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Taking Back the Hutch

We are in the final few months of homeschooling. Soon my daughter will graduate and that will be that. It happens eventually.

Graduation happens. I just wanted to throw that in because homeschoolers who still have a few years to go are sometimes visibly relieved to hear that. I’ve been told that I am a survivor, that I lived. It’s true. I’m still alive and breathing and I’m not writing this from the funny farm.

I Ran Out of Bookshelf Space

I wanted to share pictures of my dining room from the latter years of homeschooling. Even though I am a survivor, I ran out of bookshelf space because I did not get rid of books as fast as they came in and high school materials are sometimes thick. My dining room hutch became a bookshelf. I think it is pretty common for homeschoolers to use what they have when they run out of bookshelf space.

Here we are in the year 2001. I had bought a new algebra curriculum that took one entire bookshelf space – around 2 feet, and so books had to be shifted somewhere.

Below is the 2001 picture. (That’s my cat)

The next photograph is from March 2005. My son is close to graduating in this picture and my daughter is in 9th. Another shelf is full of books, an old sewing table is stacked with books, and games are under the table on top of leg rungs.

Here it is March 3 years later, and I have finally managed to take back those shelves. I must admit that the books are in a box in another room. I’ve got some serious book thinning to do.

It’s a process!!

Here is the March 2008 photograph. The hutch is almost de-homeschooled. Holly is still using the skeleton for art so I left him on the hutch. Her other books are behind doors in a cabinet that is not pictured.

I really like the chicken lamp.

The kid’s grandmother bought the skeleton for them over a decade ago. We had a lot of fun with that skeleton. He came with organs, but once the organs were removed, they didn’t quite fit back in without falling out. We like him better without them. His name is Mr. Bones.

Happy Homeschooling,
Donna