Pinterest

I spend a lot of my time on the internet on my phone, mainly when I'm nursing and/or holding my sweet baby while she sleeps. A lot of the time it's in the middle of the night when she won't let me put her down. So in order to stay awake, I must play on my phone. I love Pinterest, I love to organize my boards and learn new things, recipes, crafts, fun ideas for the kids, pretty much anything you can think of. But lately I have noticed that when I am on Pinterest, I get this feeling of unaccomplished, that I haven't done enough in my life or haven't done enough for my daughter. I didn't get professional newborn pictures and put her in a cute little bucket, I didn't crochet her cute shoes, I didn't make her a princess dress from scratch, I didn't make an amazing dinner with this new recipe I pinned, I didn't do the work out I swore I would do, I didn't organize those bills or organize the closet, I didn't learn how to coupon, the list goes ON AND ON. My mom saw something on there and said "Who the heck has time to put tin foil wrappers on little chocolate chips and pretend an elf did it?" Surely not me.

I thought this post was so funny, and so true. Who has time for these!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/20/pinterest-projects-nobody-has-time-for_n_4624749.html

Yes I love to be on Pinterest, and I love to be organized in that way, but if you saw me in real life you would laugh.I try my best to be organized, but no where near close to my pinterest board.  I have thousands of pins, and chances are I will probably only end up doing 5% of those.If I even remember what I have pinned, since there is so many. And sure, it's a good reference for when I do decide to do all of them. I surely had a plan to do this and that at one point of my life, and maybe I will be more active when I get my own life organized as much as my Pinterest, but for now, I am going to enjoy my baby. I am going to enjoy the clothes I have not made from scratch, the pictures I have taken on my camera phone, the unorganized closet, the frozen lasagna in the fridge that was store bought, the extra 10 minutes of sleep I will get instead of the 6000 craft ideas I have pinned. I will do these things once in a while, but I am not going to feel bad about not being the perfect mother who wraps chocolate chips in tin foil or decorating cheerios like donuts for y child. I consider myself a good mom without doing all of those. But props to the moms who have time to do that! Pinterest didn't exist when I was growing up and I turned out just fine right?