My Life Story Part II By Sue Blevins Kovack

This is the second part of my life story and after we moved to Douglas, Arizona and my beautiful daughter was born on June 30, 1974. I was in labor with her for three days and nights before she decided it was time to come into this world! This Thursday is her birthday. We were living in a new trailer that only had three bedrooms and I put my daughter's crib in the hallway at the foot of the stairs that lead to my oldest son bedroom and it was like a loft bedroom and Chris was in the lower one.

I wanted a daughter so badly that I went through three days of labor to get her, two days for my son Chris and 18 1/2 hours with my oldest son, Sky. My daughter was so pretty and loved to sleep so I was grateful for that! Jesse Bagwell that lived on the ranch that was married to Phil Bagwell was the nurse at the hospital and she was not even on duty but went there with me when Tonya was born and she was a midwife and she almost had to deliver Tonya too.

Jesse was at the foot of the stretcher and had her hands ready to get the baby when the doctor finally showed up and Jesse gave him a hard time for being so late and gave him heck for all the pain I had to endure because he was not there to attend to me! Jesse was from Canada and spared no words for this Copper Smelter doctor. My daughter and myself actually flew to Arizona and she got to meet Jesse in person. Jesse was a friend of my mothers too.

My daughter was a good baby! She grew into a very beautiful little girl and my Mother loved her to pieces too! My Tonya used to play in water most of the time with her Barbie dolls! My Tonya was very bashful and I put her in a Catholic daycare center as mother knew those nuns and knew that the kids were taken care of too! I went back to work when Tonya was two and one half years old. She cried as I left her there and she was never happy there so I pulled her out and a neighbor kept her on the ranch and she had a daughter the same age too. then my little daughter was happy!

The Copper Smelter laid off a bunch of men, including my husband, Dennis Kovack. We decided that we would go back East and try living there again , so we went to Somerset, Pennsylvania. That only lasted a year and we had it very rough and I was working also! If you did not know someone there or if no one had died, all the good paying jobs were taken so we had to leave and we came to Woodbridge, Virginia in 1979.

My daughter was five then! She claims Virginia as her home too! My daughter went to kindergarten here. She also finished high school in the same area. We spent lots of vacations together too over the years and went to the beaches often. My daughter would get up during the middle of the night to feed Megan and Rebecca too and then change their diapers and put them back to bed and I often did the same thing as the parents never hardly heard the girls crying for food in the middle of the night either.

My son was dating Virginia Irene Kovack and she and my daughter, Tonya became good friends. They still are today! My daughter loves children and has sought jobs relating to children too. She now has bought a home with her fiancé, Steve. Thursday is her birthday and she will be 31! Where did my time with my daughter go to! Life sucked it up and circumstances too!

I am proud of my daughter too! I love her to pieces too! Its hard sometimes to give her her needed space as I want to see her all the time but I try to respect her wishes and hive her some freedom too.

But I wish!

Happy Happy Birthday Baby!

Mom's Baby!

Love you,

Mom

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