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Seeing the World through Glasses

April 16, 2012 by OneMommy

My kids don’t miss a thing.

A new toy hidden in a shopping bag?  Better wait to sneak it in until they’re not around because they will easily see it through the bag.  The tiniest bug crawling on the wall?  They see it, from across the room.

Thankfully, at least so far, they don’t seem to have inherited my poor eye-sight.

I remember when I got my first pair of eyeglasses, back in 1st grade.  We went to church that Sunday, and we were sitting in the balcony, and I saw the faces on the priest and servers up at the altar!  I couldn’t get over it – I had no idea that everyone else had been able to see the faces of all those people from way up there.  I had taken for granted that at a certain distance things were just “not there.”

Through the years my eyes have gotten progressively worse.  To the point that when our eye doctor was examining my husband (right after he had done my eye exam) he mentioned that he had never seen anyone with such a high level of nearsightedness.  I think it alarmed my husband – we had not been married a very long time at that point.

Contacts?  I’ve tried them.  I suffered through them in high school – only for gymnastics practice and competitions.  In college I wore them for tae kwon do.  In other words, I only wore them when glasses weren’t really practical.  I remember one summer when it was suggested that wearing hard contacts might slow down the changes in my eyes; that was an awful summer…as pair after pair were tried.

Nope.  I’ll stick to my eyeglasses, thank you very much.

eye glasses

And, with any luck, these cute eyes won’t ever need to buy glasses!

 

 

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Comments

  1. JDaniel4's Mom says

    April 17, 2012 at 8:35 am

    I am avoiding bifocals!

    • admin says

      April 17, 2012 at 4:48 pm

      Me too, if at all possible! I don’t think I could handle having to look at one part of the glasses to see normally and another part to read. I’ll just hold the book closer to my nose, thank you very much!

  2. shari lynne @ Faith Filled Food For Moms and Grandmothers says

    April 17, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    Ahhh…is that you or your daughter? Either way it’s CUTE. I have been wearing glasses since I was 2 years old..I don’t like contacts either 🙁 Great post!
    Blessings!

    • admin says

      April 19, 2012 at 1:43 pm

      That would be my little girl… She always wants my glasses, so she thought it was great I wanted her to wear them to take a pic!

  3. Michelle says

    April 17, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    I really love your post about the glasses. I totally can relate! I have also had my glasses since a young age, and my eyesight is just horrible.

    I am very nearsighted, I also get eyefloaters that are so annoying!
    Your daughter is such a cutie!!!

    • admin says

      April 19, 2012 at 1:41 pm

      So far I haven’t had floaters, that I know of…
      She did look pretty cute in those glasses, lol.

  4. jen says

    April 17, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    It’s so funny isn’t it? You just never know who in the family will get the great eye sight and who will be as blind as a bat{figure of speech}. My mother wore glasses from age 3, she had terrible eye sight. My brothers and I see fine, then i had the boys, and boom Eric’s eyesight was just like moms and Matthew’s was great like me and my brothers. Bill, my 3 step kids and i we’d all go to the doctor he would joke when he’s do Eric’s glasses and later his contacts, he’d say Eric’s blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other. Each of my brothers has one son, and two daughters the son is the one with the bad eye sight. strange huh?

    • admin says

      April 19, 2012 at 1:20 pm

      That IS strange that out of all those kids it’s the boys with the bad eyesight…. Something to that, maybe. My husband’s eyesight is 20/20 – and I’m hoping the kids lean towards his way rather than mine.

  5. Donna says

    April 19, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    I started to need glasses about two years ago – bifocals, and I must say I hate them. I absolutely only wear them when I must. I still refuse to wear them all day. I’m always asking my family to read things to me.

    • admin says

      April 20, 2012 at 3:14 pm

      Yep – bifocals are what I fear. I can’t get away w/o wearing my glasses now – can’t see an inch from my face and beyond. But bifocals? Pretty sure that would be a bigger pain.

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