Tomorrow we start taking medication to try to prevent malaria on our trip. I'm also going to start tracking each person's normal body temperature. Not everyone holds steady at 98.6 degrees and we need to know what "normal" is for each one of us. That way we'll recognize a fever right away, which is important when you're dealing with malaria. But first, we have to concentrate on trying to get these pills down. Somehow the task of teaching our children to swallow pills got pushed back on the priority list and it just hasn't happened. Tomorrow Mason will have to swallow a pill that's about as big (and chalky) as a regular Excedrin and based on our past experiences I'm not expecting it to go well. Griffin, on the other hand, got off easy. His pill is about the size of a saccharine (did anyone else's grandmother used to put those little pills in their coffee?)  He shouldn't have any trouble. Add to that the daily vitamin and the daily probiotic. We'll see what happens. Please pray for open minds and open gullets:)