Our school district did away with half days (for the most part) this year, which I think is great. However, this has caused some confusion with the calendar. Most of the schools decided to make this Thursday a teacher in-service day (it was a half-day in the past years’ calendars) which means my kids now have 3 days off school, and a 5-day weekend.

Part of me feels like we should have tried to travel somewhere, as 5-day weekends during the school year are rare, but we just got back from the epic...