Spring is Around the Corner

So sweet! Meet Prediction and her baby Peanut

I’m enjoying farm life. It’s an amazing place to encounter life and unfortunately death as well. A great life-skills classroom for our boys. We are growing to love these animals.

Last week, we had a special delivery. Even though it hailed yesterday, we have evidence that Spring is around the corner. We have a new doe and baby buckling in the barn!

Notice Peanut's green ears. He was tattooed and disbudded (horns removed) that morning

Caleb and Peanut

Samuel and Peanut

Everyone wanted a turn to hold Peanut!

Except Noah. He wasn't too sure about pint-size Peanut

Noah gradually got a bit more comfortable with the goats. He wanted to get down to their level.

We are blessed to be able to feed our goats organic alfalfa. What they eat, we drink!

Samuel and Jesse in the hay loft

Caleb hanging out. He looks at home up there!

That smile is so full of life!

With an abundance of milk, I made yogurt for the first time with my new yogurt maker!

I’m discovering the fruitfulness of farm life. So grateful for good food. I’m becoming aware of all the hard work involved to put a nutritious glass of milk on the table. Not all food is created equal.

We are also praying for the fruit of manual labor in our boys’ lives. Raymond and Dorothy Moore said, “The remarkable thing about the work experience is what we call its synergic effect- by combining (a child’s) hand and his head, (we) accomplish far more in a given time than (we) would if (the child) had spent all his time on either his head or his hands alone.” Homeschooling on a farm provides a great balance of head, hands and heart!

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