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    • 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
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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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    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • 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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    In the Hands of the Master Builder: Faith Deconstruction (and Reconstruction)

    / September 25, 2023 / 0 Comments

    Initially, my "deconstruction" may have started with dismantling and throwing out things I felt didn't fit the structure I was trying to build. Thankfully, and but by the grace of God, I quickly…

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  • Family,  Marriage,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Iron & Crystal: Thoughts on 15 Years of Marriage

    / August 20, 2023 / 0 Comments

    Iron and crystal may seem like stark opposites, and I wouldn't disagree. But fifteen years of marriage and all of our shared experiences have taught us that both are absolutely needed. In spite of…

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  • Friendship & Community,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    I’m Invited to the Table of the Lord: The Lord’s Table & Hospitality

    / May 5, 2023 / 0 Comments

    This understanding that I am accepted and personally invited to the Lord's Table (like I invite people to MY table) has given me such joy - such settled satisfaction - in participating in…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Redemption Stories

    Disentangling (and reclaiming) the hymns of the Lord’s Table

    / April 2, 2023 / 0 Comments

    As my fingers have learned new accompaniments of hymns I've known from my childhood, my heart has been disentangling them from the meanings ascribed to them in legalistic environments. The words have washed…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Family,  Homeschooling,  Marriage,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting

    Inadequate

    / February 8, 2023 / 0 Comments

    I am inadequate. Every. Single. Day. Every day I ask God why He chose me because surely someone else could do a better job. We share these things...boast in these things...so that you might…

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  • 2022 in Review
    Ezra,  Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Lifestyle,  Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life,  Miscellaneous,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting

    2022 In Review

    / January 2, 2023 / 0 Comments

    2022 was a good year for me and for my family. It was productive and meaningful, and I would like to briefly give a family update and share some of our accomplishments.

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    Corporate Celebration: The Lord’s Table and 1 Corinthians 11

    / December 27, 2022 / 0 Comments

    Reframing the solemn ordinance and observance into the context of community, family, and corporate celebration was very new to me. It was also relieving to finally understand the social context of the social…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Seven Words That Changed the Way I Viewed the Lord’s Table

    / December 23, 2022 / 0 Comments

    Righteousness. Propitiation. Redemption. Imputation. Justification. Reconciliation. Regeneration. The Lord's Table is a pictorial manifestation of those seven words.

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    A Moment of Silence {Come to the Lord’s Table Series: Part 2}

    / December 21, 2022 / 0 Comments

    There's no agonizing soul-searching. It's like the entire church says, "Let's all stop and have a moment of silence for Jesus and what He did for us when He died for us. Isn't…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Am I Worthy? {Come to the Lord’s Table Series: Part 1}

    / December 20, 2022 / 2 Comments

    I'm not a theologian. I'm a daughter of God who has learned that she is welcome at the Lord's Table. This process of learning - and accepting - these truths is what I…

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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
#boymomproblems #mommyproblems #kidswerehere
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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