July 18, 2023 - Tuesday


Today flew by. We got up, I showered, we did morning chores, we did our French lesson, and then I was out the door with Clemi to an eye doc appt. She's been complaining of blurry vision and making sure she has the seat closest to the TV lately, so I took her in for a visit. She is having myopia (that was a new word for me!), but not enough for glasses yet. Did you know that they have a treatment for vision loss now??? I was blown away. Apparently, if we started her on this prescription eye drop now, it would slow down her vision loss by 50%! I'm saying vision loss because I don't know how else to say it, but basically it would help her to see better for longer. I wasn't sure I wanted to start her on them right away, but Ben thinks we should just start her before she needs glasses...which does make sense. I'm going to think about it a little more and ask Clemi if she'd be open to getting eye drops in every night. 

After the eye doc, I took the kids to the big pool. It was the PERFECT day for it: pretty cloudy, breezy, and not too hot. I didn't even put my bathing suit on; just sat in the lawn chair reading while the kids played in the pool for 2 hours. After we came home and got changed, I took everyone to the knife store to look for birthday gifts for Ben. His birthday is this weekend! We found a couple of good things. I worked for a while when I got home. I wasn't shut out of anything yet. 😅 There are a few processes that I created and I'm the only one who does them, so I figured I should probably write them out for whoever takes over those jobs. I didn't get a ton done, but I did get some client retention stuff put down on virtual paper. I got a couple of nice messages from coworkers today, which I appreciated. 

I made stir fry for dinner (ran outside to take pictures of the girls while the food was cooking), started a compost pile after dinner, did some laundry, and now I'm blogging! Not a bad day. 







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