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		<title>living without the Yateses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have entered the P.Y. period of our lives, or the post-Yates era. It's a bleak time without custom cakes for every special occasion, amazingly thoughtful gifts, fun times at fancy restaurants, Home Depot answers-of-the-day, and on-the-spot help when we can't fix something around the house. We were also used to having them generously, cheerfully, and professionally paint any room in our house, any time/color we wanted, for the price of...]]></description>
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		<title>one small step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the NICU, James had a therapist named Phil who once told me, “Walking is just controlled falling.” Somewhere in between holding on and lunging forward comes a step or two in the right direction.]]></description>
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		<title>Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today all the Supergrands gathered for a very special occasion. Today Valor (who is already wearing 24 mo. clothes) officially graduated from being a baby into being a little boy (and one who likes cake!)]]></description>
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		<title>Finding a home: Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moving...again?!

Tomorrow at 10 am, we plunge headlong back into homeownership.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houseofgjertsen.info/?p=630</link>
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		<title>Finding a home: Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 70 days ago, my Facebook status was:

Friday night : finding a replacement for Gino's Pizza :: Sunday morning : finding a replacement for Orlando Grace.

Both endeavors have left me hoping there's something else out there.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houseofgjertsen.info/?p=615</link>
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		<title>69 seconds of fame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valor&#8217;s Superman video was recently featured on our friend Jen&#8217;s new blog, EPBOT. He shares the post with his young ninja friend, Isaiah (or &#8220;Mister I&#8221;) who used to come play with us once a week. Step back in time a moment and remember how&#8230; Those buddies used to laugh together&#8230; Cry together&#8230; And recount [...]]]></description>
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		<title>leaps and bounds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a month or two of backing up, Valor passed the 10-month mark and sprang into action, developmentally speaking. First, he was able to sit up by himself (from a lying down position). I walked into his room after his nap one day and found him sitting up. Then a week went by before he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>up in the air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patient readers have endured my rambling about wealth management and Abby&#8217;s meditation on Dora and aging, and you are thinking: where is the main attraction? I will try to remedy this. One of the fun things about the small town atmosphere is the variety of small town things to do. We already wrote about Fiddle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houseofgjertsen.info/?p=582</link>
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		<title>touch of grey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old.&#8221; –Proverbs 20:29, NIV In December 1962 my father rode home from a hayride with three of his best buds. They all fell asleep and the car hit a tree, hurling my dad through the windshield (no seat belts back then). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houseofgjertsen.info/?p=573</link>
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		<title>what John&#8217;s been up to</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. It&#8217;s been over two months since I wrote a blog post—how neglectful! Well, my excuse is that April and May, even when they aren&#8217;t compromised by a sudden relocation to another part of the country, are really crunch-time for CFA Candidates preparing for their exams. That&#8217;s the Chartered Financial Analyst program, for those those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houseofgjertsen.info/?p=566</link>
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