Annie B Garman

Motherhood, Mayhem, & The Meaning of Life

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The Best Sermon I’ve heard

Colby preached a great message on Sunday on Romans 1:18-25:  The Invisible God.  Probably the best message I've heard on that passage. CLICK HERE and scroll down to the right to see it.  That's my boy! Read More

Pros of Homeschooling: Part 2 of 5

Another big advantage of homeschooling (especially in this area) is the opportunity to reinforce your lessons with field trips. We have really taken advantage of living only 35 minutes from our nation's capitol and used it to our advantage. For example... Math SOL 1.3: The student will count backward by ones from 20. On one of the "it-is-too-perfect-weather-to-be-inside" days this year, we headed to DC for a picnic. Since I knew we were focusing on this standard, all day long as we crossed Read More

Pros of Homeschooling: Part 1 of 5

As I've started "officially" homeschooling this year, I've become acutely aware of the many pros and many cons of this educational style.  I think we've all seen homeschooling gone wrong, but in an effort to look at the positive side,  my next couple of posts on the blog will be focusing on the pros of homeschooling.  In all fairness, at the end I'll share what I've found to be the cons. Okay, today's pro will be quick: I feel like I might be learning more than my kids this year. Yes, I Read More

First Fundraiser

When the kids were in PA for 10 days during Gracie's surgery, they spent hours doing Perler Bead Projects.  Now we have a huge zip loc bag full of these things.  Darcy came up with the idea to have a store, and I guided the entrepreneurial effort by suggesting the profits could go to the local crisis pregnancy center.  We had a speaker from CARE NET Pregnancy Resource Center come the other week and the kids have been filling up a baby bottle with change to give to this organization.  If anyone Read More

Earthquakes and House-Fires and Bees….Oh MY!

It all started when I read my six year old's writing assignment for Thanksgiving:  Tell me something that you're thankful for: A-Z.  Most kids would happily write of apples, balloons, cats, and ducks.  Not my Haley Jane. Listen to letter A: I am thankful that Aligatrs are not in are howse. Letter B:   I am thankful that nuthing Bit me. Fast forward to Letter X: I am thankful I nevr so a fox. Haley is acutely aware of all the traumatic things that could possibly occur in this world, and this Read More

Green Grass

On Tuesday, I was having a funk day. It was probably just fatigue after a jam-packed weekend, but nonetheless, every little chore felt monumental. I  was sitting in a exhausted stupor after lunch watching the kids nag each other, depressed that all my training and hard work with them had been in  vain. This came after a discouraging day homeschooling as Haley's backwards 5s and Zs almost brought me to my knees. So there I was, sitting and thinking about how I needed find a better job and Read More

President’s Day Weekend

I don't think we've ever done President's Day weekend right before.  This year we did it justice, thanks to the Pennsylvania Garmans coming down for a visit.  The weekend included a twelve passenger van, twenty dollars worth of parking at the National Zoo (where we witnessed an ape repeatedly drinking its urine), forty-five degree weather at Mount Vernon (Brett, you told me it would be 70 degrees!), seven kids, three strollers, two hours at the Smithsonian Air and Space Center, and one failed Read More

My Mom

Every February, my mom visits us.  This tradition started back in February of 2003 on a snow day.  I will still in my pajamas, and Colby suddenly got very concerned that we didn't have any milk.  He insisted that at the very moment, weHAD to BOTH go to Food Lion and pick some up.  I threw a coat on and followed him, feeling very confused. We walked through the aisles, and I kept looking around, not sure what was going to happen.  Then it happened.  I heard the same dog whistle that my mother Read More

Always Missing

I think this picture of my baby pretty much sums up my life. No matter how hard I try, there is always one sock missing. The other day we had two appointments on the calendar.  I rehearsed with the kids our schedule for the day, I packed lunches, I made sure I had a bottle ready, and I even got the house all picked up so that it would look perfect when we returned home.  I was trying so hard.  We checked off all the subjects for school, we all had clean bodies and all the kids nails were Read More

Meet Annie

 

“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can’t see it. So quietly submit to be painted” -CS Lewis
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