Thanksgiving was good and I had a pretty good time. I did some embroidery, got to fly my kite, and spent some time with family. My niece and her daughter were there. My great niece is very cute and my niece is very protective--all first babies are so fragile. I guess I have been around so many children that I know there are not as fragile as they look, but I am still amazed at how other people act around children.

I went back to my sister's house on Saturday where I worked to finish up the shopping bags and some burp cloths for a friend who is due around Christmas. Another thing my sister has been making for my baby sister who had a little girl a few months ago are burp cloths from diapers. She sews a strip of cloth on one end and then embroiders a little saying above the strip. At first she just sewed the strip on and then she saw some burp cloths in the Christian book store with Bible verses on them. My baby sister's husband is a chaplain in the military, so she thought it would be cute to put Bible verses on hers. Anyhow, I did not put Bible verses on the ones I embroidered, but I did put little sayings. I tried to match the fabric--on one with stars and moons on the fabric, I embroidered "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" on it. I also did one with the initial of their last name on it. I can't wait to give them to them and see what they say.

I didn't get them all done, because my sister was having problems with her toilet. We plunged for hours and couldn't get it clear. She even got a spring snake from my parents and we tried that for a while. In the end we left it for the morning. After church my Dad and brother came over and tried snaking out the vent since a plumber friend had suggested that. He managed to get a small wad of hair out, but the toilet still wasn't clear--in the end he pulled the toilet up and looked inside. There was actually a squirrel in the s bend. It was pretty disgusting. It was also very surprising. We pondered for a while how the squirrel got in there. Our best guess is that he somehow fell down the vent and tried to get out through the toilet. Of course, as much as we plunged, we could have sucked him up a little into the s bend, but we will never know. They are still talking about it back home.

Sunday I rode with my brother to meet my brother in law who I was buying a car from--I have a lot of sisters and therefore a lot of brothers in law. My sister and her husband were selling me their car at a really good price since I had totalled my car on Halloween. They said they were planning to trade it in on a new car when the end of the year sales started and would rather sell it to me to help me out than to trade it in. They were just being nice to me. I have never gotten much from my family in the past--not because my family wouldn't offer, but because I am not good at accepting. I have always felt like I needed to do everything myself--I think I have said that before. I am having some time dealing with accepting everyone helping me. Mom keeps giving me Wal-Mart gift cards telling me there is $50.00 on them and then I find out there is more--a lot more.

Anyhow, I bought the car--a Toyota Prius. I have wanted one for a while, but didn't want to pay the money for it. While I would have liked ot get a new one with all the bells and whistles, I am very excited about having this one. I drove it home and got decent mileage at first, but it declined as the hours passed. I think a part of it is that I was buying gas at Wal-Mart (see gift card discussion above) and they use ethanol which is not as good for the Prius. We'll see how things continue, because I would prefer to continue to get gas at Wal-Mart or Sam's using the gift cards.

I will continue the saga of the car tomorrow which will include my happy fun times at the DMV.