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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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Friday
Jan142011

Just so you know...

DateFriday, January 14, 2011 at 01:52PM

...the boys and their obsessions are taking over my mind. Last night, I dreamed about Darth Vader being made entirely out of Legos. We (I have no idea who "we" were) were trying to eliminate ol' Vader by dismantling him and burying the multitude of Lego pieces all over the place in different piles. This involved much sneaking around and evading alarm systems. Once the pieces were buried, though, they kept finding each other and bringing Vader back to life. This repeated numerous times.

I wonder if there's some hidden message in all this. Maybe it's meant simply to help me appreciate the boys' delight with all things Lego and all things Star Wars. If that were the case, though, you'd think I would have succeeded in doing away with ol' Vader. Then, at least, I would have woken up happy and feeling like I'd accomplished something...instead of frustrated at the futility both of keeping track of all the darned Lego pieces and of ever defeating the Dark Side. Sigh. :)

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