Life Lessons Learned on the Farm

We're starting another full week here on our small piece of Heaven on Earth. I'm just amazed with all the things God has blessed us with.  Family, friends, acreage, and a menagarie of animals that I only dreamed of as a kid.

I think I always wanted to be on a farm, or have a ranch of some kind.  I've always loved animals.

What makes this even better, the farm enables us to instill valuable lessons into our children, and they 100% know where their food comes from, how babies are made, how things are built, etc. all just from the going ons in our own back yard.   Amazing.  Such a simple, hard working life, yet it teaches so much.

A few other things my kids have learned....

.....a calf will totally bowl you over if you get in his way.....

Ferdinand

......rotted logs make great ant habitats (my kids must have sat and watched this log filled with ants for hours!)

......that it's Ok to be different from the rest of the herd....you don't always have to fit in to be cool...

......it's Ok to explore new things.....

......there's a time to work and a time to play...





....not everything is good for eating....

.......even if you're a goat

....and nothing is more important than family....

Bridgette and Brooklyn, trying to get to their mom on their first day of total separation.