 The family moved to Oklahoma, where Krahn finished the work for her Masters of Education in Counseling in 1973.In 1974, she gave birth to her first child, Nathan, with the second son Zebulun arriving in 1978.With two young children, Krahn became a stay-at-home mother for a time, also finding time to volunteer on a community board working to get funding for mental health care in part of Western Oklahoma.