Annie B Garman

Last week, I was all prepared to spend the day at the library pounding out a few chapters of this book, but didn’t even make it an hour.  I drove home hoping to find my husband, Colby, on his lunch break. Surely he could scrape me off the pavement of despair like he’d done so many times. He was finishing up a sandbag workout when I pulled in the driveway and eventually he followed me into the kitchen, panting as he filled a cup with water.   “Why am I writing this book?” I Read More

Dear 17-year- old-AMC worker, Thank you for waiting patiently for me to leave theatre 15 tonight. I know it took me a bit longer than everyone else to exit, and I know you were waiting very patiently to sweep up the stray popcorn and M&Ms. You see, for the past 4 months my daughter, Gracie, has been asking to see the movie “Breakthrough.” She saw the trailer and has not been able to get it out of her head. We don’t usually go to the theatre but one time a year ($85.00…seriously?!), so Read More

For those of you who have followed our story for the past decade, you know that Iceland has been a big part of our lives. When we moved there as missionaries in 2008, we knew it wasn’t going to be easy. From the beginning, it was our prayer to find an Icelander to help us carry on the work of planting a church there. We left Iceland in 2010 because of Gracie’s medical situation, and we wondered if our time there had been in vain. Our prayers for a national to carry on the work hadn’t yet Read More

I wasn't going to write a Year in Review 2018, but it's a snow day and the New Year is still just starting, right? There's still time to reflect. I'm looking back at our pictures so I can remember what we actually did in 2018. Ah yes...Let's start with Mt. Vernon. Gracie had been asking for years to go visit Mt. Vernon, so we took the whole family on President's Day (and she loved every minute of it). The very next morning, we noticed some swelling on Gracie's left side. Because of her Read More

Oh, man, two-year old Darcy sure was hilarious: 2008: Everyone in our house got sick, and Darcy had just thrown up all over the kitchen.  After sanitizing the entire floor, Darcy comes in and out of nowhere asks, “Iz God ezeywhe-ah?” Feeling proud that my daughter was contemplating the doctrine of omnipresence, I responded, “Yes! Good job, Darcy…He IS everywhere…” The next thing out of her mouth was a very worried: “He in my pants?” My mouth dropped. “Hmmm…well…” Did my toddler just Read More

Yikes...I've gotten lazy posting this "series"...Since Haley's 14 (!!) bday is coming up soon, I thought I'd enjoy some of these quotes from her childhood: 2006 (Haley: Age 2) I was sitting on a lava rock looking out into the Atlantic Ocean in Iceland with Haley at my side and her 7-month-old sister, Darcy, in my lap. "Mommy, may I please..." she began.  I started to smile hearing her use such good manners (and feeling all my hard work starting to pay off) until I heard her finish her Read More