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I have never been so torn and unsure about curriculum choices before. I suspect that I feel this way due to all the other major changes and upheavals occurring at this time (moving, leaving all my friends/family/social network, dealing with all new things, daughter going to college, my anxiety disorder is out-of-control right now, etc....) I feel like if I could just decided on a curriculum, at least that would be taken care of, one concrete thing.
We have been very unschool-y up until now, really. We need more structure at this time, for various reasons.
I was going to go with SL - always a T&T resource for me, even when used loosely, but I am just having the worst time trying to figure out how to make that work. Same with WP. Then someone mentioned Moving Beyond the Page, and it looks VERY intriguing...but I just don't know. I don't even know what I am asking for help with exactly.  I just am not dealing well with all that is going on...
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My advice would be to wait.
Step back from the catalogs and websites for a good long while and focus on your other more pressing needs. Let time sort out what it can, and in a few weeks look at it again with fresh eyes.
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cactus mouse wrote:
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I don't know if this helps any, but I'm finding because I have similar issues and am often feeling  , that I just need to pick the curriculum that is *good enough* (for us, it would be SL - we've used it in the past and know it is a quality curriculum for us) and then just DO IT. No matter what. My anxiety always has me searching for perfect, but there is no perfect. I had a huge sense of peace while looking at a SL catalog in church while waiting for my dd at a meeting - that "soul lifting" kind of peace, and so that is what we are doing this year.
Yes, when we are actually trying to make it work it is HARD and my anxiety has me searching for something better. I need to tell it to SHUT UP. 
So my advice is just pick one - pray first and ask dh for advice(bring it to adoration if you are so inclined.) They are all *good enough* curriculums.
Hope I'm not ounding harsh! It's just that I've BTDT (and am still doing that! LOL)
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Coming back to ask what a "T and T" resource is.  That may change my answer.
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tried & true 
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Sorry, but what's SL and what's MBTP and WP? TIA! 
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Sorry
SL = Sonlight
WP = WinterPromise
MBTP = Moving Beyond the Page
Edited to add links
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Ahhh! Thanks.
Cornomama4, SL isSonlight, WP is Winter Promise and MBTP is Moving Beyond the Page.
Laura, especially if this is only for your younger two, I would go with something tried and true - unless of course after prayer and talking to dh you all (you, dh, God, LOL) agree that something else is what you should do.
I can't tell you how comforting it is to "know what I'm doing" right now in terms of using SL again. We are starting a summer term with Prairie Primer and boy it is so DIFFERENT - everything I would want (hands on stuff, books the kids like, unit study) but I am a mess every day because it's not that familiar tried and true resource I know.
Anyway, enough rambling from me. <---that's my mouth flapping too much.
ETA: LOL, I flapped my gums so much Laura beat me to the links.
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Thanks, you guys. Thanks for listening, for always being here, just for everything.
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{{Laura}}
I get particularly anxiety driven when I am pregnant, and I know what its like to move.
Fwiw, I would stay with what is T and T, for sure. New curriculum often looks great online when we feel like we want a change, but then is really difficult to use when it comes down to it because we just aren't familiar with it. If you are looking at an SL level that is new for you and want to chat on butchering it to make it doable  , feel free to pm me!
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