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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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Sunday
Apr112010

Sunday...

One of these days I really must start coming up with better titles for these posts, lol! In the meantime, a few quick notes:

My layout is up on the Good Grief Blog today, so please check it out. :)

Noah scored his first goal yesterday during his soccer game!!!! He's so excited...has been wanting it for so long (this is his 6th season of soccer). Unfortunately. I have no picture as I wasn't there. Figures. I lug the camera to pretty much every game of every boy for six seasons waiting for a moment like this and I miss "the" game. Sigh.

On the bright side, I did get pictures of Asher playing goalie for the first time in his six seasons...and blocking two goals that otherwise might have led the game to a different outcome. (Yes, Asher and Noah's games are at the exact same time five of the eight weekends this season. We only have one, yes one, weekend where we don't have overlap between at least two of the boys' games. Lovely.)

To be clear, all the boys won their games yesterday and are quite happy. Well. Actually, Micah's team doesn't keep score. But I hear Micah was back to his "lightning force" self (aiming "lightning" out of his hands like the Emperor on Star Wars) and is happy. 

I missed Micah's game, too. But. I got to spend the rest of the day at The Treasure Box with about 20 awesome ladies that I've met through scrapbooking. I didn't get much actually accomplished but had such a nice time chatting and shopping. ;)

Today we took the boys swimming for the first time this year. They'd requested it as their "reward" for getting all our schoolwork done this week (more on this soon). Nathan and I had forgotten the work involved in taking them swimming...particularly given that Micah still can't touch the bottom or swim or float so insists on being carried around whilst simultaneously freaking out when anyone gets him wet. Fun times. ;) (The other two, fortunately, love the water.)

Okay, that's it for now. Lots of other stuff I'd like to share, but need to go get my guys moving again right now...;) Happy rest of Sunday to you all!

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