The Fixer Upper star, besides shared a glimpse astatine her betterment astatine home, sharing a brace of photos from a festively decorated surviving room, 1 with her hugging 1 of her kids and different of her presumption of the cozy fireplace.

"But I'm genuinely grateful for the forced remainder during the busiest clip of the year," Joanna continued. "It has been a acquisition to simply enactment put, look astatine the wonderment each around, and conscionable beryllium still. Wishing you and yours a beauteous Christmas week. It whitethorn not each spell arsenic planned- but whitethorn you find the quality and clasp the wonderment of the present and now."

Joanna and Chip—who married successful 2003—share sons Drake, 17, Duke, 14, and Crew, 4, and daughters Ella, 16, and Emmie, 12.

And though Joanna's backmost wounded prevented her and Chip from their 2nd day successful 2001, the mates inactive managed to propulsion done and nail their marriage—but the world prima wouldn't rather accidental it was love astatine archetypal sight.

"For 1 thing, I was typically attracted to guys who were much connected the quiescent side," she explained successful Magnolia Journal in 2021. "Based connected our archetypal date, it was wide that Chip was thing but quiet. He was each implicit the place, talking astir the businesses he'd started, and these ideas helium had, and however helium was  buying up small houses and flipping them, and I was wondering if helium was conscionable a spot crazy."

But successful the much than 2 decades since, the location renovation duo person built rather a life—and manner brand.

"Chip and I had already proved successful our ain narration what tin hap erstwhile I fto thing turn connected maine alternatively of making a drawback judgement oregon an unwavering decision astatine archetypal glance," she concluded the Magnolia letter. "Chip calls it my 'slow yes' and I've learned to spot it supra each other successful matters of some enactment and home."