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.

Icing on the Cake

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Party for 50 in less than 48 hours. Still have the house to clean, the cupcakes to make, lunches to arrange, party games to set up, goody bags to goodify, and decorations to hang. Plus swim class and general parenting. My kids are not great about letting me take 12 hours to just get ready for their party. Apparently they need interaction and food.

I’ve put together a ton of frosting and am underwhelmed at the prospect of cleaning. I have choreography to do and some payment reminders to send to some parents at the nursery school who are avoiding me.

And I kinda love this…almost as much as I will love the nap I will take most of Sunday.