This is the blog for Gavin and Carrie Jones and family. We live in Papua New Guinea and are working to see lives transformed by the living Word of God through Bible translation. Gavin is a helicopter pilot. Carrie, who has her degree in Public Health, works in the lab at our busy rural clinic. Our son, Isaac, was born in 2004 and our quintuplets, Will, David, Marcie, Seth, and Grace, were born in 2012.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. The you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all you heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. -Proverbs 3:3-6

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Prayer requests for this week and ongoing

Hi again everyone,

It's been a little while since I actually wrote much on here, so I guess it's time. We need some help in the Heavenly Realms. :)

Seth is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday at 3:30 to have his g-peg stomach tube removed and a little "button" put in instead for his tube feedings (still 100% of his nutrition, alas - please pray he will learn to eat by mouth!). That will make it much easier on him, not having a tube hanging out and getting caught on things and pulled by himself or others. We're really looking forward to having that button in. Unfortunately, it involves an overnight stay in the hospital. Sam, who I love more each day, is going to be the one to stay the night while Gavin and I are back home with the other four. She has lots and lots of experience with hospitals and is a TROOPER!! Gavin and I will be with/near Seth for the actual procedure and the admittance and make sure all is well, of course.

A related prayer request: Our 35 hours/week volunteer (thank you, Deb!!!) is going to be gone for 10 days. That is equal to almost two of her work weeks (Tuesday-Friday) starting the day after Seth's surgery, so we're extremely short of help even with Sam working full time. Sam does nearly every late evening feeding so can't do the mornings when Deb is normally scheduled. We know God will provide all we need - He always has. Thanks for praying!  

Another big need around here is sleep! As of this week we will have lost almost all our overnight help (saints who have stuck it out for 6 months!), including Seth's nurse from 12:00 to 4:00 a.m. Whereas before Seth was sleeping through the night, he has woken up screaming between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. the past couple of nights. The other babies aren't sleeping through the night either. Usually by 5:15 they are starving again, even after being fed around 11:00 pm or midnight, and by the time I get through feeding them all in the morning David is ready for the day. He's the one who is early to bed and early to rise. :}

All of this listening for five babies has resulted in some pretty significant insomnia for me; it's like my brain can't shut down. Despite being REALLY tired when I go to bed, it is taking me an hour to fall asleep or fall back to sleep once woken up. Last night my grand total was only 4.5 hours, and that in two different smaller chunks. Gavin is also running on much less sleep than he needs, and he can't really nap through all the baby noise around here. :} (Four of the five have now discovered the shriek/scream - Gracie demonstrated her new skill this morning. Seth is the last hold-out!) I developed bad, bad, bad insomnia when Isaac was nearly five months old and really don't want to repeat that. I know what to do to address the insomnia but I can't really do it well with five babies - I will be too groggy and/or the hours are too short!

Gotta run - four babies crying!

Love and gratitude!!!!
Carrie






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  4. I don't know you, but have been enjoying reading your exploits after I found the blog somehow. But I reckon I owe you some prayer time after all the pleasure it's been to read and see the lovely pics. I guess PNG will have to wait a while longer yet. I know how tired I feel after looking after my 2 lovely grand-daughters for a couple of nights, so i cannot imagine you you are managing to keep going! There's some hours difference between us (I'm in UK), so maybe some of my prayers will be when you are trying to sleep. May the Lord hear and get those babies sleeping through. every blessing, Colette Harding (pastor's wife www.milnrw.org ) as if you 'd ever have time to look! :-)

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  5. Carrie- I'm not sure you even have time for this, but exercise (running) can help with the sleep- that said, I still find it hard to exercise and I only have twins (I get too tired). Can you jog with that stroller?! Also, try not to let the babies nap after 3-4 p.m. (you may also already be doing that).

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  6. Carrie-if you're not doing this already you may want to try a white noise machine or white noise app on your phone. This helps me sleep through a lot of the little noises that come out of our nursery. I still wake up when a baby is truly crying but I am such a light sleeper that without the white noise I hear every little sound.

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  10. Dear Lord, we lift this family before you and lay their needs at Your feet. Please be with the doctors and others as they attend to Seth during his surgery; we pray that all will go well and the 'button' will work as it should. However, Lord, we also pray that Seth will soon want to eat and drink on his own, and the need for the 'button' will be short-lived. We pray also for Carrie and Gavin - that they will get the rest they need to take care of their precious family. Please help the quints to sleep through the nights as well. Thank You so much for Sam and all of the many others who are serving this family in one capacity or another. The are truly a blessing and we pray that You would bless them for their generosity of spirit. All praise and honor to You, Lord. Amen

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  12. My neighbor and I spent some time tonight praying for Seth and for all of you. I so much wish I was closer. I haven't given up the idea of another trip to Dallas but it will be a while yet.

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