The Blog Party!!! and Hopeful Friday...

One thousand apologies for not showing up to my own party any earlier than this!!! I have been super busy with some pressing medical emergencies with my mother, and we just got home today from an entire day of doctor visits... Boo! Just your typical "hopeful Friday" post....

Please celebrate with us as this is going to be SOME party today!! I haven't had a chance to visit other blogs, but I know they'll be fabulous. See Cupid's Charm. I have credited blogging with changing my life, my outlook... my sense of beauty and my ability to simply savor the moment.. Only a blogger would grab a sprig of heavenly white lilac for her mom and then opt to bring it along on a road trip... We scented the car, we enjoyed the lilac... we stopped by the side of the road to capture these little photos of dinosaurs by the pond at our local filling station, of a fence pasted with old licenses.... of breathtaking redbuds along the way.... And although we would have loved all this without the internet adventure called blogging, it's a potential post and all of you wonderful readers who have given me the opportunity to appreciate it even more... My mom and my son are up for every photo opportunity... The table is set; the food is hot, but........Wait! And the moment just HAS to be captured for my blog. Oatmeal and Whimsy means a lot to me, and I am as excited as I can be about all the wonderful things that go on in the lives of my blog-sisters!

So, even though this post is late and very much NOT what I planned when I signed up for the big Party!!! I want to welcome you all to Oatmeal and Whimsy... If you'd enjoy a trip through our lives for the past two and a half years, you are more than welcome to look through my archives... This blog has seen me through life in my own home, past the sad death of my dad, and now into life as a little tenant in my mom's home... And, may the good lord be willing, it will see me through our next phase, which is sadly a bout with breast cancer for my mom... Blogging is beautiful, not because it is flashy and brilliant and artsy (although that's the best!). It's beautiful because it is honest... it gives us hope that despite any newscast, the world is absolutely brimming with wonderful people, pictures, posts, and pleasures. Thank you all for coming by. God bless you and your sweet families.... And thank you for letting me into your home.