[blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

[Pipi]

I've read through all of the posts on this so far and have thought about it 
more.
I made my 9 year old niece and 13 year old nephew quilts for christmas a 
couple of years ago. I take care of them for a living and live with them. I 
hand sewed both quilts so they were time consuming. In order to get them 
done, I couldn't get around the fact that they were going to see me making 
them. Again, I lied to them. I told my niece that the one I was making for 
her was actually for Savannah. I told my nephew that his was for my aunt 
since it was a Kansas University quilt and she is a huge fan like him.
Again, I lied which is a lie and not really right. But they both were 
surprised and loved the quilts. My nephew saw my lie as a you got me moment 
and laughed about it.
There isn't a single person who can honestly say they haven't told some form 
of a lie in their life. It doesn't mean that lying is right. I don't know I 
guess it's a very gray area no matter how you look at it.
I was going to say something else and can't remember now what it was. lol
Pipi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:32 AM
Subject: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!


> Hi.  For any of you moms who have little ones starting to run around and 
> get into things, I thought I'd warn you about something I just learned the 
> hard way.  *Smile.*  They'll see everything, especially what you don't 
> want them to, and they'll remember.  They're smarter than we give them 
> credit for.
>
> I bought Sarah the Little People school bus because she's really into 
> buses and planes and the like right now.  The package came from Amazon 
> while she was at preschool about a month ago, and I threw the boxes in the 
> recycling bin and hid the toy at the top of my closet, thinking I was 
> pretty slick.  Well, she saw part of a picture on one box sticking out of 
> the bin.  She asked about it, and I glossed over it.  We moved on, and I 
> thought she'd forgotten about the bus.
>
> So this morning, I went to get a shirt from the closet, and Sarah wandered 
> in behind me.  All at once, she started jumping up and down, saying, "I 
> see it!  Up there!  The bus toy really is here!  I want that bus toy!"
>
> I guess I didn't hide it well enough.  She saw the box peeking out from 
> under a blanket on a high shelf and remembered the picture from the 
> recycling bin.  She had a bit of a meltdown because she knew the toy was 
> there, but I wouldn't get it off the shelf for her.  I couldn't really 
> explain why, either.  Now Santa Claus can't bring that toy to her, either, 
> because it'll blow his cover.  I'll have to give it to her from Mom and 
> Dad, or maybe from her brother Stephen.  Anyway, my point is, when I was a 
> kid, my family could (and did) wrap my presents right in front of me.  But 
> obviously, blind parents of sighted kids have to be very careful about 
> these things.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been 
> all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
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