flashback/when we were little...

When I was in Claire's with my nieces the other day, 

I saw what would have been a

Dream. Come. True.

for Betsy and me when we were little...

a generous selection of affordable eyeglasses.

All sorts of colors, sizes, and styles.

No prescription lenses.

Wow!

How we would have saved our nickles, dimes, and dollar bills (we were paid in increments of nickles and dimes) if we would have been able to one day purchase a chic pair of eyeglasses. Who knows, we might have been better pretend moms driving mini vans, better grown-up ladies being friends, better international business travelers, better prairie homemakers out in our fence row forts... better everything-make-believe with a couple of pairs of glasses...

:)

And after aforementioned hypothetical purchase, we probably would have worn said glasses everywhere (which would have in turn been documented in every photo-- though Mom probably would have made us take them off before portraits for the living room wall)... 

...until we were teenagers.

(and even then we probably would have sneaked them on when it was just us and no one was watching)

I guess you could say we had a "glasses infatuation."