Life and Lives

I’d like to preface this post by saying that I’m not looking for a fight on the abortion issue. I’m not seeking to demonise anyone who is pro abortion or support anyone who is anti abortion. I’m just using this space to reflect and think out loud about my own journey with the issue in [...]

Reflections on a whirlwind

The last 12 months have been something of a whirlwind for us. First we found out we were pregnant, then we were told we were at high risk for some kind of chromosomal abnormality with our pregnancy, then we found out that our baby had a heart defect, then we found out our baby had [...]

Tuscan is Home Sweet Home

Yesterday Tuscan, Jay and I came home from the hospital. Tuscan had a remarkable recovery, he spent 3 days in ICU and then another 3 on the ward. His surgery was very successful, there is little to no leakage in the new valves and he seemed to breeze through the process of coming off the [...]

Heart Surgery Day

Tuscan’s surgery was scheduled for 8am this morning. He had to be finished feeding by 5am and we had to be at the hospital by 6:45am. We decided to get a head start so we woke at 4, fed the kid/expressed, got ourselves organised and left the house around 6. We arrived a little early [...]

Tuscan’s Heart Surgery news and a prayer request

Yesterday we got a call from the Royal Children’s Hospital, telling us that Tuscan’s heart surgery will happen this coming Tuesday, the 8th July. Currently he is first on the list, so surgery will start about 8am and go for about 5-8 hours. During surgery he will be put on a bypass machine to pump [...]

Tuscan Ruach Edwin Jeffries

On April 12 2008 our son was born. We spent 3 weeks in the special care nursery at the Mercy Hospital in Heidelberg and have since been back at home. Tuscan is doing pretty well although we are very aware that his condition is likely to deteriorate over the next few months in the lead [...]

Where’s Tim?

As is so often the case I’ve been notably absent from the blogosphere. I have been doing a few interesting bits and pieces though.
- Baby business is coming along well. The beautiful Jay is 36 weeks today so the little man (Tuss) is due to arrive any time in the next 4 weeks.
- I’ve started [...]

Off to Hamilton

Well Jay and I are going to be spending January in the fine town of Hamilton, Victoria. I’m not sure what that will mean with regards to my return to blogging. Potentially I could do more of it or maybe none at all. I guess we’ll see.

Life’s ups and downs

So much has happened in my little world since I posted that I hardly know where to begin.
Jay and I no longer work at Northern Community Church of Christ. During the year it became clear that there were some significant differences in leadership and ministry philosophy and we decided that it would be better if [...]

oh yeah … blogging

Unfortunately I’ve been quite distracted with life lately to blog. Hopefully I’ll get back to it soon, I guess we’ll see.