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Happy New Year!
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

The New Year brings snow, leftover finger foods, a lot of trash on the curb tomorrow, and the unfortunate task of duplicating all my file folders so I can file stuff.
It won’t take resolutions for me to avoid some of the things that we did this previous year. One shouldn’t wait until the secular day [...]

A Child’s Brush with Sin and Forgiveness
Sunday, December 30th, 2007

As the daughters were getting ready for their bath this evening, the older one said a phrase we classify as bad language. She was specifically told by Mom never to say that phrase again, and that she would get her mouth washed out with soap.
During bath time, however, the phrase came out again. I [...]

Please Don’t Tell My Kids
Thursday, December 20th, 2007

UPI reports that Noggin, currently showing 12 hours a day of kids’ shows and 12 hours of older stuff as “The N” later on at night, will run Noggin shows 24 hours a day after the New Year.
This is a little bit uncool. The six o’clock “We’re going to say goodbye…” song was a convenient [...]

Makin’ Movies
Thursday, December 20th, 2007

It had been awhile since I used my Sony HandyCam to capture much of anything, but I made use of it Wednesday night at the kids’ first Christmas program.
The HandyCam records first to MiniDV videotape, then later I usually use the camera’s recording feature to save video files to a MemoryStick. Problem was, neither MemoryStick [...]

Safety Huddle
Sunday, December 16th, 2007

A little over two weeks ago another Lutheran blogger had a scare with a carbon monoxide detector but turned out OK.
Today we had a little scare of our own. We had not recognized the amount of grease that had collected at the bottom of our oven. I did not see the source of ignition, but [...]