Does anybody blog anymore?!

Is it just me, or has the world moved away from blogs... well, from personal blogs that is? There are still plenty of blogs about cooking and food and information on this ailment or that ailment, but my google reader feed is sorely lacking in anything personal anymore. My favorite food bloggers have sold out, always posting recipes sponsored by this or that, most blogs have ad words plastered all over them. What ever happened to writing because you want to? Or posting a post just so your friends and family can see it. I'm feeling overwhelmed with information lately, and not good information, just INFORMATION, blaring in my face, screaming down my throat, waving its arms in front of me at all times. Blah, blah, blah!!! And don't even get me started on Pinterest!

There are blogs about being a bad mother, having celiac disease, nut allergies, cooking, cleaning, organizing, adoption, marketing, sales, business, politics, crime, how terrible this world is. Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person that thinks the world isn't so bad after all. Sure there are things that need to be changed, so don't think I'm saying just sit back and let things keep running their course... I just think about how blessed we are and wonder why I'm the only person who seems to feel that way.

I have two chickens, they give me about 10 eggs a week between the two of them, am I crazy, or is it SO stinking cool that I can go in my backyard and get food! I have a garden, I have more sugar pod peas than I know what to do with... again, so cool that I can walk out back and get food... from my YARD! My little green tomatoes are starting to grow, my itty bitty broccoli are just starting to form, my cucumbers are tiny little spiky nubs, just waiting to get bigger so I can eat them! I love this time of year. I love food from my garden, I love the flowers that are just starting to bloom in my front yard. I love my peach tree, I love that my hubby planted garlic around the base to keep the beetles out (who knows if that will actually work, but hey I'm going to get a bunch of garlic out of it, and it's a great conversation piece!) I love that our compost pile is finally breaking down after the winter hibernation. I love the way my grass feels on my bare feet.

Life is good. Definitely not perfect, but very, very good. Hubs has a new job. He got laid off last June, got a new job in October, an okay job, sort of a big step backwards job, but a job nonetheless. He'd been searching for a better long term fit ever since then when he was offered what seemed like the perfect job in the end of April. 9 days into it and the joker realized he didn't have enough work to support a full time Internet marketing person, so... here we were, just quit and left a perfectly good job, and feeling like we were going to move forward again, and all of the sudden someone pulled the rug out from under us. So, almost a month later and hubs has another new job... three jobs in two months, not our favorite, but I'm just happy this time around it didn't take 4 months (4 months that felt like 4 years!) I wish I could say this felt like a long term fit, but it's just too soon to tell. Here's the thing, we go through stuff like this and it either makes us, or breaks us (sometimes it feels like both!!!) In the end, we come out wiser, stronger, and closer. And that's a very good thing. The fact that we are living, breathing, human beings in and of itself is an amazing thing.

I have my moments of negativity... (Yes, let's not point out that this post itself is a complainy sort of post... I'm just going to ignore that because it's for the greater good!) I like my sarcastic posts just as much as the next gal, I love reading clever rants and raves once in a while... I can appreciate a good sense of humor, especially when you are going through a rough time. But at the end of the day, I'm getting worn out by all the negativity. I don't want to get dragged down poking fun at life and getting a few laughs about how awful everything is. So let's talk about how wonderful life is. Let's talk about how you can have a few days where you think that the world is ending, but then you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and take on the world yet again!

There are so many things in life to enjoy. I have a husband, the four BEST children in the world, a roof over my head. Great friends, a healthy body, awesome hair... seriously, it's long, thick, shiny and brown, it's pretty much perfect ;) Trust me. So I'm calling you out my blogging friends. I want to see the posts about your kids, your pet, your garden, your home improvement projects, your life, your triumphs, even your failures. Just be REAL. All the things that I'm missing out on in my reader feed lately. I think we all need information that makes us feel more human, not less, so get ready, set... GO!!!