Excitement!!!

Wow! I'm not sure what I'm more excited about: (1) Bean is finishing up MUS Epsilon tomorrow OR (2) we are leaving for Scotland on Thursday!! Okay, I admit the Scotland thing probably has the upper hand, but I am SO proud of Bean's effort in getting through with Math before we leave on our trip.

I had never realized how much her frustrations in Math were damping down her fire for learning, but suddenly since Math is coming SO easily for her now (using her "Momma Pencil"), she's just completely nuts about learning stuff. All I had planned to do this summer was to get through Memoria Press' Famous Men of Rome (there was no room in the "regular" school year and I really wanted us to have a strong historical background before we went to Italy next spring). Now Bean is begging me to let her try her hand at lapbooking. I was poking around the net the other night and found Homeschool in the Woods new Time Travelers History Series. Their first one is about Pirates & Explorers. Well, with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest coming out next month, Bean was all over that. So, I placed that order today. I just can't believe she's willing to do "school stuff" over the summer.

Today I also placed our order with Sonlight for Core 5. I got a nice little reminder email from them telling me my Club membership is about to expire, so I decided I'd better bite the bullet and click that "order" button. My best buddy, Carla, has already typed up all the reader questions for us, so all I have to do is get the stuff entered into Edu-Track, plug in the timeline and mapping assignments onto the reader question pages and we'll be all set for that.

The next step is to save enough money to get The Easy French. Bean has been begging me for YEARS to let her learn French and now I think I've finally found the right program for us. The step after that involves praying that Christian Kids Explore Earth & Space gets printed in time for us to use it this year. After that, it's just a matter of subscribing to The Boomerang and saving up the money to get IEW. THEN, I think we'll be all set for a while. The Easy French and IEW are both multi-year programs, so while their expense is high, it will amortize (oh my goodness, am I using that correctly? It's been WAY too long since I took accounting in college!) over several years.

Hmmm, looking back over this I think I can see that Bean isn't the only one on fire for homeschooling (and it looks like my checkbook will be the next thing on fire! LOL)