Pater Familias

We begin our Holy Week in the Philippines with the combined celebration of Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday. It's 91 degrees but it feels...

We're on the homestretch here with 2 weeks left on our vacation. Can you guess what these girls will miss most?

Yes, Papa. We know the DVD's out. And we know that you got yours. So instead, we got ourselves a VeggieTales movie.

The ladies in the family get the annual letter from the man of the house on St. Nicholas' Day (that's December 6 for y'all). So...

I couldn't have planned it better. Back in VA, the girls attend a weekly Philippine language and cultural school run by volunteers. A f...

After six weeks in a different culture, the girls have started showing the effects of immersion. When they accidentally drop their utensils ...

Windsurf School, that is. Why waste the wicked wind that blows across the sandbar? Math just had to wait. The cousins learned about windsu...