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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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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
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    • Our Love Story
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    • 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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    What motherhood taught me about legalistic Christianity

    / July 17, 2013 / 36 Comments

    Being the perfect mom became my new legalism.

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  • Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    perfection is not possible

    / June 24, 2013 / 71 Comments

    What my first year of college taught me is that perfection - whether in your spiritual life or academic - is not possible, no matter how hard you try. That's why we need…

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  • Christmas,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Faith…refreshed

    / December 12, 2012 / 13 Comments

    Celebrating the birth of Christ this year has been not only a natural response, but the ONLY response I possibly could have to God after all He’s done for me this year.

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  • Photos of my real-life messy house - I am a real mom | beautifulinhistime.com
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    Real mom

    / October 16, 2012 / 17 Comments

    Toward the end of the summer, I started reading a great book on motherhood called Beyond Bathtime. I won’t go into a lengthy review in this post, other than to say it’s definitely…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood,  Recovering Perfectionist

    I do a lot… I matter

    / July 7, 2012 / 8 Comments

    You go above and beyond and then way beyond that You do it all, yeah, you wear every hat Hopin’ someone that matters will realize you matter “Nothing to Prove” by Lonestar Lately…

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  • Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Confessions of a recovering perfectionist

    / May 21, 2012 / 26 Comments

    I have been contemplating writing this post for about two weeks now, but I haven’t been able to get the thoughts out…figured I’d just go ahead and start rambling and hope that something…

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