The Joyful Johnsons

I started our new homeschool year a little bit later than I have in the past.  I waited until after I had taken Olivia and Julie to college...

Disclaimer:  I am not an interior decorator!  Olivia and Julie's rooms are cute and functional. The dorm that both Olivia and Julie...

I began blogging over eight years ago, and up until about 2 years ago, I was a fairly regular blogger.  I want to try to get back into the h...

So I have been working on my homeschool lesson plans for the upcoming school year all summer. I am still not done.  And I am planning for on...

Back in June, Jimmy and I celebrated 25 years of marriage.  This week we continued our celebration with a short trip to one of my favorite ...

I have been struggling with time management recently.  I have so much that I want to accomplish, and each day goes by without much of m...

So I have been going to CrossFit since February, and I have also slowly increased my weekly running mileage. It has been challenging!  From ...

Well. Summer is in full swing around here.  For me, summer means planning for the upcoming school year and also tackling projects that I can...

Well.  I finally caught up on camp/being out of town for a week laundry last night around 10:00.  I made some homemade laundry detergent, c...

We spent the last week at RYC (Rustic Youth Camp) in Alabama.  This was my family's seventh year to attend this camp, and it proved to b...

Bright and early this morning all of us (except Clay who was still at Boys State--he's been gone all week) ran the Running With the Kin...

Back in March, my friend Heather W. shared with me her spring cleaning list.  It was from CleanMama.net . Although I did not do much spring ...

Earlier in May our whole family plus Big Sam (Julie's friend) went on a week long vacation to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  We spent most of ...