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.