I'm Obsessed Too!

I'm sure many of you saw this article about a feminist atheist woman who is obsessed with 'Mormon Mommy Blogs'. She talks about wanting to read about their perfect lives:

"They have bangs like Zooey Deschanel and closets full of cool vintage dresses. Their houses look like Anthropologie catalogs. Their kids look like Baby Gap models. Their husbands look like young graphic designers, all cute lumberjack shirts and square-framed glasses. They spend their days doing fun craft projects (vintage-y owl throw pillow! Recycled button earrings! Hand-stamped linen napkins!). They spend their weekends throwing big, whimsical dinner parties for their friends, all of whom have equally adorable kids and husbands."

 She reads these blogs because:

"Well, to use a word that makes me cringe, these blogs are weirdly "uplifting." To read Mormon lifestyle blogs is to peer into a strange and fascinating world where the most fraught issues of modern living -- marriage and child rearing -- appear completely unproblematic."

"Indeed, Mormon bloggers like Holbrook make marriage and motherhood seem, well, fun. Easy. Joyful. These women seem relaxed and untouched by cynicism. They throw elaborate astronaut-themed birthday parties for their kids and go on Sunday family drives to see the fall leaves change and get mani-pedis with their friends. They often have close, large extended families; moms and sisters are always dropping in to watch the kids or help out with cake decorating. Their lives seem adorable and old-fashioned and comforting. "

And you know what?  I am obsessed with them too.  It does appear that their lives are 'completely unproblematic'.  But I know better.  I know they are putting their best out there.  Even when NieNie blogs about a bad day it still sounds, well, almost romantic that she's able to put it out there and end it on a positive note, or a plug for her homemade calendars.

But, when I read these blogs I {sometimes}think to myself, "SEE!  They are able to DO IT ALL!  They are crafty and they are not afraid to show their talent and even gush over it!  SEE!  Their houses are perfectly spotless because in that picture they posted there is NOTHING on the floor.  SEE!  I bet they never yell and always look absolutely 100% adorable. SEE!"  You can SEE that sometimes I'm not very logical when I talk to myself and I knew it was foolish before I read this line in the article:

 "...you'd be a fool to compare your real self to someone else's carefully arranged surface self."

Anyway, I am obsessed with these blogs because it does seem like somehow there are a lot of people out there who do seem to be able to do a lot more in their day than I do with mine.   And maybe there's a way I can actually improve from reading these blogs.  I can still read them and once in a while even try some craft I've seen on some random blog (pictures to come!!!) but I don't have to worry about my life and how I'm living it as long as it is in sync with my VALUES, my HEART, and my DESIRES to be how I really want to be. I really do want to remember my phrase of the year Scatter Sunshine and A) find the 'bright little white little light inside' B) Make it grow C) Scatter Sunshine on others and D) Use my glue gun once in a while!