and...we're back!

So sorry for the prolonged absence this summer. Right after my last blog post at the end of May, we learned we were matched with a birth mother who was due to have her baby at the end of June. To make a long story short, the match fell through, and we were devastated. It's taken us most of the summer to get over it, but we're officially back to normal and hopeful that we'll be matched again so and will be parents at some point in the near future.

Okay, now that that's done, what else have we been up to? Well, we've enjoyed visits from family and friends. My mom and Amanda, my sister, came to stay with us for a week at the beginning of July. We spent a lot of time here at home on the farm, doing farm things. We taught them how to milk Weezy, our nubian dairy goat, and then we made mozzarella and ricotta cheese out of the milk. We also made goat's milk yogurt, frozen yogurt, ice cream, and soap. Then we made homemade bread and homemade cinnamon rolls. Yum! It was a really nice visit, and we had fun showing them what life on the farm was like.