by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 8, 2018 | for 31 Days, Hospitality, How I Mom, How you mom
Gather at the table. With your family. With your extended family. With your friends. With just you and your kids. With just you and your spouse. . In whatever form, fancy or ordinary, every day, in the real space of your real home in your real neighborhood, gather...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 4, 2018 | Hospitality, How I Mom, How you mom, Moms, Navigating Motherhood, Raising boys, Raising Teens, Raising Tweens
2/30 How I Mom: While your kids are growing up, make grandparents and great grandparents and extended family part of your lives. – – – – – – – – When my...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | May 31, 2018 | Being present, Community, Hospitality
One of my twin sons Mick is working as a busser at a steakhouse restaurant in Waikiki this summer; he’s staying with my daughter’s family who lives in Hawaii. On his first day of what was going to be an 8-hour work day, he packed a PBJ dinner. When he came home...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Mar 15, 2018 | Family Life, Hospitality, Real-Life Mom column
I had coffee with my fellow local writer-mom friend Laura at our neighborhood Starbucks. Somehow in the conversation she noted how she had stopped by my house last summer and my house was not “perfect,” but instead it felt “lived in” and that I have other...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Mar 5, 2015 | Accident, Attitude, Being present, Extraordinary Ordinary, Gratitude, Hospitality, Kids, Life, Moms, Teaching Moments, The Extraordinary Ordinary, Writing
“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” — Angel Clarence When my friend Jenni set up the meal train for us after our Accident, there was a...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 8, 2014 | Children, Community, Family Life, Guest post, Holidays, Home, Hospitality, Real LIfe, Real-Life Mom column, Tradition, Transitions, Tweens
We recently had two families over for a Christmas dinner and cookie making session. Though Christmas is such a busy time of year, I so want to be deliberate about inviting people into our home for fellowship as a way of maintaining traditions, and maybe establishing...