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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
  • Special Needs
    • Ezra’s Story
    • DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”
    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Home
  • Blog
  • 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”
    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Birthdays,  Miscellaneous

    26 things you probably didn’t know about me

    / February 20, 2013 / 19 Comments

    In honor of my 26th birthday, I thought I would let you all get to know me a little better. These are listed it no particular order and are completely random. 1. I…

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  • Birthdays

    26 Birthdays

    / February 19, 2013 / 1 Comment

    Birth:

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Birthdays,  Family,  Miscellaneous

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 02.11.13

    / February 11, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Beauty: the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit {Merriam Webster’s Dictionary}

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  • Marriage,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    The importance of community in a Christian marriage

    / February 4, 2013 / 16 Comments

    I wrote the following words about my husband and my marriage in a private message to two close friends of mine. “He has been getting on my nerves all day…” Around the New…

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  • Finding "Home" in 2013,  Five Minute Fridays,  Messy Faith,  Military and Veteran Life,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Afraid {Five Minute Friday}

    / February 1, 2013 / 7 Comments

    Today I am participating in a weekly feature on lisajobaker.com called Five Minute Fridays. Bloggers are given a writing prompt (topic) and told to write for *five minutes. “No *editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.” Today’s…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Family,  Marriage,  Motherhood

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 01.30.13

    / January 30, 2013 / 6 Comments

    It’s been a while, and I really need this post today. January has been a pretty tough month. There was the two weeks of flu…and the sleeplessness…That in itself has taken me through…

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  • Motherhood,  Recovering Perfectionist

    My slow journey away from attachment parenting

    / January 24, 2013 / 264 Comments

      Attachment parenting didn’t work for me. And, probably more importantly, attachment parenting didn’t work for my firstborn son. Here is our story: Honestly, it started before he was even born…with his tendency for…

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  • Marriage

    A Captured Moment: Savoring the Everyday of Marriage

    / January 22, 2013 / 7 Comments

    Friday morning… a day off. A bowl of oatmeal, a bright green shirt, tousled hair. An everyday, every-morning moment… Blue-green eyes, bright sunlight bursting through my kitchen window. A moment that took my breath…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013

    A place for us

    / January 19, 2013 / 4 Comments

    I should be walking, or ellipticaling, or weight lifting. But instead I am sitting on the floor of the gym facing the back side of an older gentleman on a workout bike watching…

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  • Family,  Five Minute Fridays,  Motherhood

    Cherished: choosing to cherish the hard motherhood moments

    / January 18, 2013 / 7 Comments

    Of the 23 lullaby CDs that we own that could be in the CD player this week…it’s this one. It’s ironic really. It’s the only one that has the word “cherished” in the…

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