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4.07.16

What I Call Productive, Owning the Cloud and You Took a Picture of What?

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I own the Apple ID, therefore I rule the house.  Not kidding at all, I’m not sure how your families work, but in mine, we have one key to the cloud and it all goes through me.  I can see your messages, emails, history, pictures, music and whatever else you have allowed to float up to cloud “rosenmichele.”

Just, oh you know, thinking about what power means nowadays.  Look, I’m sure in a couple of years my kids will control the internet in my house, but, right now it’s still all me.

Adam has no interest in technology whatsoever as long as he can keep the boatloads repetitive pictures   that he takes on a daily basis.  But I’ll get to that soon.  I’m getting ahead of myself today, but that’s okay!  It’s Thursday, time to Think Out Loud.

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First, I’ve been thinking this week about what I consider productive. Precisely since Tuesday when Adam took Drew to a baseball game for a day with my dad and I stared into space and paced around my house during the time I’d normally be driving with him, talking to him, playing with him, listening to his music, making him food, and cleaning up after him.

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There they are, and I was at home certainly not being productive.  I should’ve planned better.  A recipe?  Getting ahead on my blogging, like, maybe even by writing this post? Yoga? Cleaning?  But no, I watched standup comedy on Youtube and didn’t even do laundry.

It was fun, the day is done, and I’m probably more relaxed now because of it.  It made Wednesday feel super-duper productive though, because not only did I blog, go to the dentist, and create/photograph a new recipe, BUT I also supported Drew while he made this:

imageThis is a small doll buried in kinetic sand for those of you unfamiliar.  It’s amazing that basically anything I do with my children feels “productive” while anything I do alone feels like a waste of time.  Will this ever end?

Second, I’m thinking about food pictures, because what else is new.  Specifically this time pointless food pictures that I find in my phone and think WTF.  Like this one.

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Yup, there are bananas lying on a cutting board and it looks like I’m putting them to bed.  Was I checking lighting?  Just loving bananas in that moment?  Or maybe it was more about my new cutting board?  I’ve no clue.  Something tells me this was part of my day of restless wandering, AKA the Tuesday I just told you about.

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Now this one makes me happy.  It’s a spicy taco breakfast salad, eaten for lunch because I’m not quite so on top of life in the morning, with all the yummies of life.  Or most – plantains, ground beef with onions and peppers, avocado, greens, tomatoes, cilantro, and a fried egg.  This will be an official recipe over the next couple of weeks and I will be making it again, for sure.

Third, I’m thinking about what I just saw on my phone, which circles back to me being the master of iCloud.  I think over the weekend Adam changed a setting on his phone or something because I am now seeing every single picture he takes when I look at my phone.

Let’s just say it’s amazing what he accomplishes when he says he’s driving over to Dunking Donuts for coffee.  Items of interest were empty rooms, including a bathroom, in someone else’s home at first glance.  As it turns out these are screen shots from Zillow, but still? Multiple pictures of the outside of many many houses including ours, probably 50 selfies with himself and the kids, and 20 variations of each of these:

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Yup there’s Drew hanging out in a blond wig at a cemetery.  Just picture 20 of those, some bathrooms, garages, lots of screenshots of sports scores, and 300 selfies and that is Adam’s life.  And I’m the one with the blog, mind-blowing!   His one downfall is no food pictures, I guess.  That might be a blog deal breaker.

Master of iClould, What I call productive, and a picture of what? #parenting #blogging

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  1. meredith @ cookie chrunicles says

    April 7, 2016 at 5:51 am

    I am with you on not knowing what to do at our scheduled mom driving times and those times we are needed to take care of the kids! When my son goes home with a friend, out for extended periods or stays after for sports, the hours of 2:30 – to whenever he gets home seems so weird! And I don’t do the laundry during those times just in case you were wondering. I put that off worse than anything!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:08 pm

      Yes to those awkward time periods! They’re rare so I wish I could enjoy them instead of thinking about what I could be accomplishing.

