day 74 - vision

i had no idea how poor lilly's vision was until yesterday.  during her eye appointment i sat there stunned as i watched her fumble through trying to recognize the letters she was being asked to name.  as i sat there i couldn't help but ask myself, "how could you have missed this?", "you must be the worst mom not to recognize how bad your daughter's vision is", etc.  when the truth is, i am human.  i had no idea how poor her vision was because she has proven to be successful in spite of it.  she has never complained about not seeing.  in the end i realized beating myself up over not recognizing the issue didn't do anyone any good and the fact that we were finding out now was something to celebrate.

she picked out a cute pair of glasses yesterday and today we were able to go and pick them up.  the smiles that came next were priceless!  she kept pulling them down and pointing at how blurry something was and then putting them back on and saying, "now it's clear!".