by Cornelia Becker Seigneur | Jul 14, 2013 | Culture, Family Life, Home, Kids, Life, Moms, Real LIfe, Real-Life Mom column
About the kids-relaxing-all-summer thought. Not going to happen. They would drive me and themselves crazy for sure. Since my recent earlier summer blog post, “Can we just Relax, Mom?” I have received notes from other high-achieving parents, grateful for the...
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 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 | 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...
