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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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Monday
Dec222008

Catching up...

DateMonday, December 22, 2008 at 12:22AM

Um, the past few days have been jam-packed. I could try to truly catch things up and include photos, but...to be perfectly honest...I've got enough else on my list between now and Christmas. ;) So, here's a super quick review:

Wednesday...my mom and baby sister arrived...the boys had a huge dart gun fight to induct Aunt Cas

Thursday...the boys got Cas out in the snow to play soccer...did some shopping (Mom and Cas needed to finish getting a few things)...made some more ornaments...watched Miracle on 34th Street

Friday...made jar candles at our homeschool co-op (my mom helped Micah and Aunt Cas helped Asher...fun times)...ventured to the Zoo Lights exhibit at the Denver Zoo and saw Santa (flippin' cold, but worth the trip...my brother Zach who now lives nearby and his youngest daughter came with us)...snagged a late dinner at Red Robin

Saturday...I got all my Christmas packages in the mail!!!...Mom, Cas, Nathan and I were able to go see a movie (our awesome neighbor watched the boys)...boys had their piano recital at the mall (it was Asher's first, and both boys did a fabulous job...they were so adorable in their dress shirts and ties)...rewarded patience and good performances with ice cream...home again to eat dinner and then make handmade chocolate candies for our neighbors (never tried this before, but can see how this could get addicting!)

Sunday...Nathan and the boys hung out at home while Mom and I did some more shopping...watched the classic Rudolph and Frosty cartoons...Cas and Mom headed down to Longmont to stay at Zach's till they head home on the 26th

Whew. My other brother Joe will fly in tomorrow (Monday) and stay with us for at least a couple days. He's promised to make sugar cookies with the boys. We'll all do Christmas Eve dinner down in Longmont at Zach's. The boys are getting antsy about Christmas being so soon. I still have a number of things on my list to get done before Christmas (making some ornaments of my own for each of the boys, wrapping their gifts, laundry, stuff like that, lol). So. I should get going... ;)

Happy, happy holidays to you all...on the off chance I don't make it back to this blog before Thursday, lol!

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Merry Christmas Amanda!!!

December 22, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterDebbie

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