Top 10 thoughts I have while I’m on a diet.

Top 10 thoughts I have while I'm on a diet: 10. On day two, looking in the mirror: "Wait, that can't be my body! I'm a skinny person now!" 9. "I don't care what anybody says. Fruit is not a 'delicious dessert.'" 8. "Does a Snicker's count as a protein...

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Favorite Childhood Memory + Childhood pics!

All right, I have a FFAQ backlog. BTW in my brain, I pronounce FFAQ as "f-fack" so FFAQ backlog rhymes in my head. Fascinating tidbit, I know. The question that won last FFAQ (by a landslide) is probably the hardest question that I've had to yet answer. It's not...

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Aprons, to the rescue!

*sigh* Today's been a long day. First of all, thank you thank you thank you so much for the many, many, many messages of support that Lolly received over the course of today. She was incredibly touched by so many of the amazing words you all shared. Thank you for...

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A comment that made Lolly cry. And not in a good way.

Well, we got a comment today that made Lolly cry. That hasn't happened for a while. It used to happen last summer when people came to this blog and judged us for our life choice to get married, often calling us insulting things. People said horrible things about her...

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Hey guess what! I can finally talk about this now.

Hey guess what! I can finally talk about this now. So, back in February we had a bunch of strangers come to our house off and on for four days, and they brought a lot of pets. And when I say "pets" I actually mean "big huge cameras." And they used those big hug...

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Oh hi!

Totally not dead. Totally working on book stuff. Totally need to stop saying totally. So, here's a random thing I was gonna post a long time ago: Every night we read to the girls. Tessa loves this book about things being hard if you're little. It's a Sesame Street...

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That awkward moment when…

So at about this time last year, Lolly and I had had several very strong impressions that we were supposed to share our story, and that it would lead to some changes for us. We had no idea what those changes would look like. We didn't even know what we would be...

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My witness of the resurrection.

It was 2001. I was in a dusty town in Venezuela, sitting on small bus that would take my companion and me to an incredibly poor part of town that rested atop a plateau. The bus was crowded, filled with laborers coming home from working in the main part of Guarenas....

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FFAQ VII–Time to ask some questions.

Do you like how you read a FFAQ answer yesterday, and there's a new poll today?  Sometimes life gets crazy, y'all. Crazy. Our book proposal needs to be done by Monday, so we're getting that sucker done. And writing that sentence fills me with excitement and...

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Is it a choice? (FFAQ VII) + pics of the girls UPDATED

All right, I've totally been called out. I promised this post last Friday, and it's been days. Then reader Emily posted this last night as a comment on my last post in which I talk about pressing "refresh" a lot: JOSH. I totally feel like YOU right nooow. I keep...

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