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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
Mar312008

Why?

Why is it snowing again? (I thought March was supposed to be in like a lion and out like a lamb...course, a lamb is white, so I guess in some sick way this works.)

Why didn't I clean out the bathrooms sooner? Randomly decided to tackle some spring cleaning on the bathrooms today...beyond the general disinfecting and cleaning of things (though, that in itself took awhile) and on to actually going through all the cabinets and drawers and tossing old stuff that no one really knows why we still have. Yup, big ol' heavy duty garbage bags full of unnecessary stuff. Whew. All in all, the bathrooms *look* about the same. But I somehow feel better about them now, so I guess that's worth something. :)

Why did I decide to tackle the kitchen after the bathrooms? I suppose it's satisfying to toss bags of stuff, so the kitchen seemed like the next obvious target. Realized pretty quick that it wasn't going to be a one day deal...as just sorting the pantry cabinets yielded more than all three bathrooms...yeah, embarrassingly lot of expired stuff. Thinking it'll probably take me the rest of the week to finish the kitchen this go round...want to address the appallingly disorganized status of the spices, finish going through cabinets and the fridge/freezer, and reassess the actual kitchen wares. Yes. I just get this way sometimes and seriously need to sort and purge. I haven't actually done this to this extent since we moved into this house almost four years ago, so that's something. Course, I had a third boy during that time and much of my sorting and purging ends up being of toys and boys' clothes. :) (Incidentally, those are next on my list after the kitchen.)

I suppose the only answer is, of course, because.

Reader Comments (3)

Lamb? What Lamb? For all of March Rich has been telling me March comes in like a Lamb and out like a Lion OR in like a Lamb and out like a Lion.

Bah. It was all Lion. (Pssst - we ate the Lamb (cake) for Easter. But don't tell we're at fault for the weather).

March 31, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMichellejeanne

Ok, so I meant that first Lamb-Lion combo to read "in like Lion, out like a Lamb."

March 31, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterMichellejeanne

I was just thinking that I really need to get in and scrub scrub scrub my bathrooms today... as good a day as any I guess.

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