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    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 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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    • 31 Days of Supporting the Special Needs Family
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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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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Little Brother,  Miscellaneous,  Momma Goes Back to School,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting

    How to catch your breath when life is a whirlwind

    / March 24, 2017 / 3 Comments

    I’ve been wanting – no, needing – to write a blog post about current life happenings for a few weeks now. But I kept putting it off, because…where do I start? Year so…

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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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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Birthdays,  Ezra,  Family,  Marriage,  Motherhood,  The Preschool Years

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 03.16.14 {in which I post 40 photos and hope I don’t break my blog}

    / March 16, 2014 / 0 Comments

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 03.16.14 {in which I post 40 photos and hope I don't break my blog}

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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,  Military and Veteran Life,  Miscellaneous

    The chaos of moving and settling in

    / May 13, 2013 / 5 Comments

    The day that we moved into our new apartment was probably the most difficult and hectic day of the entire moving process. We had hoped that the movers would deliver our household goods…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013

    Saying goodbye and closing the door

    / May 7, 2013 / 2 Comments

    Our movers were gone, along with our household goods. Our landlady had just pulled away after inspecting our home. Ezra was asleep on the living room floor. We made several trips in and…

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  • Finding "Home" in 2013,  Military and Veteran Life,  Miscellaneous

    Moving Days: garbage dumpsters, packing, pizza, goodbyes, magic erasers, and more

    / May 6, 2013 / 8 Comments

    Moving Day 1 dawned lovely, warm, and sunny. We woke up around 6am because the movers had said they would be there between 8 and 9 am. I was scurrying around trying to…

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

    Our Journey to “Home” ~ Part 2: God’s Direction

    / April 18, 2013 / 12 Comments

    This post is second in a series of posts describing how God has led my family to relocate from Kentucky to North Carolina as my husband is ending his military career. To read…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Military and Veteran Life,  Travel

    Our Journey to “Home” ~ Part 1: The Disappointments and Desperation

    / April 13, 2013 / 5 Comments

    I began this year knowing it would be full of transition and a lot of unknowns. My husband was coming to the very end of his military career and searching for the next…

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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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