A slide built into a hill and a meteorite: Exploring local parks is our No. 5 Summer 2015 Outdoor Adventure with Kids
Despite my accident and my focus this year on recovery, I have kids at home. I am trying to make things as normal as possible. What is normal? I have done adventures each summer with my kids and am trying to do that this year as well. This week's Summer Outdoor...
Falls Creek Falls – Summer 2015 Outdoor Adventure with Kids No. 4
Our Adventure Number 4 this summer was a hike with the cousins along Falls Creek to Falls Creek Falls on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge. We found out about this place through the cousins’ friend. It was an hour and a half drive from Portland, and oh...
Day 31: It’s an Adventure
I try to approach parenting like I approach life. It’s an adventure. It's all about the attitude. Webster defines adventure as: Definition of adventure -[ad-ven-cher] - noun 1. an exciting or very unusual experience. 2.participation in exciting undertakings or...
Making Outreach Part of Your Family Life
My neighbor Joyce needs supplemental oxygen just to breathe. She cannot go anywhere without it. She sits on her couch with her thin oxygen tubes connected through her nose and with this heat; it’s been especially hard on her. Today, she left me a voice mail that the...
Day 24: Hang on loosely and don’t let go
My 17-year-old son started going swimming every day at our local private pool at 7 a.m. to get in shape for the upcoming fall swim season. He has a workout that his swim team coach Leanne gave to him. I thought, I could join him at 7 a.m. to swim with him. Bonding...
Day 23: Provide opportunities for kids to be nurturing
Thought for today: Nourish the nurturing side of your child . . . It’s early morning and I walk into my 12-year-old son’s bedroom and there he is petting Colt’s black and white coat. He tells me that she climbed up on his bed. He’s looking at his new tuxedo kitten...
Day 21: Be the “Best Mom (or Dad) Ever”
My twins are both lifeguards this summer. Last summer, just Micki was but this summer they both have the same jobs at our local pool. And if you live in the Portland, Oregon area, you know how hot it has been. Yesterday was a scorcher -- 99 degrees. As I was on my...
Cooper Mountain Nature Park-Summer 2015 Outdoor Adventure with kids – No. 2
For our second Outdoor Adventure with Kids for this summer, we took about a 30 minute drive out to Beaverton, Oregon to the Cooper Mountain Nature Park . This time I had all three of my boys (who are at home) with me. My friend Christy wondered how I get my kids...
Day 19: Tell your kids when others say nice things about them
Today I was dropping off Malibu Camp permission forms for my twins at the Young Life House in West Linn, and a fellow substitute teacher from Athey Creek stopped by at the same time. She told me that she met one of my twins last week at a Young Life meeting. She said...
Day 18: Feed them
I believe that food is a ministry. I love to invite people over for desserts and appetizers and dinners and barbeques and crepes and snacks and mochas and tea and a glass of wine. Sometimes it's planned and sometimes it's spontaneous. Often it's spontaneous. There's...
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