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It's an okay article. I'm a disappointed in a couple of the points they made
but overall it's positive.

I was kind of afraid they would skunk me, as I was totally insistent that the
third week in May was NOT a good time for our family to have two extensive
visits from a photographer. "You won't even know she's there," the editor told
me. And when I said "There's nothing to photograph that won't look like them
just living everyday lives," she assured me the photographer was a
professional.

Huh. "Professional" enough to make the week of preparations before an SCA
event, while we're hauling out of our house enough wooden benches, tables, boxes
and chests full of medievalish dishes, clothes and camping equipment to set
up five days of food and camp for a dozen and some people? That does NOT make
my house look photogenic at all. And I was making bread, in already-hot New
Mexico, and didn't need to be further interviewed by a photographer.

I offered REALLY good photo-ops where there would be more homeschoolers than
just my kids. I gave specific times and places, none more than a mile from my
home, six different activities guaranteed to look cool in the paper, but they
wanted pictures of me homeschooling my kids. I said that would look my me
driving them around or me watching a movie with them or them telling me a story.
She was getting really frustrated, but not as frustrated as I was getting.

So there are no photos of me or the kids, which is fine. They got plenty of
schooly-looking stuff to publish from other families.

I think it will be online for a week or so, and then will be available only
to subscribers to the Journal site.

Sandra