Do you get to call in sick from homeschool?

I know stay at home parents don't have anyone to call in sick to, but had never really thought about it for homeschool and what happens when we're sick. Our first version of a sick day was this week, but it wasn't the teacher who was sick. The kids where sick and the teacher was tired!

The stomach flu invaded our house on Thursday night and only stayed for about 8 hours, but it was not a fun 8 hours at all. Friday rolls around as mom's day to do school after having two days off from being teacher but the kids are sick. One recovering from the stomach flu and the other with a pretty nasty cold (from teething, I really think).

So, what's the teacher to do? She has two sick kids on her hands and just a few hours of sleep. It's officially a school day but they don't go anywhere different for school, so can we just chuck it for the day? With all of those thoughts running through my head, and concerned that we still may have stomach flu waiting in the wings, we watched TV! We don't watch a lot of it, after not having any TV for months, we haven't been glued to the TV that much since we got cable. So Friday was a treat day to watch TV without stated limits. I didn't know what was on during the day for the kids, but PBS Kids has a pretty good lineup that they were happy with. John Lewis still doesn't understand live TV. He wants to watch what he wants to watch whenever he wants...the boys needs TEVO. We did find an episode of one show on the Internet since it wasn't on TV when he wanted. I skirted Cartoon Network for most of the day too!

Thank you also to www.learningpages.com for providing some winter worksheets for some non-tube activities. I snuck in some math and reading along the way (mostly for Andrew). We are currently reading Dr. Doolittle and they were happy to dig into a few chapters of that as well. So our day was pretty good - the boys really like some structure even on sick days.

I'm very thankful that the laundry is all done and that no one else has come down with the flu and that we have some very nice distractions at our disposal. I have come to realize that what each day ends up being is completely unpredictable, and that's just how life is...especially with homeschooling!