And so the pendulum swings ...

Hello Friends

I realise that I have an unusual life and that in many ways it has aged me, but the fact that my firstborn is TWELVE! Just FREAKS me out!!

Matthew had his birthday on Sunday - he had asked for clothing mostly and we went for pizza and a movie.

A free ice cream for the birthday boy!

Matthew, Khensi, Percy the Waiter, Benji, Dominique and Murphy

Tuesday we received a wonderful donation of blankets from St Stithians Junior Prep school

The Kirsty Watts Foundation had continued to do wonders for our creepy room!

The floor looks so great, it is a special linoleum type laminate

The upstairs renovations have started! We are so thrilled!

Those of you who have been following our story over the last months will know how very difficult things have become for us it TLC. Yesterday we had our AGM and Board meeting and today we had a full day family conference about everything going on at TLC.

It is with a heavy heart and not a few tears, that we have had to make the dramatic and terrible decision to reduce the intake of babies at TLC.

The simple fact is that we can not manage. After reviewing our financials from 2010 up to now it is apparent that our situation is not changing. Despite a cash  injection here and there we are all under too much strain to continue being responsible for so many little lives without the sure knowledge that we can take care of their needs.

Those of you who know us will know how this sickens us.

For 18years we have walked by faith and learned many things, God does provide but He is an 11th hour God and we are small, frail human beings who are cracking under the strain of never knowing if we can honour our commitments. We have sacrificed our individual personal savings and (more devastatingly) our ethic of quality over the last year - we have had to find a more prudent path and this is the only one possible.

We have tried what we can, each of us working ourselves to a standstill, working on every aspect but without proper cash flow our commitments are too many and our resources to few.

The decision then, for the next 6 months at least, is to reduce our intake of babies. For every two babies we find families for we will only admit one new one - in this way we should still have a flow of babies through the system, just not as many as we have now.

We thank all of you who have and continue to stand by us. We ask that you pray for God's mercy on our work and that He open the doors in the next 6 months if He wishes us to continue. Mom says perhaps this is His time for pruning.

We Love you all

Pippa