Our house is an ongoing project of shuffling stuff. We switch rooms often, and try to find a way to make the space that we have work for us. We could still use a few more rooms though…

Last weekend we decided to move the office out of the foyer, and to move the boys art desk that was in the dining room in to the foyer. It was a good afternoon project, and so far we are really happy with the results. Now though we want to repaint the dining room, but that is a whole other project.

Here’s what got switched around this time.

My desk used to be under the stairway.

Now it is back in the dining room. I like it in the dining room, the room is big and airy.

The dining room was looking a little cluttered with the addition of two desks and a big table, so we moved the buffet out of the room. It’s now where my desk was, under the stairs.

James used to have a large table as his desk in the foyer, he switched it for the smaller mission style desk that the boys were using as an art desk.

The large table stayed in the foyer, and the boys were really happy to get it. The love their new art desk.

Well this week is the week where the Summer ends and the back to school routine begins. How I enjoyed our slacker Summer, and I’m bummed to report that we already have something on the calendar for every single day this week…

I’ve started waking up earlier, and waking up the kids up earlier too. Today we had a mock school morning, and we were all up, dressed, and ready go get out of the house by 7:30 a.m. We loaded up in the van and timed our school routes, we then hit up the grocery store to get it out of the way early.

The store was pretty vacant at 7:30 a.m., and we got the shopping done super fast.

Thade wanted to go to the library to get a few more books, and Dylan and Agnes were exhausted by 9:30 a.m. Even though there are only two days of school this week, I think it is going to be a tough week on the kiddos. I’m already missing those mornings where I got to sleep in till 7:00 a.m.

I hope the kiddos crash out early tonight, I’m tired already.

We’ll be up early again tomorrow to practice for one more school day. Maybe tomorrow will go a bit smoother, and just maybe the kiddos won’t be as grumpy.

So do you have any tips to share that help your kiddos get back into the school routine?