Fun Rumblings

So as my biological mother's loving husband pointed out, "You're a Miller. You open your mouth and things just kind of explode." It was all in jest, of course which was hilarious because it is true. Let me just tell you about the stuff coming out of my mouth:

I sent out some fliers indicating that I was interested in teaching some of Audrey's friends at church, self-defense. It all started when I was so outraged at the cost of self-defense classes for little kids! CRAZY!! It would have cost over $500 for a whole year for only 1/2 hour a week! Insane. So I decided to teach my daughter myself, and figured it would be fun for her to have some friends along to do it. The response has been overwhelming in a good way. People really seem interested, which is great because I have a passion for it as well. I have seven 3-6 year olds coming to my house on Friday afternoons for 1/2 hour. This all raises money for our adoption because it is a suggested donation of $5-10 dollars a session.

Then I had a neighbor inquire about teaching her two children who were a little older, and I was thrilled to tell her that I wouldn't mind doing that. That will be on Wednesdays most likely. I sent out a lot of information to the parents to indicate what I would be teaching, so as to make sure it was truly what they wanted for their families.

THEN I had a friend ask me about her 8th grade daughter, and I thought, yeah, that makes sense. They would need it too! So I said yes to that, and that is most likely going to be Tuesday evenings. We're going to try it out to see how it will go, and to see if the kids are interested in it.

Lastly, I had a friend tell me I should consider teaching a small class like that at Calvin College. I've been thinking about that, and praying about it, so we'll see where that leads!

I don't know, but it seems that God has made something bigger out of a small idea. He often does that with me. Does He do that with anyone else?

I Stand Corrected

I was informed by my aunt that her neighbor cut her hair THREE TIMES!!!!

Week From Hades

For those of you who don't know, Audrey is in preschool 3Xs a week. It is a Spanish immersion school. Every month, your child is star of the day. That is a glorified way of saying, "Mom, you have to come in and help with the class, oh and by the way, bring the snacks and drinks while you're at it. Also, if you don't know Spanish, you really need to keep quiet, or use gestures." Yes, they really told the parents to keep as quiet as possible if they don't know Spanish, which I am grateful, but fortunately for me, I know Spanish. Anyway, Audrey was "blessed" enough to be star of the day the first day of school. The FIRST day. Talk about stressful. Then I had to go this past week as well and guess what - it was PICTURE day. What the heck? What will it be next month? Some sort of field trip or some crazy thing! Picture Day - are they trying to make me go insane? So I was the one behind the camera man trying to make the kids laugh because the teachers were in the class picture, of course. Then the camera man made one of the twins cry. You're a school photographer who deals with kids for a living, you'd think that you'd learn a thing or two about NOT making kids cry!

To top my week off, yesterday, Audrey cut 5 inches off her hair right by her ear. She's never had so much as a trim! I was traumatized, but tried not to show it. Every kid cuts their hair - as far as I know, only once. Her safety scissors were tucked nicely in their spot in her backpack, and I forgot to take them out. So I had to run to my friend's salon and have her fix it. I have to say, my friend did a FANTASTIC job. It looks so cute! She totally put me at ease and walked me through Audrey's first hair cut. It was awesome. I'll put pictures up soon...