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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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DateTuesday, December 16, 2014 at 03:49PM

Score another point for homeschooling! :) With Noah out a week earlier than the other local schools and Asher and Micah still homeschooling, we hit Old Town today just after lunch to see Santa...with absolutely no lines. Woohoo!

Here's our picture:


Noah actually put up considerably less of a fight than last year (he acknowledged ahead of time that he'd cooperate since the younger two would just badger him until he joined in anyhow, lol), and we were all just thrilled to get in out of the cold. :)

The younger two were quite efficient in their list-sharing with Santa and I love how easy the Old Town Santa station makes things. (I always just buy the picture on CD.) Asher was a bit distraught that I wouldn't let him take the candy cane from Santa (thanks, braces!) but Micah thought it was awesome, as he ended up with two. ;p

And that was our annual Santa visit.

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