by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 19, 2013 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2013, Children, Family Life, Kids, Life, Parenting, Portland, Real-Life Mom column, Slowing Down, Summer, Tradition
My twins, who are now 15, asked at the start of the summer, whether we were doing swim lessons with the cousins. Mind you, my twins can swim. But, their younger brother is still mastering his water skills so we take advantage of the Free Swim Week that the Portland...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 19, 2013 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2013, Art, Summer
My summer adventures with kids continue with a visit to Browns Ferry Park in Tualatin, Oregon. My youngest son Augustin and I had about an hour while my twins were at youth group. Rolling Hills YouthSometimes I have to just grab the adventure when it’s there,...
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 7, 2012 | Africa, Gratitude, Home, Justice, Kids, Life, Parenting, Refugees, Writing
He walks to the door with his supervisor to let us in the locked rusty metal door double bolted entrance, which leads us through a cement-to-ceiling wired fence that takes us into a courtyard where deflated basketballs and wet picnic tables are pushed to the side. He...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 30, 2012 | Adventure, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Parenting, Writing
(Originally published as a cover story in the print edition of The Oregonian SW Weekly Nov. 10, 2012 Oregonian story link online) Grace Fischer and Emily Harkavy, both 9, peer into the stalls in the barn at the Little Corral, where they stroke Clover and Patches....
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...
