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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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    • 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
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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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
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    • 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}
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    • Homeschooling special needs: a story of transformation
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    My Facebook Friends (and other life decisions)

    / November 21, 2010 / 1 Comment

    A late-night comedian/talk show host named Jimmy Kimmel declared November 17, 2010 to be “National Unfriend Day…” which is “…a new holiday he hopes will inspire Facebook users to unfriend the social networking…

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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood

    Recovery Update ~ 4 weeks

    / October 5, 2010 / 1 Comment

    Today Ezra is 4 weeks old! He has grown immensely in the last month and is changing and acting more grown up every day…it’s astonishing! It took him about 2 1/2 weeks, but…

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  • Ezra

    Ezra Kurt…the significance

    / September 30, 2010 / 3 Comments

    It was very important to both Russ and I that our child’s name be a name that not only did we both like, but also something that had significance to us, and a…

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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood

    Birth Announcement and Recovery Update

    / September 17, 2010 / 12 Comments

    Ezra was born September 7th, 10:32 PM. He weighed 9 lbs 13 oz and was 21 1/2 inches long. When I ended up delivering Ezra by cesarean (that is a long story in…

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  • Ezra,  Pregnancy & Birth

    40 week update and pictures!

    / September 1, 2010 / 2 Comments

    Well, it seems that Squirt has decided to surprise everyone and stay in mommy’s tummy a bit longer! We really thought we would have our baby by now, but I guess Squirt wants…

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  • Ezra,  Pregnancy & Birth

    37 weeks!

    / August 12, 2010 / 1 Comment

    My baby is now “full-term”…which means I’m pretty much living in “any day now” mode. I think that the last month of pregnancy is definitely the most difficult, especially in this heat! I…

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  • Military and Veteran Life

    Songs for Military Members and Military Wives

    / August 2, 2010 / 39 Comments

    This is a list of songs that I listened to over and over while my husband was deployed and came to be pretty special to me. Music is great therapy when you are…

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  • Ezra,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Getting Closer!!!!! {36 weeks pregnancy update}

    / July 31, 2010 / 0 Comments

    Well, baby is almost here!! I’ll be 36 weeks this coming week, and it appears that Squirt really wants to come out!!! Baby is dropping lower every day, and I’ve been having a…

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  • Military and Veteran Life,  Motherhood,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Deployment and pregnancy (a lot in common)

    / July 13, 2010 / 1 Comment

    I laid in bed the other night struggling to find a comfortable position in which to sleep. Amongst all of the tossing and turning I was struck with the realization that “I’ve done…

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  • Ezra,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Pregnancy Update ~ 32 weeks!

    / July 7, 2010 / 1 Comment

    I just got back from my latest appointment and prenatal class at the hospital with my midwife, and I am even more excited about this baby!! The baby is growing, and according to…

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