Oct 21, 2013
Since Nolan's death, Marshall and I have done numerous things to try to honor his memory. We held a memorial service several weeks after his death on what was supposed to be Nolan's due date. Now every year on his birthday, March 30th, we plan on doing something as a family to celebrate Nolan's life. Our intent is to do something Nolan would have enjoyed doing. This year we decided to include all our family and friends that wanted to be included in it and we held a birthday party for Nolan complete with cake, candles and a sky lantern that we lit and launched into space on the beach. This yearly celebration also includes Marshall and I to not work on March 30th. If there was one thing we learned that fateful night in March 2012, it was that family is more important that work. We want to use Nolan's birthday to remind us of this and keep us in check that we aren't letting work come in the way of family. The other yearly thing we plan on doing to honor Nolan's memory is to sponsor a little boy every Christmas. Our hope is to sponsor one around the age Nolan would have been that Christmas and buy Christmas presents for that little boy. Presents that we would have bought for Nolan had he been here.
I think there's lots of things we do on a day to day basis to honor Nolan's memory though. Some things we are not necessarily even aware that we are doing. My blog in itself is a way of honoring his memory and every time we publicly speak about him, write about him or post about him we are honoring his memory. I remember the first time I posted a picture of him online there was some backlash from people that were offended that I posted a picture of him. To those people, I have to say I am sorry that my loss offended you but he is my son and I will honor his memory any way I want.
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