Isaac

Isaac’s the Old Age Laughter Blessing:

In 2002, at age forty-one, after loosing a couple of pregnancies, I was finally able to birth Isaac. We named him Isaac because we were beginning to relate to Abraham and Sarah having children in older years. I’d forgotten that Isaac meant laughter until after I’d held him a number of times and giggled with joy as I looked into his precious face. Losing babies and then having a healthy baby does something to you that cannot be explained.

His older brother, Elisha, was fascinated with Isaac right from the start and ended up sharing his room with him when Isaac became a toddler. He worked at teaching him goofy faces and sounds—becoming enthralled with the effects and laughing. When Isaac could talk, Elisha enjoyed extending Isaac’s logic into hilarious conversation. We often credited Elisha with the unique sense of humor that Isaac ended up with.

Isaac’s School Years:

During Isaac’s grade school years, I noticed his keen interest in charts and excel workbooks. Some of my other children find those things interesting too, but Isaac can be obsessed with them. If I work in excel files planning school schedules, chore charts, or budgets, he peered into my desk space and just had to know exactly what I was doing. He was especially fascinated when I worked with project management software in one of my online college classes.

I puzzled many times at how to create course work for him in high school that would give him a taste of what he could do with his interest. Finally, I found a book that teaches Statistics using Excel charting features. In the process of the book, it also teaches how to use the basic features of Excel. Statistics is normally a college-level course, but I felt that this book simplified statistics’ concepts enough to use in his junior level of high school. Isaac grasped the Excel and statistics concepts well using it.

Isaac’s TBI and Recovery:

Graduating in the year 2020 amidst all the COVID19 chaos was difficult for Isaac. The greatest roadblock for him was that he had a traumatic brain injury in January from an ice skating fall. Since he was on target to graduate, we let him do that even though he lost much of his academic cognition in his last couple months of school. He has been on a long road to recovery, but is doing much better. He drives and owns his own car that he paid for by holding down jobs for large chunks of time. He now owns his own house and is able to work in direct nurse aide care full time plus overtime sometimes. It is truly a miracle how God has answered prayer in his behalf!