      Reply
  2. SuzLyfe says

    April 7, 2016 at 6:21 am

    Alex has 187501847507 pictures of Zoe. And any time that she does something cute and we are at home, he wants to take a picture of it. Ah well, it could be worse. Adam is probably wondering why you take pictures of bananas 😀

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:06 pm

      If he saw them he might wonder. Adam has not gotten into cat pictures and for that I’m grateful!

      Reply
  3. Lisa @ Running Out Of Wine says

    April 7, 2016 at 6:48 am

    I am the only one around here will a million random pictures on my phone. I think I took 300 pictures last weekend when we were celebrating my nieces bday, but my SIL was so grateful because she was too busy to take any. It can certainly be useful to constantly be taking pictures!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:06 pm

      Since blogging I definitely take more, but mostly of food! I’m not inclined to take them otherwise so I have to force it, or steal from Adam 🙂

      Reply
  4. Mel_OutRunCF says

    April 7, 2016 at 6:52 am

    My husband has a gazillion pictures of our son playing soccer on his phone haha I have many pictures of my son too but for the rest, I have to force myself to take pictures. I wish I’d like it more because it is part of my job! My mom used to make us hamburger with peppers and onions so your breakfast salad made me think of her this morning! She lives 8 hours away, not that far but far enough 😉

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:05 pm

      Your mom had the right idea with that meal! And our husbands sound similar with pictures, and I’m the one who has to force it and just wants to forget about pictures on the weekend.

      Reply
  5. Megan @ Skinny Fitalicious says

    April 7, 2016 at 7:13 am

    Haha! This made me laugh. My parents had this massive argument over who owned the cloud a few years ago. Finally I told them to get their own which apparently never dawned on them to be an option. Don’t even get me stared on the random amount of pictures on my phone. That’s this weekends’ project!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:03 pm

      Ha! I don’t think it would occur to Adam to get his own account even though he’s free to do so, just not that important to him! It mainly affects me when I see texts popping up and not sure who they’re for or from!

      Reply
  6. Margaret @ youngandrungry says

    April 7, 2016 at 8:07 am

    Oh my gosh this post was hilarious! Adam sounds so funny! The men in my life never take pictures so I love the thought of him snapping shots all around town! Oh, and the bananas to bed- hilarious! But your Mexican salad breakfast looks and sounds AMAZING! I need more variation in my life!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:02 pm

      Taco-anything is as much variation as I do but it works! And he’s always been crazy for lots of pictures long before phones!

      Reply
  7. Emily @ My healthyish life says

    April 7, 2016 at 9:00 am

    My mom always jokes that she thought she “controlled” technology in the house when we were kids, but we both knew how to get around the child locks and make things private. I don’t even remember doing it intentionally but we definitely snuck around that. Although, the Cloud didn’t exist back then! My dad and I are on the same Cloud login so whenever I download an app on my phone, it goes to his phone too.

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 9:01 pm

      I’m sure the kids will be sneaking sooner than I’m ready for 🙂

      Reply
  8. Morgan @ Morgan Manages Mommyhood says

    April 7, 2016 at 9:04 am

    Okay, so that last picture BROUGHT ME BACK to the days of dressing up my poor little brother as kids haha My husband has few pictures on his phone and the ones he has are pictures of our kids that I took when my own phone was dead, pictures of our dog, and pictures of cars and trucks. Pretty boring, if you ask me…

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 8:13 pm

      Pictures of cars and trucks would make me snore too 🙂

      Reply
  9. Alyssa @ renaissancerunnergirl says

    April 7, 2016 at 10:06 am

    hey, at least you’ll always have an accurate record of family life!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 8:12 pm

      Good point!

      Reply
  10. Heather @ Polyglot Jot says

    April 7, 2016 at 10:16 am

    my husband does a lot of screenshots to remind himself of things. He also saves a lot of memes that he thinks are funny. hahaha so random

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 8:11 pm

      Definitely not a bad idea!

