School Room Pictures~Before & After

Schoolroom Before

Looking into the room

The 'chalkboard' wall

The 'teacher' area, aka my desk

Schoolroom After

Looking into the room

The 'chalkboard' wall

The new 'teacher' area

The posters will come soon, I just don't want to cover the fresh new paint just yet. And the curtains are up, just not when this picture was taken, same curtains as the before picture. It was a lot of work to prep these walls. The floor is a whole 'nother story in itself, but I love it!! It's cement!!

First Day of School Pictures!

Here are some pictures of the kids from Tuesday, September 6th, 2010! First Day of school! Emmalee 12yrs 9 months

Noah 10yrs 8months

Alexa 9yrs 6 months

Breanna 7yrs 6 month

And of course a group photo!!

First Day of School

Tomorrow is the big day, the day most moms LONG for, a day when they get to have a few hours to themselves, and maybe clean, do laundry, shop, or just sit and eat bonbons. Well, not for me. I have chosen to keep my children home with me, and not to have any free time, what-so-ever. And I love it!!! (mostly) Of course I still wish there were times when they were off and gone for 7+ hrs of the day, but 99.9% of the time, I am loving having them close to me, in more ways than 1.

I am so excited for tomorrow to come!! Even though we home school, we still do the new clothes, each of them got a new outfit today, and are super excited to get to work on their new desks!! I never got a new outfit :( But I did get this:

I will post some pics of the new school room soon!!

The beginning of the year Jitters

The whole summer when by without even a post. I never really had much to write about. We had kinda a boring summer. We only went camping once, and I didn't even take any pictures. I am getting bad for not taking pictures! Mostly it is because I don't like my camera...whatev.

School has started up all over the city, and in many of my homeschooling friends houses! We haven't started yet, cause we are redoing the room we do school in. AND it has taken a turn for the worse....we pulled up the carpet thinking we could use the old tiles underneath, paint them and it would be fine...found out yesterday that those old tiles have asbestos in them. So we should really get rid of them or our neighbour told us what he did, which is probably what we are going to do. He poured a quick set cement over his, and it seals in the asbestos. So, just another added thing to do. It seems like it is never an easy fix when it comes to house that were build in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Ours is 1964 I think.

I have a lot to do today, and it makes me kinda feel overwhelmed and makes me wanna just sit on the couch and eat chips and watch TV. But the work will still be waiting for me when the bag is empty and there is nothing more to watch. My children are having one last stay at their grandparents place before school begins. So, I need to get to work.

My husband informed me last night that he wants to rip our fireplace out next yr and get a natural gas one put in. I'm so excited! That eye sore will be gone!! Of course I should be taking before and after pics of all this...but I don't like my camera....I should just get over it shouldn't I?!