Don't try this at home

This morning as I was putting in my contacts I absentmindedly reached for the bottle of Clear Care solution and squirted my right contact with it. The minute it was in my eye my eye started burning like crazy. That's when I realized my mistake. Clear Care has to go in a special case that contains a metal that interacts with the solution and is neutralized after six hours. I felt really stupid. Three hours later my eye is still red and not a bit interested in wearing a contact any time soon. Thank the Lord my glasses are still fairly up-to-date!

We're having a stir-crazy kind of morning. It's sunny but all the kids are fighting colds so they can't go outside. We're not doing school this week and the kids are bouncing off the walls, even with the games we've been playing and stories we've been reading. As my grandma Abram used to say, "You'd sell them to the gypsies for a penny and a half if there were half-pennies, but since there aren't you'll keep them after all."