As Mother’s Day 2024 approaches, I am blessed to be mom to my handsome guys, Ethan and Noah.
The weather app yesterday showed high of 79 degrees. I thought to myself “79…Ethan’s 14-year hockey player number”... Today, I hear Noah practicing a song he will sing for recital called “Build a Boat”… both are reminders of the fact that the thread of my sons is weaved intricately into the tapestry of my life. As I think about how I can be thankful in this day, there is the realization that I experience both of them everywhere…
Noah’s high school days are filled with:
- Math and Engineering challenges and a robust desire to learn
- Art shows highlighting his creative spark and digital art projects
- Minecraft and Lego engineering marvels around every turn in our home (he is so gifted as a builder in unique ways)
- Stories from Chemistry Class in the kitchen (hey mom… baking soda and vinegar lab experiments explained)
- Serious military vehicle discussions and trips to Cantigny to hang out with the Tanks
- Learning to Drive… a standard transmission vehicle nonetheless!
- Volleyball antics and musings on the progress towards healing his left humorous
- Non-stop youth group and school club activities (developing the next speech team script in his head), and plenty of time with friends
Always Remembering Ethan’s life:
- Hockey happenings (wait… Patrick Kane plays for the Red Wings now?! I am not sure what Ethan would say!)
- Lego in the news (still on the hunt for sustainability by 2032)
- Rollerblading pedestrians on the bike path and heading back home to watch hockey video replays (I am seriously missing Ethan’s mastery of skating on and off the ice these days)
- Purdue Materials Science Department efforts to lead in the local community
- Embarking upon plans for the upcoming 2024 Jolt-On! Memorial Game Days…
- His 24th birthday approaching…
I never grow tired of the learning about Gods plan for their place in this world. This learning takes place under our roof and around our table… I truly see the work cut out for me as their mom, to be on mission and equip my sons to be warriors for Christ.
Grateful this day and every day for the blessing of sons!
3Sons are a heritage from the Lord,
Psalms 127:3-5
children a reward from him.
4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
are sons born in one’s youth.
5 Blessed is the man
whose quiver is full of them.