Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Optical Black Hole

Does anyone know where lost glasses go?

One of my lovelies has lost two pair of glasses in less than two months. The first was lost over the summer. We were reading with them one day. They were gone the next. I searched high and low. Notice I wrote, I searched. It only seemed to matter a little bit when we went for a new pair for school, and I made her pay part of the bill. After all they were her glasses.

We have a mantra: Face or Case. And so convinced of this mantra that when I don't see her peering out from behind corrective lenses, I was assuming they were in the case. Not the case... for set number two are now with set number one, somewhere.

I searched high and low today. Not finding her glasses, but I did come across two old frames from her older sister. A quick trip to Scott's, the neighborhood Optometrist, resulted in one pair with the correct prescription and one not.

So we now have a pair of glasses for school. To stay in school. To stay at her desk and to not go outside on the playground or to the gym. And soon we will have a pair for home. A pair that will not venture out with written permission and a string so they stay on her face, or around her neck -- when they are not in the case.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you thought about asking the Jumparoo people to check there jumparoo? When they get them back they usually open them up and check them out and repack them.
They could have found them.
How about walking the grounds where the Church Picnic was?
What about under the seats of the rig?
Just a few more places to add to the places you have looked.

Love Bro,

P.H. said...

They were lost before the picnic.

Anonymous said...

bummer...

bro

P.H. said...

Glasses found

1. In the bin with the winter clothes.

2. Sitting on the 3D chess set in papa's office.