My New School Space

Once I got going today--it took awhile--I really got going!  I had a great day.  It felt so great getting back to normal.  We got all our school done and both girls did great.  I don't think they forgot anything during our break.  Can we say woo-hoo???  I was really worried about having to take precious time to reteach.  After we picked up Joe I got busy in the Florida room.  I had a BIG idea.   I got this BIG idea last night.  Before most of my friends had blogs I used to love to go to homeschoolblogger.com and visit random blogs.  I haven't done that in about 6 months or more but I went through a few last night before bed.  Well, on one of them someone had posted pictures of her school room.  She had a table turned a certain way and I just loved it.  I could hardly sleep for all the planning I was doing in my head.  In our Florida room we've had this great corner bench unit thingawhoppy.  It looks great from a distance but not so great when you are trying to sit on it.  It was very uncomfortable and awkward.  I tried to school there but just couldn't stand it so I haul everything to the kitchen table everyday and back again to the Florida room.  Today I decided to say bye-bye to the great corner bench unit thingawhoppy (it's up for grabs if anyone wants it).  That was the best thing I ever did!  It left so much room and I put my table just so and built myself some redneck bookshelves (milk crates and plywood) and we have a workable school space.  I can hardly wait to school there tomorrow.  The girls spent all evening there drawing.  It was a lot of work to disassemble the thingawhoppy--I even had to use multiple tools but I figured it out and was so proud of myself.