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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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Thursday
Oct172024

Thankful Thursday

A quick and random list today...

1. Friends. Last month, I got together with Melissa & Molly to celebrate a milestone birthday for Melissa. We caught up and shopped and ate and just enjoyed being together.

I've known these women for more than 30 years and am so very blessed to have them in my life and so tremendously thankful that they both also live in Colorado so we can see each other at least some. 

2. Checking things off the list. After Nathan and I returned from South Dakota, we got to scratch two more national parks off our list:

Making progress but still have a good ways to go. :) (To be honest, we realize it's unlikely we'll finish this particular list but like having the goal regardless.)

3. My office. In case you're wondering, I'm really enjoying my reorganized office. :) The standing desk is working out well and I'm so appreciative of the decreased clutter. It's like a breath of fresh air.

4. Dragon & squirrel friendships. In cleaning out my office, Nathan decided this metal dragon deserved relocation and has been using it to play with the squirrels. Initially, it freaked them out a bit (which was hilarious). But, they've adopted him into their community and are even willing to "kiss" him when Nathan sticks a walnut in his mouth, lol.

It's the little things. ;) 

5. Furnace motor. You may remember that our AC went out back in July. We were slated to be able to finish the fix properly with the new motor that was back-ordered until the end of August. But. When I called about that, it turned out that the date had been pushed to November. So the fabulous tech (Jason Lynn at FC Heating & Air) came out again and wired it to make sure we'd be able to also temporarily have heat while we waited. But. It turns out that didn't work...and when we called about that, the motor date had been pushed to January or February. So, Jason was a rock star and called around until he found a fellow tech who happened to have the actual motor we needed (still new in box) in his basement at home. And on Tuesday he brought it out and installed it and now our AC/heat is working properly again and it's lovely. So thankful for Jason and for a system that works!

And that's my list for today. :) 

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