Yep, it’s that time again in the Peck household. Kids are in a flurry to complete projects and posters. Glue, markers, construction paper and printer paper scraps flying, and tape running out in two-fold. Yeah, it’s fair time again. And this year, we have cookie batter coming out our ears! The 2 eldest finally picked [...]
Seriously. You just can’t see me for the pile of backlogged work I’m trying to get caught up on. Now that my coaching duties are over, I’m getting my house in order. After the neglect over the winter and early spring, I’ve become a cleaning fiend. And yet, the carpet seriously needs cleaned, or ripped [...]
I’m on a bit of a vacation. If you call staying at my parents house for a week a vacation. Since I’ve been busy, busy, busy, busy since before Christmas with volleyball coaching and other normal busy-like things, this is my time off. Nice thing of it, I found out I lost a total of 12 [...]
Today’s Maundy Thursday, the night that Jesus celebrated his last Passsover with his disciples. And today happens to be Passover as well. Normally, the hubs and I celebrate Passover from the Christian perspective (the Messiah having already come and all), but this year well, we can’t. See, I sing in our church choir and tonight [...]
If you haven’t had the pleasure of sitting in on the story of how this buck was discovered and eventually bagged, you’d never believe it. This picture was taken by my cousin-in-law, and it doesn’t quite do it justice if you were to see it in real life. If you look real close at the [...]
Around our house, my kitty, Kiki, is known to be the vicious attack cat. From day 1 we discovered this cat was a one family cat and we were it. Especially my youngest who was a baby at the time when hubby brought her home. She loved sleeping with him and curling up next to [...]
It might be warming up in Illinois, up into the mid-40′s by next week. But it’s still cold. Which is normal for January. But right now, I’m writing a book that’s during the hot part of the summer. Makes it pretty difficult to write about humidity and heat when it’s freezing and there’s snow on [...]
I’ve been real busy this week with Volleyball, writing, and critiquing. And that’s just my night jobs, don’t forget about my day job. I’ve got this deep down giddy, tingling feeling. And it’s due to a team of 6th & 7th grade girls. I haven’t felt this way about volleyball since I played. Good things [...]
It’s a bit nippy here. Like 16 degrees nippy and it’s only gonna get colder. A lot colder. To top it off, the kids got a snow day because of the ton of snow we were supposed to get. Guess the biggest worry was when the wind started really blowing and white-out conditions would be [...]
I’ll make it brief, cause I’ve got things to do. Happy New Year, Ya’ll! Hope it’s a good year for you. My goals: Allowing God full control of my life. Landing that elusive publishing contract. Going to the ACFW conference in Indy, possibly consider going to the Early Bird. Maybe move back to Iowa–though secretly [...]
