Speechless

For those that know me well, they probably know that me being speechless doesn't really happen. Ever.

To illustrate this point, my mother would refer to people that were talking endlessly (in perhaps not the most PC way) as suffering from "Diarrhea of the Mouth."

Out of all of her children, I seemed to suffer from this particular condition most frequently and unfortunately have never fully recovered. In fact, it may have even gotten worse over the years.

However, about a week ago my dear optometry student of a husband created a moment in time when I was actually speechless. Since this is such a rarity, I felt it was note worthy even if it is a rather uneventful story. :)

At this point I would like to mention that Wesley is amazing. He also happens to be amazingly fascinated with the eye and all the things that comes with it.

The Story:

Once upon a week ago, I walked into our bathroom which requires walking through our bedroom where Wesley was watching television with the kids. (It was probably OPB or the news, his favorite things to watch).

Anyways, I opened up the medicine cabinet and was very surprised at what I found.

The conversation (as I remember it).

Me: Wesley you are in big trouble! (I feel pretty confident that I used a tone that shows I was trying to be playful rather than serious).

Which Novalee caught onto right away.

Novalee: Ya, you are in big BIG Mommy trouble! (She's adorable).

Wesley: What did I do?

Me: You're in big Big trouble. (Once again, trying to be funny)

Well as it turns out, the kids were able to read my tone but Wes obviously wasn't because later when I was again in the bathroom, Wes came in and apologized for watching TV. :) Which totally made me laugh out loud.

Me: Seriously, I wasn't being serious. And seriously that wasn't it, let me show you something...



(Please note that in this photo, there are, count them, five contact lens cases, two bottles of contact lens cleaner and two cases of glasses).

Me: Seriously do we really need to keep all of those empty contact lens cases? Can't we throw some of them out?

His response...

I think that all of them have contact lenses in them.

Me: (Surprised and baffled) What, why?

Then this following statement which created the moment of speechlessness.

Wesley: Well, because they are all different types of lenses and I'm trying out which ones I like the best.

What? I have never heard of such a thing. I had nothing to say and could only muster out nervous laughter as I left the bathroom.

What was I supposed to say? The only thing that came to my mind was, "That is crazy, who has five pairs of contact lenses in use as one time." But you can't say that, and you can't ask him to throw a few pairs away, not only would that be wasteful but the eye and contact lenses are kind of a hobby of his. And so speechless I was. :)