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    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
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    • The Story Behind the Header
    • Blog’s Mission Statement
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    • 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
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    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Our final military deployment homecoming: finally together forever!
    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work
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  • Finding "Home" in 2013,  Miscellaneous

    20 things I’ve learned while preparing to move

    / April 5, 2013 / 16 Comments

    When we returned from our official find-a-job-and-a-place-to-live trip to North Carolina, we realized that we had literally 10 days to prepare ourselves, our belongings, and our current residence to move. These 10 days…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Five Minute Fridays,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Home {Five Minute Friday}

    / March 8, 2013 / 4 Comments

    Today I am participating in a weekly feature on lisajobaker.com called Five Minute Fridays. Bloggers are given a writing prompt (topic) and told to write for *five minutes. “No *editing, no over thinking, no backtracking.” Today’s…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013

    A place for us

    / January 19, 2013 / 4 Comments

    I should be walking, or ellipticaling, or weight lifting. But instead I am sitting on the floor of the gym facing the back side of an older gentleman on a workout bike watching…

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  • Family,  Finding "Home" in 2013,  Messy Faith,  Military and Veteran Life,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Home {one word for 2013}

    / January 1, 2013 / 24 Comments

    I’ve had my “dreams and goals for 2013” post on my “blog posts to do” list for several months now. But when I sat down to start writing it a few weeks ago,…

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  • Family,  Miscellaneous,  Travel

    “It’s Just Like His Great Love!”

    / August 20, 2009 / 1 Comment

    I probably couldn’t write appropriately enough to express how grateful I am to our heavenly Father. He is more amazing than we give Him credit for, and I feel ashamed for every time…

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  • Family,  Miscellaneous

    Update August 2009

    / August 14, 2009 / 0 Comments

    Sorry for the “boring” blog posts. I haven’t really been inspired to write anything greatly noteworthy of late. We are so busy! August 1-8 we took a trip over to North Carolina to…

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  • Military and Veteran Life,  Miscellaneous

    Update July 2009

    / July 25, 2009 / 0 Comments

    Russ and I are continuing to adjust very well. Sleep is still an issue, but we are working through it, and for the most part I think we are doing well. July really…

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  • Family,  Miscellaneous

    FINALLY!!!

    / May 22, 2009 / 0 Comments

    On Wednesday, I drove up to the battalion rear detachment HQ and picked up a paper copy of Russell’s orders. I can finally definitively say that we ARE moving to Kentucky this fall.…

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