Amanda Miller
@mrsmillerbio.bsky.social
Mom of 👧🏻👧🏻👧🏻👧🏻👶🏻. Wife. I teach food science, IB Bio, and environmental science. Research sponsor. Oklahoman coping with Texas. Catholic. I pretty much never know what I'm doing.
This is another one of those things toddlers do that makes me say, "babies are cats."
Love to watch the cat walk into another room. Immediately hear a loud crash of glass shattering to pieces. And then watch the cat casually walk back out of the room.
December 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This is another one of those things toddlers do that makes me say, "babies are cats."
Pretty sure I heard Beto O'Rourke on KERA today repeating the tired line that the Dems "put forth the wrong candidate" in 2024 and, respectfully, fuck right off, bro.
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Pretty sure I heard Beto O'Rourke on KERA today repeating the tired line that the Dems "put forth the wrong candidate" in 2024 and, respectfully, fuck right off, bro.
A student from a MS has requested to come to my school to use my lab for a science fair project. Fine. HS labs are BSL-1, MS labs are not. List of materials this kid needs includes some equipment I neither have nor can afford. Kid was like, "No problem, I'll buy it." 💀
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A student from a MS has requested to come to my school to use my lab for a science fair project. Fine. HS labs are BSL-1, MS labs are not. List of materials this kid needs includes some equipment I neither have nor can afford. Kid was like, "No problem, I'll buy it." 💀
I am not shocked, but it's still painful to have my dad be so Fox-pilled that he will text me in the middle of the day to explain why everything Trump is doing is fine, actually.
October 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I am not shocked, but it's still painful to have my dad be so Fox-pilled that he will text me in the middle of the day to explain why everything Trump is doing is fine, actually.
We've been talking about getting a second dog for a few years but always decided the timing wasn't right (also with 5 kids Ada Marie is never wanting for playmates). In July, a local shelter shared pictures of a shaggy-looking poodle, and I was instantly in love, but we were about to go on vacation
September 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
We've been talking about getting a second dog for a few years but always decided the timing wasn't right (also with 5 kids Ada Marie is never wanting for playmates). In July, a local shelter shared pictures of a shaggy-looking poodle, and I was instantly in love, but we were about to go on vacation
The TX education agency has promised retribution against any teacher "celebrating" the assassination of that guy. Nothing about anyone celebrating the death of a D state rep, or the attack on the husband of the former Speaker of the House.
1984 shit.
1984 shit.
September 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The TX education agency has promised retribution against any teacher "celebrating" the assassination of that guy. Nothing about anyone celebrating the death of a D state rep, or the attack on the husband of the former Speaker of the House.
1984 shit.
1984 shit.
Reached onto a high shelf to get a box of gloves for a lab and a dang COCKROACH fell on me.
On a positive note my students heard me scream and came a-runnin'.
And then later we found an anole in a soil sample!
On a positive note my students heard me scream and came a-runnin'.
And then later we found an anole in a soil sample!
August 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Reached onto a high shelf to get a box of gloves for a lab and a dang COCKROACH fell on me.
On a positive note my students heard me scream and came a-runnin'.
And then later we found an anole in a soil sample!
On a positive note my students heard me scream and came a-runnin'.
And then later we found an anole in a soil sample!
Possibly broke my finger last night but can't afford to go to urgent care! This country is awesome!
August 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Possibly broke my finger last night but can't afford to go to urgent care! This country is awesome!
We got back from New Mexico, where the HIGHS were in the 70s, a little over two weeks ago. Two days after we got home our downstairs A/C died. We are finally, finally, getting the new one installed and making some improvements so our bedroom gets better circulation. 😭
August 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
We got back from New Mexico, where the HIGHS were in the 70s, a little over two weeks ago. Two days after we got home our downstairs A/C died. We are finally, finally, getting the new one installed and making some improvements so our bedroom gets better circulation. 😭
I have to be the only person in the world not completely enamored with Costco 😭
July 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I have to be the only person in the world not completely enamored with Costco 😭
Thanks to the reboot of Hollywood Squares, I just got to explain what "Juggs" magazine is to my almost-12-year-old daughter. ☠️
July 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Thanks to the reboot of Hollywood Squares, I just got to explain what "Juggs" magazine is to my almost-12-year-old daughter. ☠️
Trying to keep a somewhat clean house is basically impossible because not only do I have five kids but sometimes someone will give us a page-a-day calendar from 1995 and it will find a place of honor in the office.
