Our solution, and some other bits and pieces

If you read my previous post you know that I was going back and forth about my feelings for facebook.

I talked to my husband last night and we came up with a solution. We rarely immediately agree on anything btw so this was rather impressive. We both agree that facebook is a huge time waster but it gives us an easy and great way to stay connected with our loved ones. So what did we decide?

Well... we're deleting facebook. Not right away though. We are going to delete them once he returns home from this deployment. It's the easiest way for him to be able to see pictures of our daughter and I don't want to take that away from him. I could send them in an email but he says that downloading them takes forever.

Anyways, back to our decision. I have posted on my status that I will be deleting my facebook once he returns home and if anyone wants to stay in contact with us they should message me for my information. If people want to stay connected with us then they will put in the effort to email, write letters, call, or read my blog. I'm tired of facebook being such a time consuming part of my life. It's really pathetic and I'm putting my foot down.

Mr. Sykes and I will be cutting down our computer time and replacing it with more quality time as a family. We have to set an example for our daughter if we want her to understand that there is so much more to life than the internet.

I will however still have this blog. Our loved ones will be able to stay updated and see pictures of Abigail on here so I didn't want to cut them off completely. And it's not just me who posts on here anymore. There will be times when you get a post from Mr. Sykes as well.

So here is my first step in rebelling against facebook. I openly admit that I'm addicted and I hate that I am. Goodbye facebook, hello fresh air and family time! (In 9 months or so of course).

Opinions

I really want to get everyone's opinions on facebook. I'm having a hard time with it lately. 99.9% of the time I can't stand it. the other .1% of tolerability is only when I can communicate with family and friends and share photos.

I've gone back and forth on the idea of deleting it. No, the drama scale hasn't hit the roof or anything. I'm just sick of a lot of things. Here is my facebook Cons list.

• Anyone can add you as a friend, even if they have no idea who you are and vice versa. 
• You have no idea what's going on with your information. Even if you are extremely private. (Even this blog scares me a little.)
• It takes away from being human. Friend requests used to mean an actual physical interaction like shaking hands and having a conversation.
• I feel like I spend way too much time on it when I could be doing other things. 
• It has been proven to be a cause of divorce. Pathetic I know but if you can't understand where that comes from then you're lying. 

I'm sure there are more things I just don't feel like getting over aggravated about it.

My pros aren't even long enough for a list. It's simply that I can stay in touch with family and actual friends.

One thing that does intrigue me is the, what I like to call, Jack & Jill facebook page. The people who have one page for both of them. In my case my husband and I would have just one page together. At first I thought it was lame that they couldn't just have their own page. Then as I saw them more and more  I realized that it would suit what I use it for perfectly. I just want to be able to update family and friends and stay in touch. This way my husband could use it however he wanted to and I could just sign on to upload pictures and chat with family. Although I do email family which is the same thing really.

My question is, am I missing some big amazing aspect of facebook or is it really as lame as I believe it to be?

Baby Food

Ok all of you mommies out there. Daddies too of course. I've gotten a million different answers to this question and I want the general consensus.

When do you introduce foods other than formula to your baby? I know rice cereal should be first but now there is a study saying rice cereal is bad? Who really knows honestly. All I know is my daughter drinks a TON a day. She eats about 7 oz every 2 hours or so. It seems like she never stops eating.

Any advice or help would be wonderful :-)

URL update

Ok so here's the deal. It may have looked like I deleted my blog recently but I assure you I havent. I changed my url to foreveryourssemperfi . blogspot . com  I didn't realize this meant my blog would disappear, blonde moment on my part. So I am going to leave this post up for a little bit under this old url so that my followers have a chance to get my new url and still follow me. I will be switching my url back to foreveryourssemperfi.blogspot.com in a couple days.

I am trying to figure out how to export this blog so that I can import it under my new url but I'm not sure if it will work. I'll give that a shot though and let you know.

Bare with me.

URL Mixup

For the ladies who just started following me, my old url was usmclovergirl.blogspot.com. I changed it recently and lost all my followers. So I am going to temporarily change it back to that to put up a post to let them know the change. Bare with me please.

Song Link Up

Song link up with Goodnight Moon!

This song makes me smile because my husband and I have been through so much and it's true, our love won't run.

Abigail went swimming

Well more like floating.

Someone accidentally splashed her. But it made for a funny face.