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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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Nov182021

Thankful Thursday

DateThursday, November 18, 2021 at 06:14PM

Happy Thursday, y'all! Just a quick post. Today, I'm thankful for new words. Here's the story...

I was complaining to Nathan and Micah about the lack of a single word to talk about nieces & nephews. (I've made this complaint before, lol.) We have a single word for brothers & sisters, right? Why not for nieces & nephews? Well, as it turns out, there IS a word for that: NIBLINGS. 

No joke! Micah looked it up to get me to stop complaining and discovered that collectively you can call nieces & nephews niblings. Apparently, you can also call aunts & uncles piblings. ;P 

Ridiculously, this makes me so happy. 

So, today, I'm thankful for having this new word. I'm also thankful for my actual niblings! I have fourteen of them...

(Two of them are pictured twice above and one of my sisters is in there, too, but trust me...they're all there.)

My fourteen niblings (do you like how I keep using the word just because I can? lol) range in age from 11 months to almost 24 years. As I was gathering the pictures above, I'm realizing that I take pictures with some of them more than with others...need to fix that. (To be fair, I have lots of pictures of them all, just not with me.)

Anyhow, thankful for my niblings...for the new word...for my siblings for having my niblings when they did so that I have a nice range to enjoy. :)

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