2 pictures of Mom and her high school class

Pics Aunt Sharon had

Happy Birthday Mommy

where to start...
I miss you.
very much.

it's your birthday today and i've been thinking about you a lot lately. so many things have happened that i couldn't share with you. i feel like there's just so much we need to catch up on...
Adi got married, and Vered has Danny and Yosi grew up, and Brad and Roni got married too and Kate and Marj go to Yale and Shira made aliya and and and and and...
And you have two grandchildren. Rahel's Eugenia is almost two, and my little Raz will be one in three days. we're mommys too.
Can you believe it?
I'm a Mommy. and it's amazing. and i think of you with every little thing he does. every little change and every challenge. i wonder if we did the same things and how you handled it. i wonder what advice you would give me on how to do things. i wonder what outfits you would have sewn him and how many times a year you would find an excuse to visit...
and with every challenge and experience i thank you. i thank you for the hands-on upbringing you gave us and all my little siblings on whom i practiced the practicality of handling a baby. i thank you for all those subliminal messages when we were growing up that suddenly make sense to me as a mom. i thank you for raising me to be a strong independent person, so i can handle being a mom. and most of all, i thank you for teaching me to take such joy in every good moment: he's been sick all week and it's been really yucky, but then yesterday he was looking through his little photo album, which contains pictures of all his grandparents, and every time he flipped the page on to your smiling picture, he'd smile back at you and start giggling. and i thought to myself - what a wonderful world.
Happy Birthday Mommy.
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