Meet The Allens

I saw this posted on my friend’s Facebook status and thought I would share. Sometimes we forget to be grateful and trusting in God amongst our bad days…

Me: God, can I ask You a question?
God: Sure
Me: Promise You won’t get mad
God: I promise
Me: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today?
God: What do u mean?
Me: Well, I woke up late
God: Yes
Me: My car took forever to start
God: Okay
Me: at lunch they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait
God: Huummm
Me: On the way home, my phone went DEAD, just as I picked up a call
God: All right
Me: An……d on top of it all off, when I got home ~I just want to soak my feet in my new foot massager & relax. BUT it wouldn’t work!!! Nothing went right today! Why did You do that?
God: Let me see, the death angel was at your bed this morning & I had to send one of My Angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that
Me (humbled): OH
GOD: I didn’t let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road.
Me: (ashamed)
God: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick & I didn’t want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn’t afford to miss work.
Me (embarrassed):Okay
God: Your phone went dead bcuz the person that was calling was going to give false witness about what you said on that call, I didn’t even let you talk to them so you would be covered.
Me (softly): I see God
God: Oh and that foot massager, it had a shortage that was going to throw out all of the power in your house tonight. I didn’t think you wanted to be in the dark.
Me: I’m Sorry God
God: Don’t be sorry, just learn to Trust Me…. in All things , the Good & the bad.
Me: I will trust You.
God: And don’t doubt that My plan for your day is Always Better than your plan.
Me: I won’t God. And let me just tell you God, Thank You for Everything today.
God: You’re welcome child. It was just another day being your God and I Love looking after My Children…

Merry Christmas! Looks like I have been neglecting our blog for sometime! Seems like I am only inspired to write when I have nothing else to do! The boys have kept me pretty busy this year. But, I had to slow down as we are adding one more Allen to the mix. This little Allen has me more tired than my two boys combined. Seeing as I can’t focus on reading and am tired of watching TV all the time, I figured you could get some of my rants again. Though I don’t know that anyone is out there anymore. But that’s ok, I won’t offend anyone if no one is reading, lol!

Well Christmas is here. Can’t say that it will be one of our better Christmas’. With me being so tired and nauseous all the time, yes even into the 2nd tri-mester, I didn’t get around to going shopping, but more important than that, I haven’t made things special for the boys. Even online shopping wasn’t working out for me. Going out to see Christmas lights was a bust. The first time both boys fell asleep, and the second time Victor fell asleep and Jonas started crying that he wanted to go home and was “tired of seeing everyone’s lights”, until we called him the Grinch, then he started crying that we shouldn’t call him names. But don’t worry after asking us to play Jingle Bells 5000 times he was a wee bit better. Well, at least Tom and I had fun.

And no tamale making this year for me. Again, too tired and nauseous. Today is Christmas Eve, and Tom is going to do his traditional last minute shopping. I hope he takes the boys, don’t know that I can handle them stuck in a house with me again. I am too tired to yell at them, and they somehow don’t hear me unless I am yelling. If they stay, I will be treated to wrestling, legos flying all over the house, incessant evil giggling (what are they up to?), constant requests for food, and promises of not running in the house after being asked to “GO OUTSIDE”! Oh the joys of being pregnant…

Can’t believe my baby is 4 years old! Jonas assures me he is still my baby though. Love you Jonas!

Hello, is anyone out there? Anyone reading this, other than those darn bots? I am tired of getting junk comments. Tom assures me that it is fine. But I am wondering if I should make this blog private…I know there are lots of crazies out there…

Anyways, if you do read this and would like updates let me know. I am the kind of person that is driven by encouragement! I have lots of pics to post of this summer, but if no one is reading this, I will continue to delay until I feel like posting! Oh and if I do go private, you will need to let me know if you want to continue to read this blog.

Happy end of summer!
Lulu

Well, it’s nice to have a voice again!  It’s been approx., 6 months since I have been able to rant!  Not really sure if anyone missed my rantings.  But I know I sure did miss having somewhere to write down my crazy thoughts!   Most of it was just because we have been busy.  Well, I have been busy trying to keep up with laundry, dishes, Victor, Jonas, Tom, life!  It’s all been good things!  I am blessed to have such a wonderful family.

Life has been pretty mellow.  Jonas has kept us on our feet though.  We started off our Memorial weekend at the ER.  Jonas decided it would be fun to put his fold up chair on top of his plastic kid table and try to sit on it.  Well, not such a good idea.  He fell backwards (about 3-4 ft) and hit the back of his head on the retaining wall.  Needless to say, there was lots of blood.  Thankfully no stitches were needed and he is just fine.  But he did scare the crap out of us.  Where were we, you ask?  I was just coming out of the shower and Tom was coming around the corner from the garage.  Victor watched the whole thing and came running to his dad as soon as it happened.   Now I am just waiting to see if we get a call from CPS and waiting to see the hospital bill!  I am sure I looked like a crazy woman as I didn’t get a chance to brush my hair after my shower!  But I guess we have been pretty lucky so far in the accident department with these two boys.  Victor has been re-enacting the scene any chance he gets and has even used a stuffed animal to sit in for Jonas.   The ironic part is that Tom’s accident when he was a baby happened on the same exact day 31 years ago…

It’s only been 6 years!! These years have given us 2 sweet little boys, 3 God-children, new views on life, and re-organization on priorities, among other things. I can’t wait to look back on this sixth year in 19 years and think how new our marriage still was! If we only knew then what we know now!! Thank you God for blessing our marriage, may we continue to build a strong foundation. Here’s to the rest of our lives!!