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Erin Napier put her social media on pause for 40 days.
On Monday, theHome Townstar revealed that she took a break from social media for Lent and shared an update on what she and her family have been up to in the weeks preceding Easter.
“Country life in the last 40 days,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “We didn’t use social media for Lent! Our friend Laura posted everything for us!”
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Her reintroduction to the platform featured adorable photos of her daughter Helen, 4, including one of her holding up a stuffed bunny and another of her bare feet after playing outside. She also included a sweet photo of her younger daughter Mae, 11 months, peering through the window atthe family’s fluffy new puppy.
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“If you feel like you’re the kind of person who could leave your unsolicited rude opinion laying around on social media, go ahead and unfollow me so I don’t have to do it for you,” she added. “We aren’t a good fit, you see. It’s you, not me.”
“Instagram is my cozy place,” she wrote. “A photo journal of the moments I don’t mind sharing because maybe it will make someone feel like there are other people like them in the world, or maybe it will give you courage to be distinctly YOU in a world that values perfection over personal. It’s a place to show our work, or sometimes it’s just because I want to remember a moment and this is a simple and concise way to catalog moments.”
Despite the 40 days off of social media, in Monday’s Instagram post Erin said “it’s been busy! we are tired! and thankful!”
Erin shared another exciting update in the post: “We finishedthe country house!” In a December PEOPLE cover story, Ben and Erin revealed that they purchased a second home they planned on renovating — a project featured on the sixth season of their show.
“We are doing a house for ourselves! That is something very different,” Erintold PEOPLE.
“It’s sort of a hideaway for us, a place out near family land where we can go and let the girls run on the weekends,” Ben explained, saying they’re also keeping their current home, “which has been Erin’s dream house since long before she met me.”
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source: people.com
