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    • 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
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 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’s Story
    • DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”
    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Home
  • Blog
  • 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’s Story
    • DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”
    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Dear Facebook: an open letter on our ten year anniversary

    / March 14, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Dear Facebook: we’ve made it ten years. Can you believe it? At the beginning, you were a means to an end, you know? I wanted to talk to my new best friend, who…

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    Top Facebook Posts of 2016, some special thanks, and new stuff too!

    / December 22, 2016 / 0 Comments

    Y’all, Facebook is my jam. Let me explain: Despite Facebook’s dumb algorithm issues (which have me literally begging my email subscribers for more interaction), despite my former issues (and ongoing recovery) with Facebook…

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    When the Internet is an ugly place to be: surviving the election aftermath

    / November 11, 2016 / 4 Comments

    My eyes were burning. My heart was pounding. It was 2:00 AM, and I was wired from the internet frenzy that was election night. I had multiple Twitter feeds open in multiple tabs.…

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Little Brother,  Messy Faith,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Formula, FODMAPs, and other “F-ing” things I learned in April

    / May 3, 2016 / 2 Comments

    I’ll get to formula and FODMAPS in a second, but before y’all go up in arms at my use of foul language on my faith-based blog, I have to explain: We play this game in…

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  • Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    What I learned from a month-long Facebook break

    / February 12, 2016 / 6 Comments

    It’s that time of year when posts pop up all over the internet about Lent. I personally have never been an observer of Lent, but I can relate to the depth of what…

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  • Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    On {not} being a Facebook addict, privacy, and pleasing people

    / March 21, 2015 / 9 Comments

    Three years ago, I came out publicly to my friends and family as being a self-proclaimed Facebook addict, whose true deeper problem was that of being addicted to pleasing people. That, really, was…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    What I’ve learned from #whitespace {#oneword365 recap}

    / December 30, 2014 / 2 Comments

    But in all of the busy-ness, that Still Small Voice has been calling me slow down and smell the roses and stop doing all. the. things.   With these words I walked into…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    20 things I learned this summer

    / September 1, 2014 / 7 Comments

    20 things I learned this summer

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  • Ezra,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    A few random things {because if I don’t blog I just might go crazy}

    / June 25, 2014 / 1 Comment

    some of the randomness that's been going through my head the past few weeks

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  • Family,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    creating #whitespace for our family

    / January 16, 2014 / 14 Comments

    In this post, I'd like to share some of the ways I have already begun to create whitespace in our home and with our family.

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