Criminal court days are hard.
But we’re grateful for them because it means we are one step closer to getting Waylon the justice he deserves.
As much as they can be stressful and tedious and disappointing as the justice system moves ever so slowly and with little regard for the victims – they also are days filled with love thanks to our friends who show up every time.
We love you all.
And we truly couldn’t do this without you.
We just wouldn’t want to.
But the criminal court system can be very lonely for victims and the families of victims.
That’s why do all we can through @LovingWayFoundation to help support and provide resources, comfort and joy to victims and their families during the most stressful and emotional of times.
We know how to help…
because we’re going through it ourselves.
#JusticeForWaylon
#TeamWaylonMcCoy
#LovingWayFoundation
@asplashofink_ps is her name and I can’t wait to show you her game!
A few weeks ago, I had a VERY busy week in Palm Springs and the oh-so-lovely @asplashofink_ps vacation rental home, managed by @wanderluxe_vacation_rentals, hosted us as our home away from home.
In between photo shoots, nonprofit fundraisers and court hearings was downtime spent…
swimming with my sweet boy…
Listening to records…
Dancing together…
And snuggling.
We have such lovely memories of this home and I’m so excited to share just some of them with y’all in the coming days and weeks.🩵
It’s one of my all-time Palm Springs vacation rental homes – and it’s designed and branded by @johnpatrickpalmsprings, my dear friend…
But that’s not why I love it! You’ll see why.😉
#LovingWayStays
#DawnsDestinations
📷: @andrewcabral_photography
Hair: @happychick.tribe Palm Springs, California
6 cities in 3 weeks.
1 week-long neurological therapy intensive for Waylon with @bcrawforddc & team in Austin.
1 beauty launch with @jouercosmetics x Loving Way.
1 @NBCtexastoday shoot in another city (Galveston).
4 still shoots.
2 @lovingwayfoundation informational events/ fundraisers in 2 cities (Palm Springs & Austin).
Multiple meetings with nonprofit partners.
Soul-swelling dinners with friends.
2 birthdays.
3 Birthday parties.
Thanksgiving.
And a partridge in a pear tree. 🕊️🍐🌴
On Sunday, we flew back to LA and spent 2 nights in our cozy, Christmas-clad home – which was HEAVEN – and now we’re headed back to Palm Springs for some work stuff and important stuff…
AND to go hot-tubbing with our dear Auntie @kellygolightly and to the media preview of @canopywinelounge, designed by my dear friend, @christopherkennedyinc (and pr by my other dear friend @lowiemoore @lawrencemooreassociates).
And you know what?
I am HAPPY.
A little tired, but happy and fulfilled.
Because my boy is happy and healing a little bit every day.
Work is rich and stimulating and exciting and FUN!
We have a super skilled, caring group of caregivers in Team Waylon – with Nadalea who travels with us, Cici here in LA and Paige in Palm Springs – which means I can work to keep it all going while he gets his therapies and healing in during school hours and and I can still be with him the majority of the day and night.
And I am surrounded by friends & family who help me in ways I would never even think to ask them for.
They say that that in times of trouble, the people who show up for you are YOUR people.
Well, our people are the BEST – and they have been there for us in the good, bad, beautiful, ugly, heavenly and horrific.
So when y’all say to me “I don’t know how YOU do it…”
The truth is…
I don’t.
WE do.
Waylon and me and Mom/LaLa and Uncle Cheese and Uncle Mattie and Team Waylon and our Squad and our @LovingWayFoundationBoard and my agents and friends and therapists and doctors and God and angels – and all of you who continue to cheer us on and lift us up.
LIFE IS GOOD. 👌🏻
What’s making it good for you today?☺️ Austin-Bergstrom Airport
This past Sunday, I flew to Galveston to shoot a @NBCTexasToday segment with @adrianalopeztv on @princesscruises Regal Princess at the Port of Galveston.
