Just as you have a favorite style of car, you have your own way of homeschooling.
Potholes are the pits.
It's that way in homeschooling, too. Please feel free to keep the Pit List handy as you plan your homeschool year or take it along to homeschool conventions. You might consider preparing a list of specifically Catholic materials upon which you will build the foundation of your Catholic homeschool. You can always pick up math manipulative and such things later, sometimes at a better price. The good Catholic educational materials may not be at your local bookstore, so it might be best to pick them up when you can.