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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…
    • 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
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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}
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    The Lifegiving Table: A Venture into Hospitality & Table Discipleship

    / December 17, 2022 / 0 Comments

    "All table-talk discussions, love given, and beauty cultivated at our table are for the purpose of making real our Savior and calling those who share life with us to serve Him their whole…

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  • Birthdays,  Family,  Motherhood,  Pregnancy & Birth

    10 baby items I’m still using 10 years later

    / September 6, 2020 / 0 Comments

    As of tomorrow, I'll officially have a 10-year-old on my hands. Instead of giving you an emotional tribute to 10 years of motherhood, I thought I'd do something fun, as well as practical.…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Introversion: I’m in turtle mode and that’s okay

    / October 17, 2016 / 4 Comments

    I saw my counselor today. We met for an hour. I was exhausted before we even got going. When I got out, all I wanted to do was take a nap. That, my…

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  • Christmas,  Friendship & Community,  Messy Faith,  Redemption Stories,  Writing and blogging

    Redemption Stories: A Time of Need and the Friendship I Gained

    / December 11, 2014 / 9 Comments

    Christmastime last year was a very difficult one for me. My husband was working a low-end temporary job making $15 an hour – with no time off for the holidays (not even Thanksgiving…

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    5 Practical Tips for Successful (and Joyful!) Playdates with a Special Needs Child

    / October 27, 2014 / 5 Comments

    The world is a big, uncertain place for all little ones, and forming friendships with families of all kinds helps prepare them for it!

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    Community in the Midst of Special Needs

    / October 24, 2014 / 4 Comments

    What if in building your walls of protection and barricading hearts you shut out the ones who just might actually want to stay? Community is a two way street. If you don’t let…

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    Special Needs Moms: Are You Special or Just Like Other Moms?

    / October 23, 2014 / 1 Comment

    It all starts with finding common ground. Every mom has a similar experience, a similar set of responsibilities, joys, fears, hopes, and frustrations. Special needs moms have a few complications, sometimes a lot.…

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    Bridging the Gap

    / October 22, 2014 / 6 Comments

    Bridging the gap is going to take work on both sides. We have to acknowledge that this parenting thing is hard sometimes, whether you have a child with special needs or not. We…

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  • Friendship & Community,  Special Needs Parenting

    Special needs and community: how walls are built

    / October 21, 2014 / 4 Comments

    Before bridges can be built, walls must be torn down. And before walls can be torn down, walls must be understood.

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  • Friendship & Community,  Special Needs Parenting

    31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family

    / October 1, 2014 / 74 Comments

    The Story Behind this Special Needs Series The story of this series begins five years ago. Kathryn, Sara, and I were young military wives who had met online. We were expecting our first babies – all…

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This coming Tuesday it will be 4 years since my Grandma Carol went to heaven. This verse was one of 3 of her favorite verses that I had printed for her funeral. I selfishly picked designs that would complement the colors in my home, so I could keep and continue to display them.
Ezra grew again last night. With us both barefoot, our noses are at the same level.
I won four games of Guess Who against the birthday boy, so he handcuffed me and put me in “couch jail.” Such a raw deal. Do not recommend. #momlife #boymom #boymomlife
#boymomproblems #mommyproblems #kidswerehere
It’s fun being a mom to bigger boys. Dear mamas, it does get easier. At least a little bit.
So after having several inches of rain flood our garage at 10pm Saturday night and again at 6pm last night, Russ and I went on a mission to diagnose the problem. The problem was that all the pipe running from our driveway drainage culvert out to the street was either twisted, broken, cracked, or full of dirt and roots. We were racing another afternoon/evening of forecasted thunderstorms as well as working in 90+ degree heat and (currently) 57% humidity. I’m really not sure how we didn’t die. I’m not exaggerating when I say that this is physically the hardest and most exhausting day I’ve had in years.
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