Jessica Leigh Allen
Jessica Allen is a thirty something hybrid mom, who shares a disturbingly organized (though suspiciously dusty) home, with her artist-husband, Michael, and their brilliant, unspoiled only child, Benjamin. She maintains her unhealthy addiction to a Dymo label maker, yet cannot seem to label herself.
Neo-hippy/Punk/1950s Sitcom Mom.
Is it possible to be all of these? Well, she is! Whilst tooling around in her minivan, she listens to anything from Green Day to Nine Inch Nails to Dave Matthews Band. She arrives for Story Time in black and white Converse kicks (and ignores the disapproving stares from the mommies in the lemon chiffon velour jumpsuits). She harbors a secret desire to highlight her hair with Manic Panic Purple Haze. Yet, she does not have cable television and refuses to take part in such silliness as Girls Night Out because she absolutely will not sacrifice the chance to kiss Benjamin goodnight.
Allen contentedly lags behind The Joneses and she rarely wears pearls when she gardens. But, overall, she thinks she is doing a pretty good job at this thing called Motherhood.
