[blparent] Mother's Day

[janel]

Noah made me a sunflower plant at daycare.  Of course since he is only 
fifteen months, he did not make it himself, but the whole idea was great.
I bought myself some chocolate covered strawberries and shared with my 
family.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 1:01 AM
Subject: [blparent] Mother's Day


> To tell the truth, I'd started to feel a little bit jaded when it came to 
> Mother's Day.  First of all, I never really got along with my own mother, 
> but I was expected to pick out some mushy card every year that told her 
> how great she was--except she wasn't, really.  During the last few years, 
> I tried hard to find cards that simply wished her a nice day, or something 
> else equally as true but bland.  Every year, I wished there could be a 
> Children's Day, when parents were socially bullied into showering praise 
> on their kids whether they wanted to or not--and yeah, I heard it a 
> million times, every day is Children's Day, only it isn't true, not for 
> everybody.  And then there are the endless ads on the radio for jewelry 
> and flowers and chocolates.  Mother's Day was nothing but a contrived, 
> commercialized holiday designed by the retail powers that be to make 
> people spend money on more stuff that nobody needed anyway.  Bah humbug!
>
> And then it happened.  Sarah gave me a construction paper package this 
> afternoon, laced together with yarn and tied in shoestring bows.  She was 
> so excited for me to open the gift, she nearly pulled the paper off 
> herself.  In preschool, she'd made a butterfly refrigerator magnet out of 
> tissue paper and a clothespin, and a handprint in finger paint, framed by 
> Popsicle sticks and foam flowers.  The magnet immediately got the place of 
> honor at the top of the fridge, where cats and kids couldn't reach it, and 
> the handprint will probably be hung in my bedroom, and eventually saved as 
> a prized possession.  Seeing how eager Sarah was to give me the handmade 
> trinkets, and the hugs and kisses that went with them, and how happy it 
> made her to see me gush over everything, I couldn't help laying off the 
> cynicism.
>
> Gerald cooked dinner for me--not a special meal, except that I didn't have 
> to fix it or wash the dishes.  So how were you alls spoiled for Mother's 
> Day?
>
> 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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