Gearing Up for a New School Year

It's almost August---our local Target and Walmart have had back-to-school supplies out on their shelves for a month, reminding us that summer is fleeting. We are in the process of getting ready for another school year, too. Our Sonlight curriculum arrived, we finished painting the school room, hubby has drawn up plans for a wall of bookshelves and a custom computer desk, we are shopping for laptops and a wall-mounted flatscreen TV (so glad to get rid of the current space-hogging tv and aquarium!), I have scheduled 9 or 10 field trips with our local homeschool support group, and I have finished writing in language arts into our years' lesson plans. The kids are very excited about getting laptops this year---we are switching to a new math program called Teaching Textbooks which includes CDs and books used concurrently. Will post pics of remodeled school room once we've finished! Am so looking forward to the bookshelves which we so badly need...