Work Hard. Get Dirty. Use Good Soap.
We are asked all the time if we drink our goat milk. The answer is… yes! That was why we got the goats in the first place. We actually do quite a lot with our goat milk besides making soap. We drink it and use it on our cereal, we also use it to make [...]
After what has been a brutally hot summer, the past few days have felt like heaven. It’s been sunny, but cooler, with no humidity. We always spend a lot of our time outside, but much of this summer was just too brutally hot, and so the children spent more time than normal inside with [...]
The site work for our new home is progressing nicely. They’ve started cleaning out the trees on the home site so we can see the “lay of the land” and decide exactly where to place the home. The land drops off more rapidly than we thought, so we’re going to have to bring it forward [...]
Today we went out to the property and let the kids play around in the creek. They love getting muddy and seeing what great treasures they can find! The boys of course wanted to explore further up the creek, but Jade and Indigo stuck around and showed off their discoveries. We’ve always wanted a creek [...]
Meet the newest members of the Goat Milk Stuff family! Thornton and Baxter are registered Great Pyrenees brothers who will be guarding the goats (and the children) at the new property. Jim isn’t thrilled with the prospect of having two very large dogs (they’ll be around 150 pounds each), but the goats need some protection [...]
We’ve been going regularly to check out the progress on the new property. We were hanging out watching them work, when I noticed Indigo walk over to Lucky (our contractor) and ask him something. I wish I had gotten a photo of him bent down listening to her, but I didn’t pull out my camera [...]
Jim has a saying, “If you have trouble sleeping, you didn’t work hard enough.” Since we teach our children to work hard, sleeping problems are pretty rare around here. A couple of nights ago, I sent the girls to get ready for bed. A few minutes later I entered their room to tuck them in. [...]
It’s another birthday at the Jonas house. Fletcher turns eleven today! It’s our first birthday celebrated with a cast and crutches. But it doesn’t seem to be dampening his day. After all, you can still eat donuts and cake and open presents just as easily with a broken leg. He may not be able [...]
You may remember that we had a big video thing the other day. (It’s still a secret what it was for, but I’m hoping I can reveal it in the next few weeks.) We spent all week preparing for it. We cleaned up, bought new clothes, and got new flowers for the front porch hanging [...]
This past Thursday we had a big day, with a video guy (Paul) coming out to video us. I can’t tell you yet what the video is for, but I will let you know as soon as I am able! For the event, we bought new clothes for everyone (which was not easy – I’m [...]
Well, it has finally happened. We have our first broken bone. And since he’s never been one to do things half way, Fletcher decided to break not just one bone, but both bones in his leg. Yes, he broke both his tibia and his fibula near the ankle. If you add up all the years [...]
Brett has been having some exciting things happening lately! First she got her driver’s permit. I still haven’t had a chance to blog about it yet, but she’s doing really well with that (especially considering she’s driving the Hulk). And yesterday was even more exciting! She woke up with something she’s had for the past [...]
I was working on my computer yesterday afternoon when the children came running in. They told me that a large tree had just fallen across the road. They told me that they heard it crack and fall and that the electric wires were shaking. I looked out to where they were pointing. The tree could [...]
Colter is now thirteen and very proud of his muscles and what he is able to accomplish. He regularly carries fifty pound bags of feed out to the goats, so he is actually very strong. The other week he was doing pushups on the dining room bench. It was less of a work-out and more [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I knew that Tuesday was going to be a super busy day for me because I had a bunch of “big” things to do: Ship all the orders (it had been a 3 day weekend, so there were lots!) Make a bunch of lotion sticks and lip balms Prep for [...]
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