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Lady on the Hill
Last summer we took the children to visit the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. We absolutely loved it. While shopping at their retail store, I picked up the book, Lady on the Hill* by Howard...
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Mean Mom Pledge
Have you ever been accused of being a Mean Mom? I would certainly hope so! I know that every time I have been told I’m a Mean Mom, I respond with, “Good. I’m supposed to be.” Afterall, It has never...
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Why We Use Soybean Oil in Some of Our Soaps
People have heard me say that I don’t feed my family soy products and I don’t feed my goats soybeans. So I am occasionally asked, “Why then do you use soybean oil in your soaps that your children use...
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How To Help Dry Knuckles
If you’ve been with Goat Milk Stuff long, you’ve probably heard me say that when I first started making our goat milk soap, I initially made it for the children, because I did not want a bunch of...
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What Kind of Magnet Are You?
A few months ago, we had some teenage girls staying with us for a week. One evening, I went up and talked with the girls in Brett’s room for several hours. We had a great conversation and a great...
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Alone Time
Ever have those moments where you think you’re talking to someone, only to turn around and discover that you are the only person in the room? I’ve had a few of those lately. It’s making me wonder...
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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...
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Simplify Life by “Batching” Your Decision Making
I don’t know about you, but my day is full of decision making. From the moment I wake up til the moment I go to sleep (and often while I’m trying to fall asleep) I’m making decisions. Decisions for...
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3 Ways To Challenge Your Children
A few months ago, Jim and I had to make a quick run to Sam’s Club. While we were gone, a goat (Zipporah) unexpectedly went into labor and Emery (age 12) had to deliver his first baby goat with his...
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Privacy Issues
When I first started blogging about my life, I encountered a lot of fear from people that I knew. The general consensus seemed to be that if I put photos of my children and talked about them online,...
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What Nelson Mandela Taught Me About Parenting
I’m always looking for good movies to watch with the children. I believe that an incredible story with an incredible message can teach and shape and mold the children’s characters. It can also help...
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Times of Challenge
Jim decided this past weekend that he was going to get me out of bed at 5:45 every morning so we could go to the YMCA and work out. Now, anybody who knows me knows I am NOT a morning person. Left to...
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Teamwork
I received a phone call last week from a woman who had just discovered we were building a new soap room in Scottsburg. We had a nice conversation and then she made a comment that stuck with me. She...
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Are Children Ever Too Young to Work?
I took the youngest five children (Fletcher, Greyden, Hewitt, Indigo, and Jade) food shopping with me the other day. I pushed a cart, Greyden pushed a cart, Hewitt pushed the “car” cart holding the...
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Believe You Can
As many of you know, Fletcher broke his leg this summer and has been wearing a cast. He has less than two weeks left and I have been very pleased with how well he has done. There has been very little...
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Taking Responsibility
When I started Goat Milk Stuff, somebody recommended that I read the book, The Success Principles – How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield. I bought it, but never made...
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Do You Limit Yourself?
As a very busy Mom, I know that I can’t do everything I want to do. So I choose to limit myself. I find that it is more important for me to do less and have time to relax and spend time with my...
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When to Discipline and When to Laugh
My children are hard workers, but they’re still children. That means that sometimes chores don’t necessarily get done as quickly as they should. Let’s talk about laundry. For the longest time...
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Why Should You Care?
When our family left New Jersey to move to Indiana, we had to say good-bye to our church family. Our last Sunday in New Jersey, at the end of the service, we were invited to the front of the church...
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Time to Quit?
When I was a teenager, I remember somebody telling me that many people quit right before they are about to succeed. I was told that if you could just hang on (and outlast everyone else), success was...
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