Dearest family and friends, 2017 has been a busy year, full of new and exciting developments. Here are a few highlights:

2017 marks our 6th year of volunteering as a family at the Family Giving Tree . Strictly speaking, it's the 7th year for me and The P...

You know you're a Disney geek when you can spend a full day inside a Disney park without getting on a single ride. There are so many o...

We used to make a big deal out of Easter when the kids were small. Every year, we would attend multiple egg hunts -- community egg hunts, eg...

Easter is just 1 week away! Now that the kids are teenagers, we no longer attend Easter Egg hunts, but we still like to keep the celebrat...

Every year I write out a family newsletter to include with our holiday cards, and every year I go back and forth about sending it out. Is ...

  Parades are one of the most popular attractions at the Disneyland Resort. Every day, people line the sidewalks of Disneyland Park'...

Today marks the 118th anniversary of Philippine Independence Day. On June 12, 1898, the revolutionary armies of the Philippines, led by Em...

Today we went to Christmas in the Park , the annual holiday display in downtown San Jose that features dozens of holiday dioramas and hun...

For almost a decade, our holidays have been inexorably tied with American Girl.  The Pea got her first American Girl doll as a Christmas p...

The Disneyland Resort is always crowded during the holidays, and for good reason. No, it's not just because everyone is on holiday. I...

Today is Boxing Day, and after all the craziness of Christmas Day, you finally have some time to take a deep breath and do everything you ...

The idea of running a race on Thanksgiving has always appealed to me -- do something active and healthy before stuffing your face! -- but...

You are the best mom in the world, So you are the queen. If I did not have you as a mom, I don't know what I could have been! ...

My family has visited so many lovely beaches in the Philippines, and there are so many more we have yet to visit, we tend to overlook a ce...

Last year, I scored big points with 3Po and Jammy by making awesome homemade Valentine's Day cards for their classmates.  They receiv...

It has become something of a tradition for me to post an American Girl holiday photo on Christmas Day.  If you're not into AG dolls, ...

There's no denying the difficulties of raising a child in a privileged environment without giving him a, well, sense of privilege. Mo...

You know you're an American Girl fan when your family Christmas tree isn't up yet, it's mid-December, and yet you still prefe...

Growing up on opposite sides of the world, Alfie and I have very different ideas of what a traditional holiday celebration looks like. We...