I was recently asked "I found your blog because I was looking for reviews on "My Father's World" curriculum. It brought me to your post on why you love it.  I see you switched to Tapestry of Grace. Was there something about MFW that you no longer liked?"

Well here is the short answer... I still think that MFW is a wonderful curriculum and I still stand by everything I wrote about it. What changed were my goals for my girls. I just wanted something that I could plan a little more. TOG give me the option to do that each week, while MFW was pre-planned for the whole year. I also grew tired of My Father's World because...
 

-I didn't like using the same book for weeks on end. I personally need more variety. MFW bookbasket just didn't cut it here.

-The activities were ok, but I wanted to choose my own that actually will build real skills. I don't want to make a copy of a book and have the girls staple it together. I want teach them to make a real braided rug or sew a real mini quilt or make a real punched tin candle holder. MFW activities were overly simplified for me.

-I wanted to have more writing activities. MFW is weak in this unless you count the endless narration pages my girls wrote. Now we make display boards and more. We also will be picking up the writing aids CD from TOG next year. This has all sorts of writing (creative, book reports, essays, plays etc...)

-The American History year I was using this year was really weak for my youngest daughter. Some weeks she didn't have anything on the schedule at all. TOG is wonderful and full for all ages. 

Since I am still new to TOG I may develop more thoughts, but for now these are the main reasons. We are even more Charlotte Mason minded than previous years and I love how I can bring in that philosophy so easily with TOG. I didn't really think the books in MFW were living enough. They use textbooks quite a bit and I wanted mostly living books.

Michelle