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Transitional Kindergarten: Homeschooling Our Little Enigma

June 9, 2020 by Aprille Leave a Comment

While homeschooling Little Brother is sometimes confusing and frustrating, it’s also very exciting. I’m looking forward to enjoying this transitional kindergarten year!

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Posted in: Homeschooling, Little Brother, The Preschool Years Tagged: fine motor, homeschool, kindergarten, little brother, masterbooks, play, preschool, school

My Broken Hallelujah: Thoughts on the Last Day of Kindergarten

June 8, 2017 by Aprille Leave a Comment

It was 2014 and I was (once again) driving to the Christian preschool my son was attending to deal with a disciplinary issue. Once again taking time out of my respite because he wasn’t succeeding. “Broken Hallelujah” was popular that year, being still a new(ish) release to Christian radio. I found myself raising hands and … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Ezra, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting, The Preschool Years Tagged: ADHD, broken, church, Ezra, kindergarten, special needs, YMCA

This is how we survived the summer

September 1, 2016 by Aprille 1 Comment

At the beginning of the summer, I wrote a blog post about Summer Survival. In that post, I talked about the pull of the romanticized notion of letting kids be bored during the summer – the idyllic 1970s summer that people these days seem so fond of trying to recreate. I also talked about how … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Little Brother Tagged: barnes and noble, baths, coffee, gymnastics, hiking, ice cream, kindergarten, legos, netflix, north carolina, olympics, park, pool, preschool, school, star wars, summer, summer camp, vacation, virginia

Standing Under the Broken Heart: How Shaming Leads to Legalism

June 17, 2013 by Aprille 44 Comments

A war had been started within my soul. Part of me that believed that their opinion of me was also God’s opinion: that I really was a rebellious person if I didn’t follow their rules. But part that knew that there was a much bigger picture than that, that God cared more about me and my heart than how closely I followed a set of rules. The fight raged between these two ideas within me for several years to come.

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist Tagged: broken heart, college, grace, kindergarten, legalism, rules

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