Sorry I’ve not blogged here much lately. I’m around, and if you follow me on Twitter you’ll see I’m very active there or on Facebook. I’m also blogging on my business site and have been very busy business-wise, as my husband is out of work, so I’m trying to kick my business into high gear to hopefully make it so he can just retire and I’ll provide for our family. He has indicated this is fine with him – and he would then do my bookkeeping, help homeschool the children, etc… so it would then make my business more a family run operation. It’s just a lot of work.
Anyway, if you’ve been following me via Twitter, you’ll know that earlier this week my mother-in-law had a severe stroke. Her entire left side was paralyzed. My father-in-law was given the option by the doctors to give her this shot that they said would (to sum it up to a very fine point) cure her or kill her. The survival rate for someone who takes this shot is only 17%, but with the severity of her stroke, her full recovery rate was not good. Yet if the shot worked, the success rate was very good. That’s a lot of if’s. So my father-in-law prayed and decided to let them give her the shot.
I immediately posted for prayer on Twitter, which also automatically posts on my Facebook wall. Within 30 minutes I had at least 50 replies in my Twitter replies of people praying, I had well over 100 soon after. I stopped counting after that.
When my husband went to the hospital and told his parents about this, they cried. They were overwhelmed with emotion that so many people they did not know, from all over the world, would stop and pray for them. Truly it was touching. 
The good news is that the medicine worked! My mother-in-law is up and walking, talking and honestly – you can not tell she even had a stroke. It’s only been 5 days. Yes, the medicine had something to do with it, but I believe it was the prayers of the faithful that decided which outcome the medicine would have for her. Cure! God heard our prayers – even via Twitter!
Written by Traci Knoppe ©: Aside from her roles as wife, mother of six, mother-in-law and grandmother, Traci also works at home as a business owner.
We finished up our 12th year of homeschooling without much fanfare. All went well, and although while we liked our year of using the Prairie Primer Unit Study, we will not be using that again next year. Mark and I have discussed curriculum choices at length and prayed about this for many months, taking into account many things (daily schedules, other commitments, finances, children’s learning styles, etc..) and while the lure of convenience of the Abeka DVD program would suit us just fine, we have learned that sitting at a computer all day is not the best for our children.
So, we will be using the long trusted Alpha Omega Lifepacs. We used these for many years with Heather and they worked just fine, and we need to use something familiar. For this season in our life, this is a good choice for us.
What curriculum is your homeschooling family using this fall? I’d love to know – post your comment below.
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Lifepac 5-Subject Mega Kit, Grade 2
By Alpha Omega Publications Homeschooling is full of challenges, decisions, and hard work. Get a break with Lifepac’s 5-subject set! Colorful, complete, and featuring the Lifepac method of step-by-step mastery learning with hands-on activities, you’ll get everything you need for your child’s primary subjects. Biblically-based lessons are integrated throughout for a solid education both spiritually and academically; a simple way to teach your students exactly what they need to know!This Grade 2 Lifepac Set includes 10 Lifepac Worktexts and 1 Teacher’s guide for each of the following subjects: |
Written by Traci Knoppe ©: Aside from her roles as wife, mother of six, mother-in-law and grandmother, Traci also works at home as a business owner.
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