We’re starting a new series of videos that will help you get to know our family better. We’re calling them “Hang 10” since there are ten of us in the family. If you’ve ever wondered how Jim and I met, this is the video that reveals how it all started! What did you think? Bet you […]
We have a pretty awesome garden here at Goat Milk Stuff. We love it so much, we wrote an entire blog series about it! Last year we planted a whole bunch of sunflowers in our garden. This year, we didn’t plant any. But we still had sunflowers – volunteers from last year’s dropped seeds. Aren’t […]
If you’ve been around our blog a while, you’ve probably discovered our Youngest Person Rule. I was looking through the camera* the other day and found these pictures of the Youngest Person Rule in action. For those of you who don’t know, the Youngest Person Rule means that the youngest person capable of doing the job […]
The other day, we had a delivery (Graeter’s ice cream, yumm!!) that included some dry ice. After making sure the kids understood that they couldn’t touch the dry ice, they were allowed to do what they wanted with it. They wanted to touch the fog, to feel how cold it was. They wanted to pour it […]
My baby brother is now ten! Hewitt spent the day before his birthday counting down. “Ten hours, Brett! Ten hours until I’m ten!” He was really excited because, “I won’t be a single digit anymore!” He blew out the ten candles on his Breakfast Birthday Cake easily. When he started cutting the pieces and lifting […]
The other day, we were all in the soaproom getting our work done, and we couldn’t find Indigo. We weren’t sure if she was hiding in the house, or in the barn, but she wasn’t in the retail room, which is where she usually is if she’s in the soaproom. Imagine how surprised Mom was […]
Building a house was not something our family had ever planned to do. But with the growth of Goat Milk Stuff, we needed a new farm and soaproom. And since the property we purchased did not have a house, we needed a house too! The construction project took almost two years from start to finish. […]
Once most of the painting was done, the house started getting important items like kitchen cabinets, counter tops, thermostats*, bath tubs, and bathroom cabinets. We spent hours in the house helping to open cardboard boxes and then carting the empty cardboard away. With all the cabinets, bathroom fixtures, light fixtures, ceiling fans, doors, and everything else […]
When they painted our bedrooms, we were that much closer to living in our bedrooms. We still needed carpet, lights, switches, trim, doors, and a whole lot more, but the rooms were very colorful. Which made all of us beyond excited!
When we were building our house, the stairs were some of the last things to be built, and it’s hard to jump up a three foot wall when you’re carrying things. So Lucky built us what was affectionately called, “the chicken board”. First it was on the side of the house, when they were framing […]
A lot of work went into the house – clearing the land, digging the basement. That was cool to watch. But the best part was when they started framing it. That was when the new house became real for me – when we had walls and rooms framed out. That was when I realized, “we are […]
Construction was a very serious time. Every day, there were decisions to be made that would impact our farm forever. So there was a lot of talking to Lucky, sitting down with plans, magazines, and paint colors, and thinking hard about what we wanted. But it wasn’t all serious. We had a ton of fun during […]
The Jonas children love when something is being built, because construction means that there are lots of piles. Dirt piles, rock piles, concrete piles – they don’t care, as long as they’re allowed to climb them. And slide down them. (I’m just glad that they each do their own laundry – the Youngest Person Rule strikes again.) […]
Fletcher turned 13 on July 12th. With that momentous event, I now have as many teenagers as I have non-teenagers. Yikes! Good thing my teenagers are all pretty awesome! Normally, we have breakfast birthday cake to celebrate birthdays. But the day before Fletcher’s birthday was a bit crazy, so Fletcher said he would be very […]
Sometimes I think about the past and realize that a lot of things had to happen for me to be where I am today. A big thing happened nineteen years ago, on July 8, 1995. Can you guess what happened? The title of the post gives it away. LOL Yes, my Mom and Dad got married. I […]