[blparent] Mother's Day

[Veronica Smith]

That's what it is all about.

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Behalf Of janel
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 9:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Mother's Day

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, 
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