Yum Cha

Went out for lunch with my antinatal friends yesterday - we enjoyed Yum Cha together for lunch.

Only seems like yesterday we were all meeting to learn about birth...

New Zealand hit by earthquake...

Just found this on a website asking for prayer...I've been watching the news this morning in tears...


"Here is a list of prayer requests:
1.      People are still trapped in buildings.  Pray for the comfort and safety of those who are trapped.  Pray also that the rescue teams will be able to get them out.  Some people are having to have limbs amputated in order to be rescued.
2.      Pray for those who are searching for loved ones and do not know whether they are dead or alive.
3.      Pray for those who are grieving the loss of family members.  At least 65 people's bodies have been recovered but that number is expected to rise.
4.      Christchurch people have been living with aftershocks for the past 6 months.  They are exhausted, frightened and wonder if life will ever become normal again.
5.      Pray that God will help the church to offer love, peace, comfort and assistance to those who are hurting and frightened.
6.      Many New Zealanders have no religion at all.  Pray that through this time of tragedy many will cry out to God and find his strength and salvation."  

A good read...

The heart of this world’s fractured and we all bear the fault lines.

Continue reading how to mend the broken places over here….

Cyclone Yasi

This has hit poor QLD! So much hapening up there - floods, cyclones...please God NO MORE!! But thank God that it doesn't seem to be as bad as they thought it could be - & three precious little babies born last night, one in the eye of the storm with a visiting English midwife in an evacuation center. Just amazing!!

Now it's moving inland...

Two days & counting...

School is drawing closer...butterflies building...planning & excitement growing...

Happy Australia Day!

We're having a great relaxing day together - there's a BBQ being cooked as I type, (with some lamb cutlets - thanks Sam for the idea) & we're all together. I got up early & watered the garden, I washed my car, I hung out heaps of laundry in the HOT sun, & this afternoon I'm going to sort through the kids bookshelf with all the things they need for school (another school year incredibly starts in 4 days)...it's so great to be together as a family. It's great to have air con CRANKING throughout the house!! Thank you so much God for my family...I do love them so...

Holidays are nearly over...

...& work is just around the corner. I am feeling overwhelmed...we've had time away, & a big break, but it has disappeared just way too fast. Lots not done yet!!

I have been so weary the last few days I feel that when I wake up the memories I have are so jumbled it's hard to focus on what was a dream, & what was reality. That's how spaced out I've been. Trying to pray, trying to read, trying to suck up some energy to play with the kids before they go back to school, finish reading borrowed books, photocopy worksheets for school, plan topics, sort out things for piano students...I feel a bit overwhelmed, yet I think I hold others around me up too high, & then I feel more overwhelmed thinking "I can't do as much as they do". I really feel like someone has disconnected me from my power point & I am listlessly flailing about, trying to do things each day. I sit with laundry baskets around me trying to psych up to put all of those things away. I sit with my school basket next to me still full of ideas & worksheets that I need to get ready for Monday. I sit with the childrens' bookshelf still half unpacked thinking about fixing it up for next week. I sit looking at Bonnie's bed which needs painting...

I live in a world full of youth & energy with so many doing amazing things, I feel like I am running on half speed, unable to do enough. I went to Pilates this morning & it's wiped me out for the whole day...

Perhaps the heat has gotten to me today?

I live with the limitations of my body. I love a God with inifinite capabilities. I have two wonderful little children who are having a peaceful day today because "Mummy is tired." I have a husband who has gone to work with a spring in his step because all his specialists at Westmead Hospital have said he's going OK. I am very weary today, but very blessed. Just put on a roast. I have clothes to wear & a house to live in. I can cope with this weary body...

Queensland Floods

My thoughts & prayers go out to people in QLD & northern NSW as they cope with the shock of the floods...I can't seem to stop watching the news, with my mouth hanging open. What a shocking start to 2011 - last year Haiti, this year floods.

Please Father, help all those people...