Not Every Body Understands About Having A Blind Mom. I wish They did. My Friends Always nod Or Point When They Talk . SInce Mom Cant see what they ‘re doing . I have to explain .i feel like a translator. Mom does some things differently but mostly she’s  like other mothers. She walks with me .but her guide is mostly a dog ,I am glad that my dog can go everywhere with us on bus, to restaurant ,to school, even in a canoe.

 

When I was little mom made me wear a kind of harness and leash, too, so she could feel where I was , my mom used to put jingly bells on my shoes so she could hear me . when I wanted to stay longer at nursery with charlotte . i took off my shoes then mom  couldn’t  find me. I still do things that mom doesn’t know about right way , if dad’s not home , I switch the light some cookies so quietly that mom couldn’t possibly have the lid clang , but the she asked ,”why are you eating chocolate ,chip cookies so close to dinner? I forget that she could smell the on my breath.

when we were younger, mom read to joel and me ,she had to use books with braille bumps as well as print and pictures, our favorite was the little engine that could .

braille is hard to learn. I tried it, even when I remembered how many dots stood for a letter, I couldn’t always fell each one ,