I tried to implement HOD last year combining my kids and it was kind of a flop and we stopped part way through. I ended up purchasing LHFHG, BLHFHG & BHFHG last year trying t make it work. So this year with the help of a few ladies on the board I decided to split them up into their own guides and it's going well. I am running LHTH, LHFHG & BHFHG.
Sooooo.....I have accumulated SO much curriculum over my 3 years of homeschooling--it was INSANE! I was driving myself crazy pulling this out, putting it back, pulling it off the shelf again and putting it back. Even while trying to get HOD to work I kept feeling the need to supplement here and there and it was just so overwhelming.
What I did yesterday and today was clean [everything] out of my closet besides my HOD books AND GOT RID OF THEM!!!!

. There I said it, I actually donated every single thing that I had. This was the only thing that I could do to help from driving myself crazy with supplementing and switching back and forth between curriculums. I was making myself sick with it all. Do I use Rod and Staff English, Learning Language Arts Through Literature, Primary Language Lessons, Queens Language Lessons, Easy Grammar, Simply Grammar and the list goes on. I think I had everything out there and tried everything out there.
With that said, I am so ashamed and disgusted with the amount of money that I have spent over the years and am SO happy that the Lord led me to HOD. I also wanted to mention that I did this even though we are so broke

I have so much confidence in HOD that I felt okay getting rid of everything else (no more temptations to try something else). Some may think that I could have just had a yard sale or something. I don't know how many times over the years that I have boxed things up and put them in the garage to have a sale only to have every single book come back in the house 2 to 3 at a time and end up back on the shelf. I felt so crazy and couldn't seem to get off the roller coaster. At times it made me just want to give up and put them back in school because I felt like I could not get it together no matter how much or how hard I tried.
Anyway, thanks for reading. I am praying that I will now be able to have more peaceful school days. I am so blessed to have found HOD. This feels really good!
