Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Happenings! (a.k.a. why there is a serious lack of blogging)
  • Hopefully selling our house in the next month or so! We are super procrastinators and don't do any decor or landscaping until we want to sell :); it has been a busy four weeks or so. We found a new neighborhood in Frisco we really like and have a contract to build. It's exciting! Still, if our current house doesn't sell for what we want, we are totally fine with staying put. We really don't care either way.....it is a good opportunity for us to get closer to Justin's work and buy new, which is why we decided to go for it.
  • End of the school semester is next week. Enough said.
  • Trying out some of those boxed preschool curriculums. So far I have sampled curriculum from The Learning Box Preschool and Adventures in Learning. The Learning Box is heavy on crafts-- I'm not a big craft person, so it was a little annoying for me, but the kids loved it. Adventures in Learning is a little less craft intensive---usually one craft for the day, whereas The Learning Box would have two, sometimes three. The one big perk in my book is that the company gives you all the craft supplies and packages them by the day. Huge time-saver! And yes, I am willing to pay a little extra if it saves me the time of shopping for all those things! If I had to choose right now, I would stick with Adventures in Learning; it is less time-intensive and I would have the option of adding more to it if needed, i.e. a phonics curriculum and activity centers.