Some days just don’t turn out like we plan.

No matter what.

Remember when I said in the last post that I hadn’t ever seen a throat 1/2 as bad as Emma’s in all my years? The pediatrician, mind you, sees thousands of throats and when she told Emma to open up (while holding her little light to Emmy’s lips) she literally jumped back a teeny tad and said loudly “OH GOODNESS!” No doubt, it’s not very often that she sees a throat that bad either.

Emmy and Liberty do have Strep and Scarlett Fever (which is very itchy and tender to the touch). I got home and soon Isaiah was throwing up (this is how the girls started a few days ago). Dw had been throwing up in the night last night and so since his throat was killing him he went to the doc too. They took his temp (yup, don’t have a thermometer anymore) and found him to be at 101.6 and, yes indeed, positive for Strep.

Emma is allergic to most medications so they have tried something new on her. In the doctor’s exact words, “I’m sorry Emma, there is no other way to put this….the medicine that I am prescribing tastes like ummmm ummmm, poop.”

Liberty walked out with a script that tastes like Bubblegum. Somehow Emma doesn’t think it’s all that fair. I told her maybe this is further preparation of endurance for the mission field in Africa one day. She didn’t find my ramblings comforting. After all, poop is poop. And after throwing up for the last four days who really wants to purposefully ingest something that tastes like poop, even though it’s supposed to make you feel better?? Yeah, not so much.

I have spent the day nursing all my sick babies and unable to work on my Memorial Box Monday post. My sweet friend Kimmy brought some of her famous homemade chicken noodle soup to us and that was such a huge help.

I am off to bed, but do have a little prayer request (besides all my sick family) for you bloggy friends who faithfully pray for us. Today (Tuesday) I have the privilege of doing a phone interview for a radio program. A sweet lady who follows my blog emailed me early last week and asked if I would be interested. She is a radio talk show host for four radio stations that air across most of Alabama and Mississippi. She has read our blog and wants to do an interview about adoption and our family. It will air later this week. But I would love for you to pray for wisdom as I speak, that it would honor God and that God would stir people’s hearts and soften them to the orphan and adoption through this interview. I am very excited to share God’s story of His work in our family.

I am also finalizing dates to fly to Indiana this fall to speak at a Women’s conference of some bloggy friends. I can hardly wait to hug their necks in person! I will share more details in the future about that.

I’m headed to bed. Nite nite from the land of sickos & poopy medicine. eeeuuu gross