Democracy and Liberty

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. Ben Franklin

My friend Chris McLaurin posted this on Facebook tonight. I loved it so much I thought I would post it for all 2 readers of my blog to see!!

Night all,
Paige
p.s. I'm working on some posts on our current daily schedule, how I use Motivated Moms & Flylady together, our curriculum & how we use it.

Scott Brown Republican WINS the MA Senate seat!!

Martha Coakley is giving her concession speech. Scott Brown (R) wins the MA Senate seat. The only thing you can say is PRAISE GOD!!!

Jesus heal our country and bring us back to You with our whole hearts, whole minds, & whole bodies.

All Praise be to Jesus,
Paige

Prayer Points from the ground on the Massachusetts Brown-Coakley election

I received this prayer request with a link to a youtube video. Please read the e-mail, watch the short video, and then, please, be in prayer today that conservative Scott Brown will be elected to fill the vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts once filled by Ted Kennedy.

Scott Brown opposes the socialistic take-over of America now going on in Congress and the White House.

The e-mail below was forwarded from the Family Action Council of Massachusetts by William Morgan, Chairman of the counterpart organization here in Tennessee, the Family Action Council of TN.

Please read the request and please be in prayer that Scott Brown will be elected Senator from Massachusetts tomorrow, not Martha Coakley.

--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William D. Morgan
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:44 PM
Subject: Update & Prayer Points from the ground on the Massachusetts Brown-Coakley election
To: "William D. Morgan"


Here is an update and prayer points on the Massachusetts Miracle, as they are calling it, from our counterpart organization up there.

Be sure to watch the video, it is awesome!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0


Pray for the miracle to come true tomorrow.
William
William D. Morgan
Chairman of the Board

Family Action Council of Tennessee
www.FACTn.org
615-256-0112 (office)

Dear FPC Leaders,

The SECOND American Revolution begins tomorrow, and hopefully will be the prelude to the Third Great Awakening! Scott Brown is leading by 10 points in the Fox News poll, but we dare not rest until we get out the vote tomorrow and ensure that everyone who says they are going to vote for Scott does so. Organizing for America, aka ACORN, is furiously at work trying to rally the Democrat base, but I truly believe that they will not succeed.

You cannot believe the electricity that is in the air. Scott Brown lawn signs far outnumber Coakley’s across the state. The rallies for Scott have been humongous compared to Coakely’s, and when President Obama came yesterday, more Brown supporters were outside the auditorium cheering for Brown than Coakley supporters inside! The goal for our breakfast fundraiser for Scott last Wednesday was $10,000 and we received $24,000, a real answer to prayer.

Coakley’s campaign seems to be in a self-destruct mode. Her negative ad campaign is alienating most people and she has made numerous gaffes with the media. We had prayed that her radical abortion views would come back to haunt her and indeed they have as she said on a radio talk show that “people with religious beliefs should not be working in hospital emergency rooms.”

Meanwhile, there is an absolutely fresh anointing on Scott as he maintains a positive message that is resonating with voters. Wherever he goes, throngs of enthusiastic people show up. He has not made a single gaffe and his strength and vitality are amazing for the hectic pace of the last 3 weeks, again answers to our prayers.

This has to be God ending the 60-year Kennedy dynasty (1 Sam 3:11-13) and we believe this could be the prelude to a spiritual renewal in Massachusetts. People want to throw off the oppressive bondage of the Kennedys’ arrogance and socialism, which has been a key stronghold of the “walls of pride and intellectualism” in Massachusetts.

Please be in fervent prayer today!

PLEASE PRAY FOR:

Coakley’s deluge of negative attack ads to continue to drive voters to Scott tomorrow.

That EVERYONE who said they were voting for Scott do so with a record turnout, especially the independent voters. (50% of registered voters in MA are independent and 70% of them say they support Scott.)

That senior citizens turn out in record numbers understanding that a vote for Scott is a vote to prevent drastic cuts in Medicare.

That ACORN’s nefarious activities be thwarted and NO voter fraud.

That the enemy’s plan to delay Scott’s certification, if he wins, would come to naught. (The 90% Democrat controlled legislature have said they would do this to give the Obama administration time to pass the health care bill should Scott win.

Believing with you for the real “Massachusetts Miracle” tomorrow!!!

Kris

My Laptop is Fixed!!!!!

Right after my last post on Nov. 2 my computer had a corrupted hard drive. With Christmas coming I didn't want to spend the money on a new hard drive. Well I have been about to lose my mind without a computer so I sprang for the hard drive last week with some Christmas money I got. I have a new huge hard drive and Windows 7 instead of Vista and my updated computer ROCKS!! Thanks so much Brian S.!!!!!! You ROCK!!

So that's why I've been MIA for close to 3 months. There have been lots of changes and I'll try to get things updated here. I just bought the 2010 Motivated Moms earlier tonight so I can get back to cleaning my poor house. It's gotten out of hand while I didn't have the computer. I have been using a combination of Motivated Moms and Flylady. I will try to get a post up soon about how I use both of those together to keep my house clean from top to bottom without spending hours each day.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas & New Year!!

Latest update on homeschool curriculum changes.

Final decisions have been made so I thought I should update anyone who is interested. I really like Teaching Textbooks for math but the level my son needed isn't being released until Feb. 2010. I really like CQLA but I know we needed more phonics instruction to help Joshua's reading along even more. I was in our local homeschool store last week and happen upon Saxon Phonics and Math. I was really impressed with their Phonics so I researched it a bit more at home. I also gave him the placement test for Saxon math. So last week I bought the Saxon Phonics and Math and we started them last week. Saxon has computer CD's that are very similar to Teaching Textbooks starting in 54 so that is covered if I feel like I need it. I have decided to wait on CQLA and see where we are at the end of this year for that. At a bare minimum I see myself using Meaningful Composision in the future. Then again I might just go back to CQLA. I just feel like we might need a bit more formal grammar than CQLA gives but that is easy enough to rememdy with CLE or ACE English. I am very pleased with the Saxon at this point. I was somewhat of an anti Saxon person so this was a pleasant surprise for me. I'll try to start doing a weekly update and give my opinion of the Saxon Phonics (and Math too).

We are using Heart of Dakota for our history and science. I love HOD so this is working out great for us. I am looking into using BJU science in addition to HOD's though. I think HOD's science is fine but Joshua is science minded so I think using a formal science might be a good idea for him in case he ends up in a science career down the road.

We are also starting Notgrass's Celebrate Thanksgiving unit study this week. This is super fun and we are looking forward to doing this over this month. We will also do their Celebrate the Savior study over December. I will post our Advent plans very soon since it starts here in a few weeks.

My computer's hard drive is dying so I am borrowing my neighbors laptop to update here. I hope to have a new hard drive put in my laptop soon so I can get back to business.