Boys 2 Men

I enjoyed growing up in a family as the only girl with three brothers. After the death of my parents, our relationships grew closer and stronger. With two of them living in Chicago, I always look forward to my visits with them and their families. And since my kids are on summer vacation, our family was able to visit them recently.

I, especially, enjoyed the time with my youngest brother and his family. He has a 1.5 year old son and another child on the way. Seeing him grow as a husband and now as a father has been a blessing to me.

I still remember the time he came into college as a freshmen, and being the older sister who was known to constantly offer advice and nit pick on what he was and was not doing, we had come to a point in our older sister/younger brother relationship where he decided to put his foot down and told me to back off in his sweet way. Ouch…that hurt!

I had realized what he was trying to say to me (even before that incident but I just wasn’t listening carefully enough) was to give him some room to mature and make his own decisions in life. Since then I have seen him grow as a person, a husband and now a father. I’ve also seen how my younger brother played the older brother role at various times in my life.

I’m praying that I will be able to give my sons the ample room they need for God to grow them as godly men, husbands and fathers one day. And whether we are a sister, wife, mother or friend, we play an important role in helping the guys in our lives to grow as godly men.

My youngest brother and his family with our family

My eldest brother and his wife and our kids