Speelyai Bay – A Summer 2013 Outdoor Adventure with Kids – No. 5

by | Jul 26, 2013 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2013, Children, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Gratitude, Kids, Life, Parenting, Writing

For this week’s Outdoor Adventure with kids, we met my sister and her kids at  Speelyai Bay on Lake Merwin in Washington. I grew up going to Lake Merwin with my parents and siblings but this is a new beach as the one we went to growing up is not very nice...

White Oak Savanna – Summer 2013 Outdoor Adventures with Kids – No. 3

by | Jul 7, 2013 | Adventure, Adventure with Kids Summer 2013, Adventures with Kids, Community, Extraordinary Ordinary, Family Life, Kids, Life, Moms, Parenting, West Linn, West Linn news

  For this Adventure with Kids, we drove some place close to home: West Linn’s treasured White Oak Savanna, which is  20 acres of rare white oak trees that have been saved by the efforts of local activist Robert Schwarz and many others. For the past nine...

Free Swim Lessons with the Cousins – Summer 2013 Adventure with Kids – No. 1

by | 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...

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