EASTER (not spring) BREAK this week

All of our schools had their spring break a couple of weeks ago, while we did school.  The kids weren't too happy that I made them do school then, knowing "everyone" else was off.  I explained that back in the day, schools had an EASTER break every year, and somewhere along the way in our postmodern society, schools decided that "spring" sounded more politically correct, I guess.  Well, no matter what the latest trends are in school, I informed my children that our break will occur during Easter time.  So, we are off this week...sort of.  We have some loose ends to tie up with an IEW writing assignment for tomorrow along with our usual music activities, but mostly we're going to spend a good portion of the next few days watching Matthew, the whole book on video, word for word (NIV), acted out by one of the first professing Christians to ever portray Jesus on video. (We have the older VHS version).  My older two have seen this before, but this will be the first time that my 10 and 6 year olds will join us.  On Friday, we plan to go to our church's Good Friday service.  I also am going to attempt to do my first lap book with the kids, while we continue to study through the New Testament together, using this.  We're going to start with the Last Supper, Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.  We just got done reading through the Book of John last week.  Now they'll get the Book of Matthew's perspective on the life of Christ.  I'm looking forward to a great week and  little bit of a break from our normal routine.  Sometimes a good "break" entails much more than the beach, although, that sounds pretty good too, considering that our northern weather is very confused right now, as my six year old keeps putting on shorts each morning due to the warm Sunday we had last weekend, which creates an issue considering that we had snow flurries today.  :-/  He just doesn't understand our MI weather yet.  He feels that the weather should be cooperating with the calendar.