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A raw look at my never-ending war on perfectionism

January 15, 2019 by Aprille 1 Comment
A Little Princess movie snow perfectionism

A week ago we sat on the counselor’s couch. I was perturbed because even after declaring to my husband, “We’re here for you,” somehow the conversation kept coming around to me and my issues with perfectionism. *sigh* I say, “I just don’t know why God made me this way.” I’ve made significant strides in combating … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Miscellaneous, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Recovering Perfectionist Tagged: counseling, housework, movies, perfectionism, recovering perfectionist

The one where being the fun mom bites me in the butt

March 12, 2015 by Aprille 5 Comments

Alternately titled The one where I perform surgery on a vacuum cleaner or Aprille and her no-good, terrible, very-bad, horrible, awful idea or Never let your 4-year-old play with packing peanuts no matter how fun it seems. (You pick.) So, first of all, pregnancy is doing very very weird things to me. Like aliens-are-taking-over-my-body weird. Whatever hormones that are … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Ezra, Motherhood Tagged: Ezra, housework, packing peanuts, pregnancy, vacuum

creating #whitespace for our family

January 16, 2014 by Aprille 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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Posted in: Family, Whitespace: one word for 2014 Tagged: blogging, bloglovin, facebook, housework, laundry, social media, whitespace

Letting him be lonely

August 9, 2013 by Aprille 20 Comments

I hope that someday, he will forgive me for all the times I said, “No, not now, Mommy is working…” and “Ezra, go play” and “Leave Mommy alone”

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Posted in: Ezra, Motherhood Tagged: Ezra, housework, lonely, motherhood

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