A Homeschooling Plus

Emily is in the hospital right now for a ruptured appendix. It stinks! She has been here for 6 days now and still going. We are looking at 2 weeks at the least. The plus side here is that she isn't missing school. Still she is too sick to do her lessons and is vomiting a lot, but she is not behind. She is ahead by a couple grades on some things so I don't have to worry right now that she is falling behind. The hardest thing for her is that she is missing dance class. We have been reading stories- a great Madeline story about getting her appendix out- and we are watching non-educational videos. But she is learning a lot about other kids who stay here for months at a time. Kids with cancer down the way and she is learning life lessons that aren't so fun right now to learn. We love her and really hope that soon she will be able to get up and go home and learn while not feeling the need to vomit. Until then, its wonderful to know that life is learning and sometimes we do it when we are sick in the hospital.