Sometimes cheaper isn't always better

   One of the many eye-wear shops in town proudly boasts in all their advertisements that they offer two pairs of complete eye glasses for under 40 dollars.  That's a pretty amazing price.  I can really get behind a deal like that.

 
   It just so happens I have a child that had both A) serious vision impairment and B) the tendency to treat his glasses like pipe cleaners. It seemed like the perfect solution.

Now, you may already know where I'm going with this.  Maybe you too have a child intent on seeing just how far he can push the boundaries between spectacles and origami.  Perhaps you too like to save money, although I'm not sure who doesn't.

Turns out what they don't say is that EVERY. SINGLE. PAIR. of the 2 for $40.00 options comes directly from the Serial Killer Collection.  Each and every time he tried a pair on, all I could do was picture him 10 years down the road, stocking his dilapidated ice cream van full of rope and chloroform.  

Even his sister, the one that loves to tease and taunt him at every turn, noticed.  "MOM, you aren't really going to buy these for him are you?"  That's when I knew we had been beaten.

So we moved up to the next moderately priced collection and found two respectable pairs of specs.  It was a fair amount more financially, but I consider it worth it to not have to be interviewed by the cyborg Barbara Walters asking me if there was any signs that my child would turn out so very odd.

Introduction

I'm not going to spend a whole lot of space presenting myself.  I think most of the people who will read this probably already know me, and those of you that found yourself here while Googling lord-knows-what should get a sense of who I am pretty quick.  So, I will give you 5 quick facts about me and move on:

1. I'm 35, but I spend a good chunk of my time acting 12, so in defunct math terms I'm ony 23.

2. I have two kids and one husband.  I like it that way. Not sure what I would do with more husbands, but it would probably involve yard work and feeding me chocolate.

3. I Loooooove God, like an 11 year old loves Justin OneDirection Jonas.  I wasn't always a Jesus Girl, but I'm making up for lost time.  ;)

4. I'm incredibly geeky.  I am an introvert by nature, but if we land on the subject of Doctor Who I will talk your ears off.  I honestly have more shirts with fictional characters or movie references on them than I do "normal clothes".

5.  I'm pretty crafty.  I try to make anything I can from scratch at least once.  I'm no Martha Stewart, but give me a crock pot, a glue gun, some crochet hooks, and a mason jar and I could possibly save the world.

So now you know......and knowing is....(see #4 again)