by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 1, 2009 | Christianity, Culture, Faith, Faith and Culture, Family Life, Justice, Life, Live the Questions
One moment he is riding his bicycle in Africa and the next he is struck by a motorcycle and gone from this earth. Former West Linn High School band teacher who taught my son Ryan for three years, Jeff Cumpston, a day shy of his 53rd birthday, was killed in Zimbabwe...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 29, 2009 | Moms, Real LIfe, Real-Life Mom column, Transitions
We dropped off Ryan at George Fox University on Thursday. It was a day of new student orientation and he was anxious to be on his own, to get set up, to start this new chapter of his life. It was a family event, with a fair in the middle of the campus and Ryan’s...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 26, 2009 | Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Real LIfe, Real-Life Mom column, The Extraordinary Ordinary
Wow, what a week [two as one of the weeks was preparing]- a road trip to Yellowstone Park-our first with our children. Our daughter’s boyfriend Stefan from Germany was with us and he was baptized into our large family life- eight of us squeezed into a Chevy...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 6, 2009 | Church
Yesterday I sent my twins, 11, off to junior high church camp with Rolling Hills Community Church. They are incoming 6th graders and this is the first over night church camp they have gone to. I so wanted to be there as a leader but I am speaking at a writers...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 6, 2009 | Family Life
So, last night it is not the video games or the tv or the computer that is keeping my 6 year old son up (and to be honest, thankfully, there has not been a whole lot of that for him anyway). Instead it is the call of the hammer for my 6-year-old son. It was 11 pm and...
