Work Hard. Get Dirty. Use Good Soap.
The reason that I first got dairy goats was so that we could have a source of healthy, raw milk. Later on I would use this milk to create our goat milk soap and launch Goat Milk Stuff. But in the beginning, the goat milk was simply a food source. We drank it, we made [...]
Busy moms always have plenty to do. And yet, it seems like we’re always asked to do more. Sometimes it’s people outside of our family who are doing the asking. Sometimes it’s our spouses or our children. But quite often, it’s ourselves who are doing the asking. We hold ourselves up to certain expectations and [...]
Taking a family vacation with eight children may not be the easiest thing to do, but it is worth every minute of effort and all the expense. We believe getting away from home and your normal routine really strengthens family bonds and gives Mom and Dad a respite from their normal stresses. We just [...]
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 [...]
Do you finish your “typical” day feeling like you accomplished nothing? Or do you typically go to sleep feeling tired, but believing you had a good day? For me, I enjoy wrapping up the day knowing that I worked hard, taught my children, enjoyed my family, and accomplished something. Jim joins me on this podcast [...]
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 [...]
One of my all-time favorite books is Margin by Richard Swenson. This is a concept that is really important to a well-balanced life and it is a book that I highly recommend. If you have margin in your life, you have the resources to handle the unexpected. You also have time to play with [...]
We have so much fun sharing our story and our stuff with people. It’s one of the greatest things in the world to be able to support your family doing something that you truly love. Last week, we were able to go to Indianapolis to be on the Fox 59 morning show with Jenny Anchondo. [...]
I want to raise children that have a strong work ethic. I think laziness is so destructive to our personal success, especially when it comes to our careers and our relationships. It takes hard work to succeed in both those areas. I use chores to build a strong work ethic into my children. It isn’t [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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