Annie B Garman

Motherhood, Mayhem, & The Meaning of Life

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Haley is 7!

I guess we timed it just right. Prince William County Fair had a booth for Jason Yi's Tae Kwon Do Studio and I just happened to spin the wheel to get a free birthday party!  Haley loved the  Tae Kwon Do and board breaking class (not to mention cutting the cake with a real samurai sword) and I enjoyed not having to do a single thing except supplying a cake.   What a great deal!  Thanks, Jason Yi, for making this year's birthday party so easy! Read More

“We ARE the tooth”

Many times, after I have recounted the story of our last 3 years, the person listening will say a variation of the following:  "...If I were you, I would be in a corner banging my head against the wall by now."  Usually I laugh and wave a hand and say back, "Naw...it hasn't been that bad." Ummm....It just got that bad. What a day it was. I had been longing...and I mean LONGING... to drive west towards the mountains and see the gentle wave of color that had begun to creep towards Virginia's Read More

The Garmans are Tired

We moved. Again. I think this is the 13th house we've lived in the last three year adventure called our life, but honestly I'm losing count. Colby sat down next to me to read his kindle, but it looks like his heavy eyelids trumped his desire to read.  I have taken a nap every day for the last week and am slowly feeling less and less like I've been hit by a semi-truck. Moving is hard, but with three kids in tow, it's even harder. Add homeschooling into the mix....brutal.  We now live in Read More

Classical Conversations

It was such a strange turn of events. This summer we were leaning heavily towards putting our 2 children in public school and I had applied for four different part-time ESOL jobs in Prince William County. I'm not really sure what happened.  I guess it all started when we realized buying a house and getting settled in Dumfries (where my husband is now a pastor) by the first day of school was nearly impossible.  Most of the homes that are available are short-sales or foreclosures that could take Read More

Garman News Flash

If you live in Northern Virginia and converse with us regularly, you already know... But for everyone else: my husband just got a full-time job!  After returning to the States from Iceland (because of Gracie's condition) we didn't know what God had for us on this side of the ocean.  We had been back in America for thirteen months, searching, waiting, wondering, praying, and still...only a part-time job.  Last month the elders at Pillar Church offered my husband a full-time job as the teaching 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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