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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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Nineteen

DateTuesday, July 30, 2024 at 04:11PM

Today's Micah's birthday!

(He had some lovely bed head going on so is wearing a hat all day. The bottom right photo is a yawn, as he was apparently tired, though he didn't get out of bed until after 2pm, lol. Also, for those not local, the hazy coloring in the photos is thanks to a local wildfire nearby that started yesterday. Boo.)

This summer, he's worked a couple of short term jobs, volunteered a couple times down in Boulder with his taekwondo club (helping with the set up and take down of the stadium for various events in exchange for some fundraising), and enjoyed multiple outings with friends (most recently to the Renaissance Faire last weekend). He's also been preparing for the coming school year and for living in a rental house with friends/teammates and has joined the Karate West demo team a few times as they're working toward some reunion performances in a few weeks. 

This week, he'll move to that rental; classes at CU (University of Colorado-Boulder) will start back up later in August. He's majoring in Philosophy and should actually finish by May 2025. (Having graduated high school with his AA, he only had a couple years of additional coursework needed to complete the BA.) He's an officer with his taekwondo club and is truly enjoying that and getting involved. He's also been climbing more over the summer and is hoping to keep it up better while in Boulder this year. 

We didn't do anything particularly exciting to celebrate...had the dinner and dessert Micah requested last night (Asher has parkour tonight so last night worked better) and just stayed home. (Micah and I had climbed earlier in the day and he was a bit sore.) He opened gifts...all items for his new house and all appreciated. :) Then, we watched some Olympics and also a couple episodes of the K-Drama that Micah's been loving and pulled us into, lol. 

Yup, this kid keeps us entertained. :) Looking forward to seeing what the coming year (and years) will bring and know that he'll embrace it fully and capably.

And thus begins our last year of having a teenager...

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