We normally try to have our goats freshen (have their babies) during the end of February and the beginning of March. Because Indigo’s birthday is February 23rd, for the past 2 years she has had baby goats born on her birthday. If you ask Indigo who her favorite goat is, she’ll tell you, “Valley is […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’ve been going regularly to check out the progress on the new property. We were hanging out watching them work, when I noticed Indigo walk over to Lucky (our contractor) and ask him something. I wish I had gotten a photo of him bent down listening to her, but I didn’t pull out my camera* […]
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. […]
Today we went to see the progress on our new soap room! The kids had so much fun playing on the huge pile of gravel and Jim and I were really happy to see the structure coming together. It’s starting to look like our dream come true! Doesn’t it look great?
Well, it has finally happened. We have our first broken bone. And since he’s never been one to do things half way, Fletcher decided to break not just one bone, but both bones in his leg. Yes, he broke both his tibia and his fibula near the ankle. If you add up all the years […]
We do a lot of videos around here. Sometimes we tell the children what to say, sometimes we just give them a little bit of direction, and sometimes we let them talk and say whatever they want. We filmed several of the “favorite soap” videos in a row. Indigo filmed her video right after […]
I am very thankful that we have been having an extremely mild winter here in SE Indiana. It was so pretty out the other day, that the older children all asked if they could go running. The boys headed toward friends of ours. Brett didn’t want to run with them, so she drafted Hewitt to […]
We love living in the country. There is only one problem – the lack of high speed internet. Right now we have satellite internet, which is better than dial-up. Most of the time. The biggest problem is when we have several days of stormy weather, like we’ve had. So what’s an entrepreneurial family with a thriving business that requires […]
The day after Thanksgiving, we had a choice to make – go shopping for Black Friday sales or… Go hiking in Sugar Creek Metro Park in Dayton, Ohio with my brother and his family. It was a very easy decision. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day spent with family. It was a day that […]
If you have been reading this blog for a while, you probably know that every year we go apple picking! We have gone every year that I can remember. We always have a lot of fun, as you can see in this post from 2010, and this post from 2007. I could not find blog […]
A couple of weeks ago, the family went apple picking. When we got there, I took the little girls to the bathroom and Jim sent Colter to find out what kinds of apples were available for picking (fuji apples are our favorite ones to pick). Colter returned with the news that there were no more […]
The three girls were snuggling in bed with us this morning. Indigo was with me and Brett and Jade snuggled with Jim. Jade: “Dad, you have one child.” Dad: “What about Brett?” Jade: “ok, you have two kids, but that’s all.” Dad: “Their names are Brettcoleemeryfletcher and Greyhewittindigojade.” Jade: “No! Just Jade and Brett.” Indigo: […]
We were snuggling in bed this morning and Indigo was wearing these pajamas: She sat up, looked at Jim, and pointed at her backside. Indigo: “Dad, what is the fancy name for this?” Jim (perplexed): “A frog?” Indigo (shaking her head): “No, the fancy name for this?” (more pointing) Jim: “What’s the fancy name for […]