I know that you decided on what you would do but I wanted to add my two cents just in case someone else came across this thread and was wondering.
I tried MFW for my dd when we first started schooling. It is a nice curriculum but I found like someone else said that there was a lot of leg work. The lay out was not as simple as HOD. Many of the books that were suggested in MFW were out of print and not available at the library. Many of those books would have been pretty costly to buy and printing them from public domain would cost a lot too.
The other drawback was that my daughter often got confused by the way they taught reading. I ended up putting it aside and unschooling for a couple years. We used part of Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons to get her reading.
Last year I got HOD for all my kids. The lay out is soooooooooooooooo much easier. I love that the lessons are all on one page, there is no flipping to find instructions for something. The books are mostly still in print and you can order them from HOD and I have had good luck getting them at the library. I also had the option to choose the math and reading program that worked best for us. For my son who is learning to read we are using a combo of teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons and another "lighter" book I got from HOD.
So those are my experiences with the two. You can see I am more of a fan of HOD. I am sure some people will enjoy MFW, it is not a bad curriculum by any means it just did not work for our family. I still have a lot of the worksheets from it and we use them as supplements and I was using them with a daycare child I had.