Helen & Joe baby update

Good morning everyone,
Today is a wet one, not far away some people have had 6" overnight on already saturated ground!
We have had almost 2".

So here is a short update on Helen and the bub.


Helen was admitted to Hospital on Monday - just observation


Tuesday morning they gave her "pills" to induce labour,
and then sent her down to the markets?!?!?!?!?!?
she was to go back at 4pm for more tablets.




Joe was going to get Helen some tea from the market when we spoke to him last night.
We are hoping that he finds out what these pills are so we can find out if they are safe....


PLEASE pray that they ARE the safe ones...

love Corinne xxoo

PLEASE.... PRAY....

Dearest Friends.....

Today I NEED you to join me in prayer!

Three years ago Damien and I went on a short missions trip to

Mt Hagen, PNG.

We helped build the building you can see behind the photo of myself and the beautiful baby.

Such a rugged beauty, such genuine struggling but loving people,

You had to be touched somewhere deep within your soul.

We became the best of friends with Joe and Helen.

We learnt that they had lost a baby boy to still birth just before our second trip.

Such a terrible thing!

and then again TWINS to still birth 12 months later.

We decided to raise some money to get them to Australia to see our Doctor,

to discover what was going wrong.

Through our church and local community we got them here!

We found out when they arrived that Helen was 19 weeks pregnant!!!!

Do you know what was wrong?

The most simple thing

Urinary Tract Infection.

Just a simple course of antibiotics....





Here is the beautiful Jo-ann!

She is now 18 mths old and talking REALLY well

(fancy trying to learn 4 different languages along side each other!)

Helen's next baby is a week over due

 they are going to do a 'forced' (induction) labour

TODAY.

In PNG this is VERY scary

 - the conditions,

the expertise,

the risks are extreme

PLEASE JOIN US IN PRAYER FOR THIS GROWING FAMILY

Pray for HELEN

Pray for the BABY

Pray for JOE

Pray for the HOSPITAL STAFF

that all will be well

- that we will have a healthy mum

and a healthy bub.



Summer Harvest

A selection of our Summer Harvest

I'm linking with Farm Girl Friday c:

Well this summer has been incredible for growing pretty well anything!

I don't think there has been a week go by without any rain - this is highly irregular here for summer!

Most summers we are struggling

with sun burn on all our fruit and vegetables,

struggling to have enough water

(our only water supply comes from our smallish dam and tanks on our house),

and wondering if it would be a whole lot easier if you just bought it all!

Usually we have crazy high temperatures of between 30 and 45'c,

trying to convince yourself to do gardening in that kind of weather is just plain hard work!

Like I said this year has been such a blessing to a drought hardened lady (and garden!)

I don't think there has been a day over 37'c for the whole summer

Everyday I thank God for this little respite.

I thought I would share a picture story of the bits and pieces that I harvested so far this season.

This is my brand new herb garden (planted last October)

Yellow Butter Beans

Purple King Beans (have done super well)

Strawberries (I can pick nearly a whole 9 ltr bucket every 3 days or so) I was selling them to the little cafe in town.

Tomato (they did OK, want to do more next year)

Silver beat, Button Squash always do well here

I hang my herbs to dry in my pantry

Summer Days?

Afternoon my lovely friends!

I feel like I am finally able to steal a few minutes to show you a few things.

It's been a hectic few weeks.

So many things to blog about

...holidays, summer harvesting, hay making...

all for another time.

Today has been such a day of contrasts,

 that I had to share them with you.

This morning it was quite cool - almost like Autumn

(I didn't say that out loud!)

I even had a cardigan on for a few hours c:



God's watercolours

After lunch I thought I'd do some much need weeding and mulching of our rose garden

Boy! was it hot and humid!

I looked up and brewing away nicely,

some storms on the horizon......

So I've been busy

putting away anything likely to blow away,

taking clothes off the line.....

(now I am enjoying my cuppa in peace

without the little man, who is sleeping peacefully, unaware) 



We are still waiting for them to hit here,

but we did have a power outage

for half an hour or so

its looking impressive on the radar!

I'll let you know c:

Our windmill