[blparent] Everyone needs a break

trishs slosser at metrocast.net
Wed May 20 00:11:09 UTC 2009 

My girls are just a little older than V.'s, and it's so hard to 
let them go, just a little, to have their own space and 
experiences.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Mon, 18 May 2009 20:12:57 -0600
>Subject: Re: [blparent] Everyone needs a break

>How old is she?  Gab likes to walk home with her friends now and 
I wait
>impatiently near the front door waiting until I can hear the 
laughter of the
>3 kids coming up the street.  V

>-----Original Message-----
>From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of The BlindTechs Network
>Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 7:38 AM
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>Subject: Re: [blparent] Everyone needs a break

>I can relate to this totally.  Although my daughter has my 
attention
>for like 16 hours out of the day, I be sure to call an adult and 
talk
>to them once in a while.  you can only take it so long when they 
talk
>about why this friend isn't friends with that friend and why she 
is in
>the club but the other girl isn't and how that little girl told 
the
>other little girl about what another little girl did but why they 
will
>or won't still be another little girl's friend.

>I mean, I sometimes do a little happy dance when she goes to 
school
>and I leave for work, yet my fingers always wants to dial her 
class
>room directly and ask for her to here her voice to know she's ok.

>and still I am always at the bus stop waiting for her to get 
home, and
>to here her run to me and shout "Daddy" and hearing her running 
foot
>steps.

>Gabe Vega
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>On May 17, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Veronica Smith wrote:

>My Gab and I spend endless hours together, playing restaurant, 
going on
>walks, discussing what we hear and what she sees, talking about 
kids
>in her
>classes, what she is watching on TV, what she is hungry for, but 
once
>in a
>while it is nice to talk to an adult.  V

>-----Original Message-----
>From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>On
>Behalf Of Allie
>Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 2:17 AM
>To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [blparent] Everyone needs a break

>I agree with the part about sharing your interests.  I will lie 
down with
>Gabs for her nap, and turn
>on whatever audio book I'm listening to at the time, and we 
snuggle
>together
>for a while.  Usually
>she falls asleep, sometimes she doesn't.  She likes listening to 
the
>sound of
>the narrator's voice, I
>guess.  Not sure, but it works.

>-- Allie

>A smile costs nothing but gives much.  It enriches those who 
receive
>without
>making poorer those who
>give.  It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes 
lasts
>forever.
>None is so rich or
>mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor 
that he
>cannot be made rich by it.
>Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it 
is
>something that is of no value
>to anyone until it is given away.  Some people are too tired to 
give
>you a
>smile.  Give them one of
>yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to 
give.
>-- Author Unknown
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (IS)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:01 AM
>Subject: Re: [blparent] Everyone needs a break


>Thing is, my "me" time is sitting and reading a book.  I tend to 
go to
>bed early and sometimes time "out" tires me more then being with 
my
>family.
>Honestly, when I see posts like "You need time out" I view it as 
"one
>more thing I *have* to do" which I don't think is the intent.
>Maybe a better bit of advice is to make sure you don't forget the 
things
>you like to do, i.e.  the bit of yourself that can get lost if 
you don't
>take care to nurture it.
>It's also okay to share the things you love with your kids for no 
other
>purpose then because you love your kids, and you love a certain 
interest
>or topic.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>On Behalf Of trishs
>Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:03 PM
>To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [blparent] Everyone needs a break

>V., I agree with how important "me time" is.  I don't have a 
weekly
>schedule, but I get out as often as possible.  The 1 recent thing 
I've
>discovered, and look forward to, is a weekend for the blind, 
hosted by
>our local Lion's club.  A few hours a month, and 1  weekend once 
a year
>doesn't seem like enough to me, so a few girl friends and I are 
going to
>plan an anual weekend away, in the Fall, up north, in NH..

>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org 
Date
>> sent: Wed, 13 May 2009 10:25:20 -0600
>> Subject: [blparent] Everyone needs a break

>> All you mom's remember you are a person too!  Yes you are needed
>at home,
>> yes your babies need nursing, bathing, changing, feeding, etc.
>But don't
>> forget you need time to yourself.  When Gab was born I didn't
>want to leave
>> her, not even for a minute.  My husband made me go out one
>evening a week
>> for some grown up time.  Boy, let me tell you, it made a world 
of
>difference
>> on how I felt about all that crying babies do and all that
>whining toddlers
>> do.  I still go out once a week in the evening with my friends.
>Sometimes
>> we go to dinner, sometimes just a walk around the block, but it
>is my time.
>> No kids, no husband.  Veronica


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