We're Home!

Hi everyone!
It's Monday morning and I've spent the last hour trying to get into my email box, but it's so congested it's not allowing me in (grrr). It's been an interesting few days...
We arrived in Washington just after 6am on Friday morning and had a 10 hour layover. Shortly after lunch, Joe started feeling pretty awful. He spent the next 9 hours in and out of the bathroom with the most violent vomiting and diarrhea (poor baby). We assume it was food poisoning (he was a little suspocious about the cream-cheese stuffed french toast he ate at 4am that morning - the only meal where we didn't have the same thing). It was a miserable afternoon for him (and for me, as it's awful to watch your loved one be so sick). Our flight from Washington to Detroit was just a couple of hours long, and Joe spent the entire time in one of the two bathroom (he even landed in the loo - against the law, but they were so gracious about seeing a need and accomodating him). By the time we landed, we hadn't slept more than 3 hours in the last 30 hours, and Joe was steadily getting more dehydrated. My parents picked us up at the airport and the drive home took an hour longer than usual (thanks to Michigan construction)...Joe spent much of it with his head between his legs in a garbage bag. We arrived in Lansing at about 9ish and headed straight for the ER at Sparrow (the hospital where Joe works). We were so blessed by how quickly we were taken care of (big God and employee benefits, yay!). After 4 hours, 3 litres of saline, x-rays, bloodwork and an anti-nausea prescription, we headed home. I had cried so much that day (partly from my heart aching for my hubby, partly because of pure exhaustion), we were both deliriously tired by the time we made it to our house at 2am on Saturday morning.
We slept the ENTIRE day on Saturday - except for about 3 hours of toilet and soup breaks. Our bed has never felt better!
We were both wide awake on Sunday morning at 4am, so we decided to get up, unpack a little, take showers and get ready for church. Both feeling much better today!
It was great to be back at church - we were loved on and clearly missed by many, it was such a blessing to be home (while part of us desperately misses parts of our trip; people and places).
It's been a rich 5 weeks...we have been lavished with such love, generosity and hospitality our hearts just swell at the thoughts of it all. Thank you, precious friends and family, for taking such good care of us! And dearest friends and family back in Michigan, your love and prayers were just as precious and valued during these 5 weeks away! We are SO blessed!!

So, here I sit...trying desperately to get into my emormous email account (to no avail), so I can start to figure out how to get back into the swing of daily life. We have learned so much over the last month, and have had profound revelation about a few things... and after feeling so overwhlemed about trying to pick up all the chaos and busyness that I left behind, I actually feel more peaceful already just being able to admit that our lives have been too busy for too long and that things are going to change. Afterall, we are human-beings, not human-doings. Amen!