(Sorry this may be all over the place)
2 days ago we began ordering some of our school curriculum for next year (see list here). One of items purchased was our Science curriculum (Apologia) because on several websites I was noticing it said it was back ordered. I also had heard from a friend she got hers through a used homeschool store and was on a waiting list. So we searched out the cheapest prices (so.many.websites!) and jumped on the cheapest one... which isn't really cheap when you think about it, but anyways I ordered. IT IS ON IT'S WAY!
Now I bring you to today. Yep today. God's a wonderful supplier and looking out for you even when you aren't expecting it. He has been doing this a lot to us in this process of pricing out next years curriculum.
A little back story of the last week or so...
At first we were thinking we were just going to go with one company. Where they laid it all out for us. Here. Done. Begin Work. That whole set though was a cost of around $1,000. A cost hard to swallow but we figured if that is what God wants for us then ok. Then we decided ok we can handle piecing curriculum together from all over let's do it! So that brought on the daunting task of researching everything and finding exactly what God had in mind for us to use next year.
SO.MUCH.INFO.
But totally worth it. We wrote down all that we thought we wanted and priced it all out. Spreadsheet saved and everything. That price was $583.29. Sweet almost cut by half! We can do that.
Nope God had other plans STILL. So we re-evaluated some of the curriculum choices and looked into others that had caught our eye earlier in more detail. We then finally felt like "This is exactly what we are supposed to be getting and putting into action next year." Oh the weight that was lifted. Then came time to add everything up. The new total yet again blew our mind. It was now $431.45 which to be exact... $0.09 yes 9 cents LESS then what we had in Savings to purchase curriculum for next year. Can you say... WOW GOD!?
So then we were like ok God you got it we will start getting everything ready. Then I felt like I was supposed to look for something slightly different for our grammar and phonics. I didn't feel 100% with the original picks and sat down with my husband started more of a detailed search. Which let me tell you was very detailed since we had already thought we were pretty knowledgeable on the others. We yet again felt we needed to switch those up to better fit our goals for our daughter we have lined out. Ok time to re-add yet again. If your head is spinning don't worry mine has been for weeks! lol
This time yep... even lower! I couldn't believe it! Blown away better describes the feeling that came over me when I saw the numbers appear on the calculator. $382.86 Oh yes you read that right! There is a 3 in the hundred's place. Crazy right. Still have all the subjects covered and then some and now we are looking close to $600 - $700 LESS then we originally thought we were going to have to spend for next year. What a HUGE blessing this all has been.
We began purchasing. Purchased our Science from the cheapest place found which also coincidentally had it IN STOCK as well. (Christianbook.com for $27.49 for the textbook) We were totally stoked.
Now back to today... After church our daughter had been asking to go to Half Priced Books to spend some of her money she has saved up. She has been asking all week to go and has been saying how she wants to get Book #4 in the Magic Tree House Series. How can you tell her no?? So we went. At first we thought about going to the one right down the street near my husband's work, but decided let's just hit the one closest to our house. We went and my daughter picked and happily paid for way more books than 1 (one of which she had already read 4 of the 7 chapters in just in the few hours since buying the book!). Anyways, while I was checking through the basket of all the books my daughter had picked out I looked straight ahead and couldn't believe my eyes... OUR SCIENCE BOOK I JUST ORDERED & 2 OTHERS!!
No way!?
I excitedly pulled them down and started looking through them. Looking through all that awaited us next school year. Then I looked at the price... I about fell over! Ready for this??? Let me refresh your memory the ONE book I just bought cost me $27.49... This exact same book I now held in my hand cost $5.98!!!! You have got to be kidding me!? I could buy all THREE textbooks for LESS then I just bought ONE the other day!! Did we leave them on the shelves and lick our wounds... HECK NO! LOL We purchased all 3 textbooks and will be sending the new one back as soon as it arrives.
We can not believe how the Lord has provided not only this coming year's Science, but also the next 2 years worth of Science textbooks! Just blows our minds!!! So all we have to get for those to be complete years will be the notebooking journals.
Thank you Lord for the blessing you gave us today. May we use this to your glory and to raise these precious children in the way you want them to go. Thank you for blessing us with this privilege. May we never take that for granted and do the task you have entrusted to us to the glory of you.
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