[blparent] family

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi.  My belief is that you can never have too many people who love your 
child.  Sarah has a great church family, including an older couple who are 
her Papa and Nanna, and some other kids she sometimes calls her brothers and 
sisters.  One of the girls, who is just heading into high school, has given 
a lot of her blocks and stuffed animals and old toys to Sarah, and she told 
me recently that Sarah is like another little sister to her.  I get a lot of 
support from many of the church women as well, and we also have friends 
outside of church.  Some of our friends have helped get us to the zoo and 
the water park this summer, and to a festival where Sarah got to ride a pony 
and take a picture next to a fire truck, which had a tire that was taller 
than she was.  Plus, Stephen is kind of helping her get acquainted with some 
of the neighborhood kids, in a way that I found difficult because their 
parents seemed to be standoffish, maybe afraid of blindness.  So I think 
Sarah has a great self-made family, and really, family is who you choose it 
to be, those who can be supportive friends.  I figure if the real family 
ever does come around, which looks doubtful, well, you can never have too 
many people who love your child.  So they'll fit in somewhere, although 
they're missing out on years and memories they can't get back.

Jo Elizabeth

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, 
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into 
advance."--Franklin D. Roosevelt

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From: "jan wright" <jan.wrightfamily5 at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:28 AM
To: "blparent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] family

> Jo Elizabeth,
> I hope that you have a network of selfmade family members.
> I know how difficult it is when your family of origin does not even accept 
> you!
> And, it seems that the only thing they want to do is to find anything
> critical or horrible to say.
> Sarah would probably feel their criticism and pressure, also, so it
> might be better that they keep their distance.
> And, they could put doubts into Sarah's mind, also.
>
> Enjoy your daughter and your day.
>
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