The Joyful Johnsons

Here are a few pictures from our trip to the Gatlinburg, Tennessee area last month.  It really was a fun and relaxing trip. We stayed in ...

Two weeks ago when I returned home from Rustic Youth Camp, my garden was flourishing!  I picked green beans and canned three quarts (not a l...

This is the longest I have ever gone without blogging since I began. So much has been happening.  Some of it mundane. Some of it very stre...

Each year as the summer begins, I like to make a master list of fun things and projects that I hope to accomplish over the short summer brea...

We finished school today , but we still have a few loose ends to tie up…..Clay needs to complete a works cited  page for his research pape...

When we were in Japan in Epcot at Disney, the girls and I found the cutest cookbook ever….Bento Boxes.  It had beautiful photographs and ...

We have had a good, productive day.  We have only 6 more days of school  for this school year!  Hooray!  Tuesday and Wednesday of this week,...

Well.  I planted my garden a few weeks ago.  I kept waiting for an opportunity to get it in the ground, but we had SO MUCH RAIN in March and...

This is the first spring that the Spartan Homeschool Team has participated in a full season of track meets.  They ran in 6 or 7 (I can't...

My cousin-in-law (is that even such a thing?? Season is Jimmy's first cousin….) asked me to help her get back into running.  She had a n...

As my 7 year blog anniversary approaches, I figured I better get back to blogging! I also need to update my profile picture......I cer...

About a month ago, my mother, the master decorator, completed a makeover of Leah's room.  Leah was a baby when we built this house, and ...

The last Disney vacation blog post! (from this year, anyway!) Of our group of 32 Disney vacationers, 10 of us participated in the Run D...

Well, here I am again.  Sitting here on my couch with my laptop (and my phone being used as a hotspot) composing a blog post. Almost two w...

Finally.  Sunshine! I sat outside yesterday while eating my quick lunch so I could soak up a few rays from the sun.  I think we will be do...

Well. I am back after another hiatus.  Between having to use my cellphone as a hotspot for internet, Olivia being home for a week for spr...

We had another winter storm event last night!  We had sleet/freezing rain throughout the night, and we awoke to a coating of white---ICE!  I...

My children woke up yesterday eagerly anticipating the snowfall that our weather man had predicted.  Schools and some businesses were close...