We had the JOY of shooting with The Love Boat original cast member, @officialjillwhelan (Vicki Stubing for those who know and love like I do) – and when I say joy, I mean JOY!!🎉
And, @adrianalopeztv and I had never worked on @nbctexastoday until this shoot – and we couldn’t have had more fun!!
Thanks to everyone involved – producer @graysonbcagle, @nkamali @simplycristina, Becky & Steve and Executive Producer, @jessica_grose, who made the day not only seamless but ridiculously fun!
Can’t wait for y’all to see it when it airs on Wednesday, 12/13 (set your DVRs)!
#DawnsDestinations
* my jacket: @trinaturk @mrturk PORT OF GALVESTON
This past Sunday, I flew to Galveston to shoot a @NBCTexasToday segment with @adrianalopeztv on @princesscruises Regal Princess at the Port of Galveston.
We had the JOY of shooting with The Love Boat original cast member, @officialjillwhelan (Vicki Stubing for those who know and love like I do) – and when I say joy, I mean JOY!!🎉
And, @adrianalopeztv and I had never worked on @nbctexastoday until this shoot – and we couldn’t have had more fun!!
Thanks to everyone involved – producer @graysonbcagle, @nkamali @simplycristina, Becky & Steve and Executive Producer, @jessica_grose, who made the day not only seamless but ridiculously fun!
Can’t wait for y’all to see it when it airs on Wednesday, 12/13 (set your DVRs)!
#DawnsDestinations
* my jacket: @trinaturk @mrturk PORT OF GALVESTON
This past Sunday, I flew to Galveston to shoot a @NBCTexasToday segment with @adrianalopeztv on @princesscruises Regal Princess at the Port of Galveston.
We had the JOY of shooting with The Love Boat original cast member, @officialjillwhelan (Vicki Stubing for those who know and love like I do) – and when I say joy, I mean JOY!!🎉
And, @adrianalopeztv and I had never worked on @nbctexastoday until this shoot – and we couldn’t have had more fun!!
Thanks to everyone involved – producer @graysonbcagle, @nkamali @simplycristina, Becky & Steve and Executive Producer, @jessica_grose, who made the day not only seamless but ridiculously fun!
Can’t wait for y’all to see it when it airs on Wednesday, 12/13 (set your DVRs)!
#DawnsDestinations
* my jacket: @trinaturk @mrturk PORT OF GALVESTON
This past Sunday, I flew to Galveston to shoot a @NBCTexasToday segment with @adrianalopeztv on @princesscruises Regal Princess at the Port of Galveston.
We had the JOY of shooting with The Love Boat original cast member, @officialjillwhelan (Vicki Stubing for those who know and love like I do) – and when I say joy, I mean JOY!!🎉
And, @adrianalopeztv and I had never worked on @nbctexastoday until this shoot – and we couldn’t have had more fun!!
Thanks to everyone involved – producer @graysonbcagle, @nkamali @simplycristina, Becky & Steve and Executive Producer, @jessica_grose, who made the day not only seamless but ridiculously fun!
Can’t wait for y’all to see it when it airs on Wednesday, 12/13 (set your DVRs)!
#DawnsDestinations
* my jacket: @trinaturk @mrturk PORT OF GALVESTON
Child abuse looks like…
Having to be taught Braille because you are blind from a non-accidental traumatic brain injury.
A hard fact:
Survivors of child abuse can suffer from all types of terminal physical, psychological and intellectual issues as a direct result of the abuse they suffered.
If you SEE abuse, SAY something.
And if you think you may abuse a child…
Leave the situation immediately and get the professional help you need.
There is no “accidental” child abuse.
It is very, very intentional.
And there is NEVER an excuse to hurt a child.
– @LovingWayFoundation 🩵🩷
#ThereIsNeverAnExcuseToHurtAChild
#IfYouSeeItSayIt
#LovingWayFoundation
#LovingWay
It’s HERE!!!🩷
Today, @jouercosmetics launched their La Vie En Rose lip kit benefiting our nonprofit, @LovingWayFoundation – in honor of Founder Christina Zilber @czjouer’s birthday – but we’re the ones whose wishes came true!! 🎂🎂🎂
20% of the net proceeds from the Jouer La Vie En Rose Lip Kit will go to @lovingwayfoundation to support our children & their families impacted by child abuse.
