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December 2005 / January 2006 Contest Results |
Back To School
By CJ Cornelius
Gaithersburg, MD
The weekend before
school started I worked like a dog driving my kids all over the county
getting them ready. They needed new shoes, eye exams, glasses, haircuts,
backpacks and school supplies.
One week later,
the sneakers are filthy, the school supplies are well broken in, the
zipper broke on one of the backpacks and my middle daughter has lost her
brand new eye glasses.
This is the
child who had a pair of eye glasses last year but lost them prior to the
in-school eye exam. She then proceeded to make a stink; squinting,
squirming and shouting out incorrect letters during the exam.
What can I say?
She’s a middle
child and loves the attention appearing visually impaired will bring.
She just didn't anticipate the amount of attention that was to come my
way.
I received two
firmly worded notes from the school nurse suggesting I get my nearly
blind daughter eye glasses.
Her corrective
needs are minimal... borderline actually, but I decided she would start
school with glasses this year. I'm tired of the suggestion of neglect in
the notes from school.
It's been 6.5
days since the start of school and my daughters glasses are nowhere to
be found.
When I asked her
where her glasses were she didn't even pause for a breath, "Last time I
saw them," she said, wide eyed and innocent, "I'd handed them to you."
Where do they
learn this skill of deflection? It's apparently a fraternal gene. Her
father is the master.
"Where'd you put
my keys?" His accusations roll.
"Where'd you put
my shoes? Have you been wearing my tie? You seem to have misplaced my
belt, again!"
It's a wonder
anyone in my house can get dressed at all considering my tendency to
misplace their essential accessories.
Finding her
glasses won’t be easy. This is a child who misplaced a pair of gloves
that later turned up in the refrigerator. She lost a pair of shoes that
were burped up from the mud surrounding the swing set three days after
we bought her a new pair. She went to school one day with socks on and
came home that afternoon without them, and had NO IDEA what had happened
to them.
Her glasses
could be anywhere. Although glasses aren't cheap either, I know the
quickest way to find the old pair is to buy new ones. It will cost her
over two months of allowance to replace them, and she will have to replace
them this time.
She'd better do it soon.
I might have to
meet the school nurse on Back-To-School night and I don’t want to be
reprimanded in front of the other mothers.
Then again, I
should learn from the king of deflection.
"I bought her
new glasses just weeks ago," (which is the truth) "but she gave them to
her father to hold and... "
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