Hello everybody! I've been lurking for a few weeks and now that I'm officially going to part of the HOD family I figured I should post something. I'm a SAHM to one child and knew I wanted to homeschool because PS out here in CA are not on my list of favorite things, and private schools are, for my personal situation, not worth the expense. I'd been researching curriculum options like mad since mid-November of last year and finally settled on an all BJU textbook plan. I think that would have been great in many ways, but something inside (God, perhaps?) kept niggling me to keep looking, that I hadn't found the right one yet. Near the end of December I read an old thread on another hsing board, in which a mom stated that when she had been curriculum shopping she hadn't been able to really grasp how great HOD was until she ordered the catalog. That little something inside niggled me again and said, "Just order the catalog, what can it hurt? Sure, you've already decided on BJU, but you never know..." And I'll tell you what, the day my HOD catalog arrived I took one look at the cover, and without even opening it, I knew this is what we were going to do. I felt such peace inside when looking through the beatiful catalog pages. After weeks of research and hemming and hawing, of picking other possible curriculums to pieces, I knew HOD was meant for us, that I could stop looking, and that I'd never feel the need to nitpick, question, tweak or supplement again. I'm so very, very excited to start this journey with my son, and I think Carrie and everyone else involved in creating this wonderful program should feel so proud of what they've given to the rest of us with all their years of hard work. So this is my first thanks to all of you (of many, no doubt!).
Oh, so yeah, I was going to wait and order LHTH toward the end of this year because we have enough preschool-like stuff at home to tide us over until then. But I never was any good at waiting.
I plan on doing it half speed for the first 15 weeks or so, going full speed until we're finished at the end of the year, and then doing it again full speed until mid August, when we'll start LHFHG. Yay!
. I totally believe it was meant to be that I found HOD and Im so glad I did. Best wishes on your new adventure.