We have all see those perfect pictures everyone posts on
Facebook, Twitter and the dreaded Pinterest which make us think “why on earth
doesn’t my family picture look like that” or “I should be able to create that
spun sugar rose for my daughter’s birthday cake”. But do we ever get to see the 50 outtakes,
messed up cakes and burnt rice? Heck no.
I don’t know about you, but I think that the pressure to
always be Pinterest-perfect is just crazy.
We all have enough going on trying to keep the kids fed, house cleaned
and make it to work with matching earrings, something’s gotta give.
Don’t give me wrong, I am head over heels in love with
Pinterest and could spend hours upon hours pinning, pinning and
re-pinning. But I do have to remind
myself that while I’m capable of many things, mimicking everything I see on
Pinterest is purely out of the question.
I was reminded of that recently when I attempted to make ketchup cup muffins. After all, the pin made it looks so ingenuous
and easy! Long story short, it simply
didn’t work. Not only did the muffing
mix either not rise to the top or completely spill over, you can’t get the
muffins out of the adorable little cups in one piece.
Lesson learned:
Ketchup cups are for ketchup.
A few people were surprised that I was eager to share my
#PinterestFail picture. Buy why the heck
not? I find it highly entertaining that
something I thought was such a no-brainer was a total disaster and hopefully
someone will learn from my goof and teach me how to do it right next time.
Plus, it’s fun to get a behind the scenes look at what goes
in to making something look Pinterest-perfect.
Like my oldest son’s first Halloween picture:
Ahhh, my sweet little baby boy in his adorable (and ridiculously
expensive) monkey costume playing with the perfect pumpkins we are about to
carve as a family. Yeah, right. This super cute picture was actually taken a
week before Halloween with fake pumpkins from the craft store. If memory serves me we spent a good 15 min
chasing down this little man to get one pictures:
So here is one of my favorite tips to de-stress your life
and take a little pressure off. Sure, we
all want a perfect picture of the first day of school and the little one’s
blowing out their birthday candles and those moments are nearly impossible to
recreate. But what about the moments
which are possible to recreate? I say,
recreate them! Take a little pressure
off by taking your “First Day of School!” pictures before and after school. Or shoot, change the sign to “Kindergarten!”
and you can get away with taking the picture during the week before, or the
week of the first day of school.
When my youngest was nearly 7 months old I may, or may not,
have realized that we forgot to make his 6 month footprint plate. We immediately ran to the pottery store and
made his 6 month footprints. Yes, the
plate prominently says “6 month”. After
all, what’s a few weeks among family? :-)
My point, of course, is to take full advantage of the times
when you can take the pressure off and give yourself a bit of breathing
room. Wouldn’t you rather be present in
that wonderful moment of carving pumpkins with your kids than worrying about
getting a Pinterest-perfect picture?
Happy pinning!
as seen in Carolina Parent Magazine
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