I am preschool homeschooling my 4 1/2 year old son this year. We got a bit off track around Thanksgiving and I think part of the reason was that we didn't really have a designated place to do and keep homeschooling stuff. I had to search for his curriculum books and supplies every day and it was getting exhausting (before we even started trying to learn while his little brother pushed everything off the table). So I decided to start moving everything homeschool related to one corner of the living room. This is a work in progress because I have yet to move the books and stationary supplies around, but I wanted to show off the desk I built for it and the Ikea wire I hung up for the posters. We had some untreated douglas fir wood scraps left over from the bed frames my husband put together during Christmas time. I really didn't want to bother him to cut the wood because he is pretty busy teaching. I wanted a desk for Cal that fit the Ikea chairs under it, allow Legos to be swept into a lower bin when playing was done, hold cups for pencils and such, store tubs on the side, and have a tabletop the same size as the plexiglass I had already had so that he can write and paint on a smooth non-markable surface. I pieced together the scraps very carefully to make the desk and I only had to cut two pieces with a hand saw. Unfortunately, halfway through the project I screwed myself...in the thumb...at the base of my thumbnail...there is a new hole that was bleeding and making me want to pass out. I had to call up my friend and ask her to distract me so that I didn't. It gives me the heebee-jeebees just thinking about it. I am proud to say that after staring at the half-done desk for an hour, I got back on the horse, "cowboyed up" as they say in Red Bluff, and finished the desk and hung the wire with the very same "safe" power drill that scarred me for life earlier. Yay me! The post would not be complete without photos of the excitement, so here they are!
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| There's the lego tub. |
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| Does it look like a preschool instead of a living room yet? |
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| The desk |
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| And that's how I screwed myself. |
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