Weekend Open Thread
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Bringing your own lunch? Use this clever bento-style salad bowl for easy, fresh meals on the go.
This bowl has a three-part divider and dip cup that makes prepping, storing, and mixing your ingredients a cinch. The latch lid and silicone gasket keeps your meal where it belongs. It’s also microwave-safe (without the lid), freezer-safe, and top-rack dishwasher-safe.
Yumbox’s salad bowl is $24 at Nordstrom and comes in four colors.
Sales of note for 8/6/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Semi-annual sale, 8/6 ONLY: Extra 60% off sale and style steals starting at $25
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – Extra 45% off all sale
- J.Crew – 30% off wear-now styles & up to 60% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything and extra 60% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off all previous flash sale items! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off.
- Nordstrom – 9,800+ new women’s markdowns
- Spanx – Free shipping on everything
- Talbots – $15 & up all markdown tops & 50% off all other markdowns
I had my first child at 37 and she is now 3 years old. Before becoming a mom I travelled, volunteered, enjoyed hobbies, etc. I had a tough childhood and once I made sense of all that in my 20’s I really tried to embrace the freedom and opportunities I had. Now with a 3 year old my life feels like I’m just checking boxes and in survival mode a lot. I love being a mom, my daughter is the best thing that ever happened to me. It’s weird because even when I get a chance to travel or enjoy a hobby I don’t get the same satisfaction out of it. I’m thinking some of the drudgery of parenting will get better as she gets older, but I’ve been telling myself that for 3 years now and maybe it doesn’t? I don’t even know the point of this post, I’m just exhausted after a really tough week and miss some of the magic my life used to have.
My son read a modern choose your own adventure and is obsessed and asked for more. Any recommendations? I suspect the ones from our childhood haven’t held up well.
I asked for read aloud recommendations for my 5-year-old and thank you to whoever recommended The Penderwicks. We’re on book 3 and both enjoying them. My five-year-old naturally identities with 11-year-old Skye not 5-year-old Batty.
The dad is so neglectful though! He’s 100% parentified his older child and drove his youngest around with no seatbelt. It’s not hurting my enjoyment of the book but I keep imagining their conversations with their therapists 20 years later.