Sarah was a bright little girl, who loved everyone. She was happy to sit on everyone's lap, and happy to cooperate with almost anything.

  Sarah was physically weak, from having a brain bleed shortly after birth, so did not walk until three years old. She had a little trouble learning to hold her head up, because it was a bit large, but she made it!

  Sarah was keen on making jokes. She had favorite jokes like calling Sheena "opiedoe!" She would laugh things off easily, and call everyone names that made them laugh, like "packrat" and other words she got from videos such as "Charlotte's Web." She loved to say "ugga-bugga meatball!" She would chase Sheena, and Matthew and Michael, and they would chase her back, until they all fell in a heap, giggling so hard!

  Sarah was an instigator of joy. She was an absolute joy to raise. She could read the names of all her sisters and brothers at four years old. She absolutely bloomed in home school Kindergarten, beginning to read. What fun she was to teach! She was an eager learner, cooperative, and patient. One Bible verse she learned in Kindergarten was Psalm 100:1 and 2. I can still see her little fingers making her mouth into a smile at the words "serve the Lord with GLADNESS!" (That's what I taught all my little ones.) And she knew too, that to serve the Lord with gladness, meant to do what chores needed to be done, and to help other people with a happy heart. To do these things with a glad heart, was to do them for God. This made a special impression on her.

  Sarah was always fascinated with her little child's Bible, which I had given her, and spent much time looking at the pictures in it, by herself, or with Sheena, who also did this, in her little rocking chair in her room, saying the Bible stories out loud to herself. (I had taught her the stories, and she would look until she found the picture that matched the story she kept in her mind.) Sarah accepted Christ as her personal Savior just before her sixth birthday. She asked Jesus to forgive her sins, and asked Him to come into her heart, and be her own Savior. To help her be good, and take her to Heaven some day. She had no questions. She wanted to please both God, and me, and God was going to help her. I told her that God would be with her all of her life, and would help her, and comfort her, and guide her, and love her forever. I was so thrilled that day. My darling, precious daughter was saved.