For the uninitiated, Box Day is what homeschoolers call the day when new curriculum arrives.  The family gathers around, there is a big cookout, a large cake with chocolate dripping off the sides … oh, wait – maybe that’s only my fantasy version!

In reality, this post should be entitled “Why I’ll Forgive Fed Ex Just This Once…”  You see, our box of new curriculum from Sonlight came via Fed Ex ground shipping while we were enroute back from Ohio.  They made three attempts while we were gone and then stored it in the warehouse until we could come and pick it up.  The problem is that there is no pickup location in Hoboken.  The nearest one is in Secaucus which is not far as the proverbial crow flies, but can take a long time to get to depending on the time of day.

I finally screwed up my courage and launched our voyage to pick up the box this morning.  The trip took two hours door to door.  Traffic wasn’t that bad, but there was construction and then the process of getting two kids shuttled from the car to the loading dock where the packages are stored.  Anyway – you get the idea.  I was beyond peeved at having to go all the way to Secaucus to pick up our package and am still considering lodging a complaint.  But the wonderfulness inside our box has dulled my upset considerably!

Here is a picture of my son digging into the box …

Truth be told, he was so enthusiastic because for some reason he thought there were toy trains down in the bottom of the box.  He was a bit disappointed at first, but once he noticed that some of the books are ones that he already loves, he was more content with the contents of the box.

Here is a sampling of the books (with my daughter in the corner of the picture trying to make a grab for the books)…

For a full listing of the contents of our box, check out Sonlight’s P4/5 curriculum.  We are very excited to start reading.  A couple of these books are some of my favorites from when I was a child including Uncle Wiggily and Brer Rabbit.  If you have a box day celebration in your house, please tell me about it – what treasures were in your box?