Jade is the baby of the family, but doesn’t let that stop her. She is very feisty and holds her own amongst all her siblings. Get to know Jade better and what she does at Goat Milk Stuff by watching her video:
Teamwork
September 1, 2012 By 7 Comments
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 [...]
Outside Fun
August 28, 2012 By 4 Comments
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 [...]
Cleaning Up the New Home Site
August 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Playing at the New Property
August 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Sleeping Hard
August 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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. [...]
Believe You Can
July 30, 2012 By 66 Comments
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 [...]
Spending Time
July 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Our children desperately desire our attention. We can choose to give it to them proactively on our terms. Or we can wait until they misbehave and give them attention then in the form of discipline. Children are smart. They realize that if they can’t get attention from Mom and Dad by being good, they [...]
Jade’s Favorite Soap
July 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
You may be aware that I did a video series where everybody (except me) shared which is their favorite goat milk soap. The problem started when I let Jade be the last person to record her video. Because I put the videos up on the Goat Milk Stuff website, I only wanted one video per [...]
Watch Your Words
June 27, 2012 By 2 Comments
Words are very powerful and yet most of us use them without much thought. I have been the victim of words that were carelessly spoken and have wounded me deeply. I’m sad to say that I’ve been on the other end as well and have uttered words before I thought about the impact that they [...]
When to Discipline and When to Laugh
June 24, 2012 By 56 Comments
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 [...]
Time to Quit?
June 18, 2012 By 6 Comments
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 [...]
When I Grow Up
June 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
We went to the Olive Garden for Emery’s birthday. We don’t go there that often, because it is so expensive. But Emery really loves Italian food, so we decided to splurge and make him really happy. He always gets the Tour of Italy and then brings the leftovers home for lunch the next day. When [...]
Accepting the Word “No”
June 15, 2012 By 81 Comments
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 [...]
When Exercise is Still Fun
May 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
I remember a time when exercise used to be fun, and not something to check off my to-do list. I don’t remember when it stopped being fun. Probably after I had children. Or when I was pregnant. Yes, I definitely don’t remember exercise being fun while I was pregnant. Indigo and Jade still think exercise [...]
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