Take a good look….

at this face…

because this time next week…. she’ll be wearing glasses… unless she’s sleeping or wet… (this is what the doctor told her, btw)…

It was just another thing to add to my list of “what nexts?” over the last few weeks….

Monday, she brought home the note from school that she failed her eye test… I jokingly asked her if she forgot to study.

So, I called and made her an appointment with my eye doctor. I wasn’t expecting anything to come of it.

Every year she fails the test, I take her to the doctor and the doctor says the same thing… “it’s really not that bad to warrant glasses full time and all she’ll do is lose them or break them”

and every year I send the little slip of paper back to the school, signed by the doctor with that exact note.

So imagine my surprise when the doc says… “she’s got an astigmatism and myopia… with a pair of glasses and a haircut, she’ll be able to see just fine” (yes, both of my children are in dire need of a hair cut…)

so to wal-mart we went, prescription in hand to pick out her new spectacles…

it’s been so dry here in SW Virginia that the money tree in the back yard is not as fruitful as it normally is, so I tell her that she has $50 for frames… immediately, I don’t love her because $50 will not purchase her a pair of Hannah Montana glasses…

I looked at her and said in my sternest “mommy” voice and said, “Look… when I got my glasses… in the eight grade… when i HAD to look phenomenal… Papaw made me buy the trendiest CHEAPEST glasses they had. There was no other option and they were gross, and I looked horrible and all I really wanted was glassed like Kelly Martin from Life Goes On… but I didn’t get them. I’m giving you a budget which is more than I ever got until I was old enough to buy my own glasses and I flat out refuse to pay more for your glasses than I did for mine. So you will pick from the Nickelodeon, Simply Basic or Kids Connection Line and you will like it or I will pick a frame from the bargain tub and you’ll be stuck with it. Kapeesh?”

After him hawing around she really did pick out a pair of cute glasses within her “budget” and $180 later we walked out of Wal-Mart.

I called my mother and told her what happened and our latest move to send me to the Poor House. At the same time I also told her that I really didn’t have to pay for birth control on a monthly basis because I had two forms already in front of me sucking every last dime that I have.

But next week, we’ll have glasses. And surprisingly she’s not hating it. I am though. Here’s one more thing that I will have to keep up with. Because I KNOW that she’s not going to keep up with them…

then again, she’s still getting herself up in the mornings, so maybe she’ll surprise me.

Until next time…

Heather