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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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Sunday
Mar022008

March in Colorado...

So, yesterday was beautiful and we took advantage of it...headed out to fly our new "jet fighter" kite:

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For what it's worth, we saw lots of cool kite designs where we found this one, but Noah declared that this one was "more us" even though the other designs may have been better. Couldn't say no to that. :) Fortunately, this one also turned out to be a pretty darn good flyer.

Course, today it's supposed to snow. Yeah, really. 

Friday
Feb292008

What do you think?

Trying out a new blog banner thingie and title...for those not in the know, "btw" means "by the way"...

So, what do you think?

Friday
Feb292008

Leap, leap, leap...

Did you know it's not the easiest thing to get three boys to jump all at the same time? :)

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Yup, fun "leap" pictures this afternoon...gonna try to work up a layout this weekend and will share it when I'm done!  

Friday
Feb292008

Happy Leap Day!!

So, anyone have any cool plans? I'm thinking I may take the boys outside and see if I can catch any good "leap" pictures. Other than that, just a bunch of boring errands today. ;) Sorry. Not an exciting post. Hoping to work on adding stuff over the weekend, so check back...

Wednesday
Feb272008

Would it bother you...

if I change the "title" of my blog here? Right now it's "Work in Progress" which was the best I could come up with that night I decided to start a blog. ;) I'm feelin' the need for some change, though. It won't affect the link to the blog or anything...just the title you see if you're a subscribed reader using like Google Reader or something. I'm not totally up on "blog etiquette," though, so thought I'd ask if this would bother folks before I just go ahead and change it. Course, I'll probably change it anyhow. But I figured I'd try to be polite. ;)

While I'm at it, does anyone have any good suggestions? I have a few ideas rolling around in my head but am always open to more!!