June 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Trying to keep a somewhat clean house is basically impossible because not only do I have five kids but sometimes someone will give us a page-a-day calendar from 1995 and it will find a place of honor in the office.
The number of times I've wanted to fight a man during one of my children's many practices this week is not insignificant
May 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The number of times I've wanted to fight a man during one of my children's many practices this week is not insignificant
Apparently ChatGPT just told two of my students to "send nudes" if you need any other reasons to hate AI 🙃
May 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Apparently ChatGPT just told two of my students to "send nudes" if you need any other reasons to hate AI 🙃
Every year for the IB banquet, the students make a video parodying their teachers, and this is my first year being portrayed in said video and I'm NERVOUS.
May 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Every year for the IB banquet, the students make a video parodying their teachers, and this is my first year being portrayed in said video and I'm NERVOUS.
Shout out to the JSHS staff member who asked if I was one of the STUDENT presenters. I hope your coffee is always hot and your pillow is always cool.
April 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Shout out to the JSHS staff member who asked if I was one of the STUDENT presenters. I hope your coffee is always hot and your pillow is always cool.
I took my daughters roller skating on Sunday and a couple things happened:
1) I had so much fun and exercised muscles I'd forgotten about
2) I fell and landed on my knee and it immediately started swelling to the point I was sure I'd damaged it beyond repair (I'm fine now)
1) I had so much fun and exercised muscles I'd forgotten about
2) I fell and landed on my knee and it immediately started swelling to the point I was sure I'd damaged it beyond repair (I'm fine now)
April 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I took my daughters roller skating on Sunday and a couple things happened:
1) I had so much fun and exercised muscles I'd forgotten about
2) I fell and landed on my knee and it immediately started swelling to the point I was sure I'd damaged it beyond repair (I'm fine now)
1) I had so much fun and exercised muscles I'd forgotten about
2) I fell and landed on my knee and it immediately started swelling to the point I was sure I'd damaged it beyond repair (I'm fine now)
The world is on fire but also today I followed a buzzing sound to a stairwell that is blocked off except for emergencies and discovered a student running a little bootleg barber shop and it's okay to laugh at silly things kids do sometimes.
April 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The world is on fire but also today I followed a buzzing sound to a stairwell that is blocked off except for emergencies and discovered a student running a little bootleg barber shop and it's okay to laugh at silly things kids do sometimes.
Yesterday I learned about the male college students making "sex ed for guys" TikToks and I need it to be forced into all of my high school students' FYP immediately.
March 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Yesterday I learned about the male college students making "sex ed for guys" TikToks and I need it to be forced into all of my high school students' FYP immediately.
We sent two students to the Regeneron STS competition in DC, the only two students from TX, BTW. One of them told us they were supposed to meet with our esteemed senators, but neither one (the senators) showed up. 🙄
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
We sent two students to the Regeneron STS competition in DC, the only two students from TX, BTW. One of them told us they were supposed to meet with our esteemed senators, but neither one (the senators) showed up. 🙄
None of this is fucking true except the part where everyone got measles.
RFK Jr: "It used to be that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine doesn't do that ... it used to be that very young kids were protected by breast milk. Women who get vaccinated do not provide that level of immunity."
March 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
None of this is fucking true except the part where everyone got measles.
One of the first things I saw in DC was a cybertruck with a "no Elon" sticker and, excuse me sir, you don't get to pretend you didn't know exactly who he was when you bought that monstrosity.
March 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
One of the first things I saw in DC was a cybertruck with a "no Elon" sticker and, excuse me sir, you don't get to pretend you didn't know exactly who he was when you bought that monstrosity.
When Husband and I first got married, we almost moved to the tiny town of Pampa, TX. Our realtor was 89 at the time. We didn't move there in the end, but we kept in touch, and we send her a Christmas card every year, which she always answers with a letter or a card.
March 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
When Husband and I first got married, we almost moved to the tiny town of Pampa, TX. Our realtor was 89 at the time. We didn't move there in the end, but we kept in touch, and we send her a Christmas card every year, which she always answers with a letter or a card.