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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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Nov262014

Gratitude

DateWednesday, November 26, 2014 at 02:15PM

I've been a bit quiet about Thanksgiving. I haven't participated in any of those daily gratitude challenges or made any big plans. Honestly, I'm in a bit of a funk about the holidays.

Part of the time, I'm gung ho and feel like maybe I should host a holiday party. But, most of the time I really just want to hibernate and wake up in January or February. :) I've been trying to figure out why this is. What I've decided is that I'm having a harder time this year being enthusiastic because my boys are getting older and just aren't as excited. They honestly don't have a wish list for Christmas. They don't really need anything and they don't seem to even want anything. Obviously, this isn't a bad thing. But it's throwing me off. ;)

So. As I work on figuring this all out, I'll try to get in the spirit by making a list of things I'm thankful for right now. :) Here goes...I'm thankful for...

  • my husband, who regularly does the cooking in the first place. Cooking is not my thing. I'm so grateful that Nathan handles that part of things in our family.
  • Whole Foods, who made it possible to simply order our pre-cooked Thanksgiving meal. Don't judge. :) We love the traditional meal (and have a teenager who simply wouldn't let us NOT have a full meal, lol) but weren't feeling up to all the work this year. (This is one of those moments where I've appreciated my word of the year and gone to it...purpose. The purpose of the celebration is enjoying the time with each other. Spending the day separated with some in the kitchen and some not doesn't actually accomplish that for us.)
  • Kathy at boot camp, who talked me into signing up for the Fort Collins Thanksgiving Day Run tomorrow. We're going to walk together...and feel better for having done so. :)
  • the flexibility of having a husband who works from home...which made it possible for me to take my older two boys to the movies this morning. (Micah can't handle The Hunger Games movies, whereas the other two have read all the books and seen the movies.)
  • sunshine. I love sunshine. ;)

Okay, I feel better.

AuthorAmanda | Comment1 Comment |

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I love Whole Foods!

November 28, 2014 | Unregistered CommenterMelinda

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