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A lot of people spend hours watching renovation shows and hope to one day be able to bring an old beauty back to life with a little creativity and a lot of hard work and on the surface, especially on TV, the whole thing can seem pretty exciting and romantic.

Thank you so much to Bernardin for sponsoring this post and for providing me with the kit to help me fulfill all my canning dreams!Make sure you give the recipe a try.

It’s a good one!You see, I’m not really sure exactly how to say this you….(jj design group).So I’ll just come right out and say it.

We’re insane.. (pottery barn kids).She’s pretty pleasant and easy to deal with.

We’re basically home free at this point.. (Cotton to Metal on etsy).

So what did we decide to do?Those were exciting and character-building years for us for sure, but when I reached the ripe old age of 27 and our daughter Kennedy was about 5, I was done with it.

I remember the exact moment when we realized there might be a loophole in “the system” and we might be able to actually get that big house on that big property that we wanted our kids to remember growing up in AND actually lower our cost-of-living.As soon as that idea hit, we were ON it!

Within a few months, we’d changed our whole lives and have never had to look back.Let’s look at how THAT managed to happen for us, shall we?.