"Retired teacher-books, school materials... " I don't often go to garage sales. But the kids were in VBS this morning and I didn't work today, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to go browse.  And here are my treasures:

 7 National Geographics, .10/each.  I only had 70 cents change on me!  The kids will enjoy the organizational caddies and the blank receipt book.  They love playing restaurant.  A few books for reading, including a Boxcar Children book, Ramona the Pest and two Encyclopedia Browns.  Some stickers, a book on totem poles, a set of sentence cards for puntuation and capitalization practice, and workbooks for cursive writing, 2nd grade spelling, art activities for K-3, math, rocks & soil and indepedent reading suggestions.  And a human anatomy coloring book, with pretty detailed drawings. And none of the workbooks have been written in.  Grand total?  $6!  Then tomorrow is our monthly library sale.  We may go there and see if there's anything else to supplement next year's planning.

As I mentioned in a prior post, I've gone back to work part-time back in the title business.  I'm fortunuate in that I've been able to set my own hours.  I do miss being with my kids when I'm at the office.  But I promised the kids that with my first paycheck, we'd go shopping for something they didn't really need but wanted.  C wanted a new dress and K wanted new shoes.  I'm posting these pictures primarily for dh who's traveling.  This way he can share in the moment!

We've taken a couple of weeks off from any kind of structure.  I'm hoping to get a little structured learning in this next week.  We started using Sue Patrick's workbox system in late May, so I'm hoping to get that going again.  I'm hoping we can finish up a couple of things that we didn't finish in the semester, and use the workboxes for some fun things and to review other things during the summer.  Sunday is our co-op's recognition night.  We, (I mean I), were so disorganized this last year that I'm not really sure what to showcase at the event. 

The kids had a blast at VBS this year - our first year to participate.  We attend a very large church, and I wasn't comfortable letting the kids go on their own.  K has now said he wants to go again next year and every year until he's 15!  I explained that they only go to 12

I'll spend most of the next week working on my bi-monthly editorial project.  And enjoying the kids, too.  I am blessed beyond measure!