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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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    • 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
  • Preschool Years
    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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    • Ezra’s Story
    • DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”
    • 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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  • Ezra,  Special Needs Parenting

    ADHD Hack: the only four rules we have for our ADHD child

    / March 6, 2017 / 22 Comments

    As part of our Special Needs Survival series, I am going to be honing in on one of my son’s diagnoses: ADHD. Ezra was diagnosed almost 2 1/2 years ago now. We have undergone…

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  • Ezra,  Special Needs Parenting

    Moving beyond the ADHD diagnosis: this is a journey

    / March 30, 2015 / 4 Comments

    It was a long, arduous path that led us to getting our son diagnosed with an ADHD diagnosis. It was years of unanswered questions and doubts, wondering why… Why won’t he sleep? Why…

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    Second-guessing #whitespace

    / January 26, 2014 / 17 Comments

    You know what's hard? When Mommy needs whitespace but the boy just needs Mommy - and lots of Mommy. This morning, I choose the boy.

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Fatherhood

    A dad’s perspective on creative discipline and special needs parenting

    / January 24, 2014 / 12 Comments

    ...when I become more focused on the method I am using to reach that goal than the wonder of the actual goal itself, its time to get creative and do something very different.

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood

    What you didn’t see {Dear Judgmental Woman at Story Time}

    / September 27, 2013 / 12 Comments

    There’s so much hard, painstaking work and progress that both me and my son have made – even just today in the hours since you cast your judgment our way. But you didn’t…

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