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    • 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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    • Homeschooling special needs: a story of transformation
    • ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
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    • The Story Behind the Header
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    • 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
    • Our Love Story
  • Faith
  • Motherhood
    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
  • Military & Veteran Life
    • Encouragement and Resources for the Military Wife
    • Our final military deployment homecoming: finally together forever!
    • Homecoming 2009
  • Pregnancy & Birth
    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
  • Homeschooling
    • Homeschooling special needs: a story of transformation
    • ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work
  • Preschool Years
    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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    LuLaRoe: Honest Review (by a mom who isn’t in love with leggings)

    / March 30, 2017 / 0 Comments

    LuLaRoe. Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, you have probably heard about it. Or seen it on Facebook. Or been invited to a “popup party” or something like that. But maybe…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Little Brother,  Miscellaneous,  Momma Goes Back to School,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting

    How to catch your breath when life is a whirlwind

    / March 24, 2017 / 3 Comments

    I’ve been wanting – no, needing – to write a blog post about current life happenings for a few weeks now. But I kept putting it off, because…where do I start? Year so…

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  • Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Dear Facebook: an open letter on our ten year anniversary

    / March 14, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Dear Facebook: we’ve made it ten years. Can you believe it? At the beginning, you were a means to an end, you know? I wanted to talk to my new best friend, who…

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  • Ezra,  Special Needs Parenting

    ADHD Hack: the only four rules we have for our ADHD child

    / March 6, 2017 / 22 Comments

    As part of our Special Needs Survival series, I am going to be honing in on one of my son’s diagnoses: ADHD. Ezra was diagnosed almost 2 1/2 years ago now. We have undergone…

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  • Special Needs Parenting

    ADHD Myths: 11 Things ADHD is NOT

    / February 24, 2017 / 25 Comments

    Myths about ADHD abound on the internet. Memes out there about our kids being drugged and childhood not being a disease or mental disorder are enough to make the mom of a special needs child…

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  • Birthdays,  Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    30 {more} things you probably don’t know about me

    / February 20, 2017 / 0 Comments

    In honor of turning 30, I’m sharing 30 things my readers might not know about me. I did this four years ago, when I turned 26 (you can read that post here), so…

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  • Motherhood

    What do the moms need to hear today?

    / February 15, 2017 / 0 Comments

    I logged into my blog’s Facebook page this morning and realized that I didn’t have any posts scheduled. For today, or any day until like, March. I’m normally more on top of things.…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    How being in the hospital is nothing like a mommy vacation

    / February 12, 2017 / 3 Comments

    Maybe it’s just me. But sometimes I have Mommy fantasies. Most of the time, these fantasies involve me, an empty hotel room, a TV remote, and copious amounts of chocolate. But on my…

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Fatherhood,  Little Brother,  Momma Goes Back to School,  Motherhood,  Special Needs Parenting

    A very long life and family update (with lots of pictures!)

    / January 28, 2017 / 0 Comments

    I’m so glad that January is almost over, aren’t you? Honestly, though, it’s been a good month for our family, considering it was January. We started off the year with a beautiful 8-or-so…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Obsession, Regret, Anger, Projection: My Latest Breakthrough

    / January 24, 2017 / 13 Comments

    Hot angry tears were rolling down my face as we went back and forth, round and round. It was one of those conversations that needed to happen but was hard for both of…

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