Don’t get me started on my own glasses. I love my glasses, and now I love wearing them, but that’s only because I’ve grown to love them over the years. Luckily (?) I have dark circles under my eyes most of the time, which the glasses do a good job of hiding, so I look better with glasses than without. I’d still rather look good without glasses.

edited: Teagan’s Mom, oh no! Those little nose pieces are by far the worst.

Shoot, my own ophthalmologist is guilty of telling me to be glad that my glaucoma is easily controlled and to stop complaining about not being able to wear my contact any more because I look cute in glasses. I don’t wanna look cute in glasses! I want to look cute without them!

I think that for me, this is just something I think about a lot in the context of this blog. I’ve been trying to write a short guest post about little four eyes for a parenting blog, and I feel like my writing keeps coming out sounding whiny, so it’s just something that’s been bugging me, but it’s all because of me and my inability to write clearly, not anything I’ve read here at all. I’m also sorry if I came across as dismissive because that’s not what I meant at all.

My only intent was to share a story of how a situation I observed helped me deal with the situation I was in. No more, no less. I truly apologize if anyone thought I was trying to minimize the feelings brought on by each one of our unique situations.

And no one, ever, ever wants to be told that there is something wrong with their child, no matter how fixable it is. Emma’s little lesion in her brain (from being premature) still weighs on me. Some days, I hate that Sam is in glasses, and pray that he won’t end up with any of the other eye problems that run in my family.

Sure, glasses are a minor thing. The blip in Emma’s brain isn’t affecting her intellect at all. Ellie out grew her kidney problem.

But still, it made me sad to know that my kids had or have something “wrong” with them. Yes, I can be thankful that none of it has been anything serious, but it didn’t make dealing with it any les stressful at the time.

This is a tension that I struggle with, and try to keep a good balance with on this blog. It doesn’t matter why your child has glasses, this is hard. Vision is important, and we shouldn’t minimize what we’re going through. But on the other hand, I think it is important to keep a sense of perspective. Many of us have kids with *correctable* vision, even if the correction is lenses, and that is something for which we should be very thankful.