Reading the Well-Trained Mind again

About once a year I pull out The Well-Trained Mind to see where we should heading for the year, and this past week I've had it with me constantly at swimming practice. I'm a planner. I function best when I'm planning something, so since the house remodel is planned (now waiting on the general contractor AKA dh to accomplish the monster long list) I've moved on to homeschooling. I haven't allowed myself to read the Well-Trained Mind forums, browse the Rainbow Resource catalog, or do anything else homeschool research related, because I knew I didn't have time or money to devote to it. It has been so nice to get back into the swing of things schooling though. When I plan, we actually do school because I'm excited about it again. The kids are excited about the vast quantity of Dover coloring books we've gotten in the mail this past week. I'm trying to get lots of those to make up for The Story of the World Volume 4 not having much for the younger crowd.

I ended up having to buy a duplicate copy of the Activity Guide, since ours is still packed who knows where, along with All About Spelling, our history and language arts binders, and all of the Writing With Ease student pages. Poor Mr. Blue and Miss Pink have been stuck using Spelling Workout instead of AAS. I also bought duplicate copies of the Writing With Ease student pages. I'm happy about those though, because I got the pdfs. Now I can just print out the page we need on the laser printer. While I was at it, I bought the pdf for the Story of the World student pages too. Then I backed them all up to my external hard drive. I need pdfs of all our books! It's a lot easier to search a computer than boxes.