We certainly are! Not so much because others are doing it, but because I need it! In summer we only take two to three weeks off, this is so we can take more time off throughout the year for family trips or just to stop burnout. I do find though that more than two weeks and we start to go stir crazy. For these two weeks, we'll be doing the holiday baking and making home made gifts for our church family. I'll be spending some much needed time straightening up school records and reevaluating things, seeing if we're up to our goals and what not. Not to mention taking a bit more time to relax and enjoy the little things in life.

We will be traveling out of town for a week, so will have time off then. We are pretty lax about school during December simply b/c we need the break - but more than a couple of days off wreaks havoc with our sense of organization, so we don't truly take a lot of time off unless we are traveling. We don't tend to schedule our breaks, although this year I did tell the kids that if they met certain goals before Thanksgiving they could then have that week off. It worked nicely to motivate them to finish sections with much less whining

Having said that, we tend to travel pretty often, and are already working on plans for a spring and a summer road trip!

Not quite two weeks, but we'll get a decent break. We take just 2 days for Thanksgiving, 10-12 days for Christmas, and spring break is whenever we get a week of beautiful weather. We'll grab a snow day when there is a really nice, snowy wintry day that the public schools do NOT get off (we work through their snow breaks) so that we can enjoy the sledding hill without 4000 other people on it - there are plenty of other home schoolers out there to play with, so we're not alone by any means - and then we take a good, long summer break. I school from right after Labor Day until right before Memorial Day. It gives me so much more flexibility this way.