[blparent] Momories

Fri Jan 9 18:09:23 UTC 2009

When we were kids we'd all go to my uncle's house to hang out.  My uncle 
smoked and all the kids would sit on the arm of his chair and watch him blow 
smoke rings.  well one day he told me he could make the smoke come out his 
ears and I watched and watched but couldn't see it.  Everyone said they 
could, but I could not.  So i came home and told my mom that something was 
wrong with my eyes, i couldn't see the smoke in Uncle Andy's ears. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M. (TASCSD)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Momories

>I can see me on both sides of this story.
> Shortly after John Denver crashed his plane, I went to a record store
> and asked the guy behind the counter "Can you get me a copy of John
> Denver's Christmas In The Paccific"?
> He spent quite a lot of time looking for it.
> On the flip side, I had some very brittle nails for a time. My dad gave
> me some vatamins that were supposed to strengthen them.  Around this
> time, my sister had been applying some of those stick-on nails. I picked
> up her hand, saw her nails and was like "What happened!".
> My dad without missing a beat said "You know those vitamins you've been
> taking? Well, she took a megadose".
> I totally baought it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 12:48 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Momories
>
> I remember a shop teacher once told a cousin of mine to "put a little
> elbow grease in it" when she was sanding her wood project.  She didn't
> know what elbow grease was, so she looked all around the room for it and
> couldn't find it.  When she asked the teacher where the elbow grease
> was, he thought it was funny, so he said he wasn't sure but she should
> go and ask the art teacher, since maybe he had it last.
>
> That's a cute "momery."
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself. To take
> advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. Take care of
> what you are doing. Take care.--George Bernard Shaw in "Candide"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "trishs" <slosser at metrocast.net>
> To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 7:30 PM
> Subject: [blparent] Momories
>
>
>>
>>
>> ---- Original Message ------
>> Subject: Momories
>>
>> I wanted to share this with you all.  Hope you get a good chuckle.
>> Last evening, after my girls' friend left, I told them it was time to
>> clean up the kitchen.  As sybs do, they argued over who would clean
>> which mess.  I interceded, and gave K.  who is 9, the table to clear
>> off, and T, 10, was to get the broom and sweep up the popcorn.  T.
>> took the broom, and began playing the witch riding her broomstick.  I
>> battled between telling her "You can play when you're finished," and
>> telling myself to relax, she's a child.  Pulling patience from some
>> unknown stock pile somewhere in the universe, I played along, telling
>> her to "Capture all the popcorn kernels; don't let any get away."  K
> chimed in and asked "Mom?
>> Can I have a magic broom?"  Playing along, I said "Of course you can,
>> dear."  She asked "When can I have it?"  I told her "Umm, how about
>> the second Tuesday of next week?"  I wish I could have seen the looks
>> on their faces!  T.  knew, at first at least, that there isn't one,
>> but she went to the calendar with her younger sister anyway, and began
> checking.  K.
>> asked "What about the 13th?  I said "No.  That's the second Tuesday of
>
>> the month."  They tried other dates, and I finally told them to call
>> their Grandmother.  They asked which one.  I said it didn't matter,
>> knowing both would enjoy that!
>> It will always make me laugh out loud to think of my 9 and 10-year-old
>
>> girls at the calendar looking for the second Tuesday of next week!
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> blparent:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/rebecca.pickre
> ll%40ngc.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> blparent mailing list
> blparent at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blparent_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> blparent:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blparent_nfbnet.org/madison_tewe%40spinn.net
>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com
Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1884 - Release Date: 1/9/2009 
8:38 AM