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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
Jun282013

Four on Friday

DateFriday, June 28, 2013 at 08:45PM

1. Micah and Asher both passed their levels in their swim lesson sessions! Honestly, I'm pretty impressed. Based on history and how he was looking last week, I didn't think Micah was going to pass...had already signed him up for a repeat of the same level, lol. Something must have clicked for him in the last few days, though, because he made tremendous improvement and is delighted to be signed up now for the next level. (The new session will begin in a week-ish.) Asher passed just fine (as I mentioned, it was mostly a refresher to make sure all the skills were still there and get him some pool time) and is now officially done with swim lessons. Whew. ;) 

2. For those who read blog posts using Google Reader (like I do/did), don't forget that Google Reader will be discontinued starting Monday. Having recently been reminded of that, I switched last night to Feedly and am pretty happy with it so far. They had a button right on their home page for me to just transfer all my Google Reader stuff. Clicked it and approved the share and was good to go. :) They also have an app for my iPhone so I can still read all my feeds on my phone...lovely. (and easy!)

3. All three boys had regular dental checkups earlier this week and came away with no cavities! Even happier...no teeth pulled. ;)

4. Even though I very much did not enjoy driving home in the thunderstorm over Fort Collins just now, I'm thankful for the rain and am hoping this cools things off for a bit. I could have done without the hail smacking into my windshield, though, lol.

Well, happy weekend to you all! Here's to making progress on our to do lists, right? ;)

AuthorAmanda | Comment2 Comments |

Reader Comments (2)

We could use a thunderstorm about now. It is predicted to reach 113 this coming week. Gone from cool, rainy to HOT HOT in a week's time! Ugh.

June 29, 2013 | Unregistered Commenternan

I used to use Google Reader (via Blogger who hosts my blog), but that option is already gone and I've been viewing via Blogger Reading list only. Blogger is a Google site, but different than reader? Do you know if I need to switch to something else? If I lost my blogs I follow list I seriously would cry...I haven't seen any new notices about it...

July 1, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterMelinda

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