Classroom Gutted and Cleaned!

After many days of gutting out the room and sorting through stuff I have a blank slate to start with!


My first desk!











That chair by the bright blue paper was my Grandma Canino's chair that will be used as a "reading chair"


More pictures to come as I start to decorate the room and get ready for the kids! I am having a rug ordered for our meeting/reading area and still need 6 more desks. I have 24 students which is average but we will need the space!

My Classroom Before Pictures!

These are all the "before" pics. Great size room with 4 huge windows. There are all ready a plethora of books for me to use that I don't have to go out and buy!




They refinished the floors so that is why everything is piled up





A whole lot of old curriculum and junk that I sorted through and reorganized

The Garden

These are our tomato beds with Basil around the perimeter. The tomatoes are doing fairly well and I am so excited to make sauce when they are ripe. However, we have this little furry friend we like to call Peter Rabbit who is munching away at the Basil.






Yummy lettuce from our garden.











Nursey bed for all the plants we transplanted from the old gardens we cleaned up.




Our amazing backyard with a hammock that I try and spend any moment I can on. Oh and we just added a Badminton net. So fun.

Marley & the Electric Toothbrush!

Need we say more!

Tracy and Charlotte spent the day with me battling vines!

There are a lot of vines! But thanks to Charlotte's muscles they will be defeated!

First flowers of the season!

Bye, Bye ugly fence!

Marley's first ride on the hammock!

I was sitting out on our hammock this afternoon after mowing the lawn with our electric lawnmower (highly recommend-low noise level, no fumes, and just a turn of a key it starts) realizing how our house now feels like home. It no longer feels like we are visiting. Although the kitchen is messy, we need a mirror for the bathroom and there is a lot of primer on the walls it has become our little plot of land; our footprint on this earth. These are some pictures taken in the last few days.

Marley in the Backyard

We put up a runner for Marley so she can hang outside! Here is a clip of her after a long day in the sun- prior to this film we walked about 3 miles so sorry she is kinda sluggish!

Finished but Messy!

Here is a short clip of the kitchen. Excuse the mess our cleaning lady has disappeared!