Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

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I am running on no sleep…my child slipped and fell on the ice at school yesterday and he came into bed with me pretty early. I didn’t sleep. I was nearly breathless watching over him, his perfect face, his measured breaths, his sigh of contentment when I placed a hand gently on his belly.

I didn’t sleep. I wanted him to rest. I watched this singular moment in time, the only day like this ever. His innocence. His comfort. His unsarcastic love.

It was a mommy-refresher course.

Today, of course, I am bleary-eyed and moving through jello. He is fine, happy to help his daddy put together a new dresser. Today he is a little man. Last night, he was my baby.