by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 24, 2015 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2015, Adventures with Kids, Summer
Canal Acres Nature Park in our next door city, Lake Oswego, was the destination for our 8th Outdoor Adventure with Kids this summer. The 31 acres that make up Canal Acres are found across the road from Bryant Woods Nature Park, which we had visited a couple of years...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 2, 2014 | Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Moms, Motherhood, Nature, Outdoors, Parenting, Portland, Portland Oregon and beyond Adventures with Kids, Slowing Down, Summer, Writing
So, I tell my kids that are still at home, ages 11 and 16 and 16, that we are going on our first Summer Adventure with kids, and they moan a bit and my 11-year-old says, “You just want to take pictures, and write about it on your blog.” Oh, I wish I could say I...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 16, 2013 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2013, Adventures with Kids
I found out about the Jackson Bottom Wetland Preserves for this week’s Summer 2013 Adventure with Kids by googling “wildlife refuge.” We have been able to visit most of the wildlife refuges that came up my computer screen with a similar google...
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 | Jul 31, 2011 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Adventures with Kids, Church, Community, Faith, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Outreach, Parenting, Youth, Youth Ministry
I just returned from five days away at Riverview Bible Camp on the Pend O’Reille River as a junior high church camp counselor. I had a cabin filled with 10 almost-eighth grade girls, and my 13-yeard-old twin sonswere in tow, part of a cabin filled with...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 21, 2011 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2011, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Kids, Life, Oregon and beyond Adventures with kids, Portland Oregon and beyond Adventures with Kids, The Extraordinary Ordinary
Sometimes your adventure is in your very neighborhood. At a fair where you learn to “just be.” We got a taste of spending a bit more time at the West Linn Old Time Fair last year, and this year matched that, attending two of the three days and a longer stretch on...
