On Tuesday, the UPS man finally drove up with our wonderful box of books!! We were all so excited and ran to the door to meet him. (I’m sure we made his day.)
But there was just one problem. Asa wasn’t here. He was working at our shaved ice trailer that day…and I’d promised him that we wouldn’t open the box without him.
So we sat the box down (it was about 12:30 pm) in the living room and just stared at it. It was torture! :)
Finally at 3:30 I couldn’t stand it any longer. Asa was going to have to go straight from working to play practice…and I wasn’t waiting until 9 pm to open that box!!
So, we all piled into the van with the box and surprised Asa at the trailer. He was super excited to see us….but even more excited to see the box!! It’s cramped quarters in that trailer with four boys (actually five…I was babysitting!), plus a mama and a box of books. We got all situated and then I started pulling books out one at a time. Oh the joy!
Then, we packed it all back up and took it home…where we then spread it all out on the floor and began really looking through the books!!!!
Now they’re all stacked on on of our couches as I work to go through them and get them organized and make lesson plans!
I’ve also been working on the school room…which means I pull everything out of the closet and off of the shelves so that I can clean stuff out and re-organize it all! It is SO MUCH FUN to go through everything and get ready for the school year. But…as you can see…I’m not done yet. Everything is still kinda all over the place as I rearrange the desks and figure out where everything is going to go.
We are very blessed to have enough rooms in our house that we can actually designate a room just for school. However, I’ve found that we use that room as a “hub” for all of our books and projects…but we don’t spend all of our school hours in there. I’ll share more about that later!
In the meantime…I’ll go finish cleaning and organizing and making lesson plans. And, tomorrow, we head to Walmart with our lists and pick up our new school supplies! We can’t wait!
Wow, how fun. (And the memories – I remember as a homeschool kid how exciting that time of year was!) We had a school/ multipurpose room and my mom used to decorate one wall with all sorts of pictures and verses and “fun stuff” for our theme for the year (or at least first quarter – sometimes she would decorate it more than once).
I love the school room! I am working on converting my dining room into one for my little boy. Do have any curriculum ideas for a 2 year old?
Oh I love the new banner!
Is Malachi praying? They are precious, precious pictures!
And I’m so excited for you guys! Just seeing all of those books makes me euphoric! ;-)
I also love the banner…and wow…it looks sooooo exciting at your house right now!!!!!!!!!!
We got our books last week and it was wonderful. Such excitement! I can’t wait to start my planning too.
Sooo exciting – it’s incredible fun when books arrive! :-) Love how you loaded up so you could FINALLY devour those books – we’re the same way. It’s amazing to watch their faces as they read/look thru all the new adventures waiting to be had!