Friday, August 24, 2007

"You looked weird, Mom!"

When I first told my younger son Philip (age 8) that I was going to have eye surgery so I would no longer need to wear glasses, he protested that he didn't want me to look different. He wanted me to stay exactly the way I was.

More than four months have passed since I stopped wearing glasses. About a week ago we were watching part of a videotaped TV interview in which my husband and I talked about transracial adoption. The interview was taped in November. Philip saw me on the videotape and commented in surprise, "You looked weird, Mom!" Today I look normal to him without glasses. It feels "normal" to me, too, and I love it!

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