Gearing Up for School

Day 1

A few days ago I mentioned that we're getting ready to start our first year of online public school (and home school for Little T)... I thought I'd give a little tour of our school room.  We're now in the decorating phase, so I'll update it when we're finished, but I'm just so excited about what we've done so far!  While Big T & Tagger were out of town a couple of weeks ago, Lucky, Bacon, Little T & I decided to paint the office.  Unfortunately, Big T caught an earlier flight and surprised us a day early, so it wasn't finished.  Fortunately for us, he was able to quickly paint the top trim in the room and we finished much faster than we could have done on our own!

Lucky & I painted all the way up to above the windows, above the closet and above the door on our own.  Bacon & Little T used the small rollers to do what they could reach.  I was pretty impressed with what we accomplished on our own!

Last week, Big T & I headed off to one of the greatest stores in the universe, Ikea!  After much deliberation, we decided on the Galant table/desks.  We went back last night to make our purchase.  When we got home, we fed the kids, then Tagger & Big T got to work with the screwdrivers.  And just a couple of hours later, we had this! 

Isn't it perdy?  We've put two desktop computers on the desk in the right picture and one desktop on the corner desk.  The desk under the window will be used for school work, projects and working with mom.

We have a world map that will go above the desk pictured below and a U.S. wall map that will go above the corner unit (same wall, separated by the (currently) emptier bookcase.  We'll put our Math and Science tools in wicker baskets on the shelves.

Not pictured here is Little T's learning space.  I'll make sure to get it in one of the update photos once we get everything on the walls.

We're all very excited to have a fun place to use all of these school supplies! 

Our big adventure starts in just two weeks! Eeek! Yikes!  YaY!!