Category Archives: Everything Jakob

The New Seat Belt Nazi

In 1983 I was four years old.  You may not know this, but right around this time citizens of the USA  started pushing for laws requiring that drivers and passengers wear seat belts to save lives and increase safety on the roads.  About every five minutes there were commercials on TV that showed what happened [...]

Is it really August already?

So… Seeing as how it’s been precisely forever since we’ve posted anything around here, we’ve got a lot to catch up on. Maybe the most noteworthy news item of late is that we had our first of hopefully many medical campaigns this July. This deserves and will get it’s own post in the next day [...]

Father’s Day

I’m glad that Peru has a lot of the same nationally recognized holidays as you do in the States.  Mother’s Day and Father’s Day being the most recent ones.  We had a great Father’s Day weekend and even started celebrating how great of a Daddy we have around here a little early.  Like last Thursday. [...]

How is May almost gone already?

Well… I have no good excuse for not writing an update right now… so here we go.  Obviously, tons of stuff has happened since our last post… if nothing else, our kids are more than a month older than the last time you saw them.  How could I let that happen?  How are you coping? [...]