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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
Nov092007

Happy Friday!

Just some random things that made me happy today:

1. Walking in to a room and finding my three boys engrossed in a book together about Roman times. (Noah was reading to the other two about Mt. Vesuvius. Man I love Magic Tree House books, especially these research guides.) 

2. The "pause" feature on the dvr. Seriously don't know what we did without that.

3. Leftovers. I hate coming up with a new idea for lunch. Leftovers are perfect. :)

4. Finding Micah's crocs! We've been looking for these for about a week now...knew they were in the house somewhere but honestly could NOT find them. We even offered the other two a reward of $1 if they found them (which means they've pretty much turned the house inside out). Still. No crocs. Today, though, Asher (hero of the day) happened upon them while he was looking for something else...and promptly brought them to me to collect his dollar. :) The crocs, since I know you're wondering, were in the boys' "clubhouse for fun" (a big cardboard box with a door and windows cut into it) upstairs. Whew. And because this little thing honestly makes me so happy, here's a picture from this past summer of my Micah enjoying his crocs:

6-2007Micahcrocs.jpg 

5. I have it on good authority that Santa found one of the elusive items on his list for one of the boys today. Something tells me his "helper" was pretty darn thrilled with herself. ;)

So. What made you happy today? 

Reader Comments (3)

Glad you found the crocs! What made me happy today? Watching Mira dance, completely unhindered - just moving her little toddler body to the music with a big smile on her face. Beautiful.

November 10, 2007 | Unregistered Commentermichellejeanne

Harry wrote all the numbers from 1 to 5 on his own...very proud mummy here!!!

November 11, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterwendy mckee

CUTE!

November 12, 2007 | Unregistered Commenterslammie

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