Laura Valentine:  

u may visit for that, but am bound by agreement to never place a link to it in my emails, so if you want to visit it, type my first and last name smashed together all lowercase, put dot, then my and arbonne all smashed together then another dot, then type com It is my goal to do this as a part time commitment until I go district and then to use the income to fund my Home Education Art Studio. I really want to do that full time since Michigan has no openings for teachers in Art. I am still not teaching art full time anywhere, though that is my ultimate goal. So I Substitute Teach, Teach Art out of my home studio, manage Kevin's Firewood calls, do his graphic arts advertising, and run around carting my daughter and her instruments from rehearsal to performance to plays to city band and jazz combo rehearsals, to marching band practice, and then to sectionals, and then on over to GVSU to meet with the Clarinet Professor Dr. Campbell for personal tutoring. I am not getting very far on my studio renovating, if you catch that drift, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. Audrey has lots of talent! We'll be seeing her on many stages, I have a feeling. She plays clarinet, alto sax, and keyboard is next in the mastering. She made it into the MSBOA High School Honors Band this spring and then made it into the Grand Rapids Symphony Youth Orchestra. Last week she played in Lake Odessa, a whole two hour gig with 78 year old men we'd never met before, songs her ears had never heard before, with no sheet music on a clarinet she'd never used before... all because they asked her at the Grange Hall if she played anything and she said "I sure do!" I had to be the proudest mom on earth. I'd never seen such shadow playing, but the guy she shadowed sometimes just got up and left her to play on her own and the crowd loved her. She played Georgia as a solo/duet, and improved during the other guy's breaks. They asked if she'd be back to play again this week, but- the reunion!