The Joyful Johnsons

I have decided to do the book club!  I think it will be fun.  I plan to post about the first book in our book club, Better Than Before  by G...

Last week as I was entering my local Sam's Club, the greeter asked me if I would like to try the new app, Scan and Go. As usual when I a...

The wedding planning is in full swing!  I have finally assembled my Wedding Planning Binder complete with 10 tabs. I made this checklist, p...

Toward the end of my Whole 30, I realized the principle of doing something for only 30 days  could be applied to so many things. The possibi...

We did it!  Jimmy and I did the Whole 30 challenge, and yesterday was day 30. Hooray! What is Whole 30? Here is the link if you are won...

As I mentioned in my previous post, I am a big fan of Gretchen Rubin. I have read her books  The Happiness Project, Happier at Home,  and  B...

So I haven't blogged in almost a month.  In fact, blogger had signed me out . I have struggled with time management for quite some tim...

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...