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Processing Jewelweed
Last week I talked about how we harvested jewelweed to be used in our jewelweed soap and jewelweed salve. Once Greyden and Emery collect all of the jewelweed, it’s time to process it. Jade does...
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Do You Take Advantage of Opportunities?
I love the fact that because of Goat Milk Stuff, we’ve been able to take the family on many adventures to many cities. We’ve been on television in St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans, Los...
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Happy 8th Birthday Jade!
I can’t believe my little fire cracker is 8! Since Jade’s birthday is the 4th of July we had lots of family visiting, which meant lots of breakfast birthday cake! Looking back at the last few years,...
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5K Color Run
Exercise is something important to our family so we can stay healthy. All of the boys run cross country and track. Last Saturday we all participated in a 5K Color Run, to help raise money to fight...
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Baby Goats Visiting the Nursing Home
Remember when we brought some baby goats to the nursing home? We did it again! Emery, Fletcher, Greyden, Hewitt, Indigo, Jade, and Dad brought two or three of our youngest babies to visit. The...
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Knitting For Playmobil
All my kids have enjoyed playmobil at some point during their childhood. But as they have gotten older, some of them have “outgrown” it. Fletcher, Hewitt, Indigo, and Jade however all still very much...
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Newsies
Everyone in our family absolutely LOVES musicals. While we were visiting New York City, we had the opportunity to see three broadway musicals, including Newsies. My siblings and I absolutely love the...
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Ask a Jonas – Jade’s Thoughts on Working
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...
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What Do We Do In Our Spare Time?
We get asked all the time, “What do you do in your spare time?” And without fail, everyone’s answer to that question is, “I read”. We read outside, on the couch, (in any position we find comfortable,)...
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Healthy Field, Healthy Goats!
I’m not a big fan of chemicals. They have their place and are useful in certain applications. But in general, I think that as a society we rely too heavily on them. We work hard on the farm to avoid...
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Taping Boxes and Making Forts
Here at Goat Milk Stuff, we go through lots of mailing boxes. Normally, when we run out of prepared boxes, we’ll get everyone together and have a big box taping party. But the other day, some of the...
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Ask a Jonas – Jade & signing her name
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...
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Kids Decorating the Christmas Tree
This year, when we went to get our family Christmas Tree, Mom had the brilliant idea of getting a tree for the front porch of the soaproom. The only problem was that we didn’t have any ornaments for...
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Ask a Jonas — Jade’s Thoughts on Learning to Read
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...
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Jade and the Umbrella
A couple of weeks ago, we bought some big red and white striped umbrellas to keep in the soaproom, so that we could let people on tours use them if it was raining. Well, we haven’t had a tour use them...
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A few weeks ago, we had our first snow for this winter. The kids kept disappearing. A few hours later, they would be back. With frozen hands. And bright red cheeks. “We were sleddding!” “And it was...
View ArticleGinger and Jade
Our house cat, Ginger, is a Daddy’s girl. But Jade thinks that Ginger is hers, and will spend hours with her. Ginger has always been good with Jade, despite hours of too much snuggle time. Bonus points...
View ArticleAsk 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...
View ArticleAsk A Jonas – Does Jade Like Goats Or Bunnies Better?
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...
View ArticleGoat 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...
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