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    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Encouragement and Resources for the Military Wife
    • 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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    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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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
    • 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”
    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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    when you’re “tired of being a good mother” and “weary in well-doing”

    / February 4, 2014 / 34 Comments

    Dear weary one who is too tired to keep doing this mothering thing: You are a good mom.

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  • Monthly Link Love

    January Link Love

    / January 31, 2014 / 1 Comment

    January Link Love - Thought-provoking posts I read in the month of January.

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  • Dear January
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    Dear January: A Love/Hate Letter to The Longest Month of the Year

    / January 30, 2014 / 12 Comments

    A Love/Hate Letter to The-Longest-Month-of-the-Year

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    Second-guessing #whitespace

    / January 26, 2014 / 17 Comments

    You know what's hard? When Mommy needs whitespace but the boy just needs Mommy - and lots of Mommy. This morning, I choose the boy.

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  • Friendship & Community,  Motherhood

    Friendships between single and married women: some practical advice

    / January 25, 2014 / 11 Comments

    Friendships between single and married women: some practical advice for married women, single women, and churches.

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Fatherhood

    A dad’s perspective on creative discipline and special needs parenting

    / January 24, 2014 / 12 Comments

    ...when I become more focused on the method I am using to reach that goal than the wonder of the actual goal itself, its time to get creative and do something very different.

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  • Motherhood

    Friendships between single and married women (an awkward introduction)

    / January 22, 2014 / 15 Comments

    I realized then that I had hadn't developed a new friendship with a single woman since I got married at the age of just-turned-21.

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  • Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    A FREE printable for the friend of a special-needs mom

    / January 17, 2014 / 6 Comments

    Here is a free printable version of the post "How To Encourage a Special-Needs Mom (When You Aren't One) for distribution between friends in person or at churches or community events to spread…

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  • Family,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    creating #whitespace for our family

    / January 16, 2014 / 14 Comments

    In this post, I'd like to share some of the ways I have already begun to create whitespace in our home and with our family.

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  • Family,  Guest Posts,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Fearfully and wonderfully made?

    / January 15, 2014 / 2 Comments

    Head on over to Wonderfully Made today read this post where I grapple with acceptance of myself and our family dynamic in this post, When you have a hard time believing that you're…

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