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7 Quick Takes — IEP’s, School Lunch Quandries, and Rain

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7 Quick Takes

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Daniel’s IEP went well on Monday. I’m incredibly thankful that we’ve got a great staff at the local school (where they have all the preschool classes) and that they have an ABA preschool class where Daniel will go. I’ve heard horror stories about the school district in the town to the north and how hard it is to get services for your kids there. Daniel will start preschool on April 11th (his 3rd birthday is on Holy Saturday) and he’ll be in school Monday to Friday for 5 hours every day. The IEP team will meet again on May 11th and firm up goals and plans for things like physical and occupational therapy.

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With Daniel starting preschool, I now have a new quandry: school lunches. I need to provide enough food for two snacks and Daniel isn’t feeding himself with a spoon yet. The complicating factor in this is that he also doesn’t know how to take bites out of something so it would need to be finger food. Got any suggestions? I’d welcome any and all input including how to teach him to take bites out of his food.

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March seems to be going out like a lion here. After a wet week two weeks ago, we’ve had nice weather, rain on the weekend, and then rain the last couple days. It was pleasant enough to walk to my WIC appointment with Daniel this morning but it’s cloudy again and I think we’ll be getting more rain tonight. We do need the moisture but I sort of wish I could pick the days it would come.

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Daniel has been using his “more” sign more and more. Considering that it took almost two years to get him to do it on his own, I’m pretty happy. He signed it to my mom last weekend when she was giving him lunch and he has done it at all his therapy sessions that happened this week. (Physical therapy got rescheduled to next week because it was a park date but was pouring by the time we got to Elk Grove.) I’m hoping to be able to teach him some more signs and have that be a help with communication. He already makes his needs known in non-verbal ways but he has to learn to communicate verbally somehow and signing can do that.

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Daniel turns 3 in a little over a week. His birthday falls on Holy Saturday this year and it’s also the day of our church’s Easter Egg Hunt. I can’t believe that it’s been almost three years now since he was born. I don’t know if we have any Easter plans as of yet so I’m not sure how we’ll celebrate. All I do know is that next week’s Quick Takes will probably be solely Daniel-focused. We’ve already gotten some books for his birthday from my in-laws and my mom has done some clothes shopping for him.

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“The Big Bang Theory” returns tonight. I’ve definitely missed it the past two weeks. Granted, we have Netflix and I can watch “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” or actually find out what all the “Downton Abbey” hype is all about, but my life is just not complete without seeing Sheldon being his asocial self.

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Questions Not to Be Asked

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Credo House Ministries: Are Roman Catholics Saved?

This afternoon, I saw a link to the above article on the Twitter feed of Jennifer Fulweiler of ConversionDiary.Com. My first thought was “oh great… another Catholic vs. Protestant catfight”, especially after reading that the author doesn’t know if some of the people who attend his church are even Christians and seeing the Evangelical vs. Fundamentalist jokes at the beginning.

Then I saw the words baptismal regeneration and thought “well crap… it’s some uber-Reformed person shooting their mouth off” so I decided to go to the “who we are” page and read up on them. It turns out that it’s some people whose theological education is from Dallas Theological Seminary (actually a good seminary) who apparently failed to pay attention in their Church History classes because they seem to be ignorant (willfully or not) of the traditions of historical Christianity.

-Yes, Catholics do indeed know who Jesus is.

-They know that they are saved by grace through faith. (I have a copy of the “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification” sitting in my living room.)

-They do not add books to the Bible — Luther subtracted. (The extras, the Apocrypha, essentially cover the time between the testaments and were taken out of the canon as they had nothing to do with Jesus.)

-They would argue that it does say in James that “faith without works is dead”. Most who are literate in their faith understand that their faith in Christ saves them and that the works are the fruit of their faith.

I’m not going to argue their views on Mary and the saints as it does not pertain to this subject and those are arguments for another time, should I choose to have them. The important thing here is to establish that Catholics and Orthodox and Protestants are all Christians, we all pray to the same God, and we all love Jesus. Asking the question of whether one group is saved over another is in bad taste and serves to drive people away from faith in God more than it brings them to it.