A place for everything. Including homework.

I started a resolution in 2010 to simplify our daily life.  When outlining a plan to meet this resolution, I decided that the first step was to make a place for everything and to keep everything in it's place.  Over 18 months later, we are still in the process of simplifying our daily tasks.  It has taken longer than I expected, but the changes have now become habit.

September 2011 started both the 19th month since my resolution and the 2011-2012 school year.  Our oldest, Stacy, is in middle school and in all Pre-AP classes.  As a result, we...er, um, I mean she, has quite a bit of homework.  Since our goal is to have a place of everything and keep everything in its place, we created a homework center.

In order to simplify (there's that word again) things, we used a bookshelf that we already had.  This really made things easy, because it was already painted black.  ONE LESS STEP!

 We used scrap wood from the garage (yes, I have a never ending supply of "junk" in my garage) to make a desktop.  Screwed it in place and Voila!  A place for homework and homework in it's place.

Stacy LOVES it and so do we!