HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Happy Birthday to dear Sarah Marie Agnew. She would have been 13 this year. A teenager. That is so scary to know. I named her after the movie Sarah Plain and Tall. I loved all of those movies. I just wanted my baby to be plain and tall. I know silly. She was born in Hebron, Ne. On this day at 4:54 p.m. weighing 8 pounds 4 ounces. We got out of the hospital at 9 the next morning. I wanted to share her with the world. I was so excited to have me a baby girl. The day after we got home we came back to Missouri to show her off.

In August I realized that there was something wrong with her. I told my husband then, and he looked at me and told me that "I just wnated something to be wrong with my little girl." I wanted to hit him so hard. I did tell him "yea, I want my Baby to die." I took her to the doctor the next day and I told him that there was something wrong with her. "That she was loooking just like my first son." He told me "Well he is fine." I yelled at him and said "He is dead." With a little frays and frills on there. We went to Omaha not to long from that day and found out she was had Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1 (SMA). We put my son Allen in an iron lung when he was 5 months old and all that did was prolong the inevitable. I swore that I would not do that to any of our other children. So on December 20th of 1996 she passed away in my arms at the Children's Hospital in Omaha Ne.

So for today I wanted to share that this is my baby girls' birthday. I love you so much and I miss you more than words could ever say. Love, mommy

Everyone have a good night and I will talk to you tomorrow. Roxi

P.S. Thank you Baby for putting up with me an my stupid ways. Thank you for making supper, for loving me, for mowing our yard, for supporting me in EVERYTHING that I do, for just plain LOVING ME AS I AM. I love you with all of my heart. Love, ME