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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
Apr172008

Catching up...

Sorry. I know I went MIA for a bit there. Call it a mental health break if you will. ;) In any case, some things for today...

ONE. Don't forget to go buy Tiff's awesome Little Apprentice kit!! Rockin' prices and fabulous kits! You have until midnight Friday to make your vote count! (Each purchase is a vote.) Pretty please?

TWO. Here's one of the layouts I started last Saturday and finally finished:

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Yes, it just happens to also be my take on my March Album in a Year layout sketch. :) Have you finished yours yet?!

THREE. Micah's getting way too smart for me. Yesterday, honest to goodness, he came to me in the kitchen complaining his tummy hurt. With the expected sympathy, I asked him what we could do. His reply (without a moment's hesitation, as if, of course, he'd been planning for this exact moment), "Candy will make me feel better." Really.

FOUR. Not to be left out of the interesting things kids say department, a couple nights ago Asher and Noah were randomly and completely out of the blue discussing things they were grateful for...

Asher: "I'm thankful for gravity. It's good."

Noah: "Yeah. I'm thankful for the earth's magnetic field. That's good, too."

Um, hello? Where do they get this stuff?

FIVE. We got our Painted Lady butterflies last week! I placed a big group order for our homeschool group and even made up 24 of these fun little informational journal type things (a grand excuse to try out my new Bind It All, don't you think?): 

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Our little caterpillars should be forming chrysalids any day now...very cool. (We've actually done this once before, so the boys aren't quite as excited as before, but we also have a field trip/class planned at Denver's Butterfly Pavilion next week, so that will be fun!) 

SIX. Okay, just some forewarning, but I may go missing for a bit again. Feeling overwhelmed here and trying to get things back in line. Nothing major, so don't worry...just feeling the need to step away from the computer and get things done, kwim? Don't worry, though, I'll be back! :) 

Course, I also reserve the right to not go missing. Who knows? Just wanted to apologize in advance just in case. ;) 

Reader Comments (2)

Okay...so what does kwim stand for?

April 17, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterNan & John

Love the layout and love #4. LOL.I think Eli would fit right in with Asher and Noah - poor guy can't talk to his three-year-old sister about this stuff.

April 18, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterVivian

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