9 more days.. Wait! What!?

It should be addressed that this is the state of my living room currently...

I won't dare show the state of my desk right now. Post it notes sticking all over. I've lost count of how many "don't forget to look for this" lists and countless other articles of papers all begging to be organized for this upcoming school year. I'm not going to lie I may be aiming too high in the "wanting to organized and ready for the school year department", but this year I feel the pull even more to make sure it's all ready. Like ready, ready.

Now, if the big brown truck could finally come bring us the last of our materials that would help.

I blame it on 2 things. A.) Last year (with moving and all) the whole year felt so discombobulated and just not fun. B.) I'm adding another full time student to the mix that requires more hands on attention than my 4th grader does.

What was I thinking!?

Insert the moment now where God voices down from Heaven to remind me of the very reason. He has called us to do this.

This year though I am set to make this our best year yet. Oh yes, voices of homeschooling mother alum I realize these are the vital words that could be setting me up for disaster this year but I am chancing the possibility and calling it the best year now. We are stepping out of some of our normal curriculum to try some new ones and revamping some of what we have on our shelves. I am, however, using parts of what we have used in the past to make the new curriculum a little more like what we are used to. I'll try to explain...

See the Geology book there in the middle? An awesome friend sent it to me this year, she had 2 copies, and we talked about our 2 girls meeting up online to do the class together. (After we moved the girls continued with their Apologia Botany class together online. It was awesome. Technology can be good for the soul and best friends.) While both families are still looking at keeping this as our Science this year, we (meaning my family) are looking to have it be our first semester science class and slating Apologia's Swimming Creatures for 2nd semester. Either brilliant or I've completely lost it. Trust me the jury is still out on this one. Both families are also starting year round homeschooling this year but it appears our start dates will differ. So I am going ahead with the said shared science and we will gladly pick up with them once they start as well. So, all of that said to share I am making out a notebooking journal from scratch to mirror one from what we are used to (Apologia's) to accompany our new science curriculum this year. In my head it sounded awesome and my daughter is pumped to still be able to use a style of learning that fits her with a new book, but lordy I think my head is going to explode!! Ha, as my friend said "It sure seems like your Pinterest has!"

I have 4 classes that I am trying to piece and supplement items in for to make it more meaty and enjoyable. Not just read and that's it. This is proving though not only challenging but massively time consuming. As my countdown reflects I have 9 days till day 1.

9 days!!!

How on earth did that happen!?

I'll tell ya... it was taking so long to nail down a curriculum for this year I was happy about and then being too crazy busy to sit and actually look at it all. Lord willing I will at least have all of the first week's work for those 4 classes pinned, printed, and ready to go in their appropriate day's folders. I would be lying though if I said I wasn't worried about the rest of the weeks of our year because I am. How am I going to find the time to get all the rest of the weeks together while back in full swing mode? This will be interesting.

Folks, this may be our most jammed pack school year to date.

I'm excited for it though. The kids are too.

9 more days and our adventurous school year begins!

Bring it.