I'm going to do the unthinkable.  We'll be a family that writes it's own curriculum.  I'm so tired of buying other people's ideas to use while we learn.  I usually tend toward incomplete programs....the work's in progress of the homeschooling community.  I guess I just want to help.  That ends up meaning roadblocks, deadends, or cul-de-sacs.

Because we've been dragging out the HOW studies, I'm certain it will take just as long or longer to do it ourselves.  But, at least we'll keep moving.  I've noticed that when we use something that someone else has designed, I tend to get bogged down in the "legality" of it all.  I can't go to the next page until this one is finished or jump ahead or start a later unit or....

With all the pre-publication purchase offers in this land of learners, I figure we might as well work on one we can sell, too.    I like the plan in the HOWTA book and enjoy many of the principle approach suggestions (especially word studies).  So, we'll get going on whatever the consensus tends to be at the end of the week.