Posts Tagged ‘Homeschooling’

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…

Holy Smokes.. did you see Saturday Night Live?  Betty White killed!  She was so good.. and to have

some of the woman  that have left SNL on there was awesome!  I loved them!

1.  School the Monkeys

2. Write up eBay Stuff for myself

3.  Dance class.. #3 & #4

4. Return Library books

5. Write Article

6. Make to-do list for Youth Group’s work day on Wednesday

7. Write up eBay auctions for church

8.  order Girl Scout patches

9.  Transfer files via FTP

10. Sequins…

11. Dinner= Salisbury Steak, mashed potatoes, peas, biscuits

I actually got this other stuff done too: sent out email to cadets about summer scouts, sent email to the new 6th graders for youth group, made GS newsletter for May/June, Sat on hold with the insurance company to make some changes

Exactly…

Friday morning I woke up bright and early (at least for me).. and apparently

my babysitter thought it was pretty early also.  Normally he’s one of the first

kids to pose for a photo..

Not so much on this morning..

I elected to take P*Tricky, #1 and #3 with me to the conference this year.

I have no idea why P*Tricky and #1 would want to hang out with a

bunch of insane parents.. and well.. me.. all day.

The homeschool conference has speakers that are fabulous. They

speak about  every topic you could imagine… and on every concern a person

could have about homeschooling.  There is also this HUGE room

full of homeschool curriculum, books, pencils, art supplies, etc..

Here’s #1 and P*Tricky checking out some of the stuff for sale.

#3 LOVES Millers Pad and Paper… it’s a super cool art supply and

book store that is one of the vendors there..

The Homeschool Boy Scout troop was building a fort…

There are all kinds of book sellers there.. this one is pretty special to me,

as they sell used classic books.

This booth had a unique way to learn.. Kind of like a modern day School

House Rock. Except I think cooler..  If you are interested in

their DVD/CD’s  check them out HERE.

Have you ever wondered what a homeschool mom looks like?

Here are two more modern examples.. one mom has on jeans

and a t-shirt.  The other is the “new” kind of homeschool mom..

with the high heel pointy toed boots, tights and cute hip dress.

This is what the “old school” home schooling mom looks like.

The long skirt, tennis shoes and her arms covered.

Which kind of homeschool mom are you?

I would like to think for me.. that there is still hope.. I am not

near as chic as the woman in the boots and tights…  maybe

next year.. I’ll wear my jeans instead of the yoga pants…

Our First Day of School this year.. I don’t know what

to say about this photo.  All I know is that some kid needs a

haircut.. and another one needs a shirt.  There are 2 in there

that look like supermodels.. Well supermodels for our little town..

and obviously for our family.

1. MPE Homeschool Conference…  I’ll be there most of the day.  So this list is just wishful thinking

2. Figure out what I need for 2010-2011 school year..

3. PowerPoint for Church

4.  emails to the Girl Scouts about the lunch on Saturday and to Youth Group about the meeting..

5.  Write up eBay stuff (I still have those SUNGLASSES to finish)

6. Order a new battery for my laptop (from eBay of course)  I’ve bid on one.. but I’m waiting to see if I won it..

7.  Work on the Church’s eBay auctions

8. Set up time to pick up eBay donations..

9. Work on e-commerce website

10. Fill out #1’s forms