First, the 89th Carnival of Homeschooling, Soccer Edition is up and running at Why Homeschool? There is a TON of information there, so join me in dribbling down the midway!

Second, we’re moving! That’s right, Guilt-Free Homeschooling will soon be occupying its very own domain in the blogosphere. What does that mean to you? An easier to remember URL, for one thing, and a chance to talk to all of your friends about GFHS by reminding them to update their bookmarks. The length of time it will take to move everything is still uncertain at this time, but you can avoid any problems by changing your bookmarks now to guiltfreehomeschooling.org.

UPDATE: Moving has begun! If your favorite links here are temporarily out of service, it’s only because we’re still working on it all. Many thanks to Andrea of atypicalife.com for her assistance (Who am I kidding? She’s doing 99.2% of it!). Now, where did I put that box marked Blogging Stuff and Purple Things???

The latest Carnival of Homeschooling is up and running at Homeschool Hacks. This week’s theme is “The Surgery Edition,” but don’t worry — there’s no blood. Thanks to Shannon for her hard work!

BLESSINGS to the reader(s) who nominated Guilt-Free Homeschooling for The Homeschool Blog Awards for Best Nitty-Gritty Homeschool Blog. This classification is for the opposite of the Super-Homeschooler, for someone who is “brutally honest and open about her mistakes and failures.” That has definitely been my mission in this blog: sharing my mistakes and failures in the hope that doing so will help you avoid those same pitfalls. MORE BLESSINGS to any readers who click the link above and vote for GFHS!

P.S.
The invitations for Wedding #1 are almost ready to go!

Yes, I am still alive. No, I have not been hospitalized, out of the country, or hopelessly lost in a major shopping mall parking lot. However, I have found myself in the midst of Wedding Season.

For those of you who may be new readers of Guilt-Free Homeschooling, you may not realize from the stories I share that the Guilt-Free children are actually now twenty-somethings who have both (BOTH) decided to get married. This summer. Hence my infrequent presence of late here in Blog World. I have often been swept away from the blissful solitude of my computer to assist with the myriad details that constitute wedding plans. And we are no where near finished yet. The first wedding is less than two months away, with the second to follow in mid-summer.

While I am working on fresh articles whenever I get a day here at home, please use my intermittent attendance to refresh yourselves with a trip through the archives. Re-read your favorites and look for titles you may not be familiar with. A topic that was previously of no interest to you may now fit right in with how your family has grown and changed. I still have piles of material here waiting to be blogged, so do not assume that I could walk away from this endeavor. But if I get overcome in all the confusion and start throwing rice in the wrong direction, duck.

My previous subscription service had proved itself to be unreliable, so I have switched to using FeedBlitz for sending email updates to readers. If you have received notification from FeedBlitz recently, then your subscription is intact. Some readers’ email information was inaccurate or lost entirely, so if you thought you had subscribed before and have not received notification within the past week, you should subscribe again, using the new box in the left sidebar. If you have never subscribed before, but think getting email notice of Guilt-Free Homeschooling’s updates sounds like a good idea, you can also sign up in the box at the left. Thank you all for your patience during this transition!

By the way, kudos to Dana of Principled Discovery for her recent article on homeschool graduates. If you can snag the Sept/Oct ’06 issue of Home School Enrichment magazine, the article begins on page 62 and quotes both myself and my daughter, Jennifer, plus several other notable homeschoolers. Take note, beginning homeschoolers, you can see this journey through to its logical completion!

It’s Carolyn’s birthday today, so I have hijacked her own website in order to host a birthday party. I’m pretty sure she’s off celebrating the day with my dad, so if everyone could post a happy birthday message here for her that would be great! Let’s make this birthday a really happy one!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!!!