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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
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    • 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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    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood,  Special Needs Parenting

    When you’re discouraged and don’t know what to do, take a walk

    / February 2, 2019 / 3 Comments

    We return home wet, muddy, and hungry. I'm still just as lost as to what to do to help him. I'm discouraged, yet somehow a little bit refreshed from our adventure walk. I…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Little Brother

    This is how we survived the summer

    / September 1, 2016 / 1 Comment

    At the beginning of the summer, I wrote a blog post about Summer Survival. In that post, I talked about the pull of the romanticized notion of letting kids be bored during the…

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

    In which I word vomit about my life

    / June 26, 2016 / 3 Comments

    My house is quiet. My mother-in-law has taken Ezra away to get a 3-day head start on our family vacation and Little Brother is sleeping. The only sound is the air conditioning, the…

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  • Little Brother,  Pregnancy & Birth

    38 Weeks Pregnancy Bumpdate

    / August 17, 2015 / 3 Comments

    I’m nearly 39 weeks pregnant, and have decided to give another update to help pass the time. (37 Weeks) I’m managing to stay very active, continuing to walk several days each week and…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Fatherhood

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 08.12.15

    / August 12, 2015 / 0 Comments

    *Quick note to my readers: This is the last Beauty in the Mess post that will be published publicly. From here on out, all Beauty in the Mess posts will be password protected.…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  The Preschool Years

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 06.25.15

    / June 25, 2015 / 2 Comments

    I saw my counsellor yesterday, and she kept telling me how far I’ve come in the last year. She encouraged me to keep counting my blessings and thinking on the things that are…

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  • Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Pregnancy & Birth,  What I Learned,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    What I learned in May 2015

    / May 29, 2015 / 1 Comment

    1. Whitespace was good in theory. Living it is ten times better. When I thought I was living whitespace, I was just scratching the surface. This morning I read over this post that…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Pregnancy & Birth

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 04.08.15

    / April 8, 2015 / 5 Comments

    It’s 76 degrees, I’m sitting on my sunporch, and regardless of the fact that I’ve been awake since 4:50AM, I think that right now is the perfect time to be counting my blessings…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Messy Faith,  Travel

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 07.08.14

    / July 8, 2014 / 2 Comments

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 07.08.14

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Fatherhood,  Military and Veteran Life,  The Preschool Years

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 06.04.14

    / June 4, 2014 / 1 Comment

    Can I just take a moment and rave about how great the past few weeks have been? I’m not really sure what has made the difference. Maybe it has something to do with…

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