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The Kimball Family Loses Weight

May 25th, 2012 · 2 Comments · My Story

Pin It Many of you have been curious to get the full story since I began hinting at my husband’s weight loss and lipids numbers back at the first Monday Mission about "Can Real Food Help you Lose Weight?" It’s been a long time since I shared DH’s numbers online, probably because they haven’t been [...]

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Does Being Too Strict on Food Take the Joy out of Family Life?

April 10th, 2012 · 114 Comments · Mary and Martha Moments, My Story

Pin It “I don’t even want to go to a barbecue at my boss’s house this summer, because it might not be any fun with all our food restrictions,” my husband admitted to me last week. “What if they offer the kids a juice pouch, or the dreaded freezer pops with artificial colors? And then [...]

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Juice makes you pee your pants (and other reasons not to drink it)

February 9th, 2012 · 91 Comments · Food for Thought, Kids in the Kitchen, My Story

Pin ItJuice is fruit, so it’s healthy, right? Not really. First, let me make clear that I’m talking about the juice you find in bottles or juice boxes in the beverages aisle at a grocery store, not the stuff people make at home with a juicer or the purchased equivalents that have to be kept [...]

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Lessons I Learned Living with my In-Laws

January 5th, 2012 · 48 Comments · My Story

Pin It Despite some nerves, fear, crying, doubts, and just knowing we’d made the wrong decision to live with my in-laws instead of getting a short-term apartment, I have a happy ending to share with you today. Yes, I had a total meltdown a few days after Jonathan was born because I didn’t have my [...]

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20 Reasons I LOVE Living with my In-Laws

August 30th, 2011 · 36 Comments · My Story

Pin ItThere’s not a speck of sarcasm there. I am very grateful for my current living situation. Pulling back the curtain of one’s life to millions of Internet users (or thousands of blog readers) certainly opens a person up to different kinds of feedback than life in a normal neighborhood. Since we moved in with [...]

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Name That Kid (A Kimball Look-Alike Game)

August 25th, 2011 · 13 Comments · My Story

Pin ItLots of people "break the mold." Apparently we’re too frugal and green for that – we keep reusing the same one. I showed my husband photos of my first two kids, a boy and a girl, at 4 months old, and he got their names wrong. They seriously looked that much alike! Baby Jonathan [...]

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Jonathan Michael: The Birth Story

August 18th, 2011 · 67 Comments · My Story

Pin It“How many hours were you in labor?” I still can’t figure out what my answer is going to be. A week? A day? 2 hours? For my first two, labor was much more defined: 13 hours, 5 hours. Much like with number two, however, my body was preparing for this number three for many [...]

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