Maternity Monday: Striped Layered Peplum Shirt
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Dressing for transitional weather is tricky, especially when you’re expecting. This striped shirt from Ripe Maternity mixes summer’s relaxed vibes with the freshness of fall.
Peplum tops naturally accommodate a growing bump. This shirt’s layers drape beautifully over your bump, and the button front makes nursing and pumping easy after your baby arrives. Just add maternity trousers for the office or jeans for the weekend.
The blouse is $98 and is available at Nordstrom and RipeMaternity.com.
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funny kid story- my kid’s school has outdoor science/garden and so last week she came home talking about an excotic branch and i thought it was some kind of plant that they learned about (as i dont know much about plants), then she is going on about how there are three branches and they divide up the responsibilities differently…and apparently she meant executive branch…lol, though these days it is a bit “exotic”…
Has anyone switched from public to a more competitive prep/private school? My daughter wants to go to public from private and it seems like 8th grade may be a good entry point. I do worry that the academics will be more intense (some of the schools we are targeting are known for it’s academics/are ranked fairly high) so we are considering having her repeat 8th grade to give her an extra year to adjust to the academics. Has anyone done this and what are the upsides or downsides of doing that? She’s in 7th now so we are debating applying this year or applying next year and having her repeat 8th grade. She does well now but my sense is the academics at the schools we are looking at are way more competitive than at her current school.
LO is about 16 months old and I’ve reached the place where I keep thinking ‘we could do this again – it wasn’t that bad, right’? But I’ve heard/read that the transition from 1 to 2 can be tricky.
DH had a tough time with the transition to 1 LO – like much tougher than I ever would have imagined and it brought up a lot of messed up stuff that I didn’t even know about. He’s done a lot of work over the last year or so to address those issues – but it still makes me nervous that he might have another really difficult transition with baby #2. He’s doing the work, is committed to continuing to do the work, so I feel like baby #2 could be a different experience?
On top of which, I feel like “bad mommy” with my sometimes crazy work schedule. I spend 12 hours working yesterday to catch up from two days in the big city for work. My work schedule can put a decent amount of the parenting on DH. Man those golden handcuffs are real sometimes! I wish I had more time with LO, but I imagine lots of parents feel that way.
Life seems like it would certainly be easier with just one kiddo. But I just keep thinking about baby #2 and like there is someone missing… What convinced you to go from one to two? (and any regrets….? Or things you would do differently…?)
how do you reconcile teaching kids to be inclusive vs. inviting like 2-4 friends to a party?
My 7-year-old twins want to host a little halloween party, which i am fine with, they have each identified 2 girls they would like to invite, and there are 2 other girls they want to invite as well, but if they invite L and E, then E & L will only engage with each other. And if they invite B, then B and V will only play with each other. (I’ve seen this myself, these girls have been friends since age 2 and were in the same kindergarten class with one of my daughters. my daughter is/was friends with them that year, but it was much better last year when she was in class with E and did softball with L). DD2 was also on softball with L and this year is in class with L, whereas she has never really been in class with E. DD1 doesn’t want to hurt E’s feelings, but also wants to be able to actually play with L. I am typically team ‘include everyone, which is how they end up with birthday parties with 40+ kids, but this is just a small thing at my house. i was often excluded as a kid and know how bad it feels and don’t want to be encouraging that.
Suggestions appreciated. My parents recently moved to a 55+ community about 30 minutes from my family (married, three kids) lives. We all are thrilled to have them here – I have a great relationship with both of my parents, separately, and my kids/husband also have a great relationship with them.
They have not made great friends in their area, but they are working on it. They spend a lot of time with us during the week. We have an open door policy at our house — they are welcome to join us any time/any day that we are home, and they’ll come, hang out with the kids, we’ll have dinner as a family and then they’ll head home. On Wednesdays, I have a standing lunch scheduled with them during the day, so that we can have time together without the kids around.
Generally, everything is going great — but I am running into a little bit of an issue with shared time at my husband’s lake house (bought before we were married), which is about 45 minutes from our home. It is my husband’s absolute favorite place on earth. It has also now become my mom’s absolute favorite place on earth (lots of comments from her about how I don’t love it like she and my husband do). My husband graciously has extended use of it to my parents at any time — from Monday through Thursday. He usually goes out there on Friday mornings, and works from the house during the day, and on the rare weekends that the kids don’t have anything going on the weekend, I join with the kids on either Saturday morning or Friday evening. Saturdays when we can all get away tends to be sacred family time at the lake. It happens maybe once a month during the school year.
My mom is genuinely hurt when they are not invited to join us on Saturdays at the lake. I love, love, love having my parents around, but time with just the 5 of us is vanishingly rare. My mom is incredibly sensitive to any direct comments — anything like, “hey, we need time with our kids solo at our special place” would really hurt her feelings. I usually just sidestep it by not telling her directly when we are going out there as a family, but because we see them so much it is usually pretty clear when we are out there. Do I just need to accept that she will sometimes feel hurt, but that these weekends are really important to our family? I’ve tried just asking them for one day (asking them to come on Friday turns into staying through Saturday, and asking them for dinner on Saturday night turns into Saturday morning).
Hope everyone had a nice weekend! We had a little gathering for DD’s 3rd birthday with family and friends. It was a really nice time, but one of our friends was being really intense about food. We did a brunch – sandwiches, bagels, muffins, salad and fruit (and birthday cake). Our friend has a 4yo who wanted to mostly eat muffins and bagels, and friend kept saying stuff like “that’s a lot of sugar! How about something with protein? A salad?” I get that there is an obesity epidemic and it’s great that’ we aren’t just feeding the kids McDs all the time, but that level of hypervigilance for a 4yo at a birthday party made me a bit uncomfortable as someone with a history of ED. But I realize I’m blessed with a pretty good eater, so I was happy to let her eat mostly cake for a day and not worry about it. How do you handle events like that? Everything goes, or do you still try to enforce healthy eating habits?
Any recommendations for a good first birthday cake and pan for a mediocre baker? I want to make a small diameter 2-layer cake for him to pose with/smash. Would like it to be not totally crammed full of sugar…