Speaking of kids and Christmas…Janna Day…injury specialist at Blank Children’s Hospital advises parents to observe the age recommendations on particular toys…so the joy of Christmas morning isn’t supplanted with a harried trip to local ER.

Senator Chuck Grassley and Representative David Young joined worshippers at the Merle Hay Assembly of God Sunday for some Hark the Herald Angels Sing and Grassley’s musings on wife Barbara’s signature dish…called Poor Man’s Pie. (He prefers pumpkin).

You might be in the running for a share of a 90 million dollar settlement from T-Mobile over unwanted text services. Iowans stand to collect around 220 thousand $$.