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Last night Big D and I were sitting on our sofa watching 70 pound, 14 year-old Chinese girls beat our 105 pound, 18 year-old American girls in gymnastics, when suddenly Big D asked, "So, where exactly are you doing school now?". I found this slightly amusing since he was the very one who helped me demolish our former school room a couple of weeks ago. Remember this?
And this?
Or this?
Well, believe it or not, we've gotten it all taken care of. Harrison has a place to sleep, we have started school, and I'm still reasonably sane. I promised pictures, so I aim to deliver. Besides, it seems even my husband who actually lives here, needs the run-down. First, I'll show you the former school room, which is now about 3/4 Harrison's room and 1/4 the computer room and school closet. Eventually we are going to curtain off his room portion, so there's a little more privacy. He wanted a Titans football room, but I, being a die-hard Bears fan, balked a little at that idea, but we did go with the team colors and let him hang his posters and such.
See, now wouldn't that wall look better plastered with Brian Urlacher, or Devin Hester, or...oh, what the heck...even Rex Grossman?
Here's the desk area we set up for him, where I go over most of his lessons and he does his seat work...
The front part of the room still houses our computer and the school closet....
As you can see, we share the closet with an AC unit. It was tight, but I made it work. I still have to get some of the drawers labeled. Can I just say that I can't recommend those over-the-door hangers enough? I even use them in my bathrooms! Annaleigh also does a lot of her own work in her room....
She has a really nice desk, but something tells me she may prefer her bed....
And then both of them often gravitate to the sofa in the loft...
Speaking of the loft, here's what you'd see from the top of the stairs...
Almost all of our school books are housed there on the shelves....right over there behind the hideous, tortuous stationary bike that I can't ride because it hurts my hiney something fierce. I also read almost of all of our Sonlight books here. I sit/lie/curl up here....
I kind of think of it as a slouchy throne. Then here is my office/scrapbook area...
It is tiny and cramped but efficient. Here's another view from Harrison's doorway...
So, that was the rather long-winded answer to where exactly we're doing school. And now we just have to tackle this and turn it into baby-central in the next few months....
*sigh* Anyone good with a paintbrush? |
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