by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 30, 2018 | How I Mom, How you mom, Motherhood
My daughter for Christmas one year gave me a framed poem collage with words and photos crafted out of magazine cutouts. The title of the poem was “Mom Living” or maybe it was just “Mom” as I look at it again. She wrote: My Mom is the light of my life She makes me feel...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 10, 2018 | How I Mom, Motherhood, Navigating Motherhood
I visited my childhood best friend Jeanie in Corvallis for her birthday and she has been sorting through a bunch of keepsakes that her mom saved for her over the years. She was thrilled to show me some of the items. Letters I had written, stories she had penned that...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 7, 2018 | How I Mom, How you mom, Motherhood, Prayer
My overarching umbrella of How I Mom is hands down. PRAYER. Pray like your family, your kids, your world depends upon it. Because it does. I am so desperate for God in my life and I want my kids to know it. Pray like breathing. When my children were still in their...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 5, 2018 | How I Mom, How you mom, Motherhood, Navigating Motherhood, Parenting Philosophy
I did not grow up going to church with my family. When we lived in Corvallis, Oregon during my first through third grade years, I had two best friends: Jeanie and Julie. Jeanie went to church with her family while Julie and I did not. So on Sunday mornings, I got...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 2, 2018 | Adventure, Motherhood, Navigating Motherhood, Parenting Philosophy
When they placed my first-born child, my only daughter, into my arms, 28 and three quarters of a year ago, tears fell from my eyes as I looked into her deep dark eyes. I felt so much adoration and love toward her that it felt like my heart was going to burst. I...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Mar 4, 2018 | Moms, Motherhood, Parenting, Raising Teens
All of my kids have run track in high school so far. It is what our family does in the spring. My oldest child, my only daughter, set the stage for our family being a track family. Indeed, Rachel was a varsity athlete from her freshman year on; she excelled at running...
