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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
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    • 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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    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Ezra’s (Cesarean) Birth Story

    / February 27, 2011 / 34 Comments

    “Let labor begin on it’s own…” (Lamaze Healthy Birth Practice #1) On the evening of September 6, 2010, this was the one thing I was trying to repeat over and over to myself.…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care

    My Weight Loss Journey Thus Far

    / February 11, 2011 / 8 Comments

    “A time to get, and a time to lose…” (Ecclesiastes 3:6) For most of my adult life, my weight has fluctuated right around 100 pounds, regardless of how much I ate or how…

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  • Family,  Military and Veteran Life

    One month down

    / January 28, 2011 / 8 Comments

    Baby, How’s our little baby boy? Does he know his daddy’s halfway ’round the world? Tell him he is my heart

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  • Family,  Messy Faith,  Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Beautiful In His Time

    / January 28, 2011 / 5 Comments

    Russ and I have been discussing some concerns with our website for quite some time. We want to be able to share with family and friends, especially those who aren’t on Facebook, without…

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  • Christmas,  Ezra,  Pregnancy & Birth

    A New Life Begun

    / December 9, 2010 / 4 Comments

    My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and…

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  • Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    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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