Today is our sad, sad anniversary. RIP Emma.
Today is my wife and I’s three year anniversary. However, I have a story to tell. It will illuminate for you why this is the saddest anniversary to date.
My wife’s brother’s wife (no, this is not going to be a funny story) has had problems getting and staying pregnant for the longest time. This was due to complications she had when she was a child.
So when she became pregnant, and did not immediately miscarry as had previously happened, everyone in the family was ecstatic. Even myself, despite mine and my wife’s brother’s quarrel.
As of this past Friday, June 29th, she was almost six months pregnant, the baby was breached, but nonetheless alive and well.
Sadly, something went wrong, labor quickly ensued and she had to give birth to a baby almost four months premature.
Emma Smith, so small her parents decided she didn’t even need a middle name, as her name was already longer than she was…
…not long after her arrival, Emma was dead.
So today, on my wife and I’s three year anniversary, we had to see buried, a niece, a cousin, an only child to a deserving couple.
RIP little angel. God is calling.
See Emma Smith at our local newspaper for the details. Condolences may be expressed either here, or at the Bennett-Bertram funeral home Web site.
UPDATE: Due to the Bennett-Bertram Web site using Publisher (I initially thought FrontPage, or Word) to design the site, it is basically unusable in any browser other than Internet Explorer, so use Internet Explorer if possible.