HELLO

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.

CATEGORIES
CURRICULUM
SUBSCRIBE
ARCHIVES
SEARCH THIS SITE
Powered by Squarespace
« Graduation | Main | End of the school year and a road trip »
Monday
May162022

Prom

So, after the boys got home, Asher took the other two to their homes while Micah showered and headed right back out to get ready for prom at a friend's house. We were busy elsewhere...more on that later. Given that we weren't there, I'd made Micah take pictures earlier in the week. This was the original outfit plan...

He got the "champagne" colored shirt to coordinate with his girlfriend's dress. And, of course, he had to make sure he could adequately flex and move in the suit. ;) 

But. He broke up with his girlfriend on Sunday (prom was that following Friday). (There's a story here but it's not mine to share. Suffice it to say, he did the breaking up and they both ended up going to prom with separate groups of friends.)

So. Not needing to coordinate with anyone, he decided to switch to a red shirt...

...which actually looked pretty fun with the purple lining of the suit, lol. So, that was the plan.

In his hurry when he got home from Omaha, though, the boy forgot or misplaced or couldn't find things clearly right in front of him...despite the fact that I'd set everything nicely together for him and left him a list of things to remember to take with him. ;P 

Arriving home, ourselves, and finding the things he'd forgotten, Nathan and I generously drove to the friend's house to deliver things. (Honestly, we'd have just let him deal with things like the forgotten shoes and flowers and toothbrush, but he had forgotten his medicine. Since the plan was for him to spend the night at the friend's house, he needed it.) We arrived just before they were heading out. He'd ended up in the champagne shirt and had borrowed a tie and shoes. Since we were there, the friend's mom was kind enough to take this picture for me... 

(And Micah was a good sport about it considering that his plan had been for me not to be there or embarrass him or take any pictures, lol.)

Anyhow, we weren't able to stick around long and headed home. (Many thanks to the friend's parents and girlfriend for making sure Micah was presentable, lol.) From there, the guys who'd met there went to meet up with the rest of the friend group and had dinner and then took some pictures...

They went to prom from there and had a fabulous time. I'm told that the friend Micah's carrying was used as a limbo stick at one point and that Micah won the limbo contest...and that Micah and that same friend re-enacted the "Dirty Dancing" lift scene before being asked to stop. :)

After the dance, the three guys returned to the friend's house for the night (thus staying off the roads), and Micah finally made it home at noon Saturday...where he showered and got dressed so we could head out for Noah's graduation...that'll be the next post...

Reader Comments

There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below.

PostPost a New Comment

Enter your information below to add a new comment.

My response is on my own website »
Author Email (optional):
Author URL (optional):
Post:
 
All HTML will be escaped. Hyperlinks will be created for URLs automatically.