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Category Archives: Family Life

I am a WriterMom and love sharing thoughts on raising children and real life parenting and everyday life with children.

  1. Robinwood Garden receives $ 7800 grant for program to help kids garden – Oregonian story February 16, 2013

    Posted in Community, Community Service, Family Life, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Southwest Weekly Oregonain, SW Weekly, West Linn, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news.

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  2. Two voices, two views on families and addiction found in faith-based book by mother and ‘son’ February 10, 2013

    Posted in Authors, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Parenting, Southwest Weekly Oregonain, SW Weekly, West Linn, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news, Writing.

    1 comment
  3. The kid got no i-Anything for Christmas January 10, 2013

    Posted in Children, Culture, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, Real LIfe, Slowing Down, Technology, Writing, Youth.

    5 comments
  4. A Mini-Blowtorch-lit Advent–It’s is all about Tradition December 17, 2012

    Posted in Christianity, Faith, Family Life, Life, Moms, Parenting, Writing.

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  5. The Art of the Welcome – My Huffington Post Parents essay October 23, 2012

    Posted in Family Life, Huffington Post, Life, Slowing Down.

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  6. Skydivers arrive at 5:45 p.m. Friday July 20 to open West Linn Fair July 19, 2012

    Posted in Family Life, Images of America: WEST LINN, West Linn, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news.

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  7. My daughter and her wedding – Breathtakingly beautiful and perfectly and uniquely Rachel April 3, 2012

    Posted in Children, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Parenting.

    12 comments
  8. Staying up late with the kids as God wraps our street in a blanket of snow January 18, 2012

    Posted in Adventure, Children, Community, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, School Days, The Extraordinary Ordinary, West Linn news, Youth.

    4 comments
  9. The Art of Celebrating Life December 16, 2011

    Posted in 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.

    2 comments
  10. Sex Trafficking film takes us on a journey of discovery – My Christianity Today story November 4, 2011

    Posted in Christianity, Christianity Today, Church, Communication, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Faith and Culture, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach, Youth.

    4 comments
  11. Week 9 Summer 2011 Adventure with Kids -Cascade Head, real-life, and an act of kindness- August 18, 2011

    Posted in Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Oregon and beyond Adventures with kids, Parenting, The Extraordinary Ordinary.

    4 comments
  12. Timberline Trail and “Last Child Left in the Woods” — Week 8 Adventure with Kids ~ Summer 2011 August 8, 2011

    Posted in Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Children, Culture, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Moms, Parenting, Portland Oregon and beyond Adventures with Kids, The Extraordinary Ordinary.

    2 comments
  13. Week 6- Adventure with Kids ~ Summer 2011 Audubon Society trails in woods July 24, 2011

    Posted in Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Oregon and beyond Adventures with kids, Portland, Portland Oregon and beyond Adventures with Kids, The Extraordinary Ordinary.

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  14. Paul and Peggy Osborn’s litter patrol outreach impacts the community July 16, 2011

    Posted in Church, Community, Community Service, Faith, Family Life, Gratitude, Life, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news.

    6 comments
  15. Week 4 ~ Summer 2011 Adventures with Kids Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge July 14, 2011

    Posted in Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Adventures with Kids, Children, Culture, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Oregon and beyond Adventures with kids, Parenting, Portland Oregon and beyond Adventures with Kids, The Extraordinary Ordinary, Writing.

    1 comment
  16. Writer Mom Tales – A book for REAL moms that stitches together glimpses of the beauty in the chaos of Real-Life Motherhood July 11, 2011

    Posted in Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Authors, Children, Christianity, Extraordinary Ordinary, Faith, Family Life, Gratitude, Justice, Kids, Life, Moms, Outreach, Parenting, Slowing Down, The Extraordinary Ordinary, Transitions, Writing.

    6 comments
  17. Seeing Cannon Beach for the FIRST TIME- Week 3 ~ Summer 2011 ~ Adventure with Kids – July 6, 2011

    Posted in Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Adventures with Kids, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, The Extraordinary Ordinary.

    6 comments
  18. Week 2 ~ Summer 2011 ~ ADVENTURE WITH KIDS – Kelley Point Park and Smith and Bybee Lakes Wildlife Area June 26, 2011

    Posted in Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Adventures with Kids, Children, Culture, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, Slowing Down.

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  19. Week 1~ Let the ADVENTURE WITH KIDS Summer 2011 begin- Mount Talbert Nature Park – First Adventure June 14, 2011

    Posted in Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Moms, Parenting.

    4 comments
  20. How a young girl, undeterred, transformed $ 50 into $ 5600 – Oregonian Living Cover Story May 31 May 31, 2011

    Posted in Community Service, Culture, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Oregonian stories, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach.

    6 comments
  21. West Linn violist mom organizes benefit concert for Portland arts nonprofit PHAME Friday May 27 May 27, 2011

    Posted in Children, Community, Culture, Family Life, Gratitude, Moms, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, Parenting.

    2 comments
  22. Here is the church. . . the people need to get out of the steeple – A message from tonight’s John 17:23 Network meeting on refugees May 16, 2011

    Posted in Christianity, Church, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Faith and Culture, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Outreach, Refugees.

    2 comments
  23. The first Exile Poster Project focuses on the sexual exploitation of children in the city-Oregonian story May 9, 2011

    Posted in Children, Church, Community, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Faith. Culture. The Arts Connection, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Oregonian stories, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach.

    2 comments
  24. 14-year-old rape victim was later punished for “adultery” -Can this be happening? April 22, 2011

    Posted in Children, Communication, Culture, Family Life, Justice, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms.

    6 comments
  25. Jenni Reiling was a woman of passion who lived a life in service to Christ and others March 13, 2011

    Posted in Church, Community, Culture, Faith, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach.

    2 comments


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