School Happens: The Homeschool Room {or not}

29 Oct By

When school happens at home, there’s a certain kind of clutter that you’re forced to deal with begins to grow on you. You realize it’s an endless battle not worth fighting. The fact is, school is messy.

We don’t have a separate homeschool room, and this used to bug me. But, I’ve grown to love the chaos that is my life. When you don’t have a homeschool room, school just sort of happens, well..

everywhere.

It’s like homeschool projectile vomit, or something like that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many mornings begin here…

 

Our Dining Room/Office/School desk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you school at home, your paint brushes are clean and your dishes are dirty.

It’s all about priorities, right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your pretty picture frames and decor are removed to make way for the day’s creations to dry.

Our drying rack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your laundry room doubles as your supply closet.

Notice the fire hydrant.
You need one of those too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When school happens at home, your bookshelf used to hold nice stuff, but now it’s a catch all for the stuff you need to quickly get to during the day.

Notice my Swiffer.
I’m hoping to get to that, too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead of art or expensive wall decor, you have pocket charts.

Look out Better Homes and Gardens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You store a mini library in your hallway, because…well, you have nowhere else to put it.

See the one on the floor?
Somebody was reading…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When school happens at home, you keep a pencil sharpener by the bread basket.

It makes perfect sense to us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There’s always a load of laundry that you will never get to need to fold.

My husband’s going to fire me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But most of all, when you school at home, your kids learn in spite of the chaos of life, you let go of perfectionism, and you realize that you’re OK with a little mess.

 

 

 

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Adrienne

Somewhere along the way I picked up homeschooling two boys and blogging. When I'm not scrubbing toilets or answering endless questions, I'm usually here, over sharing it all! My writing is always honest, sometimes sarcastic, and never perfect. I hope to keep my kids from seeking adult therapy. I know. Pipe dreams...You can find me as @TheMommyMess on Twitter and on Facebook.

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  1. ilene
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    October 29, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    I am beginning to realize that a good life is a messy one. Case in point by your homeschooling story!
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    • Adrienne
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      October 31, 2012 at 1:31 am

      I’m learning it too. Sometimes my annoying side comes out and I try to reach perfection, but I’m always sadly disappointed. I’m shooting for mediocre when it comes to housekeeping. It’s was easier.

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  2. Tracie
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    October 29, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    We have a lot of chaos.

    But the learning happens.

    That is what counts.
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  3. Katy @ Experienced Bad Mom
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    October 29, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    Eloquently told with pictures! Love the pencil sharpener by the bread. I don’t homeschool and that still makes sense to me.
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  4. Alison
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    October 29, 2012 at 2:28 pm

    It’s actually not messy – just very multi-functional :)
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  5. Erin says:
    October 30, 2012 at 1:23 am

    I love the creative storage/solutions that you have found! Way to make do with what you have :)
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  6. Chris Carter
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    October 30, 2012 at 2:29 am

    Such a cute post!!! I love ‘looking around your place’ and seeing how fun it is! My favorite parts? The swiffer and the fire hydrant! L. O. L. :)
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  7. Patricia P says:
    October 30, 2012 at 11:38 am

    We used our dining room as our homeschool room at our old house, but now we do have a separate schoolroom, which is wonderful. Somehow though the clutter still travels throughout the house. I look at it as evidence that we are indeed working and learning.
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  8. Jessy at Our Side of the Mountain says:
    October 30, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    I had to LOL because it all looks so familiar of course! LOL We don’t have a school room either; our school room is in the diningroom. We don’t have your typical diningroom! My “china hutch” is filled with current books and supplies…my “buffet” is 1/2 filled with extra dishes and 1/2 filled with office supplies including paper, notebooks, and a pile of finished workbook pages. It works for us though! LOL
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  9. Carrie says:
    October 31, 2012 at 8:26 am

    I have also added you to my reader :) . This post about your wreck called home made me want to visit this space often. I was just laughing the other day because several of my cabinets in my kitchen have homeschool books stored in them and our bed is held up by 9 trunks filled with clothes, supplies, and the random homeschool stuff you don’t have a place for, but just can’t get rid of it.

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  10. Valerie @ Momma in Progress says:
    October 31, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    Yes, this pretty much sounds like our house. And the thing is, we totally have the space to be more organized, we’re just . . . not. Although things to tend to congregate on the kitchen counter. Apparently that’s where all the cool school supplies like to meet up. I actually love the laundry room cabinets as homeschooling storage. We have the same ones at our house but ours are filled with other stuff already.
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    • Adrienne
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      October 31, 2012 at 8:34 pm

      Oh, the kitchen counter. I have a love/hate with that darn thing! When we moved to this new hose a couple of years ago, I was thrilled to have more counter space. But, it seems it’s just more space to collect crap. I wonder if that’s what would happen to a separate school room?

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  11. Eileen says:
    November 12, 2012 at 1:27 am

    I just wanted to say… THANK YOU… Thank you thank you thank you!!!!! Your blog post has made me feel peaceful, accomplished, and RELIEVED! I just feel like you literally just looked at me with a hand on my shoulder and said, “Eileen…. It’s okay!!!” ;)
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