When You’re Up Late…
It's late. Or some might say early. About 2 o'clock in the morning. My 4 year old is up calling for me. He has gone "tee tee" in the bed. I get up (not super willingly) to go change sheets and calm one very upset little boy down and tell him it's okay to have...
Little Specs of Glass
This story begins with a shatter...literally! That's just life with boys I guess, anything nice or breakable within reach seems to find its way to broken. Oh well...I'm not bitter, so moving on. đ As of late, my 19 month old, James, has decided the dishwasher is a...
Thoughts on Santa…
Thoughts on SantaâŚshould our family do it? Should we not? A question I have thought myself many Christmases and been asked numerous times this year in conversations with other moms. Itâs a hot topic right now. I have been thinking about it for a while, and by no means...
Jesus is the LIGHT of the World! A Fun Idea for the Family…
FUN IDEA for the family of all ages this Christmas! Pile in the van and go on a Christmas "LIGHT HUNT" around your neighborhood. While you are searching for the "Top 25" have a family conversation about: 1. How Jesus is the light of the world 2. How a new star...
Interactive Christmas Nativity for the Family
Christmas time is here! All of the shopping, meal planning and making arrangements for travels or for guests coming to stay are in full motionâsomewhere in the middle of making all our lists and checking them twice, we can easily forget that Christmas is about Jesus....
12 Days of Intentional Christmas
(Content from the 12 Intentional Days of Christmas Podcast interview with Wren Robbins & Mallory Allen.) âPurpose Determines Priorityââ Adrian Rogers What is your priority this Christmas? Is it Jesus? What purposeful things can you do with your family to teach...
Light Brightening Purpose
This year 2020 has been one for the books! I hear people saying things like, âThis is a crazy world we live in with this pandemic!â or âIf we think violence and politics are bad today, just wait until our kids are grown!â I can easily see where people would feel like...
Planting Seeds of Prayer
This week has been a BIG week at our house. My oldest started first grade and my youngest turned 4 years oldâthatâs a lot for a momma in one week! Since I dropped my 1st grader off, and he walked away into the school building by himself (thanks COVID), I have been...
Making Something Beautiful
Itâs late. I just finished washing my face, ready to crawl into bed and something caught my eye. Hanging on the wall in my bathroom, is a framed picture (the one you see above: not a great picture of a picture...but I tried!) that I recently unpacked and hung up in...
Morning Manna
Recently my boys and I were driving back to Memphis across the state of Mississippi, in the midst of mostly eighteen wheelers on miles and miles of flat highways. As happened once before, a rock hit my windshield. (I think my van windshield attracts rocks!) At the...
Mom, is this YOU Today?
Pandemic life. Itâs been interesting and although not very socially active, things have been plenty active at home for us moms! Some days may be all sunshine and relaxationâpicnics outside, sleeping in late with no carpool lines to make, cuddling on the couch in PJs...
CREATEing an Environment of Discipline & Love
Basketball. Captain America. Apple juice.  These three things are in high demand at the Allen house. Jake is 5 now going on 15. His maturity, memory and vocabulary shock me some days...how can he be so small but retain and remember so much? He is teaching me Spanish...