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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
  • Faith
  • Motherhood
    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
  • Military & Veteran Life
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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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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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  • Allume 2013,  Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    When your love for your spouse is depleted

    / November 14, 2013 / 16 Comments

    Love is a choice; but some days, I'm just too weary to make it.

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  • Five Minute Fridays,  Marriage

    What true love looks like

    / November 8, 2013 / 7 Comments

    True love is him asking, "Why do you love me?" and me answering, "Because it's worth it."

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  • Marriage,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Recovering Perfectionist

    when you and your husband are in different spiritual places

    / July 28, 2013 / 20 Comments

    For those times when you are out-of-sync spiritually with your spouse.

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  • Family,  Marriage

    Our anniversary cake tradition

    / March 18, 2013 / 10 Comments

    My husband and I just celebrated our 5th anniversary. On our 2nd anniversary, we started a tradition which we both really love. We make and decorate an anniversary cake together. We did so…

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Fatherhood,  Military and Veteran Life

    [Guest post] On being a reconnecting dad

    / March 8, 2013 / 7 Comments

    My husband's thoughts about reconnecting with his son after a year-long deployment to Afghanistan.

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  • Marriage,  Messy Faith,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    The importance of community in a Christian marriage

    / February 4, 2013 / 16 Comments

    I wrote the following words about my husband and my marriage in a private message to two close friends of mine. “He has been getting on my nerves all day…” Around the New…

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  • Marriage

    A Captured Moment: Savoring the Everyday of Marriage

    / January 22, 2013 / 7 Comments

    Friday morning… a day off. A bowl of oatmeal, a bright green shirt, tousled hair. An everyday, every-morning moment… Blue-green eyes, bright sunlight bursting through my kitchen window. A moment that took my breath…

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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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  • Birthdays,  Family,  Marriage,  Military and Veteran Life

    How to give your gamer husband an epic birthday

    / September 12, 2012 / 25 Comments

    I recently this post about “The Best Advice I Ever Received About Being Married.” The nutshell version of her post is that as wives, one of the best things that we can do…

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  • Military and Veteran Life

    Reasons I enjoy deployment

    / April 2, 2011 / 7 Comments

    A few weeks ago, I wrote a guest blog post for my friend Kathryn about deployment. One of the things that I encouraged her to do in that post was to “enjoy the…

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