10/22/2009

Homework station

我が家のダイニングルーム。まだ一度もここでごはんを食べたことがない(普段はとなりの家族用テーブルで済ますので)。フロアには白い絨毯が敷いてあるので、いっそうここで食べるのが避けたくなる(しょうゆとかたらしたりしたら...)。ということで、ここはホームワーク・ステーションに様変わり。毎日、学校から帰ってきてスナックを食べると、ここで宿題がはじまるのです。

This is our dining room. We have never dined here since we moved in. We usually have all the meals in the breakfast area right next to it. This dining area has a off-white carpet on the floor, and that is sort-of a turn off to have any food here with kids. It has now been reborn as a homework station. After a little snack time every day after school, they start working on homework right here.


真剣にやっているときは、こんなかんじ。真剣にやってないときは、ギャーギャーワーワー気が狂いそうなかんじ。

When they are really working on it, it looks like this. When they are not really working on it, I go crazy.