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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
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    • The Story Behind the Header
    • Blog’s Mission Statement
    • Blog Series
    • Top Ten Posts of All Time
    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
  • Marriage
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    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Ezra,  Family,  Homeschooling,  Little Brother,  Special Needs Parenting

    3rd Grade Homeschooling End-of-Year Recap & Review

    / June 2, 2020 / 0 Comments

    We have just finished up our FIRST year of homeschooling and the completion of Ezra’s 3rd grade year! June 1st marks our first day of year two! As we moved through the summer…

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  • Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Homeschooling,  Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Travel

    Recovery & Coronavirus Quarantine: Life in the Post-Injury Twilight Zone

    / March 25, 2020 / 0 Comments

    It's been 17 days since I broke my leg in three places. It's also been 1,118,681,654 years since this virus quarantine stuff started. At least that's how it feels.

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  • Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Homeschooling,  Motherhood,  The Preschool Years,  Travel

    Little Free Library: a social-distancing-friendly way to get kids out of the house

    / March 19, 2020 / 1 Comment

    I think all of us moms are reeling from the current world happenings due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Many moms used to sending their kids to school have been thrust…

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  • Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Homeschooling,  Travel

    Fracture: an update on our unexpectedly-upended family

    / March 14, 2020 / 7 Comments

    I’m out of town and broke my leg in 3 places. Our family is fractured, splintered, and stretched further than ever before. This is SO HARD on all of us. 

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Friendship & Community,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Writing and blogging

    What does a “mommy blog” have to do with local church ministry?

    / March 2, 2020 / 0 Comments

    Our local church is hosting a missions conference unlike any missions conferences I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot). The “Grace on Mission Conference” is running for the entire month of March,…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Messy Faith,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Order in the Mess: Bearing God’s Image as a Type-A Homemaker

    / February 13, 2020 / 0 Comments

    I am made in the image of God, and that is beautiful. Every person has within him or her the image of God. It is our role...our job as His creation to bear…

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  • Friendship & Community,  Messy Faith,  Redemption Stories

    A King James Version (KJV) Audio Bible for Women

    / February 4, 2020 / 2 Comments

    My mom has been reading to me since I was born. So I called her up and asked her to take on the immense endeavor of narrating the first-ever (to my knowledge) King…

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  • Allume 2013,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Love in the Deep End: A Star is Born

    / December 24, 2019 / 3 Comments

    A deep and broken love...a star is born. Not the star of a woman thrust into fame, but the star of sacrificial love that burned bright because a woman gave herself away by…

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  • Homeschooling,  Motherhood

    Escape {Homeschool Mama Musings}

    / December 16, 2019 / 1 Comment

    Homeschooling is loud and messy and cluttered and chaotic and overwhelming and frustrating and LOUD. But it's also beautiful and rewarding and heartwarming and, dare I say, even peaceful sometimes. I still treasure…

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  • Homeschooling,  Messy Faith

    Beauty in the {Homeschooling} Mess: A Mini-Blog

    / November 10, 2019 / 0 Comments

    I was sitting down to type this out as a status, but realized it would be extremely long. So I decided to come here and sweep away the cobwebs and write for a…

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