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    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • Our Love Story
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    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Our final military deployment homecoming: finally together forever!
    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 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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    • DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”
    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
    • Contact Me!
    • 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
    • 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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    • DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”
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    Top 14 Posts of 2014

    / December 29, 2014 / 0 Comments

    It’s that time of year again, when I give you a sampling of my best and most popular posts from the year. My 31 Days Series ended up being incredibly popular, so much…

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  • Monthly Link Love

    December 2014 Link Love

    / December 22, 2014 / 6 Comments

    It’s been nearly three months since sharing some link love, so this post is well overdue. This month, I have a whole library of posts on a variety of different topics from other…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Christmas,  Thanksgiving

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 12.20.14

    / December 20, 2014 / 0 Comments

    It’s been a truly blessed couple of weeks. We found out just before Thanksgiving that Russ had been offered a job as a government employee. His new job would start December 15th, which…

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  • Christmas,  The Preschool Years,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    Happy Little Bits of #Whitespace Christmas

    / December 17, 2014 / 0 Comments

    Having a whitespace (less stressed) Christmas sounded really good on a blog post, didn’t it? Ha-ha-ha.  In reality, I’ve been very very busy. However, not too stressed, so, there’s that. I have said no…

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  • Christmas,  Friendship & Community,  Messy Faith,  Redemption Stories,  Writing and blogging

    Redemption Stories: A Time of Need and the Friendship I Gained

    / December 11, 2014 / 9 Comments

    Christmastime last year was a very difficult one for me. My husband was working a low-end temporary job making $15 an hour – with no time off for the holidays (not even Thanksgiving…

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  • Allume 2014,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Redemption Stories

    Redemption Stories {A New Blog Series}

    / November 19, 2014 / 10 Comments

    I think that there's still a way to keep telling my story. To keep sharing openly and vulnerably. To shift focus more onto the beauty and still honor others in the telling.

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood

    Bite for bite: a dinnertime strategy for picky eaters

    / November 17, 2014 / 8 Comments

    Rather than giving an incentive such as desert for eating dinner, reward bite-for-bite with foods that are desirable to the child.

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  • Christmas,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    I’m dreaming of a white(space) Christmas

    / November 15, 2014 / 6 Comments

    I urge you - mom's especially - to take some time (before we get all caught up in it all) and evaluate what you want Christmas to look like for you. Make sure…

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  • Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue

    9 lessons learned from mothering through fatigue

    / November 13, 2014 / 12 Comments

    I am continually in awe of the tired moms who land here every day, at the posts from the archives about mothering tired that continue to get sometimes hundreds of hits every day,…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Halloween,  Messy Faith

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 11.10.14

    / November 10, 2014 / 4 Comments

    It's been quite some time since the last edition, and there is so much beauty to share.

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