by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 18, 2010 | Children, Community, Community Service, Culture, Kids, Life, Live the Questions
Barry S. Childs of West Linn received the 2010 Purpose Prize for his work through Africa Bridge, a nonprofit organization he founded in 2000 to assist children orphaned by HIV/AIDS and other vulnerable children in rural Tanzania. Childs, along with nine other Purpose...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 12, 2010 | Adventure, Community, Culture, Gratitude, Justice, Life, Moms
At 11:30 Wednesday night, while my son and I were watching the movie Apollo 13, the telephone startled us from the couch. My mind starting racing — My twins were at a retreat with the church youth group, my son and daughter away at college. The phone call...
by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Nov 8, 2010 | Adventure, Adventures with Kids, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Moms, School Days
My friend Kelly had extra tickets to the pumpkin patch and corn maze at Kruger farms on Sauvie Island a day before Halloween, and I just had to take her up on her offer. Taking the time to go on adventures with kids is so important to me. It means you put aside your...
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...
