From the learning rooms... I decided to take all of this week off (except for reading with Izzy and Rosie) and then Easter Monday.  I just need the break. And while my kids are telling me that the regular school teachers are tougher because  they are all holding out until Friday for break to start, I realize they have no idea what it's like in regular school just before spring break. So I have no guilt, none, for taking this week and part of next week off. That said, Gabe and Noah did finish Moby Dick last week and we even watched the movie to celebrate.  We now start on the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. I did take a lot of time over the weekend to get my transcripts done for Sam, start transcripts for Gabe and even Noah  and it feels very good to have that all done.  After listening to Lee Binz's free webinar over the weekend, I just decided it was time to pull all of those loose ends together. I had purchased her Total Transcript Solution a while back, read all of the literature and listened to her MP3 downloads as well as doing a lot of my own research,  so I felt confident that these transcripts are of good quality, fair and accurate.