The McMahon Family

People are whining at me that the skating video wasn’t long enough.
So here’s one that’s a little longer. 🙂

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Last week, Mac’s teacher asked me about the possibility of Mac being color blind.  I told her I was waiting for that to come up.  Mac has begun struggling with shades and confusing certain colors.  I wasn’t sure at what age kids could see all shades and distinguish them.  Commonly, he gets blues and purples mixed up, but then he’ll confuse oranges and greens…Anyway, with colorblindness being in the family, I wasn’t surprised when his teacher said that these were common signs and that he should, indeed, see all the shades correctly at this age.  She asked if she could run him through a few basic tests, to which I was happy to say yes. While waiting, I decided to pull up a few sites that had color blindness tests and have Mac look at them.

I had this box up on the computer and I was reading the instructions (to know what I should see and what he should see) when he walked up and said, “It says, ‘No’.”

I told him, “No, I’m reading what you should see.”  He kept insisting that it said, ‘No’.

“Where? Point to it, Mac.”  Getting slightly exasperated that he was trying to take the test before I gave him the instructions.

“Look, Mom, N-O.” while pointing to a bunch of random dots.

Then I got a chance to read the instructions.

I then gave him all the tests I could find online and he ‘passed’ each one for color blindness.  He gave the ‘colorblind’ answer for each picture.  The research was interesting.  With Nate being color blind, I always wonder what the world looks like to him. I mean, I can’t imagine not seeing all the beautiful greens and colors of the grass, trees and flowers.  These sites gave great pictures of what ‘color vision deficient’ individuals see.  It’s not as bad as I imagined, so I guess Mac will be just fine, despite his disability. 🙂

The neighbor girl came over and invited the boys out for an egg hunt tonight.
It was so cute.

Maybe could have had slightly harder hiding places, but good practice nonetheless. 🙂

Here are just a few of the things that made me happy this week.

1.  These are the gorgeous buds on our tree out front.  These signs of spring lift my spirits more than I can say.  Once the holidays are over, winter depression usually gets to me and by April, well, some years are really rough!  But just when I feel like I’ll never see the sun again (especially after crazy weeks with 80 degree days followed by 40 degree days!), God brings the blooms out on the trees and I see the light at the end of the tunnel.  I can start to imagine swimming and picnics and playing outside without being cold and flip flops on the way out the door…

2.  These are two empty hampers.  With our new washer and dryer we can do all of the laundry in one evening.  That is such a great feeling.  Of course, they don’t stay empty too long, but at least they get empty! 🙂

3.  Mac promising me that when he grows up and lives next door, he’ll come see me every day.  Except for Saturdays, because those are cleaning days and since there’s a lot to do, they may not have time, but if they do, he’ll bring his wife and kids over to see Grandma and Grandpa.  Because I’ll be his kids’ grandma. 🙂

4.  This is what I see every day.  My. Three. Boys.  Happiness.