It’s nice of your hubby to take off work. My husband’s sick days accumulate, but often he really has to use them because he is sick or because his car broke down or because I had emergency surgery. And he tends to take half days (usually mornings) off. My daughter’s class always has a Latin heritage dance (she is in a dual language program, English and Spanish), and each year they study a Spanish speaking country and do a dance to a song native to that country or territory (in the case of Puerto Rico). And they tend to have semester rewards in the morning too, as well as the spelling bee (top 25 spellers in grades ranging from 3 - 5) which I hate going to because it is just so nerve-wracking and intense. Our daughter got into the school level spelling bee both in 3rd and 4th grades, so it is likely to happen again this year. Stuff like that. Sometimes he takes a sick day because of pure exhaustion. I have had it hard, but he has too with all the financial issues, and his mother passed away December 28 after a long lung illness. She was already in hospice at home, but I don’t think he expected her to pass so soon (though I felt she would because she was just so sick). I don’t think he’s had the time to mourn her yet, and he had a good relationship with her. She was a very good person; I got lucky in not getting horrid in-laws.