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I received a phone call last week from a woman who had just discovered we were building a new soap room in Scottsburg. We had a nice conversation and then she made a comment that stuck with me. She asked me how long we had been in business and when I told her four years [...]
As many of you know, Fletcher broke his leg this summer and has been wearing a cast. He has less than two weeks left and I have been very pleased with how well he has done. There has been very little complaining this entire time. The fact that he has a waterproof cast and can [...]
Several weeks ago, I finished the book, “Write it Down, Make it Happen”. The author, Henriette Klauser, believes there is something “magical” (my word) that happens when you commit something to writing. This “magic” can be attributed to the inner workings of the brain. At the base of the brain stem, about the size of [...]
When I started Goat Milk Stuff, somebody recommended that I read the book, The Success Principles – How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield. I bought it, but never made the time to read it. Since today is my anniversary and I decided to be “lazy”, [...]
When we decided to leave New Jersey, it was easy to leave our house. It was easy to leave our jobs. It was easy to leave our neighborhood. It was NOT easy to leave our friends. I’ve always believed that friendships are very important. When times are good you need friends. And when times [...]
My children are hard workers, but they’re still children. That means that sometimes chores don’t necessarily get done as quickly as they should. Let’s talk about laundry. For the longest time Greyden did all the laundry in our house. Then he graduated to dishes and Hewitt inherited the laundry. But a few months [...]
When our family left New Jersey to move to Indiana, we had to say good-bye to our church family. Our last Sunday in New Jersey, at the end of the service, we were invited to the front of the church and the Pastor wished us well and prayed for us. Then everyone in the church [...]
When I was a teenager, I remember somebody telling me that many people quit right before they are about to succeed. I was told that if you could just hang on (and outlast everyone else), success was almost always guaranteed. I recently came across this sentiment again in a book that I read. (The book [...]
As part of my never-ending education, I am currently reading the book, “Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything” by Dr. Michael Osit. I’m only on chapter three, but I’ve found it well written thus far. It’s on my iPad, so I’ve been reading it on the treadmill. One of the [...]
As I look out the window, I see corn fields rolling by as far as I can see. The endless rows are broken up by the occasional silo and farm house. We’ve just left our destination – a dairy goat farm in the middle of Illinois. We are now several hundred dollars poorer and one [...]
For years I prayed for a successful home business so that Jim could work from home and we could raise and homeschool the children together. I thought it would make me happy. And do you know what happened? We now have a successful home business. And Jim works from home. And we raise and homeschool the children [...]
I have very mixed feelings when it comes to my children and technology. On the one hand, I believe that they have to be proficient at technology to succeed as entrepreneurs . On the other hand, I want them to exercise their imaginations and learn interpersonal skills that technology can inhibit them from learning. Let’s [...]
I am frequently asked, “How do I make the change to healthy eating and stick with it?” And my answer is pretty basic and has two parts. First, stop trying to NOT eat things. You’ve probably heard this before, but in case you haven’t, it goes like this: I want you to stop thinking about things [...]
I think most of us want to be successful at what we do. Whether it’s being an amazing wife or a wonderful mother or a successful professional, we don’t just want to be mediocre. We want to be the best. And for those of us who are competitive, not just the best we can be, [...]
Whenever possible, we shop at small, locally owned businesses. Not only do we love to support the owners and the workers, but we’ve found small businesses to be much more responsive to our needs and desires. We’ve often found the products to be of much higher quality and the customer service to be excellent. [...]
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