Eyes | Jendi's Journal

First Eye Exam

This morning I took all 3 children to the eye doctor’s office. Being the organized, ahead of time person that I am [cough, cough] I had a post all pre-scheduled for you. Okay, I had the idea, but not the time or energy to write it. Instead you get to hear about our eye exams.

I’ve worn glasses since about 2nd grade so I’m very familiar with “1 or 2?”, “2 or 1.” My husband didn’t have an eye exam like that until after we were married! He’s blessed with better than 20/20 vision. I’m praying that all my children inherited his vision. [Read more...]

The Eyes Have It

I realized that I squeeze my eyes tight to go to sleep. I’m trying to break the habit. It was a subconscious thing: It’s time to sleep, and if I squeeze my eyes shut I’ll stop thinking of the million things I have to do and fall asleep really quick.

It doesn’t work.

Now I try to think of relaxing my muscles from my forehead to my toes. Well, I think forehead.. eyes.. nose.. mouth.. neck.. shoulders.. toes. Then I relax my eyes again.

If you see extra wrinkle lines around my eyes you’ll know why.