gina jacobson Archives • Paul Jacobson

My 44th birthday was a good day

I went for a walk to the mall on my birthday, and made some photos along the way.

Yesterday was my 44th birthday. 🎉 Great expectations I realised I felt a little internal pressure to do something amazing, wonderful, or remarkable. I just couldn’t think of anything. In the past, I watched “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” on my birthday as a sort of personal birthday tradition. I still love that movie,…… Continue reading My 44th birthday was a good day

Raising a Jewish family is very much a journey

Praying at the Kotel (the Western Wall) in Jerusalem

My wife contributed a post to the All Things Mom Sydney blog titled “The Religious Effect: Raising children within a Jewish Family” which describes many of the decisions we have made.

Reminiscing on our 10th wedding anniversary

Me and Gina on our 10th anniversary. Processed with VSCOcam with a6 preset

Today is a milestone for me and my wife. 10 years of marriage and I thought I’d look back at some of the highlights and lessons of the last decade of marriage to my beautiful wife and best friend.

My wife baked sour dough bread from scratch

My wife decided to make sour dough bread. She started by growing her own yeast over a week or two and, yesterday, used it to bake bread. It was terrific and went well with her chicken soup.

My wife is a talented woman! This last weekend she baked sour dough bread for us that went really well with her home-made chicken soup.