Prayer

Please please please pray for 2 things:
1) Jeanine woke up sick again this morning with a bad cold. Tonight after bed she woke at 9pm unable to breathe, coughing, gagging, sputtering, crying, choking, and throwing up. The poor thing was a complete wreck and it took me over 40 minutes to get her calm, suck the snot out of her nose, get her calm again, comfort and hug her, and get her back in bed with her top half elevated on a Boppy pillow and a regular pillow! If that trend continues, tonight I'll get a total of about 4 hours of sleep, lol! Please just pray that our poor sweet girl will be on the mend quickly and will get the sleep she needs to recuperate. We know God will heal if it's His will.

(Did I mention that I am just plain ANGRY about infant cold medicine being recalled off the shelves? There are plenty of crazy people in this world (doctors, some mothers) who will say that it doesn't make a difference to a baby and it doesn't improve their symptoms but those people are NUTS! I am so so mad that one or two parents who overdosed and harmed their poor children with cold meds made it impossible for the rest of the children in America to get relief from their awful cold symptoms. I went to Walmart, Target, and the grocery store and of course, found no solution to make my daughter feel better besides Saline drops, which we've already tried and which don't work. Grrrrr. Hmmm, maybe you should pray for my attitude as well! I try so hard to be grateful for what we do have, but it's very hard when Big Brother is always intervening and making things just a little harder for everyone, lol!)

2) Pray for Isaac big time! He is currently going through some of the hardest days of his life during the academy. They are very long, and very physically and mentally exhausting. The academy started 1 week ago, and now he's got 9 more weeks to go! Please pray that God would supply the perseverance and strength to accomplish this task and that he would not only pass but do extremely well in his class. In this type of work it would be easy for him to get discouraged with all that is required of him and we just pray that he can strive for excellence throughout his time there, and even be a light to the other trainees. Isaac will also be staying at the academy overnights during the work week until he graduates so that he can keep focused and study as much as he needs without having to drive back and forth or have a 2 year old asking "why?" 15,000 times each evening, lol! This will be hard on John as he doesn't understand why daddy isn't home each evening, and hard on mommy too!

Thanks everyone, we know you will hold our family up in prayer during this tough time and that God will guide us through it and show us what we need to do.