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About a week ago Chris, over at Mountain Homeschool tagged me with the challenge to post a picture of my desk. Sorry, Chris, that it's taken so long. I almost postponed again with my Flashback Friday looming over me, but then I thought....why not combine the two? I am like such the queen of multi-tasking (not really) and I like totally always kill two birds with one stone (I would never kill birds with anything other than my windshield). So in the spirit of all things retro, here was my desk then:
This was probably around 1979, maybe 1980. My sole passion in life at this time was playing school. It's what I did ALL the time. I was the teacher sitting at my little blue desk or standing at my Raggedy Ann chalkboard. This obsession would continue until...well, I sometimes still think I'm playing school, and I've just cleverly disguised it as "home schooling." Seriously, besides the occasional Barbie fashion show, and a little later, playing Dance Fever with my record player and disco ball, school was my favorite pastime. For the NOW section, I have three pictures:
This is my "real" desk, I guess, but I don't sit there all that much (as you can see, it's minus a chair), but I store a lot of junk in it. It is sort of "Scrapbook Central," as you can see much of my supplies surrounding this area. I usually lay the page out there, but I usually do most of my work over on the kids' table, which I'll show you now...
Besides being my craft fall-out area, this is where the kids do at least some of their school. Annaleigh has a desk in her room, where she works a lot of the time, but you can find me and Harrison here working out our 8-times tables or reciting his memory verse or defining nouns. We do most of our reading in the family room, but here is where he does seat work, and I check papers, etc. This is probably my favorite "desk" area...
...because it's where my computer sits, and I'm just mildly in love with my computer. Oh, and I also like the fact that we once removed a shelf from above this area and decided to never touch up the paint because we're so Bohemian and liked that grungy look (again, not really....we just forgot, sort of like that wreath). I realize these areas are looking rather spiffy right now. I didn't clean up for the pictures....I promise....even though that was a temptation for me. We had a Bible study meeting at our house today, and the kids were going to be in this room, so we straightened it up. It's usually not this tidy, yet it's not a complete disaster either. And just for fun, I thought I'd show you a picture of my dream office area, my "inner desk," if you will....
It's from Pottery Barn. Someday....maybe.....I'm not holding my breath.... Now I'm supposed to tag 5 more people. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, I pick.... (The tag is just for your present desk area. I just got all crazy and rebellious with it. Let me know if you post your pic, so I can come be nosey and see it!) Feel free to join us for Flashback Friday. If you do, sign up with Mr. Linky below so everyone can come read your post. Your post doesn't have to be about your desk. Thanks!
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