I’ve been noticing quite the theme on the world wide web as of late and I have been inspired from a few different blog posts. DesignSponge wrote a very insightful post here and of course my favorite funny mama Sara from SaigeWisdom writes mid-week confessions here. I love real people with real stuff going on in their lives that don’t hide behind the appearance of perfection so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon with this little piece.
With the rise and popularity of social media it’s kind of hard to not know what everybody is doing.. at every moment.. of every day. Don’t get me wrong, I am neck deep in Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and my latest love, Instagram and I use it to my full advantage but there is also the downside of it. Like when you’re having a crummy day and all you see is people sharing about their amazing life, while wearing their amazing new pants and their amazing kids that are all, well, amazing. Do you ever have that? Of course I’m happy for all of this amazingness but if my hearts not in the right place it can be easy to feel a little down on myself.
Over the course of the past few weeks I have had a couple people ask me, “Are your kids always so happy?” or “How do you balance it all?” and after I stopped hysterically laughing, I pondered these questions and felt mortified that I might have given off this impression. This would be why I need to make the following confessions:
1. To get one good picture I’m going to have to take about four of these
oh wait, let’s move spots and take another 4 pictures
I guess that still didn’t work. At least Mattias is now trying to work with me
2. I may post this
However, my pillows actually spend the majority of their time like this. With the kid underneath.
Other confessions include the following:
3. If I didn’t have the commitment of taking my son to preschool where I will see other human beings I would strongly consider wearing my pajamas as a certified uniform. (We won’t post a picture of that.. I’ll save you that mental image).
4. I couldn’t cook if my life were somehow dependent on it. Oh wait, it is? shoot!
5. I spend huge amounts of my day moderating the amount of times that the words “bum bum”, “pee pee” and “booger” get used.
6. I barely sleep
7. I find cleaning useless at times because I know it will get messy again tomorrow.
Glamorous, right?
On the upside, I am so very thankful. My family is healthy, I have a place to live, I have a job and I love it, I have many MANY great people in my life that are just wonderful and the list goes on. Things are good. I guess this is just my plea for people to be real and for everybody else to realize that life on the other side of the computer is very different from what you see online. There is always a person that is real and dealing with stuff and even if life is good now there is stuff to be had at some moment in their life.
The next time I post a picture of my boys smiling and everybody happy as can be, please keep in mind that it probably took 20 pictures to get that one shot and I probably got woken up before the crack of dawn to clean up 2 glasses of spilled milk (one glass for each child) and my dishes are still in the sink from last night (only crustier) and I will pretend that I am not home if you drop by because I am probably hiding upstairs in my pj’s and a side ponytail (sans makeup of course).
All pictures taken from my Instagram @hardydanielle
Here is my life in the past couple of weeks through instagram (@hardydanielle).
