I can remember clearly where I was standing the first time it happened. I was engaged, and we were standing outside my fiance’s dorm room on a cold spring day. He was talking in a very serious voice, one that I hadn’t yet heard. I had done something wrong, and he was correcting me. I started to argue and defend my position and he responded by quoting a proverb. Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. (Proverbs 12:1 ESV) Thankfully, he didn’t use that Read More
Introduction: Receiving Reproof
My ten-year-old to me: "You said this was NOT going to hurt us, but you lied." Last month, I took them to get their flu shots and I guess I was being a little too optimistic. "What I was trying to communicate was that what I was about to do to you guys was NOT HARMFUL. It was good. It's a good thing to get a flu shot and protect you against the flu during cold and flu season." "Well, it still hurt." Her arms were crossed and so was her face. "It hurt you in the moment, but it will Read More
Garman Year in Review: 2016
Well, what to say about 2016? The beginning of this year, it felt like our family had reached a new level of crazy. Maybe it was the ages of the kids and all their activities, or homeschooling a middle schooler and a preschooler, or finishing the book…or all of it combined. At one point in the year my nine year old informed me, “Mom, The tooth fairy hasn’t given me any money for the LAST THREE TEETH I’ve lost.” I also learned that when you forget to clip your children’s toenails for a few Read More
Heart Community: Shout out to Simmons Family!
Today I become curious if this whole blogging thing could ever generate income. Let's face it: All of my kids need braces, a college education, and a wedding fund (just in case they decide being a single mother who adopts children isn't working out for them...that's Darcy's plan for now at least). I clicked around on my blog dashboard onto the statistics page and found out that most of my traffic comes from the Simmons Family Blog. I don't know the Simmons family, but through the miracle of Read More
TRAPPED
Today I was sitting outside enjoying the sunshine and trying to work on a few things. My six year old came out with a wide grin and informed me that she was inside “making a party” for me. I let her know I’d be in soon to see it, but that didn’t seem to satisfy her. Every two minutes she came out to inform me that the party was ready and that I needed to come in and see it. NOW. I eventually stopped the email I was trying to write and came inside to discover a trail of a 1,000 puzzle pieces. Read More
Now what, America?
Now, what? That was the first question on my mind when I woke up this morning and saw the headlines.Fear mixed with shock. I have never once said anything political on here, but this morning as I laid in bed listening to the world wake up, I found words I have to share. Now what do we do? Now we pray. No matter what side of the camp you are on, now we pray. There is nothing else to do. Nothing else to say. Nothing else to debate. The Bible instructs us to pray for our leaders (I Tim 2:1-4), and Read More
Being IN the Psalms
I was asked to write a blog post this summer about a Psalm that I felt I was living in. I thought I'd post it on here too. Here's what I came up with: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I KNOW my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.”- Psalm 51:1-3 This summer has been rough in some ways. Not in every way of course. I have spent the Read More
Frayed Shoes and Fresh Starts
There is something about the first day of school that makes me so giddy. I just love fresh starts. I think that's what it is. Newly sharpened pencils and fresh crayons. All of your attempts at organization get another chance. Something that feels dead gets resuscitated. Atleast that's how it feels for me. There was a little wrench thrown into my "fresh start" this year, however. When we went out to buy NEW things for a NEW school year, my ten-year-old refused to participate. Her Read More
I hate blogging
I really don’t like writing. There I said it. It’s not that I don’t like writing per se…maybe it’s the pressure I feel surrounding writing that I don’t like. I start to feel dread rising up from the tips of my toes through my stomach whenever I think of the writing deadlines I have for the blogs I contribute to. What can I possibly say that hasn’t been said before? I have no new insights, nothing that would make anyone think. I don’t have a profound bone in my body. All I know is I’m a Read More
Icelandic Summer
Our Icelandic summer is officially over. Right now our plane is taxiing down the runway, getting ready to take off. The fresh rain droplets on my window are congregated in three straight rows and I keep staring at them, trying to figure out how that’s even possible. They look different…plumper, maybe. Perfectly round circles all synchronized with shading on their right sides. Everything in Iceland seems more magical. How would I describe our summer? Amazing. Full of awesome moments, awful Read More
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