Oh Valentine’s Day. It’s ironic that that’s the day when I began this blog. 5 years ago today. How things change. How we all grow. For better or worse. For BOTH better and worse.
Many people start blogs. I’m not original in that. Some start blogs to make money. Some start blogs as a personal creative outlet. Some start blogs because they feel compelled to write and feel that they can’t help but do anything but. Read more…
Y’all, it’s been a summer. A long summer. Having three kids is hard. I love them a million times each, I do. But. Goodness gracious.
A couple years ago, some friends of ours, who’d just had their third child, jokingly gave KP and I some advice. “Don’t have a third kid”, they joked.
They were probably only HALF joking. Read more…
You know how when you’re talking to someone you’ve just met, and your conversation follows the usual social mores about weather or occupations or where you’re from originally, or whatever? Well, if you’re a mom of littles and you’re conversing with another mom of littles, at some point, you talk about your birth experience(s).
NOT because we’re all trying to secretly judge each other (not all moms are as vindictive and petty as all the online magazines and mom blog articles like to portray us, ok?) – but because the process of giving birth is typically, like, a pretty big deal event to a woman. And talking about our birth stories with other women – who actually get why we have this crazy strong need to have to talk about them – somehow creates this weird motherly and womanly unifying bond of having been in the trenches together.
So yes, I kind of like hearing birth stories. No matter how they happened.
Even still, I always get a; bit, um, cautious, when it comes to how to approach my previous birth stories or current birth plans when in conversation. I find myself reading the crowd carefully before I start sharing too much. Read more…
We just got back from a quick 2-night stay in Las Vegas. Yes, with our two young kids. Yes, and while I’m pregnant.
Though Vegas might not initially seem the prime vacation spot in our given situation, it ended up being a perfect trip for us. And it could be for you too – just because you have young kids (or don’t or can’t drink) it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a Vegas Vacation and I’m here to show you how you can do it too! Read more…
So I’m pregnant and having a third kid. I’ve already got a daughter and son. Why in the world would I want another kid? Here’s my journey to how I got here.
I’m the oldest of 6 kids. I grew up in a community where most families had at least 2 children, and families of 4 or more were fairly common. I always assumed I’d have my own kids one day because, well, it’s all I really knew. However, though I liked the idea of my kids having lots of siblings like I did, I also knew how much work kids were and I didn’t want to do the work of raising a bunch of kids myself, lol, so I figured my own family one day would be a bit smaller.
Fast forward many years to KP and I seriously dating. Read more…
If you know me, you probably think I’m one of the last people ever to enjoy Las Vegas. I mean, I like eating and drinking and hanging out by the pool and all that – but I’m not really a huge fan of crowds and loud music and the party scene. However, for some reason, I really like Las Vegas. In small doses of course.
Having kids has changed the way we’re able to do Vegas, but that hasn’t stopped us from making the 4-5 hour trip out there from L.A. I went once when pregnant with my daughter, once when she was a baby, once when my son was a baby, and now we just went again this week with both kids AND with being pregnant. Read more…
(I’m no grammar shark, but I *believe* that “affecting” is the proper word in the title, right? Not ‘effecting’. If I’m wrong, someone please **politely** correct me and I’ll fix it, ok?) A few weeks ago, I received an email inviting me to be part of an affiliate program for a website that specializes in providing […] Read more…
I’ve been majorly behind on posting new posts lately. I’ve got a million ideas about things to write about, but ugh, that’s exactly my problem – too many things in my head at once. At all times. I gotta work on this focus thing. You know one thing that always brings me back into balance […] Read more…
I live in a weird part of the world. I juggle convictions and morals in an environment that often seems incompatible with them. I struggle with what to say and how to say it and what I’m allowed to say. Even with its weirdness, however, I still value the confidentiality of this entertainment business and respect the need to keep bits of information I’ve gathered here and there to myself. Often my random knowledge wouldn’t really matter to anyone else, but every once in a while I’ve been privy to things that give me a different perspective of an issue that the rest of the world is not able to see.
You know the whole Ashely Madison thing? Where all the user email addresses of the infidelity website were hacked and released? Of course you do; it was all over the news and the topic of many articles and blog posts and vitriol. Well, what you don’t know is that KP and I have a history with Ashley Madison. Ok, well, KP has the history – but as his wife and as it’s something we’ve discussed in depth, I have a history with it too. Read more…
Now that it’s officially summer and it’s been getting into the 90s here this past week, The Peck household is entering into what we deem as “the hot season”: June through Sept (sometimes into October 🙁 ) Some of you might just call this “summer”, but it’s more than just summer to us – when […] Read more…
Anyone remember this post, of my garden at the beginning of March? Well, it looked like this: I haven’t been very good about documenting my garden’s growth in posts – but I have been taking monthly pictures. Not to brag, but I think that, so far, this year may be my best garden ever! And […] Read more…
What is it called when you write a bunch of twitter posts all in a row, continuing one sentence onto the next tweet, over and over in order to tell a longer story or thought? Whatever it’s called, that’s what I just did. Who knows why I wrote it on twitter instead of a blog post, but for some reason, it just flowed that way better.
Anyway, since I’m all about cross posting on multiple social media platforms – and because I’m sure that no one is reading my twitter feed in the middle on the night and will catch it – here is my recent tweet stream: Read more…
There’s another consignment sale coming up in a couple weeks and of course I signed up to consign. 🙂 I’ve been trying to once again hit some garage sales in the weeks beforehand and I will eventually post pictures of all my scores before the sale as well as another re-cap after. But in the […] Read more…
In a perfect storm of blogging community epicness, I plan to submit this post not only to the the usual This Ain’t the Lyceum‘s Seven Quick Takes Friday Link-Up, but also to Blogelina‘s Comment-a-thon event. So if you stumbled unto this post through either one of those and this is your first time here – […] Read more…
I’m still on some databases from back when I used to semi-regularly apply to be on reality tv and game shows. Every once in awhile, if a show is proving particularly difficult to find people for, and if I might match an attribute a show is looking for, I occasionally get an impersonal casting email […] Read more…
You know one thing I love? Free things. You know another thing I love? Winning things in blog giveaways. 🙂 A huge shout out and thank you to Jen Miyagishima at Real Mom of SFV for hosting a blog giveaway to see Dinosaur Train Live! at the Valley Performing Arts Center today. And thanks also […] Read more…
I actually had a whole other blog post in mind for today’s Seven Quick Takes Friday (hosted by This Ain’t the Lyceum), but decided to instead write about a super current event: the tv show Parenthood. No Finale spoilers just in case some of you have not seen it yet. 🙂 1) I have been […] Read more…
When I originally started this blog, I had a few goals in mind for it. Over the past year of having this blog, I’ve dabbled a bit here and there with post topics, hoping to whittle out exactly what I want from it. I’m still figuring it out. I’ve written movie reviews. (Into The Woods, […] Read more…
I just watched our Boyhood screener. 1) Having grown up in Central Texas like the main character for most of the movie, it made the whole thing just a little extra special and relateable to me (even though, to be honest, I was a relatively good kid with a pretty stable family life. But still, […] Read more…
For today’s post, we have to start a little ways back. High School. Now I went to a very small, private, religious high school where, if you were interested, you could pretty much do anything you were willing to put time into. So I was on the Varsity basketball team all four years (no, I […] Read more…
Today I’ll be indulging in some Hollywoodness and talking about a movie. There will be three parts. Part 1: My Background with the film. Part 2: My Synopsis of the film, and Part 3: My Grand Philosophical Conclusions from the film. This is Part 3. Here’s why I loved Into the Woods so much. Upon […] Read more…