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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
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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}
  • 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
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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
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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  • Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Miscellaneous

    Our last days in Kentucky

    / April 29, 2013 / 2 Comments

    Along with preparing to move to North Carolina in the space of 10 days, I was also trying to squeeze in last minute coffee dates, playdates, and appointments so I could spend some…

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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,  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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  • Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Facebook Recovery (Update)

    / July 18, 2012 / 0 Comments

    I feel like my blog readers deserve a bit of an update after all the blogging I did about my personal issues with Facebook and my month-long deactivation in April. If you are…

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  • Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Facebook: the flip side ~ on relationships, community, and who I am

    / April 21, 2012 / 9 Comments

    Facebook is its own subculture...its own community. Being a part of that subculture has provided me with a sense of community that I had never had before. It has changed me from being…

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  • On being a Facebook addict, privacy, and pleasing people
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    On being a Facebook addict, privacy, and pleasing people

    / April 17, 2012 / 21 Comments

    It’s been 27 days since I first deactivated my Facebook account. In that time, I realized that I am definitely a Facebook addict. I had to reactivate my account to help my husband with…

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    Doubts and Reassurances

    / March 31, 2012 / 4 Comments

    Now that I’m no longer on vacation I’m realizing it’s a bit harder to stay off of Facebook. I’m feeling the urges and desires creeping back…the doubts that maybe this won’t work for…

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    Deactivate…ACTIVATE!

    / March 30, 2012 / 13 Comments

    We are coming to the end of March. At the beginning of March, I set the goal for myself to “Make March Matter!” March has been difficult, full of many tears, but the…

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  • Family,  Miscellaneous,  Motherhood,  Writing and blogging

    My blog may be neglected…but…

    / August 9, 2011 / 0 Comments

    I was going to get on here this morning and apologize for running behind on blogging…yet again. Then I realized that I didn’t really care that much. I love blogging. I love sharing…

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  • Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    My Facebook Friends (and other life decisions)

    / November 21, 2010 / 1 Comment

    A late-night comedian/talk show host named Jimmy Kimmel declared November 17, 2010 to be “National Unfriend Day…” which is “…a new holiday he hopes will inspire Facebook users to unfriend the social networking…

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