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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
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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
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    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    How I celebrated our first anniversary when my husband was deployed

    / March 8, 2009 / 4 Comments

    It was our first anniversary, and my husband was on the other side of the world. I hadn’t seen him in four months. I pretty much spent all of the day in the…

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  • Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    One Year! (Our First Anniversary)

    / March 7, 2009 / 2 Comments

    I’ve been a wifey for a year now. Tomorrow is our first anniversary! It’s weird to me…(I know, a strange way to begin a blog post about an anniversary)…but it’s true. Because I…

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  • Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    Valentine’s Day Emotions

    / February 14, 2009 / 0 Comments

    Where do I begin? In the last 3 days I’ve gone from absolutely loving today, to absolutely hating it. Let me explain… On Thursday, I went to HEB to grab some groceries really…

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    Four…

    / February 7, 2009 / 0 Comments

    When I hear the word four, I think of so many things. Four can be an eternity, or the blink of an eye. Four more months (maybe) until hubby comes home. We still…

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  • Family,  Military and Veteran Life

    More Change

    / February 3, 2009 / 1 Comment

    God has been doing some marvelous things in my life, and teaching me some lessons, but he has used the medium of “change” to do so.

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    Change

    / January 25, 2009 / 0 Comments

    Our life is full of change. It seems like Russell’s schedule is like a ping-pong game. Back and forth. But what I’ve learned about ping-pong is that, even when the ball lands on…

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