Think about it…
You can help fight child abuse just by buying your new favorite lip color – or buying the kit as the a smile-inducing stocking stuffer.
We are SO excited about this partnership and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do!🩷🩷
Happy Birthday, Christina!!🎂
It’s HERE!!!🩷
Today, @jouercosmetics launched their La Vie En Rose lip kit benefiting our nonprofit, @LovingWayFoundation – in honor of Founder Christina Zilber @czjouer’s birthday – but we’re the ones whose wishes came true!! 🎂🎂🎂
20% of the net proceeds from the Jouer La Vie En Rose Lip Kit will go to @lovingwayfoundation to support our children & their families impacted by child abuse.
Think about it…
You can help fight child abuse just by buying your new favorite lip color – or buying the kit as the a smile-inducing stocking stuffer.
We are SO excited about this partnership and we hope you enjoy it as much as we do!🩷🩷
Happy Birthday, Christina!!🎂
BIG announcement!!!🎉🍾
I’m so proud to announce that @JouerCosmetics is partnering with @LovingWayFoundation this year to celebrate Founder Christina Zilber’s birthday to launch their La Vie En Rose Lip Kit! 🎉🎂🩷 (scroll to see the product!)
It’s a really beautiful, easy & fun way to support @LovingWayFoundation as 20% of all of the net proceeds will go to Loving Way for the entire month of December to help us fight child abuse through advocacy, awareness and visibility while bettering the lives of our impacted children and their caregivers.
We are SO honored that our valued Loving Way Board Member @czjouer has chosen us to be her nonprofit partner for this huge launch – and I can’t even tell you what a personal highlight this is as a lifelong beauty product-lover and as someone who has been in the beauty industry for over 20 years as a tv host, writer and former makeup artist and beauty blogger.
It just fills my heart.🩷🩷🩷
And GOSH is it pretty! 😍
I can’t wait to wear it and share it with you all.
Thank you, Christina and Jouer!
And thank all of YOU for always supporting @lovingwayfoundation with your BIG hearts and generosity!
And PLEASE – when you buy it and try it, share your pics with us, tagging @jouercosmetics @czjouer @lovingwayfoundation & myself, @iamdawnmccoy.
Can’t wait to see y’all shine!✨✨
*Available on www.JouerCosmetics.com TOMORROW, 12/4! (On Christina’s actual birthday!)
#JouerxLovingWay
#LovingWayFoundation
#LovingWay
#TeamWaylonMcCoy
📷: @taketheridexo – inset photo by @irik
BIG announcement!!!🎉🍾
I’m so proud to announce that @JouerCosmetics is partnering with @LovingWayFoundation this year to celebrate Founder Christina Zilber’s birthday to launch their La Vie En Rose Lip Kit! 🎉🎂🩷 (scroll to see the product!)
It’s a really beautiful, easy & fun way to support @LovingWayFoundation as 20% of all of the net proceeds will go to Loving Way for the entire month of December to help us fight child abuse through advocacy, awareness and visibility while bettering the lives of our impacted children and their caregivers.
We are SO honored that our valued Loving Way Board Member @czjouer has chosen us to be her nonprofit partner for this huge launch – and I can’t even tell you what a personal highlight this is as a lifelong beauty product-lover and as someone who has been in the beauty industry for over 20 years as a tv host, writer and former makeup artist and beauty blogger.
It just fills my heart.🩷🩷🩷
And GOSH is it pretty! 😍
I can’t wait to wear it and share it with you all.
Thank you, Christina and Jouer!
And thank all of YOU for always supporting @lovingwayfoundation with your BIG hearts and generosity!
And PLEASE – when you buy it and try it, share your pics with us, tagging @jouercosmetics @czjouer @lovingwayfoundation & myself, @iamdawnmccoy.
