I have targeted August 20th (or somewhere around there) to be our first day of school.

I guess that means I have to start planning.

I think I am being "lulled" into a false sense of preparedness by my Sonlight curriculum.  You see, they have nice neat little grids of lesson plans for each week in their manual. Much like the ones that I like to create.  They are pretty easy to use and follow.   So I'm thinking I'm lulled into thinking that I can just "pick up the book" and start.

Its not quite going to be that easy.  In addition to Sonlight History (and Samantha with Sonlight LA and Grammar Ace), they both have Reason for Handwriting and Wordly Wise Vocabulary (different years).  Samantha has Sequential Spelling and Michael has Spelling Power.  Michael has Horizons Math and Saxon Math.

By the end of last year, I got lazy.  Each day (or couple of days), I would just open their books and see what lesson was next and say "this is your assignment for the day".  It works.  If the next worksheet in the math workbook is Lesson 67, then that's what you do today.  If its Tuesday of Week 7, then look at Tuesday of Week 7 in the book to see what's next.

I guess I ought to do something - maybe at least get the first 4 weeks of lessons typed into Homeschool Tracker.  And Maybe I should pick 6 or so Science Experiments from our book to get started.  I think that HST might be what is overwhelming me.  Don't get me wrong - I really like it and its not too hard to use.  But I'm questioning WHY I Have to when it seems so easy to write lesson plans each day on the back of scraps of paper.  AND I have to get the new school year set up, which will be the biggest struggle.

But, we'll start on time - I guarantee you.  Its just a matter of how much we do the first week above and beyond just looking at our fun new books and school supplies.