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    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • 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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    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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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
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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Redemption Stories

    Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith

    / June 29, 2017 / 4 Comments

    A few weeks ago a fellow faith blogger asked me to write a guest blog for her some time about my faith journey. “I’m particularly interested in your journey to finding Jesus…how grace has…

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Obsession, Regret, Anger, Projection: My Latest Breakthrough

    / January 24, 2017 / 13 Comments

    Hot angry tears were rolling down my face as we went back and forth, round and round. It was one of those conversations that needed to happen but was hard for both of…

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  • Hope: One Word for 2015,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Broken faith: more of my testimony and what God has done (and is doing) for me

    / January 20, 2015 / 16 Comments

    What’s your testimony? What has God done for you? I’m unsure how to answer the questions posed by a trusted counselor. In the past the story of my testimony has been the “easy”…

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  • Marriage,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Everyday us {and more little bits of our story}

    / September 22, 2014 / 1 Comment

    There is so much fluidity here...in the everyday us.

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

    Guilt-inducing hymns, the try-hard life, and recovery

    / August 20, 2014 / 16 Comments

    So you won't be able come here and find someone who is put together or who breathes inspiration into your life. Sometimes I wish I could be that for you - but I…

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  • Ezra,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Whitespace: one word for 2014

    A few random things {because if I don’t blog I just might go crazy}

    / June 25, 2014 / 1 Comment

    some of the randomness that's been going through my head the past few weeks

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    A letter to my former self on her high school graduation

    / May 18, 2014 / 10 Comments

    Next Saturday, on a beautiful sunny day in May, you'll turn your tassel. Your perfect day will be the beginning of a tumultuous decade of change and pain and growing up the hard…

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

    this #whitespace is a mighty work because I’m moving a mountain

    / March 27, 2014 / 13 Comments

    this choosing of whitespace, it's a mighty work. I'm moving a mountain of stress, anxiety, fear, one shovel of scary crap and deep breath at a time.

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Grace in the wilderness: the blessings of legalism

    / August 17, 2013 / 13 Comments

    The restrictive cocoon of legalism was a necessary part of my life. It couldn't make me fly, but there would be no butterfly without it.

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    From legalism into grace: one man’s life-changing story

    / August 16, 2013 / 5 Comments

    He left everything behind. All the rules, all the standards, all the goodness. He let go of his own righteousness so that he could embrace the grace of Christ. He let go of…

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