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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 [...]

He’s In the Crèche, Isn’t He?
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

The girls and I have been bringing up Christmas decorations from the dungeon. Today we brought up one of our crèches.
I mischievously and briefly pondered leaving the baby Jesus out of the manger.
Of course, those would be fightin’ words. Stealing baby Jesus out of Christmas displays is, ironic in itself, “unforgivable” in Elyria, Ohio. [...]

It Got Cold
Thursday, December 6th, 2007

My older daughter really, really wanted to go outside without her hat and gloves, but I explained to her that it was colder outside (we hit 0°F) than it was in our freezer.

We got a couple inches of snow, so the neighborhood looked pretty cool. A little ice on the bushes is nice.

I knew it [...]