{"id":3224,"date":"2013-05-16T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/the-breaking-point\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:47:25","slug":"the-breaking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/the-breaking-point\/","title":{"rendered":"the breaking point"},"content":{"rendered":"
when i started blogging a little over a year or so ago, i had 3 viewers. my mom, jonboy + my sister kylee. i started our blog to remember the adventures we discovered as newlyweds. i also remember as a new mother wanting to document e v e r y passing moment. everything just changes so fast + i didn’t want to forget anything. i felt like i was doing a pretty stellar job with blogging about it all + then S N A P.<\/div>\n
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see ya later passion to blog, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.<\/div>\n
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lately, as a mother, i have struggled with the balance of blogging. + by lately, i mean a few months. the numbers, the perfect pictures, the stats, the lunch meetings, just the fame + fortune of it all. things that were flattering before, plunged head first into whatever category very unflattering falls into. perhaps creepy? (you can insert your own adjective accordingly) but rather than continuing the search for that balance – i cut it out. working, blogging, photography + social media in general. i put all of my eggs into the full time mother basket. perhaps it sounds a little crazy to you, but it was exactly what i needed to snap back to reality. i love being a mother with every fiber of my being. i want to be real. i want to be true + i just want to be a good mom no matter who is watching, dangit.<\/div>\n
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my 32 gb phone dinged memory full while we were picking jonboy up from the airport yesterday.\u00a0not a coincidence.\u00a0<\/i>i take a lot<\/b> of pictures on my phone. but my routine used to be to backup + dump them after they were on the blog. jon knows this + he took\u00a0initiative\u00a0on the conversation that directly followed:<\/div>\n
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J \u00a0– “hey, i miss reading about our week on sunday nights + making fun of how addicted we are to jonah.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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G – \u00a0 no comment<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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J – \u00a0“that’s all i wanted to do on the plane.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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if you know jon, he really doesn’t ask for much. he’s very content + loves life for the simple things it has to offer. we have some pretty dang good times as a family + he is exactly right. it is a blast looking back through all of the silly things we do together.<\/div>\n
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so, with that on the table, i miss it too.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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the parrish place is back open + ready to rock.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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when i started blogging a little over a year or so ago, i had 3 viewers. my mom, jonboy + my sister kylee. i started our blog to remember the adventures we discovered as newlyweds. i also remember as a new mother wanting to document e v e r y passing moment. everything just changes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/thermal_2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mhS8-Q0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18129,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/18129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theparrishplace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}