To: Sondra and Cynthia
From: Janet Liebow of
Farmington Hills
When I married, my father said,
"Have daughters. Sons move on
in life; daughters are yours
forever."
God has been good
to me and has given
me two daughters. I
treasure them both.
They have given me
the kinship and
mother-daughter
relationship that tran-
scends my fondest
hopes. We share the
events of each day,
both the good and
bad, from mere gossip
to major decisions to sim-
ply doing things together. I
cannot imagine a day without
both a morning and a night-time
phone call. Maybe this expresses
why my father was right when he
said, "daughters are yours forever."
Now I have been blessed again.
Each of my two daughters has a
daughter of her own.
To: Melanie
From: Shelley Kunin of
Farmington Hills
I want to tell you
why I love my
lust-turned-8-
year-old daugh-
ter, Melanie. Not
only is she my
daughter, she is a joy
to pal around with.
Whether we are doing
the mundane tasks of
cleaning house or gro-
cery shopping, she can
make it fun. She has
such an imagination that
she involves me in her
make-believe world and our
task times go so much quick-
er. We actually have fun while
are and how much you are loved.
we are working. She is a very
Paige, you are such a loving
sensitive little girl and has such
daughter
and you bring so much
compassion for others.
joy to the lives of everyone you
I overhead her tell her friends the
touch.
You have a beautiful way
other day that it really doesn't mat-
of bringing out the best in others.
ter what you look like on the out-
Paige, as a-young child you had
side; it's what you are in the
that certain way about you that
inside that counts. How
always made everyone smile.
wise she is for her
Right from the day you were born
years.,
you
have been the kind of daugh-
I recently lost my
ter every parent dreams of having
mother who was my
— yeS, Paige, even when you
best friend and con-
drive us crazy. It has been such a
fidante, and was
joy watching you grow and see-
concerned for my
ing you become the wonderful
daughter who also
person you are. Maybe you don't
was extremely close
hear it often enough (only 100
to Grandma. Her
times
a day), because it's very
attitude is such that
hard at times to find the words to
Grandma Beverly
tell
you that you are our
Kunin is our guardian
dream come true.
angel, watching over us,
You are our
and that one day we will
special trea-
all be together again, and
t sure, our
she is now with other family mem-
pride and
bers who missed and needed her.
I joy, and
She certainly put it in perspective
you are
for me.
loved more
We are now going through the
than you will
Spice Girl wannabe phase, and
ever imagine.
Melanie has decided to marry Zac
Hanson from the group Hanson
To: Shezaf
when she is finished with
From: Marcie Nof
college. Each phase of her life has
been rewarding and wonderful.
My daughter Shezaf has to be the
As the song goes, "Thank
greatest gift with which I have
heaven for little girls." I am
ever been blessed. Her personali-
truly blessed.
ty is enough to make even•the
toughest person smile and bring
To: Paige
warmth to anybody's life.
From: Adrienne Brill of
Shezaf is friendly, wild, sassy,
Oak Park .
beautiful, crazy and sometimes
naughty, but I would never want
Paige, long before we met you
her to be somebody different. In
were part of Mommy's and
her 21 months of life, I have felt
Daddy's dreams.
more love and joy than I ever
Now you are
imagined. She is my inspiration,
our dreams come
my future and the center of my
true. Just as there
life. I never understood the love of
is no way to mea-
a
mother kr her child, and I must
sure all the happi-
say it was wurth every push for
ness you have given
the birth of my Shezafie. What I
us, there are no words
love most about her is how, at the
to tell you how special you
end of the day when she has final-
ly gone to sleep, I go into her
room and I lean over her crib and
I smell all of the sweetness that
surrounds her. It makes me feel
like my day is complete.
To: Shoshana Miriam
From: Sarah Hartman-
Silow of Huntington Woods
Shoshana Miriam is the first child
born in more than 40 years on
both sides of our birth families.
We think of her very existence as
a miracle, partially because she is
the grandchild of Holocaust sur-
vivors.
In addition, Shoshie is beautiful
and has a terrific personality. She
is good company and a
tremendous amount
of fun. I love
seeing the
world anew
through her
eyes; her
innocence
and curiosity
remind me of
how I once
viewed it. Now, at 17
months, Shoshana is picking up
language — both English and Yid-
dish — like a sponge. The pride
in her voice as she says "baby!"
when she recognizes and points
to every young face fills me with
joy. However, nothing compares
to having her sweetly say
"Mama," then give me a hug.
When ShoShana was a few
months old, my husband asked me
I how I liked being a mother. I
remember responding, "I love
I being Shoshana's mother."
I To: Joshua and Kayla
I From: Rita Winer of Oak
Park
I have two children, Joshua, 8,
I and Kayla, who will be 4 on
I Mother's Day. For the record, I
I