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The New Seat Belt Nazi

August 31, 2010 – 9:52 pm

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 [...]

By Stacy | Also posted in Everything Derek, Everything Jakob, Life and Culture, Parenting | Comments (4)

Summer Reading

August 22, 2010 – 9:57 pm

Aside from having several great visitors over the past few months and the business of the medical campaign, I have also not been blogging very much because I have been reading instead.  A lot.  And we are moving in a week and a half, so there’s another excuse in advance. Even though we just passed [...]

By Stacy | Also posted in Mission South America, Spiritual Thoughts | Comments (1)

Is it really August already?

August 8, 2010 – 11:10 pm

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 [...]

By Wes | Also posted in Everything Derek, Everything Jakob, Life and Culture, Mission South America, Peru | Comments (0)

Derek is 2 and July 4th in Peru!

July 6, 2010 – 11:36 pm

Derek turned 2 on Saturday and we had a great celebration with friends here!  Along with his birthday we celebrated July 4th and tried to make it feel like summer as much as possible.  Derek woke up pretty unhappy from his nap and cried the first hour or so of the party and wouldn’t stop [...]

By Stacy | Also posted in Everything Derek, Life and Culture, Parenting, Peru | Comments (2)