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HI ladies, I know I am super new here, but am requesting a huge prayer(or a million!). We received n ews yesterday that we are 90 days late in our mortgage. I won't give details, just know that I have extensive chronic health issues that led to medical debt, that led to our current situation. In Feb...

Thanks so much, ladies. I am at peace with switching to HOD. I am still planning on reading the next volume of FIAR-and will always keep their philosophy in my heart-but it is time for us to move on. Thank God for husbands-mine is able to point out the obvious and yet make me feel okay with what I f...

Thanks, Ladies!

:D My dh and I had a LONG and productive discussion about the direction of ds's education. He listened to me explain why I am doubtful about our current curriculum being a good fit for ds and myself. He listened to me pour my heart out about why I wanted a Christ-centered curriculum. This led to a d...

I am currently using a literature based, laid back Unit Study curriculum (FIAR). When I pulled ds(8) back out of school, this was what I was familiar with, and it was inexpensive-so I quickly jumped into it. I think it is a wonderful program, I really do. We are a small family, and the runs to the l...

I wanted to pop in here to say thank you for all of your replies. I am fighting an unwelcome tummy bug at the moment and will post back when I can think straight.

Hi again! Okay-another question. :) We are new to being protestant Christians-but my dh is agnostic. He allows me to take our dc to church, but praying is only at meal times with him. I recently bought both our dc a new Bible-NIV. One for my newly 13yo dd that is specifically for teen girls. The Adv...

Another newbie question.... Okay. After reading further through the catalog today, I am now concerned that this curriculum is one that is best used if started in Kinder. Am I wrong? My son is 8 and in the 2nd grade, but we are both new Christians and he is all over the place in his subjects. Has any...

Thanks for sharing Candice and Dawn!

This sounds fun, and what I am really craving right now is one subject flowing (in a natural way) into the next subject. I really want as many subjects tied together, in a non-forced way. (LOL. Does that make sense?)

Christine

Hello.
I received my catalog today! Yay!
Question for ya'll....I must have missed this in quickly reading the catalog-how/when is geography introduced? I am looking at Bigger or the one after that.
Thank you so much!
Christine

Thanks, Nancy! This is even more encouraging! I should finish up our current curriculum by the end of January (we are Christmas schooling right now), so hopefully I will have time to devour the catalog, talk with my hubby and make some decisions! I'll direct further questions in another thread. :) C...

Thanks, Ladies! That answers my first questions! Thanks for the links, too. I first read them when I found the website, but didn't see a whole week-just a day-so the peak at a week helped. Next question-how hard would it be to start this mid-year. Say, after the holidays? :lol: Would it be possible ...

Hi Ladies, I am waiting for my HOD catalog-just ordered it yesterday-and am guessing I will better understand how HOD works after I peruse it. Until then, a question(or two!).... Is HOD considered a literature-based curriculum? How flexible are the lesson plans? I haven't had a whole lot of success ...