Finally, a Dedicated School Room

Packing has slowed to a crawl. We are currently at 21 boxes and twelve 30 gallon tubs (10 of them are filled with school stuff). We still have 17 days until we start moving in and still need a lot of day to day stuff (or so we think) so we aren't sure where to go from here, I guess. My goal for tonight was, and still is, to finally get the school closet finished.

When we moved here, we set up our living room and our dining room which are techinally in the same room. I hate open floor plans, by the way. That left us another space in the back of the house. Some of my neighbors use it for their dining room and the rest use it for a playroom for the kids. Because we have so much school stuff, I knew what the primary use for the room would be. But....I never really committed to this room being our school room. It has our desks set up and our dry erase board on the wall. We have (had) our laminated maps put up, a few other school things, but this never really became a learning room for us. I vowed to the boys that things would be different in our new house.

In our new place, we have a living room and a den. Adam also has his own game room and the boys have all their own rooms as well. To me, with the season of life we're in now, it doesn't make sense to me to have two "living" rooms. So I've decided that the den downstairs will be our dedicated school room. Bookshelves, learning tools, tables, chairs, books, toys. The works. We have it, we just never get the stuff out because it's in the school closet. That will finally change.

I'm pretty excited to turn that room into a place where we can all be and learn and have a good time. Where unfinished projects have a home, where books have plenty of room, where toys are welcome. Pretty excited indeed.