Christmas in July!

Much to our surprise, the man in the brown truck rang our doorbell this afternoon. Seems he had too many packages to carry in one load. We received 6 big boxes from Agora Cyber Charter School addressed to J. At first I nearly panicked. I mean, this means that school REALLY starts soon, and I REALLY am teaching J this year!

An hour later, J and I sat down to open the brown cardboard boxes. Inside were more boxes! Brightly colored ones...just like Christmas. We opened box after box: "Language Arts K Standard" held a dazzling variety of award winning picture books, some of which are already favorites. "Math K Standard" held a plastic container of brightly colored geometric shapes, and colorful stacking blocks, while a slide whistle, tambourine and CDs were inside the "Music Preparatory" box.

While we're on the Christmas theme...last night, my "craft" table was looking very much like a scene from the Island of Misfit Toys in the Rudolf movie, with broken toys piled up beside my sewing machine. I decide to spend last night after the girls went to bed attempting to repair said items, the loss of which would be devastating to my girls. The biggest success story is the fairy wings, which long ago had begun to shred. I managed to repair them with a pair of old stockings, a glue gun and shiny star jewels. J was so thrilled that she wore them all day.

What fun! Now I'm a little bit excited, and J is VERY excited to do school. (And fairy wings with stars really DO help you concentrate better.)

T