...eat some turkey! I’ve received numerous emails asking where I’ve been. Thank you all. :-) I must say I’m somewhat terrible and returning emails and letters promptly… I will make that a New Year’s resolution (among many) to do better in 2009.

Good news!!! I got a new Baby Lock Ellisimo (sewing/embroidery) and Imagine (serger) and have been incredibly busy! In fact, digitizing has taken a back row seat… I never knew that I would love sewing as much as I do!!!! I am finally getting around to stitching out all the stuff I’ve bought over the last 2 years and making myself some clothes! Imagine that! This is the girl that HATED home-ec but loved shop, boys and animals.

Queen Esther and parents are moving up North January 5th, so I spend a lot of time with them… going through things in boxes. Some are fun, some are painful. (GP died 3 years ago), but we’ve all had some good laughs needless to say. QE’s mind has really been “out there”… Mom says she would have to come “waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay” in to be out in left field. Sorry to say, that’s a VERY true statement. I’ve come to terms that my best-friend isn’t really there anymore…but still, it’s hard “accepting” Alzheimer’s and the lasting effect that disease has on loved ones.

Anyway, I wanted to wish everyone a blessed Thanksgiving! This will be the last one together as a family. GM will not be able to make any trips down South to unite with the rest of us… and the aging members that live here won’t be able to make the trip North with Jim and me. So… bitter-sweet will be this holiday for all of us. DH said that we can have a Christmas tree this year!!!! I’m so excited… I think he’s giving in to the idea because he knows how sad I am about my family moving. Lol… So I’m going to work on my lace ornaments to hang and actually make it a “Hanukkah” bush, since the two holidays are close this year.

Hope all is well with everyone. Have a blessed holiday season! C-ya in virtual embroidery land. xoxo