[blparent] Sarah in the Snow

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Aw, what a cutie!

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From: "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 1:53 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Sarah in the Snow

> Hi Jo Elizabeth.  Thanks for sharing this with us.  One of those moments
> that makes it all worthwhile.
>
> I've got one for you guys.  Brian, our youngest was born in Houghton
> Michigan, located about 12 miles from the shore of Lake Superior.  *Lots* 
> of
> snow.  One day, in the early spring, he was about 18 months, we got a true
> rarity -- warm, sunny day -- melted off most of the snow from the back 
> yard.
> Brian, who never remembered seeing bare ground, played outside the whole
> day.  There was a sand box, and all his brothers' toys to discover.  Truly 
> a
> magical day.
>
> The next morning he woke up and ran to the window -- it had a low sill, so
> he could see out.  During the night, it had snowed.  Poor baby!  When he 
> saw
> the back yard covered in white, again, he cried:
> "Mommy, Daddy, outtide bwoke.
> It was so precious and sad all at the same time, but we knew he was going 
> to
> have a seemingly endless summer to enjoy the outside and pester his
> brothers.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at pcdesk.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 10:55 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] Sarah in the Snow
>
> Okay, maybe I'm a little sappy, but Sarah and I had another "Wow moment"
> yesterday.  It snowed for the first time of the season.  At two and a 
> half,
> Sarah is too young to remember snow from last winter.  She loves going
> outside more than anything, and to begin with, I bundled her up and took 
> her
> out to show her that it was too cold to take a walk.  Surely one breath of
> the icy wind would convince her that we should stay home and maybe watch a
> movie or play with her dolls.
>
> Wrong!  The snow captivated her instantly.  She loved the way it crunched 
> on
> the grass under her shoes.  She loved how it felt on her hands and how it
> melted away into nothing when she touched the branches of the butterfly 
> bush
> in our yard.  Of course, she had to taste it--just the way we all did when
> we were too young to worry about air pollution and lawn fertilizer and who
> knows what else the white stuff may have come up against on its way
> down--and she pronounced it yummy.  She wanted to stay out even when I 
> knew
> her hands and feet were freezing cold.
>
> While I had been thinking about slow traffic and how late Gerald would be,
> and whether it was time to buy rock salt for the steps because the
> Homeowners' Association never got around to fixing the drippy spot on the
> edge of the roof from last winter, Sarah was taking in the snow as if it
> were pure magic.  So I'll say it again, especially to the newer moms like
> me.  It's easy to get caught up worrying about nutrition and proper
> stimulation and which brand of diapers to use, but don't miss the "wow
> moments" along the way.  If Sarah wants to stop and talk to all the fire
> hydrants in the neighborhood because she thinks they're farmers in 
> matching
> hats, or fill my pockets with rocks and pine cones because they're babies
> who need to be taken home, or stand out in the snow till we both have wet
> feet and numb noses, that's fine, because it makes me remember when I
> believed in magic and thought anybody who didn't was just plain crazy.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
>
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