We celebrated the New Year early with a special bottle of champagne sent by my Dad and a Sacher Torte from the famous Hotel Sacher...

We spent a couple of days in Innsbruck after satiating our ski cravings. The boys wanted to take Gramma D to the Alpine Zoo to show off...

What Austria lacks in snow they make up for in resort amenities. Heated seats, chair bubbles to protect you form the weather, handsfree...

We took the family to the opera of Hansel and Gretel the day after Christmas. Even though it was in German, we managed to pick up what...

Christmas Eve brought us a hand full of visitors. My mom, “D” flew in from Atlanta, and my brother and his wife, Zeb and Carrie flew in...

When we talk about discipline with the boys in response to bad choices they make, we talk in terms of the carrot and the stick. There are...

Advent is huge in this Catholic nation. I mean huge. Both in the spiritual sense as well as the consumerism sense. Since I grew up...