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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
  • 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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    • 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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    ADHD Homeschooling: Balancing Consistency, Novelty, and Sanity

    / November 24, 2020 / 1 Comment

    So, what is to be done when our kids so desperately need two antithetical things (consistency and novelty), especially in regard to homeschooling?

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  • Homeschooling

    A HUGE list of educational TV shows & book series for elementary kids!

    / October 28, 2020 / 0 Comments

    On top of having some great homeschool curriculum, we heavily supplement our learning with books, book series, and TV shows that cover the same content in our lessons. (I will be discussing how…

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  • Motherhood

    “Just you wait…” {Dear Moms of Babies & Toddlers}

    / October 12, 2020 / 2 Comments

    Enjoy the now. It's beautiful and wonderful, but I know it's hard and exhausting and draining. The future is also hard and exhausting and draining and beautiful and wonderful. I'm convinced that motherhood doesn't…

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  • Homeschooling,  Special Needs Parenting

    ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work

    / October 4, 2020 / 0 Comments

    When people ask how homeschooling with ADHD is going, I usually reply, "It's going so great. I mean...it's messy and chaotic and loud and frustrating and most of the time I want to…

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  • Birthdays,  Family,  Motherhood,  Pregnancy & Birth

    10 baby items I’m still using 10 years later

    / September 6, 2020 / 0 Comments

    As of tomorrow, I'll officially have a 10-year-old on my hands. Instead of giving you an emotional tribute to 10 years of motherhood, I thought I'd do something fun, as well as practical.…

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  • Homeschooling,  Little Brother,  The Preschool Years

    Transitional Kindergarten: Homeschooling Our Little Enigma

    / June 9, 2020 / 0 Comments

    While homeschooling Little Brother is sometimes confusing and frustrating, it's also very exciting. I'm looking forward to enjoying this transitional kindergarten year!

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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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    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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