Put up your hand if you’ve ever had a pair of eyeglasses “walk off”.   Put up your hand again if you also have a 2 year old who likes to hide things – like eyeglasses – just because he can.  I can’t recall how many times I have had a pair of glasses walk off – or should I say get carried away like some child’s spoil of war.  And these are not cheap eyeglasses either.

I need my glasses.  Without them, I am pretty much useless.  I work on the computer and I take a lot of pictures.  So not having my glasses makes my life unbearable – they are such an essential item to me.

Of course, my two-year-old looks at those curious wire and glass spectacles as literally that – a wonderful spectacle – or some sort of child’s treasure.

It usually goes something like this:  My glasses suddenly mysteriously disappear.   Then I look at my son playing innocently with his toy cars and it hits me.  I look in vain for where I think he might have put them.  And if I’m lucky, I’ll find them in one of his favourite hiding spots – like his sister’s tricycle seat.  If I’m even luckier, I’ll get my glasses back in exactly the same shape as when I left them.  But that’s another story.