For me, August is a lot like those last few days of December before we jump into a new year. It's full of anticipation and excitement, as well as reflection over the last year. Resolutions are made for things that I'd like to improve or change. And there's a bit of sadness and regret that another year has left us (I mean, wow - it seems just yesterday we were starting Kindergarten with Lily!).
Back to school begins practically as soon as the last year ends with scouring Sunday ads for school supplies. I love looking at sales and adding boxes of crayons, bottles of glue, and packs of brightly colored pens to my shopping cart. My goal with school shopping is to stockpile supplies while they are on sale so that when we need items later in the year I can just grab them out of the closet and so that I don't spend $1.25 on something I could have spent 25 cents on.
In prep for our last supply shopping spree, my wonderful husband tackled our supply closet on Saturday and neatly organized everything so that I could make my final supply list and fill in any holes that were left. Meanwhile, I took every book and binder and organizer off of our bookcases where I keep our school materials. I dusted, sorted, and purged.
Then I called the kids over and we let them look through their new books, which have been arriving over the last few months. The next few minutes were filled with exclamations of "Oh, wow," "Cool," and "I'm going to learn how to do that this year?" Then we filled their shelves with their new school supplies and binders and textbooks.
I'm still working on lesson plans, but I can feel things winding down as we come close to our starting date. A new school year is about to begin and I'm not sure who is more excited - the kids or me.
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