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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
Jul282010

To know Noah...

...you must know that the boy is a carnivore. I'm not sure I've documented that anywhere so figured I would mention it now. He's really rather obsessed with his meat and takes eating very seriously. We're frankly a little bit scared at the fact that he'll be a full fledged teenage boy in just over three years. He already can out-eat me and/or Nathan on a given day. Kid meals are no longer sufficient. It's almost as if he's trying to make up for how little meat his brothers eat by eating enough for three. Scary. (I have no idea where the boy puts all that he eats, by the way. He's a stick of a 9.75 year old who only just passed 60 pounds, lol.)

In any case, he's an admitted carnivore. Always has been. One of his first favorite solid foods was meatballs. 

Now. If you really know Noah, you also know that he's a little bit obsessed, too, with going green and finding energy solutions. He's already got big plans for his own car company, with the cars being electric or hybrid or some new solution that I don't understand. 

Recently he was watching a television show about energy and how we're using more than we should. He was nodding along in adamant agreement as they talked about vehicles and lightbulbs and everything else. And then they started talking about how much energy it takes to produce and process red meat and suggested that we all cut back. At that point, Nathan distinctly overheard Noah say, "yeah, like that will happen." 

Um, yeah. The boy has his priorities apparently. ;)

Reader Comments (2)

My mom could tell you HORROR stories of my eating her out of house and home when I was growing up. But then I also was playing soccer in spring and fall and during the summer I was on a co-ed team and also 6-a-side and then added indoor and referee to the mix as I got older.

July 28, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterslammie

That is so funny!

August 4, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterKaitlin

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