Backing away, but opening up.

Being a mother can be very isolating, especially when you do it full-time as I do. I know...I know...I know...many of you out there say, "I am a full-time mother and I work a full-time job outside the home as well."

Um....sorry, no. You're NOT a full-time mother in this situation, I don't care how you try to explain that you are. Yes, your child is in your heart all the time. I know. But you're not a full-time mom. Otherwise, the people taking care of your children wouldn't have "full-time" jobs as caregivers for your children.

I'm sorry.

I've been there and indeed, even though we try to rationalize it and try to make ourselves seem super human by SAYING we have two full-time jobs, it's a lie. It's absolutely not true. You're NOT a full-time mom.

You are, however, still a mom.

There...now that that's out of the way and I've pissed off a few people (I don't mean to at all and I do not under-value what you're doing AT ALL.)

Anyway.

Being a full-time mom can be very isolating and I fully believe that "social" media intensifies this beneath a lie of connectivity.

I've deleted my Instagram account.
As of tomorrow, I'm making my FB account only for family and friends I can't easily visit. For everyone else, I'd prefer to catch up in person and work on cultivating real relationships and if they aren't interested in doing that, then why were we FB friends in the first place? I mean, if the thought is, "I really don't have the desire to hang with that person," then why bother with being FB friends at all? It's stupid and the biggest farce of this millennium.

Wait...no. The food industry is the biggest farce of this millennium...FB is up there though.

I've tried to completely get rid of my account, but it's hard (purposely so, I feel), because of all my pictures and because of the people who get all bent out of shape because they can't see my stuff anymore. It's strange to me, what FB has become from my first exposure to it in like 2004 or so.

Anyway...there are things in the real world I want to focus on that don't include ecards, false news stories, and the celebration of "holidays" on the wrong day....or people voicing opinions on things they haven't even really researched. It's annoying and I'm beyond over it.

I want to quilt like mad.
I want to take more photographs with the good digital camera.
I want to get outside even more (we are out daily as it is).
I want to spend more time with people.
I want to NOT be known by so many people.