We are now officially on our 7th pair of glasses since Matthew began wearing them 14 months ago. I think we are going to have to add a new category in our budget: Glasses Replacements.
We caught Matthew's vision problem at his 4 year checkup. His vision in perfect in one eye and 20/50 in the other. Even though he never complained of blurry vision, glasses were needed to prevent his brain from only using the information from his good eye.
Bryon and I never wore glasses so I was amazed at how expensive they were. He was excited about picking out his pair and he wore them proudly...for a month. Then he came home from school with his glasses scratched beyond repair. He explained that he had tried to clean them using a rock and it didn't work out so great.
Fast forward several glasses that were bent beyond repair from sitting on them, dancing on them, etc. We were on a first name basis with the Eye Master employees!
His last pair he wore for 6 weeks without even misplacing them. I thought, "Finally, he understands how to take care of his glasses!" Then they vanished. We looked all over the house, car, school and could not find them. Last week driving home from school Matthew exclaimed," Oh yeah, I remember where they are! I put them in the trash can because I don't have a blurry eye anymore!"
"Ha ha, Matthew. Seriously, where did you put them?"
"I am being serious. Last week, I decided that my eye wasn't blurry anymore so I didn't need my glasses anymore."
I explained to him, yet again, that there were little boys and girls all over the world who needed glasses but whose parents couldn't buy them any. His solution was to go to the dump and find our trash bag and fish them out. I should have dropped him off there for a few minutes as punishment!
What am I going to do?
Had a thought.
16 hours ago
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