Accessory Tuesday: Lab-Grown Green Emerald Alexandra Ring
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I don’t often wear rings, but when I do, I go bold, like this emerald ring.
This ring is made with a 100% sterling silver base and plated in a thick layer of gold. The elongated cushion cut, lab-grown emerald is surrounded by a ring of lab-grown white sapphires. Since emeralds are May’s birthstone, this would make an excellent gift for the May birthday in your life. If rings aren’t your thing, there’s also a coordinating necklace and earrings.
This ring is $298 at Aurate.
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Is rainbow-color still just colorful and playful for kids, or is it now inseparable from queer pride? I need to choose a birthday gift for a kid I don’t know particularly well, and I don’t want to make a statement unintentionally.
I started letrozole to help with conception and the brain fog and hot flashes stink! Does anyone who has taken it have advice? Should I take it next cycle in the evening instead of the morning (assuming it doesn’t work this cycle)? How do you deal with brain fog at work?
I am throwing the first ‘big’ birthday party for my almost 6 year old twins. They’re past the age where I feel like I can say ‘no gifts’ on an invitation, but I really don’t want people to feel like they should buy two gifts. Does anyone have good invitation language for this?
I don’t know what I want to do for Mother’s Day. Going to brunch with the kids just seems like work, but going out without the kids also seems sad? What do you all like to do? Last year my in-laws visited and we took them out for brunch. I used to not celebrate mother’s day because my mom died when I was young, but now that I have two kids I’d like people to celebrate me! Just not sure how. Kids are 6 and 2 so not quite doing nice things for me yet.
With all the recent talk about the intensity of kids sports, are any of you basically opting out?
I live in a small town and the options are competitive travel teams or rec. My kid (9) is not athletic enough for the competitive teams that all his friends compete on— he is getting cut next year from the lowest level travel soccer team (the club has 4 teams at this age group, but next year they’re dropping down to 3) and he really really wants the socialization (he’s meh about the sport). He doesn’t have any experience with any other sport. I’ve told him he can do rec next year which is short 4-6 week “seasons” that rotate through various sports. As compared to travel ball it just feels like such a downgrade. I don’t want to give up on what he wants but the reality is I think competitive travel ball at this age is toxic, I just wish we had something in the middle.
Anyone step off this train and feel good about it?
Please tell me that having a second kid get easier. I have a toddler and a one month old. The toddler is very much a mommy’s girl and wants to spend all her time with me. Whenever I’m doing something for the baby when the toddler wants my attention, I feel like I’m failing the toddler. And whenever I’m doing something for the toddler and the baby is crying, I feel like I’m failing her.
This morning, I was alone with the kids and getting the toddler ready for daycare. She kept on saying she didn’t want to go (cried at dropoff, as she has been for the last few weeks). As this was going on, the baby started crying because she was hungry. It just felt like I couldn’t do anything right for either of them.
(FWIW and to get ahead of those questions, I’m pretty confident I don’t have PPD. I just think this is hard)