{"id":1376,"date":"2011-08-05T14:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yearofsundays\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:28:57","slug":"playing-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yearofsundays\/2011\/08\/playing-catch-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Playing Catch-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Amanda here, just checking in to let everyone know Joel and I haven’t disappeared! We’re still going to church (see photographic evidence above)! It’s just been an incredibly busy summer – I’m in school and Joel just opened a new business – and neither of us has reliable childcare, which means our writing time has all but vanished.<\/p>\n

But fear not! We fully intend to catch up and we’ve got two weeks of childless freedom beginning this Monday. I know what you’re thinking because it’s what I’m thinking too: BOW CHICKA WOW WOW! But we promise to ALSO carve out enough time to write about our recent trip to the Mormon Church and this Sunday’s highly anticipated Quaker service.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, feast your eyes upon the majesty of our most-recent achievement – we were named one of Portland’s BEST READS by Willamette Week<\/a>. We celebrated hard<\/em> at their BEST OF PORTLAND party, which is how I obtained this photo of Joel under the influence of Colt 45. I’m pretty sure malt liquor is one of the ten deadly sins.<\/p>\n

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