Best friends share everything, right? In the case of my daughter, Allison, and her BFF Elizabeth, they share everything. Even sickness. There is a flu/virus epidemic at their middle school that has affected a couple of hundred students. Most of the middle schoolers in my neighborhood have stayed home this week. Elizabeth's mom took first shift today, while I took second shift so she could go to work. In times like these, we say "It takes a village".