by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Oct 15, 2010 | Adventure, Faith, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, The Extraordinary Ordinary
I finished it, but looking at my time, it seemed like I barely finished. I just did not get close to my goal. In fact, my finish time was 15 minutes slower than my first Portland Marathon, which was 11 years ago, and 45 minutes slower than last year. At first I...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 11, 2010 | Children, Culture, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting
So I am at the new yogurt shop called Yo Top It in West Linn on an outing with one of my 12-year-old twins, Wesley. I try to take each of my kids out individually, and with back to school here, I wanted to have this time with my seventh grader to talk. When we walk...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Sep 3, 2010 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2010, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Moms, Parenting
For Week 10 and perhaps our final summer adventure with kids for 2010, we went local, to the Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation Nature Park outside of Beaverton. We asked another mom and her son, who is the same age as my twins, to join us for this trek trying...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 27, 2010 | Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Parenting
So, my youngest was having some days camping with his grand parents and my twins had said they have never been to Seattle. We were trying to find a place to go, an adventure, with just the twins and me. I was feeling a bit sad that summer is close to over and I...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 21, 2010 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2010, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, The Extraordinary Ordinary
When I asked my twins what they wanted to do for this week’s adventure, they said hang with their cousins. But, I wanted to go to a new place, to adventure out. So we did what we often do–combine ideas. I told my sister that I wanted to get together and...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Aug 15, 2010 | Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Moms
Lying on a blanket by the lake while gazing at the star-filled sky; taking the boat out dodging white caps and listening to my twin sons laughing; searching for our crawdad traps on the lake then delighting in their wonder as they pull the traps up into the boat to...
