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Today was our first day of school… as I do every year I take

a snapshot of the monkeys..  This year they took me seriously

last year not so much and actually combed their hair and put some clothes on..

#2.. a little blurry.. but looking good..

#3 looks good here.. but will probably be in PJ’s

tomorrow..

#4 working on his “Uncle Ricco” Napoleon Dynamite pose..

I have NO idea what #5 is doing..

Happy start of the School Year.. from us to you!

I have a love hate relationship with my school room.  I love it because I have it.. and I’m grateful that I do.. but I don’t love it because it’s ALWAYS a mess.  When I designed the house we built I thought it would be cool to have a loft/school room.  I didn’t realize my children would play in there, and it would be the catch all for stuff upstairs.   BUT  I really can’t complain.  There are a lot of homeschooling mothers that do their school stuff at the kitchen table… which sometimes I find myself doing because I get angry at the school room…

Each year at the start of summer I start thinking about painting the school room and re-organizing it.  When I get the guts I’ll put some photos on of  what the school room looks like now.. but here’s some examples of what I wish it looked liked!

This from Pottery Barn.  You can see it HERE

I love the way it has a place for everything.. and it’s so clean and neat.. I don’t really NEED the whole thing.. but a few pieces would be nice.

Here’s what Pottery Barn says about it:

Clever and versatile, our modular Daily System is the ultimate home-office assistant. Now it’s available with our Smart Technology™, which integrates hand-held devices seamlessly into your daily life. To create a system that’s ideal for your space, click here to view our Daily System Tool.

• Our modular Daily System allows you to create a customized system for supreme organization in any room.
• Digital Frame with Corkboard & Cubby Features a 6-inch digital frame that copies photos, videos and MP3s directly from a memory card, digital camera or PC. Featuring 128MB of memory, it holds up to 1300 digital images. It has complete media support for JPEG, MPEG1, MPEG4, MP3 and AVI files, and accepts MMC, DV, MS and XD memory cards.
• Each Daily System modular component slides onto a wall-mounted stainless-steel rod, so you can easily move or add each piece. Corkboard, letter bin and office organizer take the 12-inch rod; all other pieces take the 24-inch rod. The Top Display Rod is sold separately.
• Catalog / Internet Only.

I like the way this looks, but it’s not really set up for homeschooling..

Soon.. I’ll post a few photos of my school room…

Today while I was counting Girl Scout cookie money for our troop, I found some “Where’s George” dollars. Have you ever seen one of these?

I felt kind of special because I had two!  I’m not exactly sure why the bottom dollar looks like it’s been “stamped” and the top dollar someone hand wrote on it.

You can enter the info anonymously, or you can sign up for a user name and password.  If you choose to have a user name, you will be able to track the dollar, wherever it goes.

This would be a great home schooling project.  You can even see who the top user, top state, most track dollar etc..  It’s a pretty interesting site.  I showed it to the  monkeys.  They ALL thought it was pretty cool.

We had school today. I know most people took Martin Luther King Day off.. but we didn’t. The photo above is a GOOD representation of how today went.

Monday’s are not my favorite day to do school…. there is always so much paperwork to do.. and everyone is complaining about SOMETHING. MLK day or not… we still had the same frustration as any normal Monday. While I was helping #4 with his math.. #2 had a question. I asked #1 if she could help.

Once #1 came to help him, he became all animated about how

he couldn’t understand the question.. and she wouldn’t either.

**No, Old Navy is not a sponsor of this blog.. but they should be

He’s intent on pecking at those keys… I hope he get’s the right

number.. don’t you?

No #2 don’t smack the calculator!

(See the red arrow above their heads.. the Christmas

kissing ball we forgot to take down! See the red arrow by

#1’s arm.. clean clothes.. #2 hasn’t put away yet.)

Show him #1! Show him that all the night’s spent with your

dad (The Man) doing algebra were worth it!.. Show him you can

do math too!

I believe this photo proves she knew how to do it.. see the smile on

her face? See the frustration on his…

That’s my girl.. showing her brother how to work a few problems..

That’s my boy.. thinking of something smart to say back to her.