The past week and weekend has been quite hectic for the Allen family (in a great way I hasten to add :-) As well as being a wife and mother I am also blessed to be an author, a conference host and an inspirational speaker. Two of my favourite things to do include, spending time with my family and speaking to groups of women using my gift to inspire and empower them to live the life of their dreams.
On Friday of last week it was my privilege to be invited to speak for a woman's inspirational evening in Tooting. To be honest with you although I was excited about the opportunity I didn't raise my expectations too high as most of my energy had been consumed by Allen Eagles. Due to my schedule I've had to use early mornings and late nights to prepare so in many ways didn't feel as 'ready' as I would usually. We arrived at the venue about 7.10pm to get ready for a 7.30pm start not expecting more than about 20-30 women (based on past experience) and to my surprise there were already at least 80 women seated anticipating what was about to take place. By the time it was my turn to take the stage over 150 women were in attendance!! My keynote for the evening was entitled 'What will you do with your DASH'. The essence of the talk was me asking the audience what impact their lives will have made when it is their turn to transition from this world to the next. It was one of the most memorable evenings of my speaking journey thus far.
On Saturday I attended one of the most refreshing spiritual retreats for women hosted by a good friend of mine Rev Jacqueline Peart and again I was one of the main speakers. It was such an amazing experience, I met some outstanding women and had the opportunity to really relax and be blessed. One of the things I love most about speaking is being able to talk to people afterwards who often say things like 'I wish I could do what you do' or 'I wish I was confident like you are'. I get to assure them, that the person they see before them did not start of with such confidence and eloquence ;-) I then explain that it has been a long, hard and often very painful journey to get to where I am today. It is on these occasions that I get the opportunity to reassure at least one person that if I can do it, anyone can :-)
As for the 'Eagles' they are all doing well.
My sister had all four boys while we were away which was a blessing, she is truly a gift from God. Baby Ashton was not too well over the weekend, we think he may have picked up a stomach bug but he is much better now :-)
I posted on Facebook earlier last week that almost every day the boys give me something to laugh really hard about (notice I said 'almost' :-). Last Monday we were covering English Grammar with the younger two and I asked Anton to describe what a noun was, to which he replied '... A noun is a person, place or a thing', I then asked him to give me an example, he said 'Alex is a noun'.
This is Anton, he called Alex a 'noun'.
Alex, who wasn't paying much attention turned round and out of nowhere called Anton a 'NERD'. I said to him 'Alex, don't call your brother a nerd, say sorry'. His response in defence was 'But mum Anton called me a NOUN'!!! You just gotta love 'em.
This is Alex he called Anton a 'nerd'.
Today I was writing a post on Facebook and my oldest son Amario was sitting next to me. I wrote 'God had blessed me with an AMAZING husband and some outstanding sons'. Amario (who I didn't realise was looking over my shoulder) said 'Mum aint you gonna put 'outstanding' in capitals'. I laughed so hard!!
This is Amario, he is the one who 'got jokes'.
I hope you have a fab week.
Speak soon.
Karen. x
Keep up the good work.
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