Joanna Gaines shares how her youngest son crew inspired her new book

Joanna gaines‘Five children continue to provide life lessons and lasting memories to her talented mother.

“I think that’s my favorite part of being a mother – all the things my children have to teach me,” Joanna, 46, revealed only in the Latest issue of Weekly USon new standards now. “The clarity they see the world challenges me and gives me a new perspective. I will always be grateful to my children for that gift of seeing the world through their eyes. “

Joanna and her husband Gaines chips Share Drake, 20, Ella, 18Duke, 16, and Emmie, 15. In June 2018, the first Upper repairer The stars welcomed their Crew sonNow 6, in surprise.

“I had our first four consecutive children so quickly, honestly, their younger years was a bit unclear,” joking Joanna flirting back on her maternity trip. “I wouldn’t change the way we grew our family, but when the crew came – as a surprise! – I was older, and I don’t want to say that I was ‘wiser’ but I had these four older children as a living proof that time moves as fast as everyone promises. “

As a result, a ultimate editor Magnolia journal She said she wanted to experience a crew childhood differently.

“In the first years of his life, I took my foot off the gas for the first time in what felt like forever, and in the years since, the crew have continued to break through my tendency towards busy and urgency,” he shared. “He always reminds me to look up.”

Joanna praised her youngest child for helping her slow down, partly because he “does not miss an opportunity to point us all in the direction of beauty.”

“The crew are pregnant for wonder no matter where he or what has caught his attention,” he continued. “He admires not only the flowers when we go for a walk through the garden, but the dirt and soil they grow from.”

Inspired by curiosity and demanding her son to “look up,” Joanna decided to create a new book for children called The wonder of the world needs the wonder.

Readers of all ages are invited to embark on an adventure through the little surprise of nature. With lively pictures by Julianna SwaneyThe arbitrary photo book aims to inspire families to delay their busy schedules and explore the world around them.

Like many parents, Joanna remembers the days when her older children would shout out, “I’m bored.”

Without hesitation, the co -owner of Magnolia Network knew it was time to take them outside or do something creative, such as painting a picture, collecting treasures or collecting five things that caught your eye.

“Even now my children are older, my advice hasn’t changed much,” he said Us. “We have forgotten that the world is constantly alive, and there is something to find almost always when we are ready to look for it. … I am nothing more to my children than a deep belief in and thank you for all the beauty and small miracles that the world has to offer. “

As the majority of her children approach their teenagers, which will eventually lead to secondary school graduation and college applications, Joanna tries not to think of life as an empty nester.

Instead, she chooses to celebrate the present and taste the lovely gift of quality family time.

“Every step of ‘growing up’ has been a cycle of change, then win,” he explained. “So, for me, it’s a matter of looking at ‘different’ in a healthy, exciting way, and being pregnant for all these new moments and milestones we get to celebrate as a family.”

The wonder of the world needs the wonder Available now.