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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
Nov182016

Four on Friday

Just a little bit of catching up on other stuff...

1. Back on Nov 9, we took a family mental health day to just spend some time together (after Noah's morning classes). We played games, like Exploding Kittens:


(We got the new expansion pack, Imploding Kittens, which came with a Cone of Shame. It was pretty awesome.) And we also walked to our neighborhood park and played some kickball...after Asher decided to pose in a tree:

(Yes, he's taken to wearing that hat out and about. Stylish, no?) We also played some family video games and watched a movie. It was a much needed day together.

2. Over the weekend, we went to watch Dr Strange in 3D (a bit of a belated birthday thing for Noah so we also had Gabe with us). Yeah, I still am not a huge fan of watching things in 3D, lol. The movie, itself, though, was fun and better than I'd been anticipating. After that, at Gabe's recommendation, we started watching Sherlock (the one with Benedict Cumberbatch)...which we're enjoying a lot.

3. On Monday, Asher and Micah attended their first Options Social. It was just a couple hour after-school thing...with a movie, snacks, games or dancing. Apparently, Micah requested (and danced) the Macarena, tried to start a Conga line numerous times and demonstrated his skills at doing "the worm." Asher, along with most of the other boys there, enjoyed watching all of that. :) 

4. My scarf challenge is going okay, but I don't think I'll be able to finish by the end of the month. The first couple weeks were just too warm. ;) Yesterday's snow (after Wednesday's 80 degree temperatures) should help for the next little bit at least. 

That's mostly what's been going on here...just trying to stay on track amid distractions. Fortunately, we have all of next week off from Noah's classes and our homeschooling...so that will be awesome! No big Thanksgiving plans here...just our usual quiet time here. Yay!

Reader Comments (1)

Tell Asher I like the hat!

November 18, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterNan

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