{"id":11479,"date":"2014-11-17T01:26:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T01:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=11479"},"modified":"2020-09-11T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:20:53","slug":"goodbye-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/17\/goodbye-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Fall- and social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was one of those days when you want to take in all that golden Fall sunshine because you know it’s going to be a while until you see it again.<\/p>\n

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We started getting out Christmas decorations.<\/p>\n

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We played some hopscotch.<\/p>\n

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It felt good to get the big camera out again.<\/p>\n

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Oh this pup- he could not be any cuter.<\/p>\n

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It’s supposed to start snowing soon and I am snuggled up in front of the fire getting ready to watch Breaking Bad with my fave 15 year old.<\/p>\n

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Today I made the decision to shut down my social media accounts. After reading a friends blog about this the other day- it just makes sense. I want to use my big camera more, waste less time.<\/p>\n

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Be a bit more private. Maybe a lot more private. I have used instagram as a mini journal, a way to document my families every day life. The big parts, the little parts. A mini blog. It’s not meant for anyone except me. I don’t use it for my business, I don’t use it for friends. I never want to make someone mad, or make someone sad. But I also want an honest description of our lives.<\/p>\n

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I took a break a few weeks ago and it felt so nice. Kinda a trial run.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know why I went back but I have been thinking about it ever since. Is it causing more frustration than it is worth? I think so.<\/p>\n

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There are way more important things to spend my time on and with. There are better more private ways to document my families journey.<\/p>\n

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I have been in re-focus mode for a while now. A back to basics and what’s most important kind of attitude. Weeding out the things that are not right for us at this stage of the game. There is no doubt with the crazy year we have had, once the dust has started to settle I can see what makes us happy and function well as a family- and that is my focus.<\/p>\n

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So I move forward in a less social way. The blog will be here.<\/p>\n

This is supposed to be my last week of workers in the house. That means I can wake up and enjoy my cup of coffee on my couch with my little girlie. I don’t have to find a place to go to get out of the house and out of their way.<\/p>\n

I can stay home.
\nI can get back to work.
\nI can clean this house up.
\nI can decorate
\nI can plan meals and cook.<\/p>\n

I can plan for the holidays.<\/p>\n

I feel lighter already.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday was one of those days when you want to take in all that golden Fall sunshine because you know it’s going to be a while until you see it again. We started getting out Christmas decorations. We played some hopscotch. It felt good to get the big camera out again. Oh this pup- he could not be any cuter. It’s supposed to start snowing soon and I am snuggled up in front of the fire getting ready to watch Breaking Bad with my fave 15 year old. Today I made the decision to shut down my social media accounts. After reading a friends blog about this the other day- it just makes sense. I want to use my big camera more, waste less time. Be a bit more private. Maybe a lot more private. I have used instagram as a mini journal, a way to document my families every day life. The big parts, the little parts. A mini blog. It’s not meant for anyone except me. I don’t use it for my business, I don’t use it for friends. I never want to make someone mad, or make someone sad. But I also want an honest description of our lives. I took a break a few weeks ago and it felt so nice. Kinda a trial run. I don’t know why I went back but I have been thinking about it ever since. Is it causing more frustration than it is worth? I think so. There are way more important things to spend my time on and with. There are better more private ways to document my families journey. I have been in re-focus mode for a while now. A back to basics and what’s most important kind of attitude. Weeding out the things that are not right for us at this stage of the game. There is no doubt with the crazy year we have had, once the dust has started to settle I can see what makes us happy and function well as a family- and that is my focus. So I move forward in a less social way. The blog will be here. This is supposed to be my last week of workers in the house. That means I can wake up and enjoy my cup of coffee on my couch with my little girlie. I don’t have to find a place to go to get out of the house and out of their way. I can stay home. I can get back to work. I can clean this house up. I can decorate I can plan meals and cook. I can plan for the holidays. I feel lighter already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Q14A1526copy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17546,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions\/17546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}