We have had a couple of Storms Blow In!

God never promised that it would always be easy or that it would always be stormy. What he did promise is to always love you and be there with you.










As you may already know  my son Jag broke his hand while he was in Texas (Army Man) he had to have surgery and we could no go to him and make sure he was ok.(AHHHH). But he was fine made it through surgery and has almost full control of his hand again. On July 5th my youngest son Gamer broke his leg trying to rollerblade, and our summer was pretty much over! Poor guy! But again he is doing fine. The bone is healing wonderfully ( God is amazing!!!)  he is learning to walk on it again and trying to build up his leg muscles ( he didn't use them for 9 weeks). And in the middle of all this the people leasing our house stopped paying and we had to make them leave. But yet again God will provide away! My oldest son Trucker got in to a small ( thank you Jesus!) accident in his semi (nobody was hurt, again thank you Jesus!)  and lost his job. You know us Mama's never stop worrying about their babies no matter how big they get or how far away they go.


 In the middle of all of this I got really, really sick. Like I couldn't get out of bed sick. I could do nothing kind of sick! I am going to spare you all the gory details (trust me it is embarrassing for me and you really don't want to know). I ended up in the ER and was admitted for 5 long days. Thankfully though the hospital was what I needed to get better.



Isaiah 40:29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak


I thank the Lord that he pushed my husband to get me to the hospital. I had lost a lot of body fluids and was not doing so well. They replaced my fluids and I had lots of tests done. To find out I have an autoimmune disease called Ulcerative Colitis. For some reason my body is attacking my large intestine. There is no cure, you take medicine to try and go into remission so you can live a normal life. There is also surgery to take out the area under attack but that is really a last resort. There is very little known on this disease. Doctors have no clue as to why it happens and really just guess at the medicine they give you.


Right now I am on steroids (yuck!) but I feel a whole lot better, it has taken a long time to get to this point and I am happy to be here. UC is something that really you don't want to talk about, and not a lot of people know what it really is, it is debilitating your life revolves around your symptoms when you have a flare up. I am putting my trust in the Lord, because I know he has this. And I am a firm believer in everything happens for a reason. I also believe that something good to glorify God will come of this. Do I know what that is ? No and I am ok with it.


    

Math

We use Alpha Omega's Lifepacs for math. We have used 2nd, 4th, Algebra 1, Algebra 2 (Trucker) and Geometry. We are currently using 5th this year. We used MPC for 3rd and Teaching Textbooks for Algebra 2(Jag).
We really like Lifepacs. Gamer really responds well to them. I did switch for 3rd and he did fine, but asked to comeback to Lifepacs. Now remember when I said that every child, family and situation is different, well this comes into play here. While this works great for my child it could very well for yours too, or it could not. I just want you to keep that in mind. (this post has affiliate links)












I am not getting paid by these publishers or have I been asked to review these for them. This is just one homeschooling mommas opinion about what we have used and what works for us. Lifepac is an independent learning curriculum. It is made for your child to be able to do with minimal help from parents. Now does that mean you hand it to your child and walk away? No not in the early grades. I would say Kn-3rd they need lots of interaction from parents, they have lots of questions and need lots of guidance.











 In 4th Gamer did a lot more on his own, but he still needed my help some. Now he is in 5th and is pretty much picking up his worktext and doing it. If he needs help or has questions of course I am there for him, but it is nice that it has trained him to get going by himself.

I am always amazed from one year to the next how much he learned and retained. So what do I like about Lifepac? I love the portability, the fact that he loves to pick it up and do it, the amount of information he retains.

How did I find it? I prayed about it and God lead me to it! Really ask and you shall receive!

Were can you find it? https://www.aophomeschooling.com/