Tackle it Tuesday: My desk finally

OK ... I finally HAD to get to my desk. I simply couldn't handle it anymore! All the school books stacked on the corner were quite a nuisance. Not to mention, the papers Princess JF had stacked on my desk were simply overtaking everything else! So, I got it looking at least a bit better. I still need to get in each little cubby and organize it ... but I can now get to my desktop and I can grab a teacher guide without the whole stack falling down on me! Here are my before and after shots:

Tackle it Tuesday: My Blog

Okay, I really needed to tackle my desk today, but I got distracted trying to find a new 3 column layout for my blog here! I was happy with the last template, but I really needed the 3 columns! The first template I was using had 3 columns, but wouldn't work right in IE ... so I'm hoping this one does! If not, check out Firefox, it's much safer and quicker anyways! : )

So, there are still some tweaks to be made, but, for now, it's good to go. I can always finish customizing it later on tonight when everyone's in bed and I am allowed quiet to concentrate on the task at hand! Here is the screenshot of what it looked like before I started working on the new template today:


As for my desk I mentioned last Tuesday, I really need to get find some kind of order to it! I'm embarrassed to post pictures because it is so bad. Books on the corners and papers strewn across the top (my 4 year old loves to write and draw me pictures ... then she brings them all to me at my desk and sits them in front of me ... so I have quite a collection going). But ... hopefully ... more about that next week! :)

Tackle it Tuesday: New curriculum

Yes, I know ... another meme ... but until I can generate a large enough audience and ideas of my own ... we both must struggle through! : ) Besides, they are so much fun and are an excellent way for me to be inspired enough to post about something worthwhile ... and, better yet, leads me to others blogs that have brought me great insight into my own life! Thank you! So, without further ado ... here we go!

This week we have to tackle not only "going back to school" ... but also starting a new one. Yesterday went smoothly ... but we just sat down to look over today's subjects and figure out which classes were on today's planning list since the "skip fairy" showed up and skipped through our classes finally. Basically meaning, since we started mid-term we obviously only needed to start half way through the curriculum ... thus we had to be "skipped through" the first half. I sent an email this morning requesting information on where to start on some courses ... and apparently our "virtual teacher" got on and helped us to know where to begin. This made our daily planning list look a bit mumbled and disconfigured ... but we figured it out!

Therefore, the kids actually have a full schedule of courses for the day ... so this should be interesting to see how it goes. Yesterday, our oldest stated that it wasn't "as bad as she thought" ... we'll see if she feels the same way after today! We have to "tackle" a routine and find what type of schedule is going to work best ... especially once we start our co-op again next Friday! That means more work for our 7th grader ... and since we won't be home on Fridays ... the kids are going to have to "fit in" the required 6 hours of class time somehow!

Also, I need to desperately tackle my desk! They were overwhelmed by the amount of books they received? I have twice as many simply because I have to have one book for each class, just like them, only times two, one for each child! Thus, I have a huge stack of books sitting on the corner of my desk just waiting for a home! Maybe next Tuesday I can post the "before and after" photos of my desk?!If I ever get around to tackling it, that is!! : )

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
- Proverbs 23:12