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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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Friday
Apr272012

Swim meet.

Noah had his last swim meet of the school year last night. As with the other five meets he's had during the school year, this one was internal and low-key. He competed in the breast stroke, freestyle and back stroke...winning or tying for the win in all three. It was good. :)

The weather, on the other hand, was typical Colorado unpredictable weather. Most of the day it had been sunny and warm and gorgeous. Noah was stoked because that meant they'd get to have the meet in the outdoor pool, which was only recently opened. Upon arriving at the pool, though, the sun disappeared behind storm clouds and the wind picked up...causing Noah to object to the cold in addition to the taste of the water (he thinks it wasn't balanced right yet since it's only just opened and felt it tasted of sunscreen) and the number of dead bees floating in the pool. ;) 

But. We persevered and managed to complete the meet in the outdoor pool despite the rain and wind. (Yes, it threatened to rain and did sprinkle on us for awhile...enough to have the other two boys asking for their umbrellas, lol.) The sun even snuck back out momentarily, here and there. 


And, yes, that's Noah telling me to stop taking his picture, lol. I had to get photographic proof, though, that the boy occasionally wears a color...he was cold enough that he relented. ;) (If you know him, you know that he's stuck to mostly all black shirts and dark blue jeans for a year or so now.)

So. That's that. He still has another month of swim team (and they have something fun planned for the end of May instead of a meet, but they're not telling, as it's a surprise, lol). But he's decided not to participate in summer swim team this year...as he's *not* enthused about practice five days a week from 7-8:30 am. I can't say as I blame him. :) He's still thinking he'll do swim team during the school year, though, and will do the fun runs during the summer. Considering that his practices right now consist of more than 2000 yards of swimming in an hour (twice a week), I think he's earned a break. ;)

Reader Comments (1)

Good for you, Noah! You've done a really good job in swim team this year. I hope you enjoy your summer off. Gma

April 27, 2012 | Unregistered Commenternp

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