[blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

Thu Nov 10 06:13:10 UTC 2011

Oh but that first christmas is so much fun enjoy every moment the firsts only come once and fortunately there are many of them to enjoy.

Sheila Leigland

-----Original Message-----
From: janel <jjointski at verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 5:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

My parents would buy the toys when I was shopping with them too, but most 
times I did not even know until Christmas comes and I would say "I remember 
seeing that!"
My mother use to have me braille name tags for my gifts.  The last year that 
she had me braille my tags she only told me to braille two tags.  The next 
morning I woke up to several gifts which had braille tags on them.  She 
saved the tags from the previous year.

I am so excited about my first Christmas with Noah.  I think that I may be 
going overboard with his gifts.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!

> My parents never did that to me--of course, they had plenty of time 
> without me since I attended the residential school.
> I have blind kids who are also autistic and I'd never dream of buying 
> their gifts with them present.
> Barbara
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Erin Rumer
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:07 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!
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> My parents got my gifts with me there at the store as well and I've got to
> say I don't blame them.  It's enough work to try and shop and organize
> holiday details so why not cut corners where you can.  Heck, I'd do it if 
> my
> kid was blind! SMILING  My mom would even have me wrap some of my gifts if
> they were in unidentifiable boxes which killed me and made me laugh all at
> the same time.  With Dawson I'm going to take a trick from my 
> mother-in-law
> and wrap the gifts inside other things that are totally different shapes
> from the actual gifts.  For example, taking a old blanket that's not being
> used and wrapping something smaller inside of that or hiding a gift inside 
> a
> big ball of newspaper.  It doesn't have to be pretty, just has to do the
> trick.
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Lisamaria Martinez
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:30 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Beware those sharp little eyes!
>
> You know, my parents wrapped my gifts in front of me too. In fact, they'd
> shop for them in front of me. I thought it was rude and totally unfair to 
> do
> that just because I couldn't see.
>
> LM
>
> On 11/9/11, Jo Elizabeth Pinto <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:
>> 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,
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