It was such an interesting question to me, and honestly the first thing I thought of was my cell phone. Don't get me wrong, I love all the conveniences and modern awesomeness of my iPhone 6...but sometimes I just want to throw it away.
It brought up an interesting conversation with Josh because we have also been re-watching tons of Friends episodes (thank you Netflix!) recently. There was the episode where Chandler is supposed to propose to Monica but gets delayed, and everyone walks in and thinks it has happened, but of course it hasn't and he is trying to get them to shut up and not ruin the surprise that is coming later. Josh made the interesting point that Chandler couldn't just send them all a group text to keep quiet and that the plan had changed. And then he had the interesting comment of, "You know, maybe it really isn't all that important to update everyone all at the same time and make sure they get the message."
I know there are lots of conversations and debates about the "digital" age we live in, but watching Friends again makes you miss some of the simpleness we had just a few short years ago. Am I the only one that can get a little nostalgic for a simpler time?
That being said, don't worry - I'm not about to go live in the wilderness without power or anything like that. I am just going to try and make a concerted effort to not let the phone rule me, but to rule my phone. The one thing I am so grateful for is that I have this device that seems to track the most amazing moments of my little girl and soon to be little boy...that alone makes it not worth throwing away!
I love being able to look back on my instagrams and see a year at a glance and watch all the milestones Noelle has crossed over time. As much as I love an old fashioned photo album, there is something comforting to know that I can hop on to facebook and look at old baby pictures of her and reminisce about having a tiny nugget falling asleep on my chest...it even makes this pregnancy easier because I can look forward to all the sweet moments ahead with my son.
Josh also downloaded the Timehop app a while ago, and lots of people have jumped on the Timehop bandwagon. Internally I was resistant to the idea because I didn't want one more thing to look at on my phone, but it dawned on me how much I love seeing the old pictures and videos of Noelle that pop up each day for him. He will often show them to me and lots of the time I had forgotten the picture or video existed, but I feel so lucky to get to re-watch it!
So I caved this week and downloaded Timehop - pretty much specifically for the fact that I will have a new bundle of joy coming this year and I want to make sure that next year I can "oooo" and "awww" over how he has changed over the last year and grown up. So I'm really planning ahead to look back. Weird but true.
There are plenty of annoyances that come with our extra technology, but being able to document Noelle's rousing rendition of the "ABC's" at the drop of a hat is pretty dang awesome.
