Good afternoon!

I hope you had a fun and safe St. Patrick’s Day!

I do celebrate (being a wee bit Irish, myself… ancestors were born in County Laois - my gggggg granny McPherson and her husband were born there – possibly near Mountmellick or Abbeyleix, where I’m told there was land nearby owned by the Lord of Mansfield, on which my ancestors worked until they moved to Scotland.) County Laois is in the province of Leinster. In the 1790 census, it was called Queens County.

Thus, yesterday we celebrated Ireland by watching an episode of one of my all time favorite television shows Ballykissangel. It was a fun time.

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Blessings to you all on this day of joy!

I am thankful to you all and wish you all the best today!

And as an FYI, can you believe it? I’m not eating turkey today! lol I’m actually working on blog designs! It is a normal workday for me. Now before you call me insane, let me explain…

Our family is celebrating Thanksgiving on Saturday instead of today. So my “day off” will be on Saturday when we will have Turkey and all the trimmings. My Brother-in-law was unable to get the day off work for Thanksgiving. And since we don’t want to celebrate without him, we changed the date of our celebration. You see, he is a nurse in a hospital emergency room located in Madison, WI. (And he is an awesome nurse, too!) Hospitals obviously do not close their doors… even on holidays. Someone must be there to help the sick and those who may cut their fingers while carving the turkey! (ok, that was probably a bad example, I don’t want to disgust anyone…) But emergencies do happen sometimes on holidays, and that’s why they need hospital staff to work.

So… instead of feeling disappointed that our Thanksgiving will happen a few days from now, lets be thankful there are people out there like my wonderful Brother in Law who sacrifice their Thanksgiving holiday to be there on hand for those in need of medical care on the holiday. Thank you Nurse Nathan Bubenzer at Meriter!

Anyhow, we are having Beef Stew today. It has been cooking in the crock pot all day. And my husband made Pumpkin cake.

Tomorrow we will be preparing for our Thanksgiving feast. We are going to West Bend and we are making the Pumpkin Pie. I’m also going to make some awesome Kiss Pies!!! What’s a Kiss Pie? I found the recipe on Pinterest and well… check ‘em out! Yum!

Blessings to you all…

All of my designs are made on my Mac.

My husband is a Mac specialist and has worked with Macs at various companies for over 20 years.

We owe Steve Jobs for his brilliance.

Thank you for making our world a better place.

Only 1/2 hour until new designs are added to the Premades Store!

Well, its the last 2 days of the Stampin' Up! year… and I'm working like a crazy girl getting blog drafts and color changes done!

I know you'll have been waiting on your banner drafts and I'm having a fun time working on drafts to K-Love… singing out loud when a song comes on that I like.

I'm cranking out banner drafts like there's no tomorrow!!

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