How Should Joanna Gaines Prepare Her Heart for This?
By Movieguide® Contributor
As Joanna Gaines’ children are getting older, she’s learning to embrace the bittersweetness of it all. Her and Chip Gaines’ oldest daughter Ella turned 18 last fall and Gaines has shared how the change is affecting her family.
In an interview with PEOPLE, the FIXER UPPER star shared her thoughts.
“I was so sad. I couldn’t believe how it hit me because [her husband] Chip always says I’m not super emotional. I’m pretty steady,” Gaines said. “But, I think just the idea that I realize that one move out with that one kid, it triggers something now where it starts feeling everything goes fast.”
Chip and Joanna share five children together. Drake, 19, Ella, 18, Duke, 16, Emmie, 15, and Crew, 6.
“How do I prepare my own heart for it?” she said in reference to her daughter becoming an adult. “It’s like you’re losing the one that you go on the weekends to get coffee with and shop at the antique stores. I’m like, ‘Where’s my friend going?’ It’s just being okay with the shift and letting go of what was, and just being excited for what’s to come.”
Although Ella is now an adult, Gaines has learned to embrace the sweet moments of her younger children. Movieguide previously reported, “Joanna Gaines knows that children grow fast and it’s important to enjoy every minute, which is exactly what she’s doing. ‘I just love watching him and how he moves throughout his day,’ she told PEOPLE of her youngest son, Crew, 6. ‘He’s always looking out the window, the first to notice something. He has the childlike faith like, If I just look, I’ll find something. A lot of us have that when we’re younger, but then I feel like we stop expecting wonder because we’re so busy. And he’s just inspired me to live like he does.’”
In a recent post to Instagram, Gaines shared a provoking thought of the importance of support and connection in family. She shared a beautiful painting of a girl tightrope walking, with the following caption: “I’ve started to wonder if the most important thing to feeling steady isn’t actually what we’re holding, or how well or how equally we’re holding it. What if the most important things are those holding us up? For me, that looks like belief that runs deep, and good connection with my family. It looks like time spent taking in beauty. What I like about the feeling of steadiness is that it speaks to the state of my soul more than to my schedule.”
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