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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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Wednesday
Mar202019

Things we've done lately...

Hi. Thought I'd share a few pictures from things we've done lately...

On Sunday, Micah had his MRI that was ordered by the pediatric rheumatologist we saw down at Children's Hospital. It was fine, though Micah wasn't a fan of the IV that was necessary for the contrast part, lol. 

Glad to have that out of the way (especially the "spending stupid amounts of time on the phone with insurance regarding authorization and then doing it again because the second location we got approved then said they couldn't do the procedure there because of Micah's size/weight" part)!

After the MRI, Micah taught me how to rock climb. I did decently on the bouldering part (finished a number of routes) and made it to the top on the auto belay wall. Letting go once you get to the top was not my thing. ;) 

(I didn't actually take any pictures on Sunday so this is a shot from last month. The stranger on the top left is on the route I climbed. Micah's the next person over to the right in that picture...doing a more difficult route and not using the auto belay.)

Did I mention that it's spring break here? Yup. Noah's been home since Friday night. Yesterday, he and Asher and I volunteered with Habitat again. We actually had more variety in tasks than any of us had done before (caulking, spackling, touching up trim paint, pulling nails, etc) but ended the day framing walls again...

It got a bit chilly toward the end as the wind picked up and the clouds moved in, but I actually like the framing best and am definitely getting better at it. :) 

No big plans for the rest of spring break beyond just chillin'...boys will probably do some hanging out with friends...and karate, rock climbing and parkour are all still on their normal schedule. That's what's going on here. Happy spring, y'all!

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