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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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Saturday
Dec182010

And a partridge in a pear tree...

DateSaturday, December 18, 2010 at 07:42PM

Whew. Almost done. ;) 14 packages mailed off...13 gifts hand delivered...99 gifts wrapped so far (now I can do the ones for our immediate family)...decision made to send New Year's cards instead of Christmas cards...schoolwork for the calendar year finished up...and 8 strands of lights hung outside (plus two pre-lit wreaths, but no light up Christmas Hippo at Target that Micah adores, lol).

Course, there's also the fact that there are zero rooms cleaned, 1 gift left to finish, 2 gifts completely misplaced (ahem, lost in the course of me having hidden them, lol) and 9 gifts left to deliver...with four houseguests coming over the course of the next two weeks. 

Still. Doing pretty well. :) Yay!

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