prayer request

Please pray for our little girls. None of us have been 100% since coming back to Japan, but both Noa and Martha have pretty bad coughs right now. Martha has sounded awful since last Wednesday. I took her to the doctor Friday morning and started her on some medicine. The medicine is gone, and she still sounds awful AND had her first rough night last night (we think she was having trouble beathing through her nose, but couldn’t get to sleep without her paci in her mouth… that would be tough for anyone). Noa had a bit of a cough when we came back from America but seemed completely better by last Wednesday. On Saturday night, though, when I went to check on her, she was burning up. She’s had a fever since then, and a really bad cough. It’s so bad that she’s had trouble breathing and we almost called an ambulance a few times (You know its bad when your one year old keeps telling you her chest hurts!) Thankfully, sitting in the steamy shower room has helped so we haven’t had to do that. She’s perked up a little bit today, eating a little bit and getting off our laps to play some, so I am hopeful she is over the worst of it. The doctor said yesterday that is should last a few more days.
We are all tired and its so hard to watch our babies be so sick. I am ready to be back to normal and get back into the routine of life (I haven’t even completely unpacked all our suitcases yet because it seems the only free time I have is when the girls are sleeping and, oh yea, they are sleeping in the bedrooms where the suitcases are!) So you can pray for Eric and I too, that we’d have grace and patience through this time and be able to love the girls well. We can’t wait to be all better, but also want to be able to enjoy today and have hearts of thanks and praise even in this.
We appreciate your prayers!

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