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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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May012015

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DateFriday, May 1, 2015 at 12:23PM

A month or so ago, I signed up for a subscription lesson in a box type thing called Tinker Crate. This morning, I finally got around to doing the first box with the boys...well, actually, I had Nathan run this particular lesson. ;) I think we can all agree that it was a hit!

  • I got an hour or so to tackle my own to do list...
  • Nathan got to spend some quality time with our younger two (and got to appreciate just what sort of morning (lack of) enthusiasm for schoolwork I deal with regularly, lol)...
  • and Asher and Micah (after they got going a bit) were delighted to learn more about hydraulics.

Everybody wins!

So. We're pretty happy with this monthly subscription thing so far. Everything was clearly detailed and all the supplies were included. (They even made use of the packaging!) Easy and straight-forward. Boys learned and had fun. All good. :) 

Btw, I also ordered the Doodle Crate for some fun art projects, though we've yet to tackle those. (I'll update when we do.) And, they have kits geared toward younger kids, too.

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