If you do your chores quickly and without complaint, and your chosen reward is math atop the straw bales with your turkey feather pencil?

First off, that is amazing! What a great reward.

We will never again have goats for the first time. Never again will we have the first baby goat born on our homestead frolicking and jumping around. Never again will we have our first barn swallows darting in and out of the rafters like fighter pilots.

It is perspectives like that which make a huge difference in parenting. Excellent job @sarahkroger.