Finally...........

Mary Catherine and I went to the eye doctor yesterday. I needed some new glasses and she was complaining of trouble seeing. I probably should have taken her earlier, but it's been hard to believer her because she wants glasses so badly. In fact, she has wanted them VERY badly for years and years. She tried to tell me she needed some in the 3rd grade so we signed her up for an appointment, only to be disappointed when they said she had PERFECT vision. What in the world would they say that for? Didn't they know how they disappointed a little girl? So, Aunt Tara was sweet enough to give her for Christmas a fake pair of really cute glasses. After the holidays she began wearing them to school everyday. One day she just didn't wear them and left them in her backpack. Her teacher noticed that she didn't have her "glasses" on and sent her to get them on. Well, in those days Mary Catherine was pretty quiet in school and didn't want to tell Mrs. Blaire that they weren't real, so she just went and got them and wore them the rest of the day!!! We have laughed and laughed about that story over the years. Then last year Whitney got real glasses and Mary Catherine loved them, but she didn't think she could still get them, because it would look like she was copying Whitney. So, you can see that glasses to Mary Catherine has very little to do with actually being able to SEE! So, finally she has been able to justify real glasses after 6 years of trying really hard to get some.

Mary Catherine is doing so great! She is a very genuinely happy girl. She smiles all the time, flashing her beautiful pearly whiles. Recently, a friends daughter got her braces off and asked her mom if her teeth looked as good as Mary Catherine's. She loves to show them off! She is also doing great at school. She is on track to earn a 4.0 for the year end grades. In French she has to make a 99 on the last 2 six weeks AND the final to pull out an A, but instead of thinking it is impossible, she is trying! She is being much more careful about her studies and is very independant about it.

I love Mary Catherine very much and am very pleased with the Young Woman she is becoming. She is a great example to us all of happiness and reading the scriptures and making good descisions. And now she will be able to happily wear her glasses, too. I will post pictures tomorrow.