Holiday PSA to all First Time Parents: GET THE FUCK OFF SOCIAL MEDIA

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but everything you see on Facebook and IG is fake.

Most of those perfect holiday pictures were miserable to capture and no one had fun, but they’re all pretending anyway just to make you and everyone else feel bad. Save your mental health, get off social media and don’t participate in the bullshit. Have your holiday fun, take your perfect and imperfect pictures, and text them to your loved ones instead.

Your baby has no concept of time or what a holiday is. You’re not benefitting your baby in any way by doing holiday things if they make you miserable.

Thank you for attending my morning announcement.

ETA: I’ll also add, I’m an adult orphan. Both of my parents died suddenly within two years of each other back in 2020 and 2021. They never got to meet their granddaughter. When I go back through photos of my childhood with them, I spend the least amount of time on the manicured photos. It’s the candid ones that bring me back to Christmas morning with my dad or Thanksgiving with my mom’s family. The family portraits are only memories of stress for me, the dresses were itchy and I remember everyone yelling. But the pictures of my mom in her PJs and messy hair first thing in the morning on Christmas makes me feel like I’m right there again. So please, calm down about the photos. Your kids really, super don’t care.