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Hi Everyone!
I just placed my order for Preparing! My son and I are both really excited about it. This is what I have been looking for in a curriculum for years. I'm looking forward to sharing our HOD journey with all of you here. Kimber

Yeah!!!! and welcome!!!!

I can't wait to hear from all of you doing this next year! Hopefully you'll be able to stay a year behind of Carrie's release dates and do HOD at least 4 more years.

Glad to have you here!
Mel

How exciting! Please tell us all about it when you start. I can't wait to hear about Preparing! Welcome to HOD. You will love it!

YAY! Can't wait to hear all about it from you pioneers. We'll be hitting it in a year.

Thank you all for such a warm welcome. And Melanie, that is exactly what I am hoping to do. It has been a long search to find a curriculum that matches with my son's need for a strong hands-on learning style so I'm planning to continue with HOD as long as we can. Kimber

I'm so glad to see another "Preparing" family & can't wait to start comparing notes. I'll be using it with a 10 year old son. I'll also have a 15 year old daughter that I would like to include as much as possible, but as I look at her plans for next year I don't know how much time she'll have for us!

Hi Janet!
That is so neat that our children are similar ages. And I am looking forward to sharing how things go too. I think it is so neat that tomorrow is our last day of school and both of my boys are really looking forward to our next school year. I like being a student as well as the teacher with both my boys so next year I will be doing 5th grade and 10th grade work. BWG! I worked today on getting our Common Place books together as well as our general notebooks set up for next year. I think that is one of the best things about homeschooling. I get to learn too. Thank you Carrie for creating an elementary program that even a mom wants to do. Kimber

What is a Common Place book? (Can you tell I'm a newbie?)

Hi Anita!
Well from what I understand from reading the samples online, it is a composition notebook that the student collects their copywork, poetry, scripture verses, etc...I think they add to it through the year. I'm sure I'll learn more once I get the teacher's guide but I figured that I could at least glue a title cover with some fun clip art on the composition notebooks and have them ready for the next school year. I think I'm just excited to get started and I just have to do something. I have pre-school year nesting. Kimber

Kimber and Janet -
I can't wait to go through "Preparing..." along with you next year! I'm so glad you placed your order Kimber, and it's a tradition to share your "box day" with us here - so be sure and let us know when it comes so we can celebrate too!

In Christ,
Julie

Hi Julie!
Thank you for sharing in my enthusiasm. My box should be coming any day. I'll be sure and let you all know when it gets here! Kimber

Hi Kimber! Welcome!

Kimber,

I'm so excited for you to get your order for "Preparing...". We'll be teaching it next year with our second son right along with you.

I love to try the ideas out for a new curriculum on my poor oldest son, and then teach the guide exactly as written the following year to my second son! That way I get to share the excitement of the new program along with all of you!

Thanks for sharing your enthusiasm.
Blessings,
Carrie