Social media

I deactivated my facebook. 

I have been blessed with the most beautiful little family. I have a perfect little boy and a wonderful husband and yet I spend the majority of my day on my phone, computer, or ipad, reading about peoples lives that I actually don't care about. I often find myself so upset by something someone posted or jealous of someones new car or house and I'm having all these inappropriate feelings about people I haven't talked to in years. I also compare myself to everyone else's life on there or feel a disgusting amount of pride and self righteousness towards other people whose lives {in my opinion} aren't nearly as great as mine which are two terrible feelings that I just don't want to feel. Yesterday Lincoln found his voice. He started talking and chatting and it took me a minute to realize it because I was mindlessly staring at my phone while I surfed through facebook. Daniel works nights and in a three day stretch I'm lucky if I get 4 hours with him. In these moments I realized something needs to change. I always talk to Daniel about how I don't want our children to be dependent on electronics and social media and yet I am absolutely dependent! I am such a hypocrite! I'm about to go back to school this fall and that is going to take up a large amount of my time so in my spare moments in between assignments I would rather spend time with Lincoln so I don't miss anymore landmarks in my little mans life. So I have unplugged and I am going to re-enter the real world. The one that has nothing to do with profile pictures, and liking comments. For now I've decided to keep my instagram for the time being because that's how I share pictures with my sister and close friends. I've also decided to keep my blog because It's not like I spend much time on here blogging anyway but I think this is what's best for me and my family. 

And seriously, how could I choose social media over those two handsome men anyway?