My sister recently posted a fairly humorous article on "facebragging". It was all about a sweet stay at home mom, who riddled her facebook page with her numerous daily accomplishments...mostly related to her amazing mothering. And how annoying it was to her friends...but was helping to teach then "godly character" to deal with her. (I'm dying laughing thinking of the self-rightousness of those having their character built up)
I relate to this article. Like this braggadocios women, I ADORE posting my parenting successes on facebook. Or cooking successes, or personal, etc...Is it not in our nature to brag about our children or dare I say...ourselves? hee, hee
In an attempt to not post to many bragging posts on my facebook (so I don't have to give my friends a reason to have their character built up, in order to deal with me), I'm going to try to balance out my awesome-ness, by using my blog a bit more. hee, hee
Today's brag. Jade and her flute.
Now flute, can be a difficult instrument to learn at first. Simply because blowing into said flute, requires precision and controlled breathing. It took three days, but Jade is finally able to get sound to flow from the mouth piece!!! Hence, todays' pictures and brag.
I wasn't planning to teach Jade flute, I was "planning" to have her take piano and be taught by someone else. But now that we've started, I'm pretty excited to pass down my flute to her and teach her what I know.
In other news. I have baby on the brain something awful!
Having the green light to go ahead and start prepping the home with birthing related things (there is an actual "home birth" kit you can buy so that the midwife has everything extra she may need for the home birth). Today I'm hoping to go out and buy a few tiny infant hats, a few tiny infant onesies and maybe some new receiving blankets, cause heaven knows I don't have enough already! haha! I wouldn't want this kid to have ALL the hand-me-downs, right?
My Mom also bought me this adorable bag for my birthday, and I'm planning to use it as my diaper bag this time around. So I'm gonna go buy some fun new things to fill it with. Like a new changing pad and some miniature lotions, etc so it's all freshly stocked and ready to go.
I know, I have a ways yet (Oct 20-24-ish due date) but I have energy now, so better get cracking before it takes a crane to remove me from the couch! HAHA!
2 comments:
Saw your link of facebook and read a few of your posts (looks like you are a LONG time blogger! Wow!). Anyway, I had to chime in here that while I never felt that way about your facebook posts, I did feel that way toward a different friend of mine. Her frequent posts about all her accomplishments and pinterest-perfect life actually caused so many feelings of jealousy and inferiority in me that I finally made it so that her status updates didn't come up in my news feed anymore. Now, I feel much more kindly toward her and not nearly so badly about myself. :)
lol! my sister posted this great link on her facebook awhile back about "Facebragging". All these women were beating up on some braggadocios mom on fb, but since they were christians they were trying to use their jealousy issues, towards this woman, to build "character" in their lives.
I guess it's mostly funny because how often do we get annoyed with silly things people say and do, and now with facebook, we can post all the annoying, bragging, random info we want and who knows who we are driving crazy. hee, hee
Anyway...I'll still use facebook to post things that make me smile or I'm proud of (especially my kids) but I think I'll turn my blog into a record of what we are doing in school and try to limit those posts on my facebook feed.
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