Wow—that’s a great price! I’m pretty pleased with Costco but their prices are often closer to $150+ for 2 pairs of glasses plus ophthamologist charges.
I imagine in Hawaii Costco will have the best price, if not Sam’s.
I know the folks at the optical place at costco 5 minutes from our house. They’ve served our needs well for over 20 years and I have no interest in swapping. I’ve never tried Sam’s but their optical place is never very crowded, unlike our nearby Costco optical.
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America’s Best is a chain here and that’s the advertised price. I thought the glasses were ready right away?
We have a couple of places. like that that do the whole package for $89, but that doesn’t include progressives or bi-focals or other extras.
The Costco glass kiosks are independently owned. They don’t take my insurance but the guy gave me a pretty good deal when I bought glasses and sunglasses.
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Only optometrist and ophthalmologist should be doing vision testing, diagnosis and prescribing vision corrections. Opticians fit glasses.
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My GD, D1, and SIL left yesterday, and the house is too quiet!!
GD celebrated her third birthday on 12/28. D1 and SIL moved from MA to IN (great job) a few years ago. They are still friendly with two couples who live nearby (three of them went to college together) and they invited them (and their kids–4 kids all under 7) to our house to celebrate GD’s birthday. We all went to a nearby bowling alley (New England style-candle pins and bumpers) so the kids could all play. GD and kids loved it. After bowling, we all went to a local restaurant where we had lunch in one of the private rooms. Afterwards, we went back to our house for birthday cake!! GD rarely gets to eat anything with sugar and she (and the other kids too) loved the cake. We ordered a Midnight Chocolate cake from a great bakery in Boston (Flour).
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Our grandkids kindly gifted us their colds last week, so we had to cancel our NYE plans 
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Little vectors of disease, they are!
Well, we have made the big move from Texas to Massachusetts, and are now living in the same building (different apartment) as DD, DDIL and two grandchildren, ages 2 and 4. I wrote about this elsewhere, but we relocated from big city TX due to climate issues, political issues, lack of women’s bodily autonomy and a desire to be live near family in a smaller town. Amazingly enough, our plan is working. DD got a job at the local U, DDIL got a remote software job at university in Boston, and DS and his wife and baby are moving here in March, as he was offered a job at local medical clinic. We have plans to build a granny flat, main house and garage with DD, and DS will do the same for his immediate family and in-laws.
Childcare is expensive here, and hard to obtain, so we are doing all week except 3 mornings with the 2-year-old, and all day Fridays with both of them. Friday is a long, long day, but there are lots of programs at the library, including playrooms, and the mamas are upstairs working remotely much of the time, so we can get some relief if we need it.
This kind of grandparenting is much less indulgent than the “two weekends a year” kind of grandparenting that some folks do, and it is not easy! But we are glad to be such an integral part of our GKs lives.
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Sounds very workable.
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Not understanding the “this kind of grandparenting is much less indulgent than the two weekends a year kind of grandparenting that some folks do”? Glad you are enjoying your move and relocation toward your grandchildren.
I meant to say that I could be much more indulgent, (“Would you like more ice cream?”) when I babysat less often, than I have to be now. Now, I have to be the law and order, eat your vegetables grandparent. If I was someone who only saw their grandchildren a few weekends a year, I could be a more indulgent grandparent.
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That makes sense! I am sort of feeling the same way. Also, now, when we see the kids purely socially, they tend to run straight to “GRANDAD!” because I’m there more often, chauffeuring, making lunch, supervising potty visits and naps, and in general, like you say, law and order. I mean I’m glad I have such a strong relationship, but I will be glad when I’m just “GRANDMA!” not the supervisor.
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That sounds like it will be a wonderful living situation, @anxiousmom. I have an acquaintance who, when moving from Los Angeles to CT, asked both her parents and her husband’s parents to move with them (they were in two different locations). Everyone now lives on a “compound” with three houses, and everyone takes care of the granddaughter.
Here’s a gifted article about them: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/realestate/multigenerational-living.html?mwgrp=a-dbar&unlocked_article_code=1.KU0.GDVJ.Cb4wSccfVs89&smid=url-share
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Wow! Very cool! I wish I could have both sets of kids and grandkids on the same property here, but zoning only allows for 1 Accesory dwelling unit, and sharing the same actual house would not be a good idea at this point in time. (cough wild and loud grandkids cough)
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Our GDs were born on the same day!
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Gkids have been around me a lot more, and grandpa tends to do fun things (tickling/wrestling, computer pictures, using Google Earth, etc.) 28 month old always cries when I leave - I am next to his mom on specialness. 
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You could have responded “politically more in line with family values” or something of that kind, but stating a comment about women’s bodily autonomy violates the policies of CC.
I applaud your family coming together to be multigenerational.
Error in my wording - the establishment I mentioned have optometrist doing the vision testing, diagnosis and prescribing vision correction.
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DH has expensive eyeglasses, and having a vision insurance plan helps. We have been going to this locally owned vision place for a long time (over 20 years) which takes the vision insurance we have.
For someone with an easy correction, or for people who use contacts, these other places are great on saving money.
GD’s daycare is closed on both MLK Day and President’s Day but those are workdays for both D and SIL. So those will be “Mimi Mondays” for me. I don’t mind.
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