4/02/2003

April Fools joke during SARS

from an email to Cyndi Davis

Thank you for your note. We are feeling safe as anyone (and probably more
safe than most since we're not worriers and there are no air raids or bombs
dropping or orange alerts here!) God is good and still in control even when
things seem to be going crazy, and the enemy seems to be having a field day!

Our kids have an extra 10 days of vacation since they shut down schools due
to a deadly highly contagious pneumonia that they haven't got a handle on
how to treat. A few people have died but there's still a few million of us
unaffected! Gives us a chance to catch up since we'd fallen a bit behind in
our Chinese studies! We played a great April fools joke on the boys - we
called our home phone at 7 am from our cell phone and then went in and told
the boys is was their teacher calling to say the epidemic was over early and
they had to go to school. We had them get up, get dressed in their school
uniform, and walk 1/2 way to school until they could see for themselves
there were no other kids on the playground... they got a real kick out of
that and laughed all day (Tyler called all his friends to tell them how
crazy his parents were!)

Gotta keep your sense of humor....

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