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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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Mother's Day

DateMonday, May 11, 2020 at 12:42PM

Hope you all had a lovely Mother's Day! We had a quiet day here...slept in, watched a beautiful video of photos that Asher made for me, wished people near and far a happy Mother's Day, tackled some normal weekend chores, enjoyed the lumpia that Nathan made for dinner (yum!), and played some games as a family. Amid all that, we also managed to FaceTime both our moms (hooray for technology!) and take some pictures out front:

(Yes, boys, I turned those last photos to black and white just to annoy you, lol.)

And, just for fun, check out this photo that was taken on Mother's Day 2015, when I realized that I should take a group photo every Mother's Day:


Look what a difference five years makes! (Micah and I were standing up a step from the other two.)

So. That was Mother's Day. :)

(PS Don't suppose we could put in a request to not have finals week and Mother's Day at the same time, lol? I'm realizing that since we starting having a boy in high school (six years ago), Mother's Day often gets overshadowed by schoolwork or school events since CEC and CSU both end early to mid-May. Bleh.) 

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