Necessary Roughness

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Archive for December, 2007

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 [...]

Lutheran Carnival LXV: A Dual-Language Pastor
Monday, December 17th, 2007

Pastor Paul Siems hosts the sixty-fifth Lutheran Carnival at his blog, Not Alone. Siems brings us his grandfather, a pastor who preached in both German and English. He also does a proper job of providing his own commentary for the submitted posts.
Thanks, Pastor, for your time and effort!

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 [...]

Smithfield Ham Not a Bad Piece of Meat
Saturday, December 15th, 2007

I’d seen Paula Deen a couple of times on the Food Network, most notably her appearance on Iron Chef America. She has lent her name to Smithfield, which produces the Paula Deen Crunchy Honey Glaze Spiral Ham. For my parents visit this weekend, we tried one of the hams.
We purchased one at Giant Eagle for [...]

Applied Behavior Analysis therapy, by its very nature, is likely the therapy that has the highest documentation of success for children with pervasive development disorders. There is no question that it has helped our daughter learn useful skills, such as getting dressed, feeding herself, identifying objects in everyday life, learning the calender and written [...]