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A few years ago I wrote a post entitled, "Before and After" which told the story of how we accidentally flipped a house. Well, we did it again.  For those who don't know, Jeffery and I are selling our house, in fact it is under contract right now as I write about it. We had several offers to choose from, wrote down several points on each offer, and went with the one we felt would work best for our family.  But why? Why are we selling this home we've poured so much time and money into? Well, we've decided to change the direction our lives were headed. We are opting for a simpler life. We simply have too much house, and not enough time. I want to spend more time with my kids, and less time tidying. Jeffery, he wants to start his own business and be able to take more time off to travel and be with family. And wouldn't you know it, he's going to start a carpentry business. In the meantime, we won't be able to afford this house. The current real estate mark...

Have you ever thought to yourself, "We should paint the ceilings in this house blue?" Of course you haven't, only crazy people do things like that.  We rented some scaffolding and Jeffery painted the ceiling, replaced the crappy light fixtures, and painted the top of the walls. For some reason we put the new fan up before we were done moving the scaffolding around, so me wheeling him across the floor was an exercise in trust. Let's talk about the paint for a second. I found a swatch of Valspar (our paint of choice) online that I just loved, we brought it into Lowe's, and of course we couldn't find it. We looked through all the greens they had to offer and none of them came close to what I had originally wanted. So we asked the guy at the paint desk, he and another woman managed to find the color in their computer. "Okay, we'll come back when it's done being mixed." As we're walking Jeffery told me...