I was born at 2:00 am on November 4, 1978 at Lake County Memorial Hospital in Painesville, Ohio, a town about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland, Ohio. My dad and my mom, Terry and Jennifer (Bellan) Kowalski, both aged 27 years, named me Emily Claire, a name which I feel does not suit me at all. I weighed 6lbs, 11oz at birth. A port wine stain birthmark stretched all the way from my left hip bone down the entire length of my left leg. (Despite what doctors told my parents when I was a child, it turned out to be much more than 'just a birthmark.') My hips were uneven, and I had to wear a brace on them for the first year of my life, so I crawled and walked later than most babies. Overall, I was a healthy baby, the first child of my parents and the first grandchild of paternal grandparents. This is a needlepoint that my dad's mom made for me. It hung on the wall in my room all through my childhood.
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| Needlepoint made by Veronica Kowalski |
Love the needlepoint - that is so adorable! A genealogical treasure! I'm starting to write the Book of Me, but since my background is in Counselling, I'm making it private so I can delve deeply & privately! Thank you for sharing, however - I appreciate the details. As for your name... have you ever thought of a name that might fit you better?
ReplyDeleteYes, that needlepoint is very special to me because I never really knew that grandmother - she passed away when I was four.
ReplyDeleteI have always been a tomboy and I always thought Emily was too feminine and weak for me. I always thought something like 'Josephine' would have worked better for me.