Yesterday, I took the kids to the Palisades mall to get their haircut. Haircuts scare the crap out of Ian. He hates to wear the smock and is terrified of the electric razor. For some reason, he tolerates the mall joint, so we made the long shlep over to Master Cuts. While I was in Rockland County, I stopped over at my SIL's for dinner. We fed the kids and chased them around her backyard, until my brother came home from work.
Chris was working on a story for his paper in Orange County about the Swine Flu. Apparently, it's all over the place up there, but the schools are hushing it up and the CDC has stopped testing people. He wrote, "... Minisink Valley Middle School, which reported 153 absent students to the county Health Department on Wednesday. That's almost 14 percent of the student body, based on 2007-08 enrollment figures, and more than triple the number of absences reported at the same time a year ago."
Later this afternoon, I called my friend, Margie, to tell her that people thought that SAHMs like herself were lazy and stupid. She was thrilled and told me to stop reading the freaks on the Internet. Then she told me that her school district on Cold Spring Harbor was infested with swine flu. Her daughter's home sick with the flu, but the doctor refused to test her for that flu. Margie said it wasn't a big deal. Her daughter wasn't all that sick, but the other parents are hysterical. She was getting phone calls from other moms at 7:30am freaking out about sending their kids to school.