Wow

Okay, so if you've read enough of this blog, it takes me a few days to get photo's up.  

My wow, is that I wasn't expecting our main subjects for homeschooling next year in so quickly.  Five in a Row's (FIAR) shipping window is 15 business days and we got ours in 5 days, including the 4th of July.  Guess I will be able to plan out a large portion of lessons, next week, while the boys are at Vacation Bible School. 

Now we're just waiting on our order from Rainbow Resources, which included Language Arts, maps, and puzzles.  Haven't placed an order for Math yet.  We're trying to figure out if it's worth going to the Conference this weekend.  If we don't save more than $20 dollars (the price to get in and shop) it won't be and we'll wrap things up on-line.

Only one more subject

to order, Math, and we'll have next school year's curriculum taken care of.  We're going to another Homeschooling Conference next weekend and Math U See will be there.  Hopefully we won't have to pay shipping and handling by ordering it there.  Every little penny saved is like found money.

At least this coming school year, we'll have saved about 50 % on curriculum for two kids ( approx. $450.00) compared to last year for just one ($900.00).  With one year of homeschooling under our belt, we've learned a lot about ourselves and our children; we're better prepared to make better choices and a side effect is less money going out on textbooks.