I Lost My Glasses, But Not My Marbles!

A real life story about parenting.

My readers are used to seeing me with glasses on in pictures. Today, I went to a waterpark. Yes I know I live in the north east of the United States. Yes, I am also familiar with the fact that it is November. It turns out in New Jersey, there is a mall that now has an indoor waterpark. It is, and I think I can speak for my entire family here, awesome. My son wanted to go on some water rides. I was wearing my glasses. This was a terrible idea, in retrospect, but whatever.

My son and his friend, who was having his eight years old birthday, brought me up to the top of a very exciting waterslide, that my son went down. And his friend, whose birthday it was, decided not to. He was going to walk down the stairs. This was a parenting game-time decision. Do I follow my kid down the slide? Do I go down the stairs? I decided to go on the slide.

They then told me to take off the glasses. “ put them in your pocket.” I did. They were immediately flushed out of my pocket to who knows where.

OK, well, Sploosh.

No more glasses. This photo is me on the way out.

It’s was fun. They boys had fun. And I decided, I’ll get new glasses. It a moment for radical acceptance. If my kids see me radically accept something, they might use that coping skills too.

So this is me, deciding it's no big deal, and, miracle of miracles, it became true.

I had a great time at the waterpark. I'm gonna enjoy picking out new glasses. It wasn't the plan. But it's what's happening.