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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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Monday
Sep212015

Camera Roll

Happy Monday to you! Here's hoping your day is as sunshiny and beautiful as mine. :) 

Since I've already gone to boot camp, gotten all three boys to their respective schooling situations for the day and crossed a few things off my to-do list, I'm feeling pretty good. Given that, (and because I'm behind,lol) I figured I'd just share some pictures off my phone that I've not gotten around to sharing yet...

First up is the single picture Molly remembered to take of us a week or so ago when we got together to catch up and eat lunch and get pedicures. (Melissa, Molly and I have known each other more than 20 years now and I'm so thankful that life has kept us in each other's lives.)

And here's a picture of a new game that the boys and I tried out as part of our geography studies last week. It's called "Take Off" and definitely has potential for some great learning. (Hooray, btw, for fellow homeschool moms selling their old/unused materials!)

And on the 18th, to celebrate Mrs Yee's birthday, the boys joined her to do 60 minutes of forms as a fundraiser for Crossroads Safehouse. Here is the entire crew who turned out:

Yesterday, the Karate West demo team performed at Open Streets on Remington up near Old Town (they were toward the south end of the mile long corridor). They were there from about 10-2:30:

If you were keeping track, yes, that was a lot of karate from last Thursday to Sunday...on top of their normal two classes/week and demo team practice, they did the 60 minutes of forms, Asher did that tournament and then they performed at Open Streets. Whew. ;)

And, finally, just to brighten up my week even more, my friend Sue dropped this gorgeous bouquet at my doorstep this morning:

She owns and operates a lovely floral business called Blush, and I happened to win a bouquet a bit ago in a drawing on Facebook. :)  

Happy!

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