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K’Nex: the one toy that keeps my ADHD kid focused for HOURS

January 7, 2018 by Aprille 2 Comments

Ezra received his first set of K’Nex from his grandparents for Christmas 2016, when he was six years old. They went over really great. Not. While he was generally intrigued by them, the first time he tried to work with them ended in severe frustration. Thus, the K’Nex box sat on the mantle of the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Ezra, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: ADHD, ASD, autism, K'nex, lego, legos, stimming, toys

This is how we survived the summer

September 1, 2016 by Aprille 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 summer – the idyllic 1970s summer that people these days seem so fond of trying to recreate. I also talked about how … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Little Brother Tagged: barnes and noble, baths, coffee, gymnastics, hiking, ice cream, kindergarten, legos, netflix, north carolina, olympics, park, pool, preschool, school, star wars, summer, summer camp, vacation, virginia

Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 08.12.14

August 12, 2014 by Aprille

And I want you to know that somewhere, in that mess you look at and call life, there is beauty there too. Grasp it. Hold onto it. Share it. Because it is your hope.

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Family, Independence Day Tagged: 4th of july, Batman, ChickfilA, chiropractic, fireworks, flu, fruit, ice cream, independence-day, lake, legos, park, pool, sickness, Spiderman, starbucks, Thomas

Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 07.08.14

July 8, 2014 by Aprille 2 Comments

Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 07.08.14

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Messy Faith, Travel Tagged: beach, blackberries, father's day, Hanging Rock NC, hiking, ice cream, legos, oak island, park, pool, sprinkler, Stone Mountain NC, summer

Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 10.02.13 {AKA what life has been like for the last two months}

October 2, 2013 by Aprille 6 Comments

Finding God’s beauty in spite of our messy, everyday life. A lengthly post of pictures and updates from August and September 2013.

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Birthdays, Ezra, Family, Messy Faith, Miscellaneous, Recovering Perfectionist, The Preschool Years Tagged: acquarium, banjo, barnes and noble, beach, birthdays, cheesecake, church, legos, preschool, pumpkin pie, starbucks, trucks, turtles, walks

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