Joanna Gaines is rather like Us mothers who're sending their youngsters off to school.
The Magnolia Community star and cofounder posted a sentimental video via Instagram on Saturday, August 9, as her household loved their “final dinner” earlier than her son Drake, 20, goes again to highschool and her daughter Ella, 18, heads out for her freshman 12 months.
Joanna, 47, shares 5 youngsters with husband Chip Gaines, together with sons Duke, 17, and Crew, 7, and daughter Emmie, 15.
“Gulp,” Joanna wrote alongside the reel. “Final dinner collectively earlier than our oldest heads again to school and our second is about to depart house for her freshman 12 months. Grateful for the group hug and all of the puppies to assist me work via my big selection of feelings.”
She added, “And in addition Crew's motor bike, it made me really feel like a child once more ☺️ I really like you youngsters a lot.”
Within the video, set to the touching lyrics of Fleetwood Mac's “Landslide,” the Gaineses loved one another's firm at their farm. Joanna and Chip, 50, might be seen making selfmade pizzas in a brick oven earlier than the household sat down on the dinner desk.
They then shared a gaggle hug with their mother exterior within the yard, canine included, earlier than Joanna hopped on a youngsters' motor bike for a pleasure trip.
Joanna and Chip Gaines' youngsters on trip. Courtesy of Joanna Gaines/Instagram
In November 2023, Joanna and Chip opened up about what it was wish to ship their firstborn baby off to highschool once they nonetheless had a preschooler at house.
“I feel the best reward of getting a child go off to school and having a 5-year-old toddler, is type of that perspective of it's not right here endlessly. Don't take it without any consideration, and cherish these moments,” Joanna advised People on the time.
Chip added, “One thing about Drakey going off to school actually does make you shift your consideration to Crew who's on the tail finish of all this. And also you're type of residing very deliberately as a result of you understand that — which is so arduous to imagine if you're holding a 1-year-old — ‘Oh, this time's going to go by rapidly.'”
(Picture by Larry Busacca/Getty Photos for TIME) Within the Gaines home, vacation baking is a household affair! Joanna Gaines posted a video by way of Instagram on Thursday, November 28, of her and her oldest daughter, Ella, baking in the course of the festive season. Taken by Joanna, 46, the video reveals 18-year-old Ella tidying up as they proceed their […]
Joanna and Chip lately loved a trip to Mexico with all of their youngsters to bond and connect as a family.
“Fact is, we're all homebodies,” Joanna advised Individuals final month. “However as our youngsters become older, I've realized what a present it's to get away and have that intentional time as a household. Being current is what we're after — so we restrict telephones, choose just a few video games or hikes that everybody is worked up about, eat collectively for each meal and toss the schedule out the window.”
Joanna and Chip hosted HGTV's Fixer Higher from 2013 to 2018 earlier than totally embracing their very own model, Magnolia. The couple has since launched a life-style journal, Magnolia Journal, a set of house decor gadgets bought at Goal, Fireside & Hand and the Magnolia Community.
Fixer Higher spinoffs have popped up on the community, in addition to Joanna's cooking present Magnolia Desk and one-room renovation sequence Mini Reni.
