New Semester/New Look

I have always wanted a room specifically devoted to homeschool ever since the beginning, but simply did not have the space to do it. We have done school in the living room, and kitchen in our previous house. But we can now say that we have been blessed after our recent move into a home where we can have a room specifically for homeschool (YA!!!). Here are a few pictures of one side of the room, the other side still has a little clutter(still unpacking). There is also a sofa in the room, with an end table, I plan on puting a lamp over there and making it more of a reading nook. There are throw blankets to cover up with, I have a goose neck floor lamp packed somewhere that I will add over there for addtional lighting. We do have two windows also, so this gives great sunlight. Will post those pics once we get some of that stuff on that side of the room a new home(either in the garbage or give away). Hope you enjoy...

Here are different angles of the room, my lens is not wide enough to show the entire room. As you can see, we have two bookcases, one for assorted reading books and another for curriculum books. Also, a cabinet dedicated to notebooks, loose leaf paper and other supplies. I don't know if your house is like mine, but we have a pencil gremlin that seems to take pencils and such, so when school starts we are always looking for pencils. On top of each bookcase, there are small buckets dedicated to everything that we need, so we can easily put our hands on them...pencils, pens, crayons, markers, glue and even a bucket for nothing but erasers; on the other side of the buckets, where we can easily find them...3 hole punch, stapler and tape dispenser that holds regular scotch tape as well as double sided tape. This way the supplies are in plain view, and when they are getting low, I can simply refill them. Now excuses!

I am really thankful, this alone gives me a feeling a calm. God is so good, when I look at all of the things that we have accumulated, and still putting away in the house that we are currently in, I often wonder how on earth did we pack all of this stuff in the other house we lived in. I really do miss the quiet and out door space that we had in our country home, but where we are currently living my husband is able to have an office/studio, each child has their own room, we have a homeschool room as well; so God has truly blessed us this year.