Life without the Facebook: Day 1

I gave up the facebook for Lent. This is what I did instead. 

Day 1: 

*answered emails

*RSVP'd to my little sister's wedding

*texted with Michele about her 5k

*cleared out over 300 emails from one account

*updated our shop schedule for March

*paid my credit card

*cuddled with the kiddos on the couch

*read part of a book

*boiled eggs

*prepped dinner for tomorrow

*put together a puzzle with Lilaboo twice

*ordered Daniel a new phone

(By the way, I would like to reiterate that this list is what I did INSTEAD of facebook. Not what I did all day. I still have my daily grind of dropping Lilaboo off at school, going to the shop, picking up Lilaboo from school, and then coming home to a working husband and a toddler ready to party.) 

Thank goodness I deleted the app from my phone the night before. I didn't realize how many times I absentmindedly scrolled through and clicked on the icon wherever I was. In my car after I park somewhere. When I get home from work. When I'm in bed waiting for slumber. When the girls are running around the house creating utter chaos. 

I also got new pillows from Amazon, meaning the girls got a new time machine/bed/car/box to scream in.

It's something that takes me out of my current space, for whatever reason I feel the need to escape. 

But today my computer was open and facebook was not a tab, so I put my head down and went through all of my emails in my yahoo account. One of them being the rsvp for my sister's wedding. It was stuck in a sea of ads from websites I've ordered a single thing off of and in my amateur move, forgot to uncheck the "I want all of your spammy emails multiple times a day because I have all the money and all the time in the WORLD."

I will say I feel like today was exhausting, like most. I was tired, which is usually when I crawl into bed, scroll through facebook, and call it a day. 

Today I was on the couch with the girls, figured dinner won't fix itself (for tomorrow), prepped, and put everything together in the crockpot for chicken tortilla soup. I also boiled eggs because Daniel has been asking for tuna salad. I figured boiling the eggs is the hardest part, so once I get that done, I'll just throw the rest together. 

I wonder if I'm lulling myself into a false sense of productivity. Like if my first three days are going to be incredibly beneficial and I'll feel like super woman, but by day four my lists are going to start reading "stared at the ceiling, still hiding quietly from my family, praying no one will find me." I guess we'll just see how this pans out. 

OH DID YOU HAPPEN TO SEE THAT "read part of a book" ON MY LIST?! DO YOU KNOW HOW OFTEN THAT HAPPENS? BY THE CAPS I'M SURE YOU CAN GUESS. 

Life is okay.