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    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • Homeschooling special needs: a story of transformation
    • ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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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
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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  • Messy Faith,  Military and Veteran Life,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    Leave it all behind… {What God did through PWOCI}

    / November 8, 2012 / 27 Comments

    Note: If you have not read my post from earlier this week, Embracing Grace: My PWOC Story, please do so before reading this post. It really gives some more insight and background into what…

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  • Beauty in the Mess

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 11.07.12

    / November 7, 2012 / 17 Comments

    Today’s post is much more about blessings than struggles. But, I will give a quick update on some of my health issues. I saw an ear, nose, and throat specialist yesterday. Other than…

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  • Messy Faith,  Military and Veteran Life,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    How PWOC Changed My Life and Taught Me to Embrace Grace

    / November 6, 2012 / 25 Comments

    I’m sitting in front of my computer almost on the verge of tears…tears of joy, tears of awe at both the goodness of God and the miraculous power of His timing of events…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Miscellaneous

    On ER visits and “trendy-cute” scarves

    / October 29, 2012 / 24 Comments

    I’m onto day five of wearing my lovely heart monitor. It’s three wires attached to my chest that run to a small cell-phone-lookin thingy attached to a black lanyard that hangs around my…

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  • Family,  Marriage,  Miscellaneous

    What MOMMY did this summer

    / September 15, 2012 / 4 Comments

    Ezra isn’t the only one who stayed busy this summer. And even though our lives intersect so much that the lines of reality blur (like yesterday, when I went to the store, and…

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  • Family,  Motherhood

    Livin’ the dream…

    / September 12, 2012 / 3 Comments

    0615 wakeup. Stumble to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee (which I thankfully had all set out the night before…just had to push a button.) Read a Psalm and half of…

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  • Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Deactivate…ACTIVATE!

    / March 30, 2012 / 13 Comments

    We are coming to the end of March. At the beginning of March, I set the goal for myself to “Make March Matter!” March has been difficult, full of many tears, but the…

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  • Family,  Fatherhood,  Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    The Rest of Our Lives: Musings on Reintegration After Deployment

    / March 17, 2012 / 7 Comments

    He’s been home almost three months now. Time always drags when they are gone and flies when they are home! Deployment uniforms have all been tucked away, ACUs are the standard again. Reintegration…

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  • Ezra,  Military and Veteran Life

    Learning to Treasure the Little Childhood Moments

    / November 16, 2011 / 2 Comments

    Since Russ went back to Afghanistan after RnR, I’ve really been struggling. Struggling with what? Well, just…everything. I think that 90% of the time I feel utterly exhausted and overwhelmed. There’s a song…

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