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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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Tuesday
Sep222015

Duh

DateTuesday, September 22, 2015 at 10:49AM

Just a quick note to say that I'm feeling rather pleased with myself this morning. Asher, Micah and I are working on doing more regarding writing this year. To start, this session, I have them working on five paragraph essays (boring, I know, but a decent starting place, lol).

My light bulb moment this morning was deciding to have them type the drafts. Seems ridiculously obvious, right? But. I've never required them to type anything before so it simply didn't occur to me. (Noah types everything, so I really don't know why this never translated down to the other two. They're just so content to handwrite things (unlike Noah) that I've always done that.)

Anyhow. Technically, they hand wrote the drafts last week. This week is supposed to focus on editing. But. First I'm having them type them up...which provides typing practice for them (and formatting instruction) and makes editing easier for me. Everybody wins!

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