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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Aug172009

Monday, Monday...

DateMonday, August 17, 2009 at 09:36AM

First off, THANK YOU all so very much for checking out Good Grief Blog. I'm so thrilled by the outpouring of support and excitement to finally have something like this. It's only been a couple days (and I'm still continuing to tweak things, lol) but I can already tell that it just feels "right."

Secondly, please check out my layout over on the Prism blog today. Here's a peek:

While you're over there, don't forget about the guest designer call...ends August 28 and is a rockin' fun time if you make it!

Third, thanks for all the well wishes about the garage sale we had over the weekend! It went really pretty well...almost entirely sold out by about 11...enough so that we closed up shop and went to lunch (which worked well anyhow since it started raining, lol). We took a few boxes elsewhere after that and ended up with a portion of a single box that is still here (good scrapbooking and homeschooling stuff that I'll find a home for). Woohoo! Wishing I'd taken before and after pictures of the piles, because it feels fabulous to have lightened our own load by so much. Made about $350, which was our target anyhow, so that was nice. ;)

Finally, yes, I'm still going through pictures from Steamboat. I feel like I'm really just starting August, though it's already been really full with vacation, getting the Good Grief Blog off the ground, sorting and purging for the garage sale, gearing boys up for back to school and soccer, and the usual catching up from being gone a week on vacation. :) Whew. This week, then, the goal is to finish the catching up and get ready to start back in to "normal" around here (which includes homeschooling on a more regular schedule and the start of soccer season). (Oh, and I also have a pile of scrapbooking to get to...LOL!)

Hope your week (and mine!) is productive and beautiful!

AuthorAmanda | Comment2 Comments |

Reader Comments (2)

Awesome layout! Can't wait to see vacation pictures. Congrats on getting rid of all that stuff!

August 17, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterslammie

Yay! Congrats on your yard sale going well! It is always more work than it seems.

August 18, 2009 | Unregistered Commenterkaitlin

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