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Jonas Family 25 Holiday Events

If you listened to my podcast about Simplifying and Organizing your Holidays, then you know that the first week of every October, the Jonases sit down and discuss what we’re going to do as a family for the first 25 days of December. These events are very intentional and designed to build memories and make…
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Kids Cooking – Homemade Marshmallows

Every holiday season (and sometimes during the year) our family makes homemade marshmallows. They are ridiculously good and nothing like store bought marshmallows. You will need an electric mixer for the recipe. A candy thermometer is not necessary, but is very helpful. This time, Brett made them (she has been trained on how to cook…
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Simplify and Organize Your Holidays II

Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 042. Many busy moms don’t get to fully enjoy the holiday season because they are stressed out from living the holiday season. During this episode I share how I completely revamped our holiday experience. I share with you some practical changes that we made and give you some things to think…
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October Soap Contest – NOW CLOSED

***Now Closed. *** It’s time for another GMS contest and this month we are randomly choosing 3 winners! Each winner is going to receive a $50 Goat Milk Stuff gift certificate to use with any of our Soaps or Other Stuff. The Facts: Contest Begins: 10/1/13Contest Ends: 10/31/13Winner Announced: November GMS NewsletterNumber of Winners: 3Prize:…
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Do Your Children Use Their Brains to Think?

Now that the construction is finished at our new farm, Jim and I have a lot of our time freed up. We’ve been talking about where to spend some of that time when it comes to Goat Milk Stuff and in what direction we want to take the business. More wholesale? More internet? More agri-tourism? Since we’re focusing…
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Simplify and Organize Your Holidays I

Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 041. Many busy moms don’t get to fully enjoy the holiday season because they are stressed out from living the holiday season. During this episode I share how I completely revamped our holiday experience. I share with you some practical changes that we made and give you some ideas…
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How To Be a Story Maker

I have a lot of goals when it comes to my children and their homeschool education. One of my goals is that they learn how to be great communicators. In most conventional public school educations, communication is focused on the ability to write “papers”. Whether these papers are book reports or term papers, the…







