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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
  • 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
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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
  • 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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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Messy Faith,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Order in the Mess: Bearing God’s Image as a Type-A Homemaker

    / February 13, 2020 / 0 Comments

    I am made in the image of God, and that is beautiful. Every person has within him or her the image of God. It is our role...our job as His creation to bear…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Little Brother,  Motherhood,  Special Needs Parenting,  The Preschool Years

    I cleaned the play room today: here’s what I realized about my boys

    / February 23, 2019 / 1 Comment

    Every once in a blue moon, the boys’ play room needs a good cleaning. It’s the kind of things where kids need to not be present. Momma needs a chance to sort through…

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

    Room to breathe, room to live

    / April 12, 2014 / 10 Comments

    Here it's different. There is ROOM and SPACE and I feel like I can breathe.

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  • Family,  Messy Faith

    Small (in which I announce we are moving again)

    / February 21, 2014 / 8 Comments

    We are coming home to a home that is not ours - yet will be ours and we will make it home.

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Messy Faith

    On coming home {a final update on my one word for 2013}

    / December 28, 2013 / 2 Comments

    I would be lying if I said that the transition has been easy. But God has definitely made this place our home.

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  • Finding "Home" in 2013,  Five Minute Fridays

    Here {Five Minute Friday}

    / April 12, 2013 / 7 Comments

    I'm here, in my new hometown. I have the keys to my new home on my key ring. I've checked my new mailbox twice. I'm here. I've been making excuses to visit my…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Five Minute Fridays,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Home {Five Minute Friday}

    / March 8, 2013 / 4 Comments

    Today I am participating in a weekly feature on lisajobaker.com called Five Minute Fridays. Bloggers are given a writing prompt (topic) and told to write for *five minutes. “No *editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.” Today’s…

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