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My daughter LOVES Olivia, she would love this for her fourth birthday!

Personally, I have no problem with keeping hens around even after they outgrow their egg-laying days. They are still fun, friendly, still produce fertilizer, and still eat bugs, so they have lots of "uses" - the eggs are just bonus. After all, I keep my dogs around and they have no uses at all. :)

I spend a lot of time in the front yard of my house because it's a lot cooler in the summer than the backyard, and I too have seen how great it is for building community, I love it.

In general I don't buy anything with licensed characters, but I do make an exception for Olivia. My daughter ADORES her and she's pretty cute and, I think, a good influence on my daughter's behavior. It also helps that there are relatively few Olivia products available for sale (books, videos, and just a handful of toys), so you don't feel too overwhelmed by it.

We have a one-year-old and a three-year-old and we planned on having them share a room but we couldn't ever get them to properly sleep together so even though the baby's crib is in their shared room he sleeps in a pack n' play in a different room. I'm still holding out hope it'll work better when he's a little older, maybe by 18 months or 2 years old.

The key might be "twenty-something." Just guessing but I live in L.A. and I'm in my 30s and we just bought a small house with room for a nice vegetable garden (and chickens except my dogs would eat them) but that would definitely not have been financially possible in my 20s. (I'm married and we make more than 50k a year together, but again - that was NOT true in my twenties.) Maybe these are just older farmers? :)

Great space! I love the two pale green chairs in the first picture. I'm also really inspired by the grouping of the three paintings in the third picture - I never have the guts to buy/display original art because it's so hard for me to picture how it's going to look in a space, but this has inspired me to start keeping an eye open for some paintings to hang on my (still empty) walls.

I love the pendant light, where is that from?

I love the look of bathtubs, particularly free-standing ones, but the truth is, I never, ever use them. My husband and I are strictly shower people - even my toddler showers now. We are renovating our bathroom now and we've decided to remove the tub and replace it with a really nice, big stall shower instead.

We are in the process of looking for a new home right now and our dream luxury is a guest room (or even a nook or alcove or some separate space). It's not possible for everyone, of course, but I would love that! We have lots and lots of overnight guests, at least 1-2 every month and sometimes more like 5-6, and it would be so nice for them and for us to not have to have them sleep on our living room sofa and to have a place for them to store their bags, etc.