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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

Healed Wounds {Grandma’s Funeral & My Trip to My Ohio Hometown}

October 6, 2019 by Aprille 2 Comments

This is the moment everything up til this moment formed into this realization of healing. Because not once during the last few days had I been triggered. Not one hymn. Not one shudder induced by a smell or a sight. No anger. No pain. No regret. Just genuine gratitude and bittersweet joy for my family, for my grandma’s prayers, for the good old hymns, for each and every last memory.

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Posted in: Family, Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist, Redemption Stories, Travel Tagged: death, faith, fundamentalism, funeral, grandparents, grief, healing, legalism

One unique way for kids to stay connected to long-distance grandparents

April 15, 2018 by Aprille 2 Comments

It’s a bit before 7am, coffee has brewed, and my mother’s voice is floating through my house. It’s a comforting sound on an early Sunday morning. What is unique about this situation is that my children’s grandparents live over 700 miles away. Today’s technology affords us many comforts – one of the many reasons I … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Miscellaneous Tagged: audio, audiobooks, bedtime stories, entertainment, grandkids, grandma, grandpa, grandparents, kids, stories

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