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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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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • 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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  • Motherhood
    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
  • Military & Veteran Life
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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
    • 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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  • Family,  Miscellaneous,  Travel

    Pedernales Falls Adventure!

    / July 8, 2009 / 0 Comments

    We’ve been having fun over the past few weeks visiting some of the BEAUTIFUL state parks in Texas. Here’s a video of fun that we had at Pedernales Falls:

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  • Family,  Military and Veteran Life,  Miscellaneous

    Update June 2009

    / July 2, 2009 / 0 Comments

    wow…amazingly original title…ha! No I’m just tired and can’t think of anything better. Russ has been home for almost 2 weeks now!! (If you haven’t already, make your way over to the HOMECOMING…

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  • Military and Veteran Life

    “The grass is always greener…”

    / June 15, 2009 / 0 Comments

    I am kind of laughing at myself right now…it’s amazing how we can see the circumstances around us and long for something better or easier. Then, once we get there, we do the…

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  • Military and Veteran Life

    A Hero’s Wife: A Prayer for Christian Military Wives

    / June 5, 2009 / 7 Comments

    A Hero's Wife A Prayer for Christian Military Wives | Ring on her hand, dreams in her eyes, no longer just one, she’s a hero’s wife. She plans and she hopes, but it’s…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    God

    / May 29, 2009 / 0 Comments

    I feel the need to blog this morning, and I have no idea why. Right now I find myself entirely frustrated with life. I am in no mood to encourage anyone, but I…

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  • Family,  Miscellaneous

    Half-prayers and Happiness :)

    / May 22, 2009 / 2 Comments

    My current Facebook status says this: Aprille is pretty convinced that God really loves her. While the truth of my life is that God is good all the time, and that He loves…

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  • Family,  Miscellaneous

    FINALLY!!!

    / May 22, 2009 / 0 Comments

    On Wednesday, I drove up to the battalion rear detachment HQ and picked up a paper copy of Russell’s orders. I can finally definitively say that we ARE moving to Kentucky this fall.…

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  • Military and Veteran Life

    How to pack cookies for a long-distance care package

    / April 11, 2009 / 3 Comments

    how to pack cookies for a long-distance care package. #military #deployment #cookies #christmas

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    Venturing out and finding beauty

    / April 8, 2009 / 4 Comments

    I sat there for a few minutes just basking in the beauty and warmth of the day. It was nice just to be able to sit and think, to pray, and meditate on…

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    Thoughts about homecoming…

    / April 1, 2009 / 0 Comments

    Today is April 1st… When most people think of April 1st, they think of April fools. But my first thoughts of April 1st are that it is the first day of a new…

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