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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
Nov292013

Five on Friday: Post-Thanksgiving recap edition

1. I think Noah may be in a food coma. Still. It's after 11:30am on Friday and he's still asleep. (His alarm has gone off and we've all taken turns trying to wake him up, for the record.) The boy did eat more turkey and mashed potatoes yesterday than the other four of us combined. No, I don't think I'm exaggerating. ;)

2. Thankful for the ability to just text folks...as my voice was AWOL yesterday morning. (Yeah, feeling a bit under the weather but nothing horrible. Still, no Black Friday mayhem for me today. :) Which is perfectly dandy with me.)

3. Thankful, too, for friends who don't care if you come to drop things off at their house in your pajamas since that's how you decided to spend your Thanksgiving. ;)

4. Though it's not very Thanksgiving-y, we spent the last couple days watching an entire season of Top Shot off of Apple TV. It was lovely...nice down time and this particular season (All Stars) had a lot less people drama and just focused on the challenges and respecting each other. (This came about, btw, because we don't have cable or satellite so couldn't watch our traditional Punkin Chunkin this year. It'll come out on Apple TV before long, though, and we'll watch it then.)

5. Question. Pumpkin pie...do you eat the crust last or save a bite out of the middle (the nice pumpkiney part) for your last bite? We had a bit of a debate here. Noah and I like to save a bite out of the middle. Nathan thinks that's just wrong, lol.

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