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Recovery & Coronavirus Quarantine: Life in the Post-Injury Twilight Zone

March 25, 2020 by Aprille Leave a Comment

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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Posted in: Family, Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Homeschooling, Miscellaneous, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Travel Tagged: broken bones, broken leg, coronavirus, covid-19, family, illinois, quarantine, recovery, social distancing

A raw look at my never-ending war on perfectionism

January 15, 2019 by Aprille 1 Comment
A Little Princess movie snow perfectionism

A week ago we sat on the counselor’s couch. I was perturbed because even after declaring to my husband, “We’re here for you,” somehow the conversation kept coming around to me and my issues with perfectionism. *sigh* I say, “I just don’t know why God made me this way.” I’ve made significant strides in combating … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Miscellaneous, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist Tagged: counseling, housework, movies, perfectionism, recovering perfectionist

Practically perfect in every way? A Mary Poppins Returns review

December 27, 2018 by Aprille Leave a Comment

Mary Poppins Returns: Remake, Sequel, or Bust? Viewers may have mixed expectations about the new movie, “Mary Poppins Returns.” For some purists that have loved the classic since it was released in the 60s, the thought of a remake or sequel of Mary Poppins may make you feel queasy. Why is this? Because we have … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Miscellaneous, Motherhood, The Preschool Years Tagged: mary poppins, movies, music

One unique way for kids to stay connected to long-distance grandparents

April 15, 2018 by Aprille 2 Comments

It’s a bit before 7am, coffee has brewed, and my mother’s voice is floating through my house. It’s a comforting sound on an early Sunday morning. What is unique about this situation is that my children’s grandparents live over 700 miles away. Today’s technology affords us many comforts – one of the many reasons I … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Miscellaneous Tagged: audio, audiobooks, bedtime stories, entertainment, grandkids, grandma, grandpa, grandparents, kids, stories

LuLaRoe: Honest Review (by a mom who isn’t in love with leggings)

March 30, 2017 by Aprille Leave a Comment

LuLaRoe. Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, you have probably heard about it. Or seen it on Facebook. Or been invited to a “popup party” or something like that. But maybe you don’t know WHAT exactly it is. You aren’t alone. I didn’t quite understand the craze until a friend of a friend … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Miscellaneous Tagged: fashion, leggings, lularoe

How to catch your breath when life is a whirlwind

March 24, 2017 by Aprille 3 Comments

I’ve been wanting – no, needing – to write a blog post about current life happenings for a few weeks now. But I kept putting it off, because…where do I start? Year so far {RECAP}: I started out 2017 with lots of goals, a few (failed) resolutions, and plans to lose 30 pounds. Instead, I had … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Little Brother, Miscellaneous, Momma Goes Back to School, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: family, house hunting, life, moving, new house, special needs

Dear Facebook: an open letter on our ten year anniversary

March 14, 2017 by Aprille Leave a Comment

Dear Facebook: we’ve made it ten years. Can you believe it? At the beginning, you were a means to an end, you know? I wanted to talk to my new best friend, who lived in Australia at the time. She recommended you, and we hit it off well. Remember those early days of character limits … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Miscellaneous, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist Tagged: facebook

30 {more} things you probably don’t know about me

February 20, 2017 by Aprille Leave a Comment

In honor of turning 30, I’m sharing 30 things my readers might not know about me. I did this four years ago, when I turned 26 (you can read that post here), so coming up with 30 MORE things was quite a challenge! Also, I have a scavenger hunt going on over on my Facebook … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Birthdays, Miscellaneous, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: 30, 30th birthday, birthday, birthdays, thirty

ICYMI: TOP TEN! The most viewed blog posts of 2016

December 28, 2016 by Aprille Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year when I get to look back over my stats and see what’s popular on the blog! Having been blogging for eight years, a lot of the posts that get the most traffic are from years past, and that’s fine by me. But here’s the most popular posts that I wrote … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Miscellaneous, Writing and blogging Tagged: blogging, top posts

#mommyproblems: the Christmas edition (with bonuses from Instagram!)

December 24, 2016 by Aprille Leave a Comment

The struggle is real. Because motherhood knows no holidays, sick days, nor days off. If anything, holidays like Christmas mean MORE work for moms. These tweets prove it. #mommyproblems: the Christmas edition Is it crazy to wrap the Christmas presents for a 9 month old that you’re just going to unwrap yourself on Christmas?! ???#MommyProblems … [Read more…]

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Posted in: #mommyproblems, Christmas, Miscellaneous, Motherhood Tagged: #mommyproblems, christmas, holidays, instagram, motherhood, twitter
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