The weekend before St. Patrick's Day my eyes got bad. I had found out I was expecting in January. This was the longest that we had tried to get pregnant, so we were super excited it had happened. And I was determined that I would drink enough water and use drops so that my eyes would be good this time. I don't get sick, my eyes just get really dried out and I get corneal erosions each time. They are very painful. My family found out I was pregnant when my sister, Mindy, saw that my eyes were bothering me at the end of February. I was doing really good with my watering routine and yet, I still ended up with a corneal erosion. They hurt really bad, and of course it happened on a weekend, so I stayed home from church in bed while my wonderful husband took our four kids to church and took care of them all day. The next morning, St. Patrick's Day, he got them ready for school and found someone to watch the two smaller ones while he went and taught his class because they hurt so bad I couldn't even open them. Then he took me to the eye doctor in the afternoon. I was lucky that this time they actually saw an erosion on my eye and didn't think I was just being crazy. He put on a bandage contact and it started to feel a lot better. It wasn't immediate relief like some other times, but definitely felt better. I felt much better by that night and I was even able to see enough to take a picture of the girls in their green. It made me sad that I didn't get to do anything really special since it was a fun holiday that day. Since then I went to the eye doctor about twice a week for 4 weeks making sure the contact was doing what it was supposed to. I also got an erosion in the other eye (which seems to happen every time) and had a contact placed on that eye as well. It took about another 3 weeks after the contacts were off for the light sensitivity to go away. It was extremely painful this time, even indoors with barely any light. To go outside I had to wear two pairs of sunglasses, sometimes with a hat, and a few times even that wasn't enough. I am so glad to be able to see again!
Heidi and Hailey wore as much green as they could find.
That week was dads and donuts. Hailey picked this book. That day was SEP's and both of their teachers said they are doing well. I went to Heidi's and her teacher might have thought it was strange that I was wearing sunglasses inside, but I am way beyond caring about what others think about me wearing sunglasses now. Weid went to Hailey's later that night.
The girls painted their bird houses that they had made a few weeks before.
We ordered a digital piano and it came that week. Everyone was really excited about it and took turns playing it. Hailey got home from school that day and played the keys as she sang just about every song she knows. It was really cute.
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