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“with glasses.”

originally published on Little Four Eyes Something happened, recently; In fact, many somethings: My baby daughter became a kid; She started to go to school; She got recognized for her glasses. Back in the early days, when her diagnoses and spectacles were so new, my greatest fear was that she’d be judged. I worried that she would be ridiculed and prayed that she ...

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Last week, we found out that our sweet girl needs glasses. She is quite farsighted, in fact. She was having trouble reading her T.S. Elliot Poems at bedtime, so I decided to have her eyes checked. Oh. You know I'm kidding. She can read Preludes just fine. It's her daddy's car magazines that she's having trouble wading through. ...

The Story of Us–Chapter 1

I have mentioned before that my husband first appeared in my life long before he was, Well, Mine. In fact, the origins of our paths crossing dates back over twenty-some years, When we attended the same nursery school. And then attended the same preschool. And then the same elementary school. And then the same middle school. And then the same high school. I ...

It just occurred to me that there may be one major upside to having delivered my daughter via unplanned c-section. Being a preschool teacher, my kids have a million questions. For everything. Watching their teacher’s pregnancy from start to finish really put them over the edge. As you can imagine, the two main, recurring questions were: “How ...