We took about five weeks off for our break, it was mostly for me to do planning. We officially started back to school on July 5th. From our previous experiences, I recommend not jumping in full-schedule at first! It is really hard to go from this:
to this:
It can be a bit of a drag, quite honestly.
You can read what we are doing to ease into the new school year by jumping over to Growing Your Homeschool.