Another holiday birthday!

The new issue came home from the printers just in time for Thanksgiving!

Sorry, let me rephrase that:

I cleaned our entire apartment (okay, my bedroom's still a mess, but the rest of it is SHINY), prepared a Thanksgiving dinner that didn't offend any vegetarian sensibilities or kill any food-allergy-carrying family members (the Bitter Homeschooler will have more to say on that one on her blog, including a not-so-bitter VEGAN recipe for yams topped with marshmallows), and got the new issue of the magazine edited, proofread, sent to the printer, and back from the printer so quickly that I didn't even have time to whine about it here — all in one week.

The new issue is still getting out to readers later than I would have liked, but I'm getting into the groove of a bimonthly publication. This issue came home less than two months after the previous one did. I've still got to keep pushing on it to get mailing dates to line up better with the date on the cover; but it's getting out every other month, and that's a good start.

Issue #9 includes:

Some tips from yours truly on not being driven completely insane at holiday gatherings by relatives who just don't get this whole homeschooling thing;

An article so good that I wish like heck I were a good enough writer to have written it myself — but I’m just so glad that somebody put together these 25 jewels of advice for homeschoolers of all ages and philosophies;

The latest legal nastiness being inflicted on our home educating neighbors in England;

A spotlight on home edding in Scotland (and why some of our English friends may be moving there);

Articles on teaching math, language arts, and personal finances;

A humor piece by the always-wonderful Sue Landsman;

And more and more, including product reviews, book reviews, Hot Chocolate and Here We Go Again...

...which I would love to tell you more about, but I have to go and start sticking labels and stamps on envelopes.