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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
Nov152013

Five on Friday

DateFriday, November 15, 2013 at 12:40PM

1. Still here. Sorry. Just digging in on the schoolwork and activities and such...nothing huge to report. ;)

2. Thankful that Nathan's feeling better now. He spent last week down with walking pneumonia. Fun times. (Also, very, very appreciative that it stuck with just Nathan and didn't spread!)

3. Working on our Christmas shopping...making pretty good progress. Trying to really stick with businesses here in Colorado that were affected by the floods or, at the very least, local businesses...as keeping the money here in our community is awesome. (I admit, though, that some of the shopping for the boys is forcing online purchases, lol.)

4. Miracles do happen. Noah actually sought out an online resource (one I've been showing him for weeks) for assistance with his algebra this morning before coming and just asking me. (We'll just ignore the fact that it's Friday afternoon and he's still finishing up the work that was assigned on Monday, eh? lol)

5. Waiting impatiently for my baby sister to have her baby already! (She's due today and refused to find out the gender ahead of time and it's driving my other sister and me crazy!) ;)

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