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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
  • Friendship & Community
  • 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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    • Ezra’s Story
    • DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”
    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Family,  Homeschooling

    Becoming a read-aloud family (& tips for reading aloud to wild boys!)

    / January 12, 2021 / 0 Comments

    There’s never been a point when I haven’t read to our boys, but homeschooling provides much more opportunity and time to read to them. At the beginning of 2020, I got the CD…

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  • Homeschooling,  Special Needs Parenting

    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Homeschooling,  Motherhood,  The Preschool Years,  Travel

    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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  • Homeschooling,  Motherhood

    Escape {Homeschool Mama Musings}

    / December 16, 2019 / 1 Comment

    Homeschooling is loud and messy and cluttered and chaotic and overwhelming and frustrating and LOUD. But it's also beautiful and rewarding and heartwarming and, dare I say, even peaceful sometimes. I still treasure…

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This coming Tuesday it will be 4 years since my Grandma Carol went to heaven. This verse was one of 3 of her favorite verses that I had printed for her funeral. I selfishly picked designs that would complement the colors in my home, so I could keep and continue to display them.
Ezra grew again last night. With us both barefoot, our noses are at the same level.
I won four games of Guess Who against the birthday boy, so he handcuffed me and put me in “couch jail.” Such a raw deal. Do not recommend. #momlife #boymom #boymomlife
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It’s fun being a mom to bigger boys. Dear mamas, it does get easier. At least a little bit.
So after having several inches of rain flood our garage at 10pm Saturday night and again at 6pm last night, Russ and I went on a mission to diagnose the problem. The problem was that all the pipe running from our driveway drainage culvert out to the street was either twisted, broken, cracked, or full of dirt and roots. We were racing another afternoon/evening of forecasted thunderstorms as well as working in 90+ degree heat and (currently) 57% humidity. I’m really not sure how we didn’t die. I’m not exaggerating when I say that this is physically the hardest and most exhausting day I’ve had in years.
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