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What we accomplished in March & our NEW homeschool plan

April 1, 2021 by Aprille Leave a Comment

How to not over-plan, lose your sanity, and try to do too much when you feel like EVERYTHING IS SUPER-DUPER IMPORTANT AND IT ALL MATTERS.  What if we accomplished our goal of getting to everything…we just did less of it? 

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Posted in: Homeschooling Tagged: curriculum, homeschool, homeschooling

It’s just another (normal?) manic Thursday

March 18, 2021 by Aprille Leave a Comment

“If I didn’t know who that kid was, I would say he’s as high as a kite.” These are the words coming out of the mouth of my husband first thing this morning. Let’s just say that when I dreamed of having a husband and kids, conversations like this about our manic 10-year-old were not on my list of expected issues.

I’m pretty sure that all of these sleep issues he’s been having are manic episodes.

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Posted in: Ezra, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: ADHD, counseling, mania, manic, sleep, special needs

Momma went back to school & graduated from college during a pandemic

February 27, 2021 by Aprille Leave a Comment

I finished my college coursework in December of 2019, and I graduated with my Associate in Arts general education degree in May of 2020. The at-home, just-us ceremony lasted about five minutes, and it was absolutely perfect.

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Posted in: Family, Momma Goes Back to School, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: associate degree, associate in arts, college, college graduation, community college, pandemic, pandemic graduation

SPACE X LAUNCH and our fun astronomy homeschooling science unit

January 27, 2021 by Aprille Leave a Comment

As I look back on this unit that began with a trip to the Adler Planetarium a week before they closed due to COVID and ended with the Space X launch literally on the next-to-last day of our first official school year, it seems so obvious to me that God’s timing is perfect. This was not coincidence. This was not serendipity. This was God revealing Himself to our family – and to our children – in a beautiful way. 

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Homeschooling, Little Brother, The Preschool Years, Travel Tagged: homeschool, homeschool science, homeschooling, planetarium, science, space, travel

Becoming a read-aloud family (& tips for reading aloud to wild boys!)

January 12, 2021 by Aprille Leave a Comment

There’s never been a point when I haven’t read to our boys, but homeschooling provides much more opportunity and time to read to them. At the beginning of 2020, I got the CD version of the book Read-Aloud Family by Sarah McKenzie and began listening to it. I devoured the book over the next few … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Homeschooling Tagged: activities, books, family, homeschool, homeschooling, preschool, quarantine, read-aloud, reading

Three weeks with my parents: another unexpected gift of 2020

January 10, 2021 by Aprille Leave a Comment

My parents taught me a lot about the sacrificial, unconditional love that parents have for their children, no matter how those children are! While I would never want to repeat the circumstances that led to us living with my parents for three weeks, I look back on that time as a gift to our family and to my parents.

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Posted in: Family, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Travel Tagged: broken bones, Chicago, extended family, family, grandparents, parents, travel

A Fresh Pursuit of God in 2020: The Bible, Faith, and Spiritual Growth

January 6, 2021 by Aprille Leave a Comment

I still don’t have my “daily devotions” or “quiet time,” as is traditionally thought of in regard to the spiritual disciplines like reading the Bible and prayer. But pursuit of God has been weaving its way through our days more consistently now than ever before. 

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories Tagged: Bible, bible journaling, church, faith, god, scripture, the Bible

#USCHAMPS2020: The 2020 US Figure Skating Championships

January 2, 2021 by Aprille 2 Comments

For Christmas 2019, I splurged on the purchase of a full-access pass to the 2020 US Figure Skating Championships, which was being held about 40 minutes from where I live. I had never spent that much money on something so “frivolous,” but it wasn’t frivolous to me. It was a grueling almost-full-week of being away from my family for 12 hours at a time on top of driving back and forth to the arena, but it was worth every minute and every penny!

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Posted in: Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: figure skating, ice skating, skating, us figure skating, us figure skating championships

The Best of Times: 20 Top Moments & Blessings of 2020

December 31, 2020 by Aprille 2 Comments

2020. I don’t know how it’s possible to simultaneously have both the worst year of your life and the best year of your life. But I suppose if it was possible for Charles Dickens, maybe it was possible for me. It is my hope and prayer that you are encouraged by the 20 2020 stories I will tell in this series. I hope that they will make you smile. I hope they will remind you of God’s amazing faithfulness.

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Posted in: Family, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories Tagged: 2020, coronavirus, family, new year, new years day

When Grown-Up, Big Boys Cook Thanksgiving Dinner

November 26, 2020 by Aprille Leave a Comment

When I found out our Thanksgiving dinner table was going to have few guests, I was excited about having Ezra’s help and making Thanksgiving dinner with him! He did not disappoint! All in all, it was a great Thanksgiving. I’m so thankful for my little family and how they have taught me to enjoy the simplest things in life. I’m so proud of Ezra and the growth and maturity I’m seeing in him. I’m so proud of how far we’ve come as a family. 

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Posted in: Ezra, Family, Redemption Stories, Special Needs Parenting, Thanksgiving Tagged: ADHD, baking, cooking, Ezra, special needs, special needs parenting, thanksgiving, thanksgiving dinner
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