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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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    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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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}
  • Homeschooling
    • 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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  • Allume 2013,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Writing and blogging

    when the online life and the “real” life collide

    / October 21, 2013 / 7 Comments

    But then Allume will be over and I will return to the real. To the one-on-one. To the ladies I sit next to in choir and church Bible study and potluck dinners.

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  • Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Writing and blogging

    “Music or words. It matters not. I am a writer.”

    / October 4, 2013 / 15 Comments

    I create. I write. Music or words. It matters not. I am a writer.

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  • Allume 2013,  Recovering Perfectionist

    all the amazing people I want to meet at Allume {in which I rip up my lists and relinquish control}

    / September 25, 2013 / 25 Comments

    Now it's just me and God. No more lists. No more plans. No more subscribing and following and blog stalking. Just some mental quiet over the next four weeks to see what HE…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Miscellaneous,  Motherhood

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 08.18.13

    / August 19, 2013 / 7 Comments

    ...somehow, I see beauty woven through the days and start feeling better

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  • Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Writing and blogging

    When you see Lightning McQueen in yourself

    / June 2, 2013 / 17 Comments

    “All he cared about was winning the big race and becoming famous.” That’s the line out of the board-book version of Cars I just read to my son. And it made me wince.

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Birthdays,  Miscellaneous

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 02.28.13

    / February 28, 2013 / 4 Comments

    It's the last day of February, and I just got back from a week-long vacation. It's definitely time to start counting my blessings. Finding beauty in February of 2013!

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Family,  Marriage,  Motherhood

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 01.30.13

    / January 30, 2013 / 6 Comments

    It’s been a while, and I really need this post today. January has been a pretty tough month. There was the two weeks of flu…and the sleeplessness…That in itself has taken me through…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist,  Writing and blogging

    How I’ve grown and changed in 2012 {Top 12 posts of 2012}

    / December 28, 2012 / 8 Comments

    2012 What a year! That’s the only way I can think to start this post. I had no idea what I was getting into at the beginning of last year. All I knew…

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  • Christmas

    Mission accomplished! {a blog transfer story}

    / December 27, 2012 / 22 Comments

    Christmas is over, and I’m so ready for 2013. I took my tree down on Christmas Eve before we left town so that when I arrive back home I can hit the ground…

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  • Christmas,  Motherhood,  Writing and blogging

    What if Mary had been a mommy blogger?

    / December 1, 2012 / 25 Comments

    Mary wasn't a mommy blogger. She had no social media outlets that she could use to process her overwhelming thoughts of motherhood...of mothering the Christ-child, the Savior of the World.

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