by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 7, 2013 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2013, Adventures with Kids, Community, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, West Linn, West Linn news
For this Adventure with Kids, we drove some place close to home: West Linn’s treasured White Oak Savanna, which is 20 acres of rare white oak trees that have been saved by the efforts of local activist Robert Schwarz and many others. For the past nine...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jan 5, 2013 | Adventure, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Parenting
Omi took me to the woods. My memories of times with my German Grandma on my mother’s side are walking on pine needle carpets along tree lined paths in Hessen Germany. She’d look for mushrooms on the way while she held her walking stick and as we meandered along on...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 19, 2012 | Authors, Book Reviews, Extraordinary Ordinary, Faith, Life
Favorite author and speaker Margaret Feinberg Margaret Feinberg Website has a new book and 7-session Bible Study called Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God that releases on Christmas Day. She calls it your personal invitation to toss back the covers, climb...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Mar 31, 2012 | Adventure, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Kids, Life, Moms, Slowing Down
While my daughter is home this month planning her marriage ceremony and reception with me and her fiancé Stefan we have been very very busy. It deserves about 100 times that many verys. It is unbelievable the details and process and back and forth and decisions and...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jan 18, 2012 | Adventure, Children, Community, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, School Days, The Extraordinary Ordinary, West Linn news, Youth
So, my twins and I are up late watching the snow accumulate as God is blanketing the street and the house and the yard in a blanket of soft white. And the twins who are 14 say, “Mom, it’s really sticking and there must be an inch at least and they will at...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Dec 16, 2011 | Adventure, Children, Culture, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Muse Student publication, Parenting, Portland Oregon and beyond Adventures with Kids, The Extraordinary Ordinary
I celebrate life. I celebrate building sand castles on slow silver and blue-sky days and seeing my children hanging out with one another. I celebrate decorating the Christmas tree with family and friends where every ornament tells a story. I celebrate big monuments...