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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
  • Preschool Years
    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
  • Special Needs
    • Ezra’s Story
    • DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”
    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Home
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
    • Contact Me!
    • 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
  • Preschool Years
    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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    • Ezra’s Story
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    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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  • Ezra,  Five Minute Fridays,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Hold – and how I failed the #ILoveYouChallenge {Five Minute Friday}

    / September 19, 2014 / 7 Comments

    I am holding him in my arms. Squeezing so tightly I know my arms will probably be sore tomorrow. He is thrashing and his eyes are shut so very tightly. I am begging…

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  • four year old sleeping
    Ezra,  Motherhood

    Tactics of infancy {two steps forward, twenty steps back}

    / September 15, 2014 / 7 Comments

    I long for the day when he will learn to self-soothe. But expecting that of him has just left us all frustrated and exhausted. So, maybe for now, I'll choose the twenty steps…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    On forgiving my ever-changing body

    / September 12, 2014 / 2 Comments

    If motherhood has changed me (emotionally, spiritually, psychologically), does not my body also have the right to be changed by motherhood?

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood

    When the camel’s back just keeps breaking

    / September 5, 2014 / 31 Comments

    I wish I could quit. Just lay down and say, "That's the last straw. My back is broken. I give up." But with this job, there is no laying down. No quitting. No…

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  • Guest Posts,  Motherhood

    Parenting styles, individual people, individual needs

    / August 27, 2014 / 5 Comments

    It was nearly two years ago now when I came out on my blog denouncing attachment parenting, saying simply, “Attachment parenting didn’t work for me. And, probably more importantly, attachment parenting didn’t work…

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  • Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue

    A Sunday Blessing for the Tired Mom

    / August 17, 2014 / 6 Comments

    Blessed are all the moms who were forced awake before they were ready to care for needy little ones...

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  • Guest Posts,  Motherhood

    Dear twenty-something mom…

    / August 5, 2014 / 3 Comments

    If I had to go back, I would still do it all over again, just the way it happened. But that's not to say that it hasn't been really really hard to mother…

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood,  Mothering Through Fatigue

    When you are finished with being a mom {on calling it quits}

    / July 25, 2014 / 25 Comments

    The only problem is that motherhood is never finished. It's not a job you can simply walk away from.

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  • Ezra,  Motherhood

    Never let your kid take a 3 hour nap… (and other mom musings before 8am)

    / June 7, 2014 / 3 Comments

    In which I wax eloquent about Karma, rewrite Ecclesiastes 3, and share deleted scenes from Mom's Night Out.

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  • Monthly Link Love

    June Link Love

    / June 4, 2014 / 5 Comments

    Welcome to Monthly Link Love, where I share some goodies from other bloggers around the internets. Several of these posts really made me think - and I hope they will stir up your…

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