Friday ~ The Doctor is In

Remember last week how I mentioned that my brother was building me something? You might actually have had a sneak peak of it on Wednesday. But yes, my 13 year old brother Stuart built me...

My very own TARDIS!

Blog people, meet TARDIS. TARDIS, meet blog people.

Stuart spent several days on this little wonder of construction, and I couldn't possibly be more pleased with it! And it even opens up on the top, becoming a nifty little place to put stuff! It may not be bigger on the inside, but in every single way, it's perfect!

My TARDIS has a place of honor up on the top of my bookshelf where everyone who walks into my room can't help but see it's amazing self.

 Check out all the detail! It clocks in at about 8 inches tall and is made entirely from wood. Stuart carefully took measurement, studied pictures, did and re-did portions of it, gluing pieces together until he was satisfied that it was a true likeness. I agree, don't you? For the windows and Police Call Box logo, he carefully designed, sized and printed from the computer using Paint.

 I'm going to cherish this little guy, and not just because I'm a Doctor Who fan.

I'm going to cherish it the most because I'm a Stuart fan. I may be 12 years older than Stuart, almost twice his age, but I truly, truly consider Stuart as one of my best friends. He's my "chum for chum" (the silly name I've called him ever since watching Finding Nemo), my fellow cat lover, and has always been there to go on adventures with me or to just sit around the house talking and telling jokes. He has a hilarious sense of humor and is always coming up with unique nicknames for me, the family and our cats. 

He's always up for helping me with any project, is usually found out in the garage/work shop designing and making other wooden wonders like my TARDIS (how about a working catapult, trebuchet, and ballista, designed and constructed entirely from his own research and imagination!). Stuart is a hard-working, determined young man with a great great sense of humor and a very intelligent and creative mind. He can also tell you pretty much anything you want to know about US coins and can find miniscule markings on coins that I absolutely cannot see, no matter how hard I try.

Stuart is 13 years old and already he challenges me in my faith. He's a stickler for upholding what truth and what's right and he never wavers in his beliefs. I admire that tremendously about him. He also is brave and not afraid of confrontation when confrontation is needed. He speaks his mind and is not afraid to call me out on something that I'm doing wrong. That is true courage, the righteous kind. I have so much to learn from Stuart.

Thank you, Stuart, for building me a TARDIS, for being brave with me when I moved out, for chanting "Who can do it? You can!" with me as I struggled against tears as I packed up my stuff, for always being there for me, bringing me a cat when I was sad (because you always know that cheers me up!), for reminding me to live more like Jesus and for being the BEST youngest brother I could EVER wish for.

{ November 2012 }