But in the last 2 years, I keep coming back to HOD. I've bought some curriculum only to find out some is way off in the stated levels. So there it sits on the shelf. Then I feel guilty and try to use it. But I always come back. So as I'm perusing through Bigger today (I've already bought Preparing, did Beyond (okay, part because of me being a junkie)) I've realized just how much work Carrie has put into these programs like no other. Other curriculum can give you the book and the schedule, omit a few readings, or plan a good home craft, but none have done it all. HOD does it all. I realize not everything works for everyone and whether it works for you or not, Carrie did not cheap out on it, nor tire of the scheduling in the manual or just grab a book of crafts and say do this craft on a certain page. There's a curriclum out there that if you look in the last few weeks of it, the boxes are almost empty.
It's like they lost interest. They make you page back and forth. That was so blatantly lazy IMO. 
I could only wonder what else they got lazy on. There's another curriculum and while it's good as well, it's just a basic schedule for a huge quantity of money. It tells you to read a page and do the craft on the certain page. Anyone can get a book and do a craft in a book. Most of the time, not only do we not have those things book crafts require, but they're very odd and seriously time consuming; or they're too difficult for the age level. Carrie on the other hand has bypassed all this, creating the projects and filling every box EVEN TO THE END
so we don't have to flip back and forth. The projects are ones that we can do, because we have most of the supplies at home. The bible corresponds as opposed to throwing in a one-page, watered down bible verse and calling it a bible-based curriculum. HOD didn't cheap out or get lazy in any part of it's programs. So it's not that others are that bad, it's just so very clear all the time and effort that went into these HOD programs. Clearly these are well put together. It's obvious the thought and work it took to create this curriculum. I just want to thank you for all the work you've put into these programs.
looking at all the "best" homeschool stuff out there, but I keep coming back to HOD. Why? Simply because: 
) it is, I couldn't charge for private consulting!!! All I wanted to do was tell everyone to use HOD! LOL It really is just the best thing out there. I still look and research, but there's really nothing out there that pulls me in...and the few things that I want to "keep in mind for later", usually wind up in an HOD guide! 