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    For Sale by Owner


    When I started thinking about selling our house, I asked the neighbors for realtor recommendations. One of them said, “Why not just do it yourself?”

    Then my mom asked the same thing. Apparently, she sold our last house on her own.

    I kept the idea in the back of my mind and met with a realtor. I explained to the realtor that we would be on vacation the first two weeks of July and wouldn’t be putting our house on the market until we returned. She said, “Why not just let us sell it while you’re gone?”

    That sounded amazing! We could clean our house once and then leave! We

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    Making Our Home Child-Friendly

    Henry – Crawling? from SaraMattHossHop-singClemHenry on Vimeo.Whoa, Nelly! Henry is essentially crawling!

    I say “essentially” because–as you can see from the video–he’s not officially crawling. But he is certainly able to get himself from Point A to Point B in a pretty quick fashion.

    It’s time to make sure our house is completely child-friendly. I like that phrase better than “child-proof.” We want our house to be a welcoming place for every family member (except the chickens are not welcome unless they opt to wear diapers, which they would hate!).

    We didn’t do this earlier because we honestly thought we would be living in a new house by the

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    Join Us! Health & Wellness Internet Community


    Before I start this post about health and wellness, I have to confess that I have eaten 4.5 large cupcakes, a piece of cake, a bag of donut holes, and countless homemade chocolate chip cookies (plus lots of dough, of course) in the past week. I eat when I’m stressed, tired, and/or bored–all of which I’ve been feeling a little of lately.

    So when I read my internet friend Jennie’s post about her health and wellness goals for August, I thought, “Yes! I need to jump on the health and wellness bandwagon!”

    You see, I always believed the idea that it “takes nine months to put on baby weight,” so

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