Jennifer McCoy
Your inappropriate friend & parent / anti-racist writer activist / autism, not gun enthusiast / attorney misdemeanant / user of swear words
Parent Coping Skills With No School Days
Parent Coping Skills With No School Days a/k/a Frick! They Are Home With Me AGAIN! Tactic # 1: Invite Their Friends Over Friday was just a weird day. The kids were out of school, again. I think they get a day off for every two they are in school. In a now characteristic masochism, I […]
MoreStupid Rookie Parent Move
I made a totally stupid rookie parent move the other day I picked up the girls from school and took them directly to the gourmet candy store Oh Lolli Lolli. I did this to make amends for stealing their candy earlier in the week. I know, I know. But they taunted me with chocolate covered mini oreos which are […]
MoreThree Pageant Concerts in Four Days
A year or so ago, Kevin and I saw three Pageant concerts in four days. The scene of the crime was The Pageant in St. Louis, which is within walking distance from our house. Three Pageant concerts, completely different genres. Strangely, the concert I felt the most at home attending was standing next to the […]
MoreTheme for the Day
Do you ever live theme days? Like a certain obscure something is mentioned twice, and you’re like, how can “cherub”come up in completely unrelated conversations three times during one afternoon? Or when you hear “Billy, Don’t Be A Hero” twice within the same twelve hours. Recently, the theme that emerged that day was opossum. The friendly guy in the […]
MoreWhen Kids Use My Stuff
Kids Use My Stuff All the Time! I have come to a depressing truth: Nothing in my house will ever truly be mine ever again. A few months back, my sweet husband bought me an ipad2 for all the trouble I went through to get cancer. Nothing says “welcome to cancer” quite like an Apple product. […]
MoreI Am More Accident Prone Than My Kids
Accident Prone Mother Impales Self in Head My husband and I attended the Justice For All Ball at Chase Park Plaza on Saturday night. Formal, with tuxes. We don’t do this sort of event often, or at all if we have to pay for it ourselves, but we had fun at it last year against all […]
MoreDon’t Call Me Brave: Last Day of Radiation
Don’t Call Me Brave. I don’t know why I feel drawn to Quentin Tarantino movies on this day, my last day of radiation. I’ve spent the last twenty minutes trying to find an appropriate quote from a Quentin Tarantino movie to commemorate my last day of radiation but I got bogged down by all the killing and maiming dialogue. I’ve […]
MoreGreeting Card Ideas
Greeting Card Ideas Inspired by Shopping at Target Waiting for the Target pharmacy to open this morning I decided to kill some time looking at greeting cards. It’s actually a guilty pleasure because I love to look at greeting cards. I’m also kind of a snob about it. I love cards so much that my […]
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