by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 29, 2013 | Children, Family Life, Home, Kids, Life, Live the Questions, Moms, Parenting, Real-Life Mom column, Tradition, Transitions, Writing
(This was also published in The Huffington Post Huffington Post- Can We Just Relax Mom?”) The start of summer is a bit disorienting for me as a mom, and I know for many other parents as well. What to do with the kids this summer, 12 weeks long. During the...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jun 25, 2013 | Art, Authors, Children, Church, Community, Community News - Southwest Metro Neighbors Oregonian, Community Service, Culture, Faith, Life, Moms, music, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Outreach, Refugees, SW Weekly, West Linn, West Linn news, Writing
(Published in print edition June 26, 2013 of SW Weekly Oregonian June 26, 2013 and found on oregonlive.com OREGONLIVE STORY ON BLOOM IN THE SIDEWALK) When Kimber Dion and her sister Kristin Schultz, were growing up in the Portland area, they were both sexually abused...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Feb 10, 2013 | Authors, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Oregonian stories, Oregonian SW Community Section, Oregonlive.com - Oregonian website, Parenting, Southwest Weekly Oregonain, SW Weekly, West Linn, West Linn Neighborhood Correspondent for Oregonian SW Community, West Linn news, Writing
(Originally published in print edition of The Oregonian, Feb. 9, 2013, found at: Oregonlive.com STORY -) By Cornelia Seigneur, Special to The Oregonian February 09, 2013 Email Chad Dingle and his grandmother, Joan Callander, wrote a book together about addiction....
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jan 10, 2013 | Children, Culture, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, Real LIfe, Slowing Down, Technology, Writing, Youth
My kid wanted an I-Pod 5 for Christmas. Before this he wanted a new computer for Christmas. But, then his only waking thought became an I-Pod 5. My kid is 9-years-old. He asked me many times. He sent me links to where I could get an I-Pod 5. He told his Granma that he...
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 17, 2012 | Christianity, Faith, Family Life, Life, Moms, Parenting, Writing
We started focusing on the Advent season a few years ago, which for us translates into each Sunday evening in December gathering around our dining room table and lighting a new candle on our “Advent’s Kranz,” which is German for Advent’s wreath. Four candles arranged...
