Box Day!

Some of you may be unaware of this, but home-schoolers celebrate a unique holiday: Box Day. This is the day when the New School Books arrive, and it is a thrilling, wonderful, busy day.

Today was Box Day at our house.

Dad brings in the treasures...

Allyson can hardly wait to dive in...

Now, government school kids tragically miss out on this experience, which is terrible. I overheard Allyson say,"This is better than Christmas morning!" The boys are not quite as enthusiastic about Box Day as Allyson, but they are getting close.

Kenton checks out one of his new books, Five True Dog Stories

As with all Major Holidays, a big mess is usually imminent. After we pulled out all of our new books, dvds, cds, computer programs, and workbooks, each of us found something we just couldn't put down, and ignored the mess for a while.

What mess? Ooh-check this out, dad!

We had another Important Milestone today: Kenton, age six, lost his first tooth! It popped right out while we were doing math this morning. Kenton is very excited, especially since the pastor told him the Tooth Fairy always leaves at least $100 for the first tooth.
Kenton, showing off his fabulous new smile, and his tooth

Allyson has almost finished a book about Sheherazade, and took another book upstairs with her tonight. For a kid who has really been looking forward to the Christmas break, she's certainly diving into the new school stuff...of course, she hasn't had to write any reports on these new books...yet.

Happy December

The Christmas season is upon us! We have gotten all of the leaves raked, and we are ready for the snow to start falling. The kids are getting excited about Christmas, and about camp soon afterward. Today, it is snowing, and they spent a good part of the day out in it.


We put up our Christmas tree last night-Eric was amazed by it. He loves the ornaments-he'll take them off of the tree, snuggle them, and then try to put them back on again. It's adorable.








During school today, it was snowing pretty good, so we took a break after math and played outside (gotta love home-schooling). Eric filled up his dump truck with snow, and dumped it on Allyson.

When they came in, we had hot cocoa and spelling tests, and then cut out snowflakes for the windows. I love days like this. It has been full of those small special every-day memories that hopefully will be cherished as the kids get older.

The Lord has been good to us today, and He will continue to be good to us. Everywhere I look during this time of year, I see His blessings to me.