Three Sites To See #8:

I hope you all have had a great weekend. I sure have and I have enjoyed reading many of your posts about your weekend adventures. This week my Three Sites To See just fell into my lap. Sometimes when I am trying hard to find just the right site, I struggle with the decision. But when I read the posts of my blog friends and really "listen" to what they have to say, they lead me to other posts that amaze and impress me! That has happened this week! I have been inspired! You know I look for blogs that share personally what it takes to have an abundant life. Oh my you will not be disappointed this week!


This week the sites are all about the men. It seems we women pretty much dominate the personal blog world. We participate in blog carnivals, share our stories of our families and create ways to be together. We do giveaways, exchanges, and twitter nights! We all have more blogs on our blog roll than we can possibly visit in one week.

As I write this I am certainly aware that pointing out these wonderful blogs because they are men might appear segregating. I don't mean it that way. I simply found these particular blogs worthy of mention and since they are men I chose to have a theme. It is good to find these male bloggers who are communicators, interacts well with others, love there families and write about them, takes great pictures, and sees the value in bonding with the personal blog community regardless of gender. It is also good to have a male perspective sometimes. Especially on meaningful topics of family and work. I have chosen these sites because they represent the best of what this blog community has to offer and that is how I choose the sites every week!


So, I have found two such men! One I have known since my first Photo Story Friday and the other I just found out about this weekend from Caroline at The Zen In You.



#1. Many who participate in Photo Story Friday know Chris of Life..or a Reasonable Facsimile Thereof. There is a long list of nice attributes for Chris. First, he loves his family dearly, see his post for a recent family photo. Second, he loves his own family history and values what he has learned from it. Third, He has many fun things that he likes: Peanuts, Indiana Jones (see blog for photo of Chris with whip), Photography (amazing photos!) and many others. Another gift of this man is that he is a great communicator/writer. Even when I have not participated in PSF on a particular week he will occasionally drop by to read a post. He also makes meaningful comments on other posts. Now that is a Man of Blog! Go over to his place and check out his blog. Or at least read this post of 100 things about Chris. Even if you are a regular reader, I encourage you to mill around in some of his archives and see what he is about, then be sure and leave a comment or two. What a blessing for Chris's wife and children to share life with this man of blog.


#2 Lance at The Jungle of Life is a new to me, amazing find. I was very impressed with the depth of his posts about all areas of life. He is a thinker and a doer. He honored his amazing family in his 100th post about life. He writes about the title of his blog, "Life can seem like a jungle sometimes, overgrown with all the “things” that are in our life. The animals that consume us (debt, busy-ness, work, family, etc) lurking around every corner. Here at “The Jungle of Life” I’m looking for you to walk through this jungle with me as I look at ways to tame this jungle we call our lives. Join me on the journey as we discover more about who we are and what makes us each unique."

Lance recently posted about "believing in yourself." You must watch the video on this post about Nick Vujicic. You will be changed by this short video and will get off of any pity party you might be on and you might just believe! Lance a Midwest father of three also posted with his wife about the "soundtracks of their lives." This family lives life the way we all strive to live it, with gratitude, joy and abundance!



#3 Mandy is not a man but this blog is associated with men. Men of the military. Mandy is the wife of a military man. On her blog (Mandy, Michael & Megan) she describes them as "a military family that has learned to take one day at a time and cherish every moment they have together." Sounds like abundant living to me! Mandy recently posted about her husband, (My Husband, Soldier) their military life and the difficulties of some who share that life. She also posted about sharing in the holiday spirit with a soldier who is overseas. She lists websites that are resources for giving to a soldier this holiday. I went to each site and they are amazing. You will want to visit Mandy, leave her a nice comment and then check out the sites from her post.

Abundance is...sharing our human experience and supporting each other.