Hurray! Hurray!

Our first shipment of curriculum arrived last week.  When the UPS guy delivers he just sits the package on the porch, knocks once then walks back to his truck and leaves. I was so excited when I heard that knock and looked up to see him turning away that I was out the door and on the porch thanking him before he was even 3 steps away.  I said: (about 20 notches to cheerful to be considered anything but crazy that early in the morning) "Thank you Mr. UPS-man. I hope you have a blessed day"  He must have been thinking me nuts, but smiled politely and said "Your welcome, you too."  As I bent down to pick up the package, I was surprised at how teeny tiny (exaggeration but not sarcasm) it was since it was supposed to be holding within it the entire core curriculum for my younger two children next year.  After I opened the box and started taking things out I realized that I would never again, in my lifetime, get all of those items back into that box (and shut it) again.  Excellent usage of space MFW, by the way!  Okay here let me say, "My Father's World; you are awesome, not only did I get my package within 4 days, but it was in perfect condition!"  Now, Exploring Countries & Cultures with MFW is blowing my mind with its absolute awesomeness.  (Yes, that's a word if I want it to be :P) The teacher's manual is crazy cool with everything planned out sooo well and easy to understand and the materials are all so rich and interesting and exciting, I wanna start tomorrow! Thank you ANGELA, my dear sister in Christ, sister in homeschooling and sister for realz, for showing me (on more than one occasion) the My Father's World website. I am not going to spend much more time bragging about my awesome curriculum because, well, that would just be taking up time I could be spending drooling over it! :)

Feeling The Pressure

Since my husband was out of work for the entire month of May, we have not yet been able to purchase our curriculum for the coming school year.  I am feeling a wee bit panicked but I know that I have plenty of time still and God will provide. There have been a few changes in the curriculum choices since last I posted.  We will still be using MFW Exploring Countries & Cultures for Tim and Tori.  They will still be using Apologia Astronomy next year since I didn't finish it this past year.  They will still be using Mango Languages and also LiveMocha for foreign language.  Instead of Math-U-See for math, we are switching to the Life of Fred curriculum, this is going to be very interesting. Now, my oldest son will be joining us this year.  He will begin with MFW Ancient History & Literature.  He will do Mango Languages and LiveMocha Russian, Introduction to Logic, Apologia Chemistry and Life of Fred Geometry.  I am very excited about our curriculum choices and believe it is going to be a very interesting and exciting year for us.  It will be our very first entirely P.S. -free year and I am VERY excited about all the opportunities this will open for us. Please, share your curriculum choices or things you are excited about for the coming year.