Whenever we go to church, Indigo and Jade have their favorite people to sit with. They will sit with Mr. Sweetland, Audrey, Samuel (at least, Indigo will), Mrs. Tate, and (of course) Mom, Dad, and me. They will sometimes sit with someone else, if there is a good reason for them to (like food or […]
…was a Sunday. We go to a home church on the Sundays that we are free. On the day after Christmas, one of the moms planned a play that everyone had got to be a part of. Emery was Joseph and Hewitt was Baby Jesus: Fletcher was a sheep: Someone found him a […]
Everyone around here always loves Christmas. But this year, Brett, Cole, and Emery got really excited about it. Most of their gifts were very altruistic and something the receiver would really desire. But there were a few that I think were a little bit selfishly motivated. One of them was the box set of the […]
I recently ordered the Five Love Languages of Teenagers by Gary Chapman. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I read the original Love Languages book years ago. It really helped my relationships with Jim, my children, and my family. I decided to order this book because I’ve entered the teenager phase […]
We love the fact that our business is growing. But it has interfered with some of our Christmas traditions. At the very least, it has pushed many of them back from the first half of December to the second half of December. For example, we finally got our tree up this week. We could have […]
The following is a guest post by Brett (she had so much fun writing yesterday’s post and I have so much work to do, it was a win/win). PJ We had the best Thanksgiving ever. And don’t try to tell me I’m wrong, ’cause I wont listen. Grandma, Poppy, Uncle Adam and his family arrived […]
When we travel places, we always try to visit something in the area where we can learn something new. It’s the homeschoolers in us. On our trip to Pennsylvania, we had intended to take the children to tour the Hershey chocolate factory. Unfortunately, we were so sick, all we wanted to do was get home […]
You’ve seen our professionally produced Happy Thanksgiving Video. Now you get to see our personal family Thanksgiving play. This play was written by my children and directed and produced by Brett all the Jonas children. It features my children and many of their cousins. Notice that while Brett enjoys producing and directing, she does not […]
While we’re selling soap in Pennsylvania, Gretchen is covering the homestead. She’s shipping all the orders, answering the phone, feeding the goats (well, her husband may be doing that), taking care of the kitty cats, and basically being me for the week. Gretchen has two children – her son is in school, but her daughter […]
We’ve had a lot of family staying with us for the Thanksgiving weekend. All together there are 17 cousins staying here. We took everybody into town today to watch Disney’s Tangled in 3D. The children were all so excited about the movie (and their glasses): I had fun getting them to pose while Jim took […]
I’ve been going through some old soap photos and found these shots of Grammy and Jade bagging soap: Isn’t Jade cute? She had recently turned two in these photos: Such hard workers: These photos prove that any job can be fun when you have a great helper.
As a homeschooling family, we always take every opportunity to explore cool educational things. My brother is stationed near St. Louis, so when we went to visit him last year, we had to visit the St. Louis Arch. The children (and Jim and I) thought it was amazing, and we were very psyched to go […]
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?” […]
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