by Melissa Willets posted in Parenting

It happens all the time. I'm playing around on social media because I don't have anything better to do as a working mom-of-three (ha!), and I see one: a status update that is so annoying, my eyes roll almost involuntarily. "Really"" I think. "Your life is that perfect""
It seems I'm not alone in my rage/contempt/resentment/annoyance. In a recent thread on Mumsnet, people expressed their outright outrage over these two little words commonly used on Instagram and Facebook: ?Feeling blessed.?
?You're not blessed. You're happy. Shut up!? railed one user in response to a comment that posited the status update as the most irritating combination of words ever.
Another opined that the phrase ?feeling blessed? should only be used when the person is religious. ?The halo over your head because you're feeling blessed is so bright I'm squinting and my eyes are hurting,? one commenter joked.
?#Feelingblessed makes me want to vomit,? another seethed.

Others weighed in with phrases that rubbed them the wrong way, like ?making memories,? because, fake, and, apparently, "boob to sleep" is a status update that makes many parents want to deactivate their social media accounts.
In all, 426 comments followed in response to the original thread that called out ?feeling blessed."
I?ll admit I don?t particularly go off when I see these words used together. Add a prayer-hands emoji, and then I?m a little more l...