Why we left social media

Ezra What? What are you doing? This is the last place I thought you were. I heard your little coo. How did you get in here? And what are you doing? Yeah? You are so funny. I don't think we told you guys. Ezra look at me. Let me see your little bruise. See that bruise on his forehead? He face planted on the cement. It was the saddest thing ever. But it's looking a lot better now. Oh that's so funny. You're so cute and you're so cute. Is that Pickle? Yeah does Pickle want to go outside? Do you want to go outside? Do you want to go outside? I know you want to go outside. Pickle do you want to go outside? Okay. Want to go outside? Oh my goodness. Is this how we wake up the twins every morning? Yeah. They get crawled all over by Ezra. Huh? Isn't his morning hair crazy? He's the craziest. Do you hear Pickle? He's done going potty. Give Simon a hug. Yep that one's Simon. Yeah. Give him a hug. You're so sweet. You know when it starts to get really hot outside you got to turn your air on and then the inside is freezing. I swear I spend more time under a blanket in the summer than I do in the actual winter because the house is always so hot. Okay well I kind of wanted to address something because we had a lot of people write us and ask us are you guys okay? So for those who don't know we deleted our social media accounts yesterday. We still have them up we just will no longer be posting on them. So where this decision kind of came from it wasn't out of nowhere. So for about the past year we've been contemplating doing this and honestly for the past couple of months we would delete our app for a good week or so and then we felt like obligated to make posts which is so stupid. I don't know what it is but I just feel like it is an addicting thing. And the more research I've done on it I've seen a lot of negative sides to it. Things that I wasn't really aware of. For instance I don't think we realize the amount of time we spend on it a day. Something that I've learned is whatever amount of time you think you spend on it you spend double the amount. And the average person spends at least five hours a day scrolling. So just think about that. Like five hours of your time scrolling through other people's lives. Whether you want to believe it or not you are comparing yourself to other people. And I just, I don't know I just feel like it's negative. I've never once in my life gotten on social media, scrolled and then once I was done scrolling felt uplifted or positive. Yes there are tons of people that are influential that are positive that are always sharing positive messages. But that's not what we, that's not the only thing we see. We might read that post and then the next thing we see might really discourage us. And we might not even realize that it's happening. So something that I would challenge you guys to do is sometime in the next month delete your apps for just seven days and see what happens. See how you live your life. See if it's really hard for you. Because if it is then you might be addicted to it. So for now we are just going to be keeping you guys updated on our vlogs. But other than that we're not going to be like posting we're not going to be doing insta stories and snapchats or I don't think we ever really did that anyway. But this will be really the only place to stay up to date. So I just want to let you guys know that. Know there is absolutely nothing wrong. In fact I feel like all we've been trying to do recently is really focus on living in the moment and being present in the moment. And I feel like social media was just a way to distract us from those things and what's really important. So that is why we made our decision to get off of it. We don't know if it's forever but it is for a long period of time at least. So yeah. If you guys want to stay updated with us just hit that subscribe button so you guys can be notified when we upload videos. So yeah that's basically all I had to say about that. So I'm dropping the boys off at grandma's school. And where did we have to park you guys? Way down. Way down the street huh? Why? Because there's tractors. Cause there's tractors out front. Should we show them? Where are the tractors? Where are they? Look at that. Right in front. A lot of tractors. Now I am on my way to my friend's house. She just moved into a new apartment or townhouse. I don't know. I haven't been there yet so I'm on my way there now and I'm just gonna help her unpack and put stuff away. So I'm gonna be doing that while the boys are at school. Okay I just got back from my friend's house. I think I'm gonna go back in a little bit. But me and Thomas never get into series. Like never. We never just like sit down and watch TV. Well we made the mistake. What are you doing? Never before. Okay listen. We made the mistake of starting Timeless. Okay. Was it on Hulu? We have Netflix and Hulu. So we're watching it. We're getting like super into it. It's like our treat at the end of the day when we work hard. We get to watch Timeless. And there was like I don't know about 30 episodes I would guess like between the two seasons. Okay anyway. Hold on. Ezra's having a fit because he wants to go outside. He's so mad. Okay. So we watched the latest episode cause we had like got all the way caught up to like now we had to wait for them to be uploaded right? While we get to the. Caught up to real time. Yeah we get caught up to real time. We're watching the episode and we're like gosh this one's like longer than normal. And then we realized. Ash is like they're all this long in like an hour and 30 minutes. They are not. Then we realized that was the freaking last episode. Ever. There's only nine. There's only nine episodes. Like they may never do another one. And I was so mad. Have you ever like eaten a like you're eating food and then you eat the last bite and you didn't realize it was the last bite? And it sucks like you need to anticipate that last bite right? I've been there with the Snickers. You never give away the last bite of the Snickers. It's the best part. Before this just so you know first season or first yeah first season had like 27 episodes. Yeah so we were like. Second season had like 8 or 9. Yeah I was like oh we're just like getting started in the second season. And then to find out it was the last episode I mean there are no words for how mad I am. Would you give away the last bite of an ice cream stick? Well it's not even giving it away. It's eating it without realizing it was the last bite. You know and then you're like oh my gosh it's gone. You would have like enjoyed it longer or better I don't know. Do you know what I'm saying? It would have been more better. So if you haven't started watching that I would watch it because it was so good. Go into it knowing it's going to abruptly end and you're going to be sad about it. Now go that way. Now go left. Okay. Well you have to look and see. Okay. Well show her how to fly. What do I do with the tree? You have to break the tree. Then you connect the tree. How do I do that? Teach me. Oh my gosh. Well what button were you pushing? I was pushing this. Mom's playing games with you? Yeah I learned her. You learned her. No he's jumping around. Is that a sheep? You guys eat sheep? I'm going to get you now. I'm going to get you now. Oh no. You fell down. Down. Surrender. Hi. What are you going to get me? Don't get me. This is how we wear them out every night. We chase them around the island. Where are you going? Oh baby. You okay? Don't get me. Why are you doing that? You fall on purpose. Look at those chunky legs. It seems like we start our day and end our day the same way. This is how we start our day. This is how we end it. Hanging out in the twins room. Say goodnight. Say bye. Bye. Bye Ezra. See you later.