First of all, let me first say it's the most neglected room in our house, but it's also one of the most frequented. Don't let the bottle of Pledge fool you.
Before I go on, can I have the conch to gripe for a minute? When I quit my teaching job to become a SAHM I had to figure out what to do with 8 years of teaching high school English (ie enough books for my own library, if I lived in a small town). I got rid of most of it, but I brought home a few of my favorite things (ie my pile of leftover favorites still equals more books than I'm convinced the average adult owns). Where to keep them? Good question. I also thought I'd work more steadily on my dissertation (ha). Oh, and now that I've discovered Pinterest I've now amassed enough craft stuff for my own crafting room. And with my curious toddler pawing at everything, where is my designated space to keep ALL things books, doctorate, and craft-mom? See exhibit "B", above. Yep, that 30" x 30" space is the only spot I've found in the house that does not get bothered.
Yep, it's booby trapped. But can you believe my dear husband still complains about my "clutter"? I hate it, to be clear, but the rest of the entire office? ALL JEFF'S. And I should point out that he already has one of those office things, like, at work.
This afternoon Santa delivered a beautiful new [fast] computer to our house, via his elves in a FedEx truck. We are so excited. (In fact, Jeff called me 2 minutes after the delivery truck left, saying he had received the email notification, and that I was not to open it. Grr. Oh well.) Our current Dell desktop was to be our "we'll make this work for 2 years until we're ready to make a real decision" computer. That was seven years ago.
And the timing is perfect. Luke got a beautiful new desk (exhibit "A," above) from his Mimi and Papa for his birthday last month, and he's ready, I believe, for his own computer. So when Jeff strips down all the software boggling up the current desktop, it will be perfect for Luke. And we have reason to believe Santa will bring Luke a toddler keyboard and mouse for Christmas ;). Everyone wins.
Except for one thing. Luke's new desk comes out about 12 inches too far. It's making me nervous just looking at it, because I see my toddler encroaching a little bit more into my space. Yikes. The bonus here is there's about 12 inches of space you don't see on the ride side of the big desk, and I'm stealing myself as we speak to try and convince Jeff he should move the big desk. He's absolutely not going to like it, and he's going to throw a fit. A big fit. Poor Jeff.
So there's our office space. BTW, if you see Santa, please tell him Mommy would love for Santa to bring her a room of her own. ;)
Happy Holidays, everyone!
