Here on the Goat Milk Stuff farm, we got a lot of snow this winter. A couple of months ago, it was particularly nasty. There were 3-4 inches of snow that had frozen completely solid, a sheet of ice on top making it almost impossible to walk anywhere. Fortunately, the next day it snowed again, […]
Since it’s been so cold for the past couple of weeks, our creek is frozen solid. (Yes, completely solid.) So the kids decided that they wanted to have a little fun. What started as tossing an empty water bottle around on the ice turned into ice hockey, using an old water bottle and some sticks. […]
All the Jonas children are very hard workers and have a lot of responsibilities. Indigo (7) and Jade (6) have been doing their own laundry (with our laundry soap) for several years. In this adorable video, they tell you all about it! I’ve said it before, but I just have to say it again. They’re […]
If your children are like mine, they’re always wanting to tackle new challenges. Jade has been very excited lately to learn how to cook. One of the first full meals she is able to make all by herself is French Toast. I do slice the homemade bread for her so the slices are relatively uniform. […]
All of the videos we have been recording lately have provided lots of material for bloopers. I didn’t even realize they had some of this stuff on tape, but it’s pretty funny. Which is your favorite blooper?
Getting our children to stop sucking their thumbs has always been a chore for me. Brett was easy and decided to stop on her own. Colter and Emery used pacifiers, which I took away from them when they were about a year old. After 2 nights of crying for each of them, they were over […]
http://traffic.libsyn.com/goatmilkstuff/BMSG054.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:51 — 39.6MB)Busy Mom’s Survival Guide Podcast Episode 054.During the previous two episodes I discussed work ethic with Eric Chester, author of the book Reviving Work Ethic.* Those episodes sparked some good conversations, but it also resulted in several questions from parents asking how I actually taught my […]
We generally don’t make a big fuss about birthdays around here, but we do have several traditions that are important to us. One of our birthday traditions is to start the day with Breakfast Birthday Cake. Emery has been trained to safely cook, and usually volunteers to make it the day before it is needed. We usually make […]
This is the first year in our new house and the children had their heart set on a HUGE tree. So we went to a local tree farm where we first found a huge pile of geodes. We took a hay wagon ride to the field. And started looking at trees. Indigo kept picking out […]
In my experience, most people have never eaten real artichokes. Sure, they’ve had artichoke hearts or artichoke dip. But the whole artichoke? Nope! In fact, most people are very surprised to learn that portions of the artichoke leaves are not just edible, but yummy! Artichokes are actually a biennial plant. That means that they don’t […]
Hiking has always been one of our favorite family activities. Our local park was Charlestown State Park, but since we’ve moved, it’s over half an hour away. We decided to go back one last time for a farewell hike and barbecue. Indigo had to stop and look at the moss: After the hike, the children played […]
I’ve wanted to get an updated family photo for many months. But as you can imagine, getting everyone ready is quite an endeavor. We were supposed to do the photo last week, but with the accident, nobody was in the mood. All the girls need hair cuts, so I was going to do that […]
Many of you know that we have been through a difficult time dealing with the trauma from being on the scene of a fatal accident. I may write more about it later, but right now I just wanted to share with you these photos. There is something about a rainbow that just reminds me of […]
Because we have a business, we’re very careful with our paperwork. We don’t store customer credit card information or share it with anyone. If we don’t need to keep paperwork for our records, Jade is in charge of shredding it. So what do we do with all the paper shreds? We put them in the […]
Remember when we brought baby goats to our local nursing home in the spring? The same facility contacted me to see if I could come speak to them. Unfortunately, I had a conflict, but Jim and some of the children were able to go. The children were going to do some of the talking, but […]