It is official.  I turned in all my paperwork with the school district and we are officially homeschoolers.  I know that we have been homeschooling from the beginning but somehow it seems different now that I had to have something notarized.

This is one of my favorite times of the year too.  All the back to school sales are in full swing!  My thoughtful father bought the Sunday paper just so I could have the sales flyers.  I may not care about shoes but show me a great sale on Sharpie markers and folders and I get all aflutter.  Strange, I know.

I made my list of what each store had to offer that I either needed, wanted, or wanted to stock up on. 

• Staples had 100 count 3/5 index cards on sale for $0.25. (but I was disappointed that the price was only for the first 2 packages.  They didn't say that in the flyer). 
• Target had a 10 pack of Sharpie colored markers for $4.  I also bought a geographic world map 100 piece puzzle for only $1.  Cameron loved this and has put it together twice already.
• Walgreens had a coupon for $0.39 for poster board.  It was limit six but at least it said that on the coupon.  They also had buy one get two free 10 package page protectors for only $0.99.  But to my great disappointment, they were completely out of that.  (I'll still have to get those for our portfolio that will be need to be done at the end of the school year.)
• Wal-Mart, which I haven't visited yet) has the rest of my supplies.  I will be getting some composition books for $0.50 each and pocket folders with prongs for $0.10 each.  Hopefully some of the Wal-Mart prices will come down.  If they do, I'll most likely get a big package of crayons and more glue sticks.

I have forbidden myself to purchase any notebooks.  I shouldn't have bought any last year either but they were $0.05 a piece.  I just couldn't pass up 20/$1 !!!

I still need two books before I can fully get underway.  I still need a Math and cursive handwriting book.  But other than these two books, I have all my books and supplies.  I even rearranged some furniture and Dad's storage to give us more room for school this year.  We graduated to the big table! (I also threatened my dad with tears (worst thing I could think of) if he started stacking up the table with boxes of stuff, which he has a tendency to do.)