[blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Nope, no nap.  That coffee fit the description given to the Missouri 
River--too thick to drink, too thin to plow.


Jo Elizabeth

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a 
song."  Maya Angelou

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From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 11:17 AM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!

> That's great news of improvement for your step son.  Although you could 
> cut
> your coffee with a knife, at least on the positive side you won't need a 
> nap
> today! LOL
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 8:57 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!
>
> Exactly.  We want our kids to grow up and become responsible, productive
> members of society, and we aren't going to make that happen by doing
> everything for them and teaching them that it's okay for them not to
> contribute to their world.  We made a few baby steps this morning because 
> I
> had my hands full, and my daughter's frozen waffles popped up from the
> toaster.  I asked my stepson to butter them and give them to her since she
> had to hurry and finish them up so she wouldn't be late for preschool.  He
> started to go into that poor long-suffering sigh routine I hate so much, 
> and
> I said to him, "Think about it.  Is that really too much to ask?"  He said
> no, he guessed not, and when I got finished with what I was doing, I found
> that he'd made my morning cup of coffee for me.  I praised him to the 
> skies,
> although it was one of the more horrible cups of coffee I can remember
> having because the coffee was strong enough to climb out of the cup all on
> its own and shake hands with me.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a
> song."  Maya Angelou
>
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> From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:23 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] The maid wants to go on strike!
>
>> Jo elizabeth you have every right to expect cooperation from the members
>> of your household. It is part of being a family. I was afraid that I was
>> expecting to much of our son if I asked for any help and my sister helped
>> me to see that if I didn't expect participation that I wasn't treating
>> mark as a member of a family.
>>
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