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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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Wednesday
Mar052008

Five for Wednesday

Yes, more randomness from me today. :)

1. If you're like me and can totally appreciate getting a bunch of scrapbook layouts just plain done, check out March's Kit of the Month through Creating Keepsakes. Some very fun (and great looking) layouts and super easy! (Gotta love easy!) I hear it's almost sold out already, so act quickly. I bought mine last week and am anxious for it to get here!

2. Did I ever mention that I contributed to an awesome book by Hillary Heidelberg? Well, I did and it's in stores now and worth every penny! It's called Scrap Simple and is full of fabulous inspiration!

3. Can anyone tell me why, as of this morning, Noah has lost four baby teeth and all of them have had to be extracted at the dentist's office? Yup, had to go have two more pulled today. He had two pulled back in August (or was it September?). All of them had to come out because the permanent teeth were starting to come through with no signs of the baby teeth leaving (and thus the permanent teeth were coming in crooked). Sigh. The dentist even told me today that this is unusual, particularly in a mouth like Noah's with plenty of room...says it's more common in "crowded" jaws (um, like Asher's and Micah's...yeah, what are the odds we're not going to go through this another couple times at least?). Methinks the dentist may be planning a Caribbean vacation on us given the amount of business he's been getting just from our three boys. ;) (Fortunately, he's a really good dentist and we like him.)

4. It snowed again last night. Nothing serious and it'll be gone shortly, but really. Was that necessary? :)

5. For anyone who cares, I'm pretty proud of myself. I took heaps of photos this February...much improved over years past with very few photos in January and February. Specifically, I took 817 photos...with 228 edited to be potentially used. (Can't find my earlier post about how I take way fewer photos this time of year, but you know what I'm talking about.)

Okay, that's it for now. Shall I tell you also that the boys and I have a fun and exciting surprise we're working on? Or shall I make you check back later? Bwaahaaahaaa! ;) Sorry, that was mean, particularly since I probably won't share the news for another couple weeks. But do check back. :) 

 

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