I am getting old (at least I feel like it!)

Got my eyes examined a few weeks back. Got new contacts.  Found out I need reading glasses in addition to the contacts! I guess you can call me “EIGHT Eyes!”  Also, about a week ago, I was walking to the bowling alley with my husband, and stepped on a big, fat rusty nail!  Got a tetanus shot and antibiotics the next day, but I’m still limping around like an old lady!  I’m only 39! Give me a break!

I’m bald.

I wore my hair natural for 5 years. Then, in a few moments of boredom, I relaxed it in January.  Did it again in March. Finally realized that there was a reason I didn’t relax any more (well, more than one), and decided to go back to natural. I warned Mr. Day that he might come home one day and find that I had cut all the relaxer out of my hair.  That day came yesterday.  I have about an inch of hair now.  Couldn’t take it anymore!  However, you probably won’t see it until I’ve got at least 6 inches or more. Until then, I will continue to let Mr. Day pick out the wig for the month!

This weekend was boy central.

Not only was I surrounded with the normal males, but at various times, Mr. Day’s cousin and two nephews came to visit. Of course, this was the weekend when my momma, the R.N., decreed that because of my jacked up foot, I had to stay off of it. I had NO ESCAPE!  It’s a whole different experience when they all get together! Thank God I like football.

Summer won’t go away.

I love fall and spring. I could do without the other two seasons – especially summer. I hate to be hot. I hate humidity.  And this summer was a beast.  However, it’s been cooler for the past week. So I thought I was in the clear.  But no. Today and the next three days will be 90 degrees! Thankfully, I have a place to escape to in the next few evenings. I’m sick of being hot!

We noticed a little while ago that the twins were squinting all of the time. Last weekend, they joined me in the FourEyes Club. I don’t feel so alone anymore.  TJ and SweetPea pretty much have perfect vision, so they are excluded from membership.  Above is Thing One.  His vision is the worst of the two. I think he’s happy that he can finally see!

Here’s Thing Two in his glasses. Maybe I’ll be able to tell them apart better from the difference in the frames. I do pretty well, but sometimes I mess up!

The only thing now is that I have to keep making them KEEP the glasses on. They’ve never had glasses before, so they don’t understand that it’s not an OPTIONAL thing. I told them, unless you’re roughhousing or sleeping, keep’em on your face! I know it will take some getting used to, however. I was about their age when I started my family’s chapter of the FourEyes Club.

It only gets worse.  I had my eye exam last week, and I got new contacts. Yay for me. Problem is, I’m close to forty, so small print is doing me in. It’s a shame to have contacts and then have to wear reading glasses too. I haven’t gotten them yet, but I have my eye on a pair of pink ones….so I’ll post pics when I do!

Gettin’ old sucks.

{mrsday}