Second year Day 272 - Wednesday September 11, 2013

Of course, today is 9/11.  It's so hard to think that it's been 12 years since that fateful day.  Today we headed to Missoula to see Dr. Murdock, and passed the Ferndale Fire hall, with the fireman posted outside for 9/11.  We talked about the events of the day.  Of course, Bridgett was 11 then.  I remember so clearly sitting with the kids in the living room of the log house, watching with horror as events unfolded.  That was the day that I think that really cemented in Tyler's mind (at age 13) the thought that he needed to enlist in the military.  Back to Missoula...we arrived early and hit the Good Food store first.  There are some things that we just love there, that we can't get anywhere else.  Then we headed to Dr. Murdock, making it just in time for our scheduled appointment, although then we had to wait quite a while:)  We had a good, albeit long, appointment with Dr. Murdock.  He was happy with how Bridgett's doing wearing glasses.  She is always so happy and excited that she can see things!  He checked her eyes thoroughly, because she's had very dry eyes lately.  I had a list of questions for him in regards to that, although he could only really answer to the fact that nothing seriously was going on with her eyes.  I told him we were using artificial tears.  He suggested we switch to another brand, that is thicker.  He told us NOT to use anything that says it gets the red out, and we weren't.  I asked about this....Bridgett has been complaining that her ipad is too dim and she's been changing the settings so that it's brighter and brighter.  Now she has it all the way as bright as it can go, and still said it's not bright enough.  I wonder what's going on.  He had no really good answer for that.  Also, I said that she had been reading more on the ipad and less on the Kindle for the past 2-3 weeks, on our trip.  Could this be a reason for the eye irritation?  He had no real comment on that either. So, anyway, we got the new eye drops and they are better.  I suggested that she read more on the Kindle than the ipad.  I talked her into turning down the brightness of the ipad and turning on more lights, which she did.