The Truth about Facebook.

Tell me you're headed to the store to pick up some carrots...

good deal!  Glad to hear it!

Let me know that your husband had dinner on the table when you got home from work...

Awesome!  What a great guy!

Oh?  You had a new baby and you want me to know how much you love him?

I can relate!  So, so happy for you!


..but dear GOD... if all you do is brag and brag and brag about how wonderful your life is, how happy you are with everything in your life... how BLESSED you are and how absolutely adorable and perfect your kids are....

I will most likely LOSE MY MARBLES!

I'm ok with this every now and then.   Because I too, feel very fortunate at times.

But let me tell you all something right now.  It ain't always perfect. 

yes I said ain't. 

I don't talk about how wonderful my life is 24/7.  Because I don't really think I need to.  I have a lot to be thankful for.  And if you're a close friend of mine, you already know that.

Here's an example of something that I might say if I wanted to get attention from all 7283473284 of my facebook friends and lead them to believe my life is friggen fabulous.

"so, today the kids and i went and rented the little pedal carts down at the canal and had the perfect day.  Then, we came home and the kids fixed me a 3 course dinner and we ate next to a bonfire outside while making smores."

I'm here to tell you that NOT EVERYTHING ON FACEBOOK IS TRUE.

I suppose it's as true as you want to believe it is.

Let's be real.

If i were to be honest about the status i mentioned above, (with no limits on characters in the status update) it would say... more realistically....

"wanted to take the kids to do something fun, since we were about to kill eachother being stuck in the house.  First, we headed to the canal to rent the little pedal cars and the kids fought the entire way there.  I threatened to pull the car over no less than 8 times... but realistically never had the intention of turning around since gas is over $4 per gallon on the average day.  So, we finally got there... i threatened the kids one last time before we went to the rental shack to pay a lot of money  for the little cart.  We started riding and almost crashed at the first corner, mostly because my kids were fighting again and i turned around the smack them upside the head.  (JK)  After we finished at the canal, the kids chose McDonald's (and I plan on using this against them later tonight when they are fighting again) where I had a hamburger, french fries and an extra-large-add-whipped-cream-smoothie because after the day I had... I EARNED EVERY CALORIE.  We ended the evening with a bonfire in the backyard where I burned all of the old grass, weeds and papers that I needed to get rid of while the kids wasted about 60 marshmallows in the fire and fought over who got to break the Hershey bar into pieces.  After all of that, the kids survived.  I consider it a great day."


That's the truth about that first "facebook update" I put.  And for any of you parents out there that are honest and have children that are .... well.... let's just say - not perfect.... i'm sure you can relate.

I can assure you that none of my readers that are also friends on facebook are the ones i'm complaining about.  Each of you have just the right amount of status updates that i enjoy reading them.  There are just some people....

.... that get under my skin.

And that's all.