      Reply
  11. Emily Swanson says

    April 7, 2016 at 10:17 am

    Hehe, my dad doesn’t really care that much for technology either, and my dad owns the Icloud with his name, but my mom uses it. 🙂 They have a real harmony over the matter.

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 8:11 pm

      Sounds like a good deal!

      Reply
  12. Amanda Mahoney says

    April 7, 2016 at 10:25 am

    I am not a fan of technology when I’m not at work. Because I sit in front of 2 computer screens for 9 hours a day monday through friday!
    I used to just put my phone away as soon as I got home but since getting my puppy 5 weeks ago I take pictures of him ALL the time (with my phone). He is so cute and I want to chronicle his growth because they grow so fast to full size! I want to be able to look back on the puppy times. Though I’m sure he will be just as wonderful fully grown 🙂

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      I took a bazillion newborn baby shots of my kids so I totally get it! Reminds me of when I brought Diana home!

      Reply
  13. Tasty Trials and Travels says

    April 7, 2016 at 10:39 am

    Ha too funny! Everytime I see pictures on my husbands phone I am baffled. He takes the most random pictures.

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 5:08 pm

      Glad we’re not the only ones over here!

      Reply
  14. Chelsea@runningwithawhisk says

    April 7, 2016 at 10:43 am

    This post just kept cracking me up! Love the part about Adam’s photos. I’m pretty sure my husband doesn’t know that a camera is for taking pictures. His photos are all screen shots for work, too funny.

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 5:07 pm

      Ha! That’s funny! Adam recently learned how to screenshot something and it’s all sports things 🙂

      Reply
  15. fitballingrunningmom says

    April 7, 2016 at 12:46 pm

    Random pics in phone…so me!! Why did I take that..I ask myself that question so many times-lol.

    Yummy yummy. You know you always get me with the plantains!!

    Isn’t it crazy when without kids we don’t know what to do. I feel like as mom’s wear pretty dang productive everyday and any chance to not be….on the couch watching ID channel for me!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 5:06 pm

      I need to find a way to really indulge when I actually have the time since it really is rare!

      Reply
  16. Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

    April 7, 2016 at 1:28 pm

    The pictures on someone’s phone can tell you a lot about the person 😉 Maybe that’s why I don’t have any! hahaha!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 5:05 pm

      If only we could see what’s in everyone’s phones! Oh wait, blogging! lol 🙂

      Reply
  17. Laura @ Mommy Run Fast says

    April 7, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    I can totally relate to not knowing what to do with myself when I don’t have the kids at a time I usually do! It’s odd… I look forward to that break and then I’m clueless what 1000 things I’ve always said I would do when I had the time!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 5:04 pm

      Yup, totally me! Or I feel guilty which is such a waste of time!

      Reply
  18. Ellen @ My Uncommon Everyday says

    April 7, 2016 at 3:07 pm

    I share a cloud and also Netflix with my parents (I should probably become a real adult soon…), so I see a lot of their stuff. Also, my dad texts me pictures of random stuff he sees and wants to remember to tell me, so I get everything from crazy pictures of my dog to typos that bug him to blurry people at the gym working out in business attire. ?

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 5:04 pm

      Oh god that will be Adam texting the kids one day, I’m sure of it!

      Reply
  19. sandra@organicrunnermom.com says

    April 8, 2016 at 9:53 am

    Being master of the icloud will definitely be good when the kids are teens! It is funny the things you find on your phone though. I once found the most hilarious video my daughter had taken on my phone without my knowledge. Totally made for a great laugh!

    Reply
    • Michele says

      April 8, 2016 at 4:41 pm

      I love the videos and pictures the kids take! I haven’t looked in awhile, good idea 🙂

      Reply
  20. Kristy @ Southern In Law says

    April 8, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    Jesse has pictures of his game things and a museum of memes. Seriously, he saves so many weird photos and memes that he could open up a meme gallery just using his phone, haha!

    Reply

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