crazy week

So here is what life has been for the last couple days:

After a couple glorious months of being illness free in our household, Maddie catches foot and mouth disease.  I had it when I was a kid, and I remember it being awful.  Your throat hurts so bad you can't eat or drink for days.  Now being a mother and having a child with it, I would gladly trade places.  She's had a fever since Thursday and has not been able to drink anything since then.  She will eat bread, fruit, and some frozen things, but shakes her head "no" vigorously if I try to give her a bottle or sippy cup.  She's also not a fan of sleeping either...I guess she's too hungry or in too much pain.  The doctor said the symptoms would last for 3-5 days and she'd have a fever, not want to drink, be pretty fussy and just want to lay around and cuddle....yeah right.  The doctor apparently doesn't know my daughter, she doesn't lay around and cuddle for anything!  She's been pretty busy playing and crawling all over the place until she gets hungry and we try to feed her and she screams.  AAAAAHH!  I feel like screaming too!  Hopefully she'll be over this by tomorrow and we can all get some rest!  

On another note, I am going to India in a few weeks and I'm totally stoked!  I went twice when I was a freshman in college (which feels like forever ago)  and I'm so excited to be going back.  We are going to the orphanage where I went the first time and fell in love with all the kids.  I think we also get to go to the Taj Mahal again, and ride elephants up to a palace!  I'm going with Hopegivers International...check out their website if you want more info, it's an awesome ministry!  We will be helping out at the orphanage by doing some heavy cleaning of the buildings.  My older brother Joel and his wife Rebecca are coming, and my good friends Shaun and Melissa Cross.  Melissa and I both have to leave our girls, and we're not so excited about that, but they are in good hands!  

Anyway, I'll probably post more about that as the time draws nearer for me to depart, but for now I would appreciate your prayers as we prepare to go!