Shhhhhh.... Don't tell Kathryn

So you have to promise not to tell Kathryn but I (Luke aka husband and daddy of the cute girl you see here on the blog) have hijacked her blog for the night. I just had to stop by here to tell all you that I have the most incredible woman for a wife. She is the strongest and most compassionate person I have ever met.

Today was a pretty crazy day and I'm sure that Kathryn will share more about it some time. Last night Maddie Kate woke up with a fever and we just thought it was because she was teething. So we put her back to bed. When we got up this morning she still had the fever and from what Kathryn told me she just slept in Kathryn's arms most of the morning. That is not normal. She will barely sit in our laps to finish a book because she is all about walking around and playing in her kitchen. She also likes to run from daddy now, I don't know if she just thinks it's fun or that maybe with my beard she thinks that I am a goofy looking monster. So needless to say our little one was not feeling like her normal self. Sometime around 10 am Madelyn had a short seizure. Kathryn said it wasn't a very long one but I know for a mommy to see that, it must have felt like forever. So Madelyn had her 2nd ride in an ambulance to the hospital where they ran some tests and they did a spinal tap on our little girl. She was a trooper. Everything came back normal from all the tests and what our wonderful pedi doctor said was that most likely the seizure was caused by the fever and that this can happen with about 5% of kids. So today was not what any of us thought it would be but God showed me something today. He reminded me about 1 of the many reasons why I love my wife and why I fell in love with her in the 1st place.

The whole time we were at the hospital Kathryn kept saying I feel so bad for her, I wish she didn't have to go through this and I wish it was me instead of her. As I would hear her make little comments throughout the day I was reminded about how compassionate and selfless she is. Kathryn and I have been on quite a few mission trips together and have had a lot of opportunities to serve together. On every trip she would just come alive with the chance to show love to the kids by playing games with them and telling them stories about Jesus. She also has a heart to nurture and care for others. (I know this to be true because she takes care of her absent minded husband a lot.) I remember one time on a trip to Mexico she had the chance to serve at an orphanage. What broke her heart the most was that their were bed babies who no one wanted and there were not enough workers to meet the needs of all the little babies and they would just lay in their cribs for hours with out a touch of love from another human being. Kathryn was able to sit and hold some of these babies and through a simple touch was able to be the touch of Jesus. As I watched my wife care for our child and sing to her in the ER and tell Madelyn about how daddy needs to start saving his pennies so that he can take his girls to Disney, I saw why I love her. I saw why God created her. I saw God through her. I also saw that being a mom is a crazy hard job.

This is my wife: a woman of compassion, who cares for others far above herself. A woman who shows the love of God by actions more than words. A woman who I am blessed to be married to and a woman I know Madelyn will look up to.

To my pretty lady, I love you so very much.

Love,
Luke