My new office!

I am so excited. Nearly 3 years ago my laptop died right in the middle of the school year. You know how difficult this can be when you actually have much of your work on the computer. My husband was able to recover it...thankfully. Brittany had a lap top that we proudly nick-named TANK...well, it was named tank for the fact that the hinges broke on the laptop so my husband had to put supports to hold the lid open. The laptop worked great until...the cord prongs of the cord broke off in the laptop...this happened, around the same time period. Talk about putting a family in panic, we do depend on our computers. We found that with my laptop that HP would fix it...so we sent it in for repair...and bought me a desk top...when my laptop came back we gave it to Brittany. It lasted for quite a while and then last spring...it had the very same symptoms and HP no longer will fix it...again, my husband was able to get our work off of it. Praise the Lord! You think we would learn...so it has been at least two years that I have had this desk top and no desk. We took an old television Armoir and this is what I used for my desk. The nice thing is...when we had company, I could close the doors and no one could see my messy desk. It drove everyone in the house crazy because using a dining room chair you had to reach up to type and you could never place your fingers correctly on the keys...it was a pain but hey...I hated to spend anymore money. Soooo...this past Saturday, after Brittany taught her two dance classes we readied ourselves for a little road trip to Pittsburgh (two hours from our home) to the closest IKEA store. I love IKEA...it is fun to just walk around but even funner when you want to buy something. So we bought a new office for me which is now in an empty corner of our living room. It looks so nice and is going to be so organized and I am so incredibly happy I can hardly wait to sit at my desk every morning. Thought I'd post a picture of it here and I have promised myself that it will stay just they way it looks...nice and tidy.

Doesn't it look so inviting with my steaming cup of coffee there on a placemat? I think so. And this is my freshly painted living room as well. Just beyond the windows is my birdfeeder and the park that butts up against our property.


Blessings!