to blog or not to blog?

i started my original blog, sussone, for my family and friends. it morphed into a crafty kinda blog and then i wanted to start selling my crafty stuff so i decided to make my blog more of a crafty/thrifty/parenting type a thing. i wanted to create a place for me to share my experiences in starting up a crafty business and still keep up the keep in touch nature of sussone. then i got pregnant and then we moved to australia. so much for trying to plan anything. so here we go, back to the original plan. i keep this blog and my flickr account to help stay connected to all of those people we love so much who just happen to be half a world away. i will start sewing again. i will start crafting again. i will do a lot of things that i currently don't have the time to do. for now my priority is my family, my health (have i got some stories for you) and my dear man. oh, and don't forget otis.
here's my beef with the crafty bloggy world. i'm going to go there. i can't help but feel that half of the kind gestures and comments and flickr groups exist to sell something. i love swapping and giveaways. love them. i love when thoughtful people comment on my blog. love it. i just don't think that it is a coincidence that sally mcsellstuff does a lot of blog commenting the week before she updates her etsy shop. i can hear the feathers ruffling. if that is her way of advertising then fine. i just think it is smarmy. my participation in this community originally stemmed from a need to feel connected. ppd almost broke me down following the birth of my max. the support and the feeling of not being alone in that struggle was paramount to my recovery. to my continued recovery. i have my favorite bloggers. friends, actually. you know who you are. most of them don't sell anything. they know that i sometimes don't respond to comments and that i take for freaking ever between posts. they stick around anyway. even though they won't make any money off of me. am i being super pessimistic here? maybe i am. but you know those blogs that seem to use their children as models for their products and then say "jonny likes dinosaurs and going to the beach" like that is a real discussion about family life. sorry. it has just been kinda bugging me lately. i have so much more to say about this but the potential backlash is scaring me. i picture an angry mob of bloggers breaking down my door with scissors and rotary blades. all of the would be perfectly dressed in the latest indie gear, of course. maybe i'm just jealous. that's probably it. rant over.

here we are in the yard hanging out right now.