Homeschoolers: What method do you use?

I just buy workbooks and go through them. At least that's what I did for kindergarten. I bought Abeka. For first grade I'm doing mostly Abeka again, the curriculum guide annoys me but the phonics program is really working for my son, I just have to ignore 90% of what the guide tells me to do. I'm going to try math mammoth for math. I guess it's more of a school at home method. It's what I grew up with, it's all I've ever seen. I hear about other styles and I just don't get it, I think I would have to observe it before I could possibly even try something different.