[blparent] Please help me snap out of my pity-party

[Veronica Smith]

Kind of a funny thing, every 3rd weekend, Gab and I would go spend the whole
weekend with my mom.  She had parkinson's and each of my brothers would take
turns  and do something special with her.  Well anyway, it was one of those
weekends and Gab and I took our stuff ready for the weekend. My husband did
not come, so when he came to pick us up on Sunday evening, Gab would run to
him and  as if my mother did not know him, she would announce, "grandma,
this is my own dad!  It was quite funny cause we always thought she said
"old," but it was own.


-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sheila
Leigland
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:31 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Please help me snap out of my pity-party

Hi I'm willing to bet that at some level we've felt that way. It is easy to
almost be envious of those that see but we don't need to be. No one  sighted
or blind can do everything and children know that you are his or her parent
and eventually that will be all that matters. When our son was little he
made it clear that I his mom was to take care of him. It didn't matter that
maybe others could do things faster because he was use to the way that I and
my husband also blind, took care of him. If he was with our family and we
weren't there he at times felt alone because the other kids had a parent
with them and sometimes he just wanted someone that was his alone. That
always made me feel special and blessed to be his mom.

Sheila Leigland

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