Can’t wait to see y’all shine!✨✨
*Available on www.JouerCosmetics.com TOMORROW, 12/4! (On Christina’s actual birthday!)
#JouerxLovingWay
#LovingWayFoundation
#LovingWay
#TeamWaylonMcCoy
📷: @taketheridexo – inset photo by @irik
BIG announcement!!!🎉🍾
I’m so proud to announce that @JouerCosmetics is partnering with @LovingWayFoundation this year to celebrate Founder Christina Zilber’s birthday to launch their La Vie En Rose Lip Kit! 🎉🎂🩷 (scroll to see the product!)
It’s a really beautiful, easy & fun way to support @LovingWayFoundation as 20% of all of the net proceeds will go to Loving Way for the entire month of December to help us fight child abuse through advocacy, awareness and visibility while bettering the lives of our impacted children and their caregivers.
We are SO honored that our valued Loving Way Board Member @czjouer has chosen us to be her nonprofit partner for this huge launch – and I can’t even tell you what a personal highlight this is as a lifelong beauty product-lover and as someone who has been in the beauty industry for over 20 years as a tv host, writer and former makeup artist and beauty blogger.
It just fills my heart.🩷🩷🩷
And GOSH is it pretty! 😍
I can’t wait to wear it and share it with you all.
Thank you, Christina and Jouer!
And thank all of YOU for always supporting @lovingwayfoundation with your BIG hearts and generosity!
And PLEASE – when you buy it and try it, share your pics with us, tagging @jouercosmetics @czjouer @lovingwayfoundation & myself, @iamdawnmccoy.
Can’t wait to see y’all shine!✨✨
*Available on www.JouerCosmetics.com TOMORROW, 12/4! (On Christina’s actual birthday!)
#JouerxLovingWay
#LovingWayFoundation
#LovingWay
#TeamWaylonMcCoy
📷: @taketheridexo – inset photo by @irik
We have such an exciting announcement coming up with @jouercosmetics in honor of @czjouer Christina Zilber’s birthday.🎂
But for now…
Let me tell you about this amazing birthday girl who inspires me on a regular – and big-time – basis.❤️
Not only is she the Founder & Creative Director of @JouerCosmetics, but she is also a valued, inspiring and proactive @LovingWayFoundation board member.
Additionally, Christina has served on the regional board of UNICEF, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, since 2003 which has taken her all over the world including Ethiopia, Senegal, Malaysia, Bolivia and Jordan advocating for the needs of women and children.
But what I admire her most for is that she is an unbelievably inspiring working mother of two grown children, Emmanuel and Amelie.
Her children are both testimonials to her kindness, brilliance, grace and exemplary motherhood and leadership.
She has raised her children to be leaders just like she is.
As I said…she inspires me every day – as both a mother and a woman who is trying to effect positive change in the world.
And she has cheered Waylon and I on since the VERY beginning.🩵🩷
And I can hardly wait to share our exciting news!🎉🎉
Just one more sleep.🩷
#JouerxLovingWay
#JouerCosmetics
#LovingWayFoundation
#LovingWay
📷: @irik
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection
My birthday week was capped off in the sweetest – and most lovely of style – in Austin, celebrating my actual birthday with my best friend of 35 years (since age 11!) – @suzanne_karotkin at the stunning @commodoreperryauberge, where she is the Experience Manager.
And what a birthday experience she gave me!🎂
Fireside Christmas cocktails that tasted JUST like Christmas…
Grilled olives with Texas pecans…
New friendships forged in front of the fire…
A decadent dinner at @lutiesaustin…
And a scrumptious red velvet birthday cake from @quacksbakery.
But the best part?
Just getting to be TOGETHER and talk for hours about the beautiful and ugly and wonderful and hard and unexpected and magical and just ALL OF IT we could fit in there before our magical pumpkins took us back to our magical children.
This is my favorite way to do a birthday.
Love you, @suzanne_karotkin – and I already can’t wait to get back to @commodoreperryauberge! Commodore Perry Estate, Auberge Resorts Collection