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“Just you wait…” {Dear Moms of Babies & Toddlers}

October 12, 2020 by Aprille 2 Comments

Enjoy the now. It’s beautiful and wonderful, but I know it’s hard and exhausting and draining. The future is also hard and exhausting and draining and beautiful and wonderful. I’m convinced that motherhood doesn’t ever really get easier. It just gets different. Just you wait…

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Posted in: Motherhood Tagged: babies, mom life, motherhood, parks, playdates, toddlers

10 baby items I’m still using 10 years later

September 6, 2020 by Aprille Leave a Comment

As of tomorrow, I’ll officially have a 10-year-old on my hands. Instead of giving you an emotional tribute to 10 years of motherhood, I thought I’d do something fun, as well as practical. I’m sure there are thousands of posts out there about what you will really need for a new baby. But I want to talk about the 10 baby things I bought (or was given) as a brand-new mom that have stood the tests of time and two little boys. These are the must-haves of the must-haves:

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Posted in: Birthdays, Family, Motherhood, Pregnancy & Birth Tagged: baby, baby shower, birthday, birthdays, counseling, friendship, motherhood, parenting, shopping

Little Free Library: a social-distancing-friendly way to get kids out of the house

March 19, 2020 by Aprille Leave a 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 into a homeschooling environment overnight. Even us homeschoolers are adjusting to a new normal that doesn’t include field-trips, co-ops, playdates, and trips to the local library. Even going to the park or playing with the neighbor kids seems too risky! While our local libraries are still offering online ordering and curbside pickup (hallelujah!), I’ve been thinking a lot about another avenue to practice social distancing while still getting your kids out of the house. May I introduce you to Little Free Library. 

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Posted in: Family, Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Homeschooling, Motherhood, The Preschool Years, Travel Tagged: books, coronavirus, covid-19, homeschooling, libraries, library, little free library, social distancing

Order in the Mess: Bearing God’s Image as a Type-A Homemaker

February 13, 2020 by Aprille Leave a Comment

I am made in the image of God, and that is beautiful. Every person has within him or her the image of God. It is our role…our job as His creation to bear that image well and show that image to those around us. Order is part of God’s personality. When I lean in to those parts of myself that He created, I am demonstrating that part of Him in my life. Whether you are a “type A mama” or disorganized, beautiful mess, I pray that you feel God’s love upon your life and find ways to bear His beautiful image in your personality. 

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Motherhood, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist Tagged: cleaning, home, homemaker, homemaking, OCD, organization, perfectionism, type A

Escape {Homeschool Mama Musings}

December 16, 2019 by Aprille 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 my alone time, and I still seek out snippets to be away from my kids. That desperate need to escape my kids is just gone. 

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Posted in: Homeschooling, Motherhood Tagged: homeschool, homeschooling, mental health, mom guilt, self care

Spiritual warfare and special needs: “Remember who you battle.”

May 18, 2019 by Aprille 1 Comment

My counselor looked at me with a tilt of her sassy head and a half-smile and and said, “But girl, remember who you battle! You were riding high and Satan couldn’t have that. Satan hates the family, and he’s doing everything he can to destroy yours. He was gonna hit you hard and he sure did!”

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Military and Veteran Life, Motherhood, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: ADHD, church, counseling, DMDD, family, fundamentalism, legalism, motherhood, mothers-day, PTSD, special needs, spiritual warfare, therapy

All the extra things that mothers do: the true weight of motherhood

May 11, 2019 by Aprille 1 Comment

The problem is that I was unprepared for all the extra things mothers do that I never really noticed. The longer I am a mother, the more that I grow in appreciation for my own mother. Because now I can see all the things that she did that I took for granted. 

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Posted in: Motherhood Tagged: mom life, motherhood, mothers-day

I cleaned the play room today: here’s what I realized about my boys

February 23, 2019 by Aprille 1 Comment

Every once in a blue moon, the boys’ play room needs a good cleaning. It’s the kind of things where kids need to not be present. Momma needs a chance to sort through juice box straw wrappers and annoying little toys that serve no purpose. She needs to throw broken car track pieces and partially-torn … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Little Brother, Motherhood, Special Needs Parenting, The Preschool Years Tagged: boys, brothers, friends, home, kids, organization, play, play room, playroom, preschool, special needs

Hormones & Fatigue: Fighting Fatigue by Understanding My Cycle

February 19, 2019 by Aprille Leave a Comment

In my last post, Hormones & Fatigue: Part 1 – My Health & Weight History (and Update), I explained what I have gone through in the last ten years regarding my health, weight loss and weight gain, and understanding my hormonal cycle. This is one of the things I shared in that post: In this post, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Mothering Through Fatigue Tagged: CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, cycle, fatigue, hormonal, hormones, menstrual cycle, period

Hormones & Fatigue: Part 1 – My Health & Weight History (and Update)

February 17, 2019 by Aprille 1 Comment

Structuring my life and health AROUND my hormonal cycle is the only way I succeed at anything. I think I will always struggle with fatigue, anxiety, depression, weight management, and digestive issues. This doesn’t mean there’s necessarily something “wrong” with me. It’s a combination of genetics and my overly-stressful life. Sometimes, playing the cards you’ve been dealt is better than trying to find new ones. Being the best me I can be within my health limitations has done more for me than trying to pathologize and fix my limitations ever did.

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Posted in: Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Mothering Through Fatigue, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings Tagged: exercise, fatigue, health, hormones, pregnancy, weight, weight-loss, wellness
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