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Kids Decorating the Christmas Tree
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The Cross Country Season
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the boys winning the title of Homeschool Cross Country Champions. That was only the final highlight of a fantastic season. This season, the team spent hours listening to Coach Sweetland. This season, the team spent hours running warm ups, cool downs, and practices together. This season, the team…
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Ask A Jonas – Do The Kids Like Their Unique Names?
We get asked lots of questions when we’re doing farm tours, selling soap at craft fairs, or simply running errands. Since most of those answers are heard only by the person who asked, we decided to share some of the common questions here on the blog. And of course you can ask a question of your own! Jonas Kids,…
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Ask A Jonas – Greyden’s Favorite Book
We get asked lots of questions when we’re doing farm tours, selling soap at craft fairs, or simply running errands. Since most of those answers are heard only by the person who asked, we decided to share some of the common questions here on the blog. And of course you can ask a question of your own! Greyden, what’s your…
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Goat Collars
We mentioned the new goat collars in the post about our goat photoshoot, but we didn’t explain why the collars all look different, and why that’s important. When we were talking about getting collars for our goats, we realized that we could use them as a tool. We figured out a system, and now, just…
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Gallons and Gallons of Milk
Every year we have lots of new baby goats born. Lots of baby goats drink lots of milk. As baby goats get bigger, they drink more, which makes them get bigger, which makes them drink more. It’s a never-ending cycle! At least it’s a never-ending cycle until the babies are weaned. When the boys finish milking the goats, we send…
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Dry Ice
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Kids Cooking – Sourdough Pancakes
If you’ve been following this series, you know why sourdough is healthy, how to feed your starter, and how to make sourdough bread. Now it’s time to share what we do when we have too much starter. We make pancakes! I will include our measurements here, but below I’ll put a smaller batch size. First,…
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Kids Cooking – Sourdough Bread
I have been experimenting with sourdough bread for about a year now. I’ve finally figured out how to consistently make a great loaf of bread that my family loves. If you’ve read the two previous sourdough posts you better understand the health benefits of sourdough. You also know how to feed your starter and keep…
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Meet The Goats – Valley
Our dairy goats are not only foundational to Goat Milk Stuff, but they are a big part of our family as well. Each of them has a personality and during this series we’re hoping you’ll get to know more about them. Valley is one of Indigo’s birthday goats. The day she was born, we were at China Garden Buffet…
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Colorful Bedrooms
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Footprints
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Happy Birthday, Jim!
Jim and I met at The University of Virginia, so Thomas Jefferson is very important to us. Here is an interesting fact – Thomas Jefferson was born on Jim’s birthday (April 13) and died on Jade’s birthday (July 4). I always post the children’s birthday photos, and they insisted that I post Daddy’s birthday photos as…
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Building Forts in the Woods
My children tend to be very creative and make use of existing materials when they want to build something. So what do we have in abundance around here? Dozens and dozens of empty coconut oil buckets. We usually take them to a local place to recycle. But apparently the boys got “inspired” and decided to…
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Disney Wild Africa Trek
