Last night I went to bed before midnight, after not having felt well all day and dealing with diarrhea. I think I also never got over the additional lack of sleep from our long trip to Mali, so I'm thankful for getting more sleep last night, which made a big difference today. While I took some American medication last night and was okay today, the babies still have diarrhea, so please keep praying for them.

I'm keeping this short today, as I'm not feeling so well. I have SO MUCH work to do, but Randy has pretty much convinced me to go to bed early and leave it all for another day. The babies all had diarrhea today, but it didn't seem to affect their well-being. It did with me. I felt pretty miserable all day and had a tough time functioning, so I held back a little and let Barbara step in where possible. I'm also thankful that she's taking pictures.

 It's nearly 2 am, and I have not finished processing the over 100 pictures of today. However, I can barely keep my eyes open, so I've decided to push myself to write about today, and do the pictures tomorrow. We spent all evening putting the Christmas tree up, then I was cooking tomorrow's lunch after midnight. I'll be adding pictures to this post tomorrow, and of course, even more pictures are in the photo album.