Well, I was pretty satisfied with the box of salted dark chocolate caramels my husband and children gave me this morning. A clean house and chocolate? Pretty good day, right? But it got even better. My 11 year old J. spoke in sacrament meeting! He did so well, he loves being up in front of [...]

Happy Friday, peeps! A couple of items of business first: 1. We’ve met our goal for the Butterfly Oils, yippie! I’m planning on closing the co-op Monday morning and submitting the order that same day, so you’ve got the weekend to get your orders in if you’d like. Thanks all! 2. Big sloppy hugs and [...]

Miss K’s unfinished drawings: She’s quite determined to be Punkin’s favorite: A rare treat for Lucy, left over fresh goats milk. (None of my dogs have been lactose intolerant, and absolutely love a little treat like this). We’ve got a hard freeze warning tonight, I’m headed out to get a heat lamp wired up in [...]

I am no cinematographer, but here’s a little (windy) video of the goat kids I shot this afternoon – Little B was with me in the beginning before wandering into the garden to dig, so forgive my saccharine talking-to-a-preschooler voice at the start: Newborn Goat Kids from Kerflop on Vimeo. I’ll have to try again [...]

Oh my goodness. Where do I start? Faith, our oldest nan gave birth to quadruplets yesterday afternoon while I was running J. to ballroom and stopping at the grocery store for dinner ingredients. I pulled into the garage met by E. who dashed out to wave me in like a sky marshall. I thought at [...]