Today is Thanksgiving and I just wanted to say happy Thanksgiving to everybody!

Have you ever read the book or seen the movie Pollyanna? In it there's a girl who likes to play the "Glad Game." This game is simple: you just try to find something to be glad about in everything. Well, I thought about it for a while, and I realized that yeah, you really can be glad about almost everything! Here's an example: summer's over and winter is coming. Something to be glad about is that, depending on where you live, there might be snow! Or maybe your birthday is in winter or Hunnukah or Christmas. All these things make winter a happy season!

There's a website called FreeRice that is basically a vocabulary game where they give you a vocabulary word and and four definitions, then you pick which one is right. Here's the best part: for each word you get correctly, ten grains of rice are donated to hungry people around the world! The point of the site is to stop world hunger, but really when you play you are doing three things at once, playing a game, learning vocabulary words, and donating rice to the hungry. It's really fun! Click here to go to the site.

To those other people who like to knit like me, I invented some doll things you can make! Here are the instructions for a doll purse:
Materials: Straight needles, any size except those gigantic ones and any kind of yarn you'd like.
How to make it: Cast on about 10 stitches in garter stitch. Knit until it measures about 4 inches. Fold this in half and sew the two seams on the sides connected to the creased side. Braid a handle and sew this on the corners. The picture is next to these instructions of what it will look like when finished!

A while ago, I came up with a good quote like the kind you find in books. Here is how it goes: fake happiness is harder to get to than if it was in a steel box and the key had been buried in the center of the Earth, but true happiness is right under your nose. I think I'll put it in a story, being said by a wise old man.