside. I thought you’d enjoy watching part of our “sprint 8” session. We basically sprint for 30 seconds then walk for […]
Indigo wanted me to show everybody the amazing job she did swirling the patchouli soap that her Daddy made: Doesn’t it look beautiful? I don’t have a photo of her swirling it, because she was finished and gone by the time I got the camera out to the soap room. But, she’s really getting very […]
I was headed out to the soap room today, but when I spotted Jade, I had to run back inside and grab my camera. Apparently she was concerned about the goats being thirsty. They have an automatic waterer, but we keep this bucket for when it is extra hot. Jade filled it up with fresh, […]
The other day I got an email inviting the family to come swim at a local lake with some friends. The invite was last minute (the way I like them), so I told her we would try. I gathered the children together and made a big announcement that we could go swimming at the lake […]
Indigo and Jade have been having difficulty keeping their room clean lately. It’s been causing Brett a lot of despair because she cleans it and they wreck it. So she cleans it. And then they wreck it. Yesterday, Jim told the girls they had to stay in their room and clean it. He was very […]
On our recent trip to St. Louis, we had to stop at a rest stop. Whenever we stop, the children always run around and stretch their legs. If we’re in a parking lot, without a safe place to run, we just do 50 jumping jacks as a family. It’s usually quite a spectacle, and yes, […]
My children adore swimming, but for some reason, we haven’t had a chance to swim once this summer. So we packed the children up… … and we rectified that today! Jade kept coming up to me every 2 minutes and giving me the little hopeful look and saying, “Mom […]
Many of you watched Indigo’s video about her promotion to printing the postage for internet orders. Hewitt wanted to know why I never posted the video about his job wrapping the bath bombs. I had taken this video not long before we decided to discontinue the bath bombs in favor of the bath fizzies, so […]
Did you know that we once got to “babysit” dogs for a few months? Yep! We took care of two Great Pyrenees dogs – Alex and Shelby. Great Pyrs are livestock guardian dogs for the goats. But we just liked to play with them. Unfortunately, they also like to roam, and our 3 acres weren’t enough […]
Jim has been making lots and lots of soap lately. In fact, he recently broke two records. First, he made the most soap ever in a single day on July 30th. Second, he made the most soap he’s ever made in a single month during July. That’s the good news. The bad news is that […]
Many of you who have been following my blog for a while, will probably remember our “youngest person rule“. Well, in keeping with the spirit of this rule, Indigo just received a promotion. She is now in charge of printing the postage for all the outgoing orders. The way it works, is that I put […]
We were going to go out one evening, so I got the girls ready in pretty dresses (that they picked out) and did their hair. I came in a little while later to discover this: Me: “WHAT happened to your hair?!?!?” Indigo: “We fixed it!”
We haven’t dyed Easter eggs in a long time. But this year, Mom surprised us and bought eggs for us to dye. Now, that might not sound like a big deal to some of you, but she didn’t buy just a couple of eggs. She bought 8 dozen eggs!! That was a dozen for each […]