Growing Pain

We babysat the last weekend in February growing our family from 6 to 14! We made a splash when we went to Cabela's with our crew. There were lots of paper airplanes made, games played, hikes, and bath bombs done.

April and I got to go on a mommy/daughter date to Timeless Cafe. It was a lot of fun filling out questionnaires and then talking about our answers. She is at the stage where she is a lot of fun to take places and chat!

The first weekend in March found Logan battling high fevers sustained at 103* even when giving Tylenol and Ibruprofen every 3 hours. He puked on Monday and again on Tuesday and had basically stopped eating and drinking. I decided to call the doctor on Tuesday since we were planning on leaving Wednesday at midnight for Africa.  They checked him out and discovered he had low oxygen levels. This coupled with his know food/liquid intake caused him to be admitted to the hospital yet that afternoon. We were hoping he would still be released yet that we could go with the team.

It is one thing to see an adult in a hospital bed. It is totally different to see your baby there, hooked up to oxygen and IV!!! This was very difficult! We found out Wednesday afternoon that they were not going to release Logan. Now what? We cried for our baby. We cried for the hopes and dreams that were wrapped up in the luggage and the Uganda trip.
We discussed the options of Conrad going without me etc. but circumstances just weren't what we would have liked and Conrad had spent time praying and felt that he should stay home. We wrestled with "Why?"

Feeling better. 

It was soo good to see him perking up.   

He didn't like getting all the tape pulled off and IV removed.

Logan was finally released two days later! Two days after the team had gone. Two days of more bills...

Waiting to go home! It was a relief to see the light in his eyes again!  

Together Again!!!

After we were home, Conrad began to pray and seek God's face again as far as what He desired of us. We were strongly urged to still consider joining the team. Golden Rule Travel had talked to Turkish Air to find out that they would honor the ticket price even though they were non-refundable and non-transferable. I'd told Conrad I'd support whatever he decided and went to take a nap although I was quite sure that we were staying. When I woke, he says excitedly, "We are going!" I do think God must have been grinning when I had to bite my tongue :)  So we arranged to fly out of JFK 24 hours later...