The USS Midway

We have lived in San Diego for many, many years and never once had I ever had the desire to visit the USS Midway.  My tune changed a couple of weeks ago when I visited for the first time, due to my employer being a title sponsor of the Poinsettia Bowl college football tournament.  There was an event hosted aboard the ship and I was in AWE!  I knew we had to bring Kalissa and Qiana is visiting with us this week so we thought now would be the perfect time to visit.  We spent 4 HOURS touring the ship and didn't even see all of it!  The girls had a great time!  I even rode the flight simulator but I will definitely not do that again (I'm old and get motion sickness pretty bad!).

We can wait to return and see the rest of it!

We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

What a great Christmas we had with our family this year!  It started out a little rough for me.  After 17 years of faithfulness, I made the hard decision to put Graham to sleep on Christmas Eve.  I know it was the right decision but was nonetheless a difficult time for me.  Kalissa, on the other hand, is now anticipating a new puppy but we are NOT taking that on any time soon...at least not until late next year :)

Christmas Day was wonderful.  Daddy cooked us a delicious breakfast and after opening our fabulous gifts, we headed to Sea World as we normally do.  This time was bitter sweet because it was the last time that we will see the killer whale shows as Sea World has discontinued them due to backlash from the documentary, "Black Fish".  It was a beautiful day in sunny San Diego and the girls had a good time, riding rides and taking in the marine life.  Kali even got her wish of playing in the snow thanks to Sea World's manufactured snow!

 

 



4 Eyes

Wow, so much has happened since my last blog post.  I got sucked in to the Facebook vortex as a means to post updates but I am happy to say that I have broken free!   Kalissa is now 7 1/2 years old and in 2nd grade.  At her 7 year check up in early August, she was 4' tall and weighed 54 pounds....and she is now wearing glasses!  Kali was complaining about blurry vision in her left eye for a few months so we had her vision checked at her annual check up.  Her pediatrician referred us to an optometrist who diagnosed her with amblyopia in the left eye, hypermetropia in both eyes and monocular esotropia in November.  These are fancy words meaning lazy eye, near-sighted, and cross eyed respectively.  You would think that with these 3 eye conditions, we would have noticed something was wrong by looking at her but luckily, none of the visual symptoms that usually accompany these conditions are apparent just by looking at her.  In children, these conditions can often be reversed by wearing glasses and/or a patch for a few weeks.  Her follow up appointment is approaching and we'll be able to find out if her vision is improving.  For now, she is LOVING her glasses (thank God!)