Makeup & Beauty Monday: Watermelon Burst Goat Butter Lip Mask
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At the grocery store, my oldest begged for a new lip mask even though she already had half a dozen scattered on the bathroom counter. I almost gave in because I totally get it.
This watermelon lip mask is summer in a tube. It glides on like a balm while drenching lips in moisture without any stickiness. Goat’s milk delivers vitamins A, D, and B6, and gentle lactic acid smooths flakes and strengthens your lips’ moisture barrier. Wear it alone for an overnight treatment or under your favorite lipstick or gloss.
Dionis’ Goat Butter Lip Mask is $9.99 at Target. In addition to watermelon, it comes in five other flavors.
Sales of note for 5/8:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Mother’s Day Event: 40% off your purchase. Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Dress & sport shirts, 2 for $149
- Express – $39+ summer styles + 25% off everything else
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – Mother’s Day Sale: Up to 40% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Up to 25% off
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
My mother will not come to my baby’s first birthday party. A few weeks ago, her longterm BF ruined my birthday party and he has refused to apologize. I just let mom know that I can’t risk the same thing happening at LO’s party. I told her she is welcome but he is not. She said she understood. I don’t particularly want to exclude him but if he isn’t apologizing that means he thinks his behavior was ok, and if he thinks his behavior was ok then I can’t have him at such a special event.
My mother texted me that she’s afraid he’ll destroy her house or lock her out if she goes without him so she’s not coming. There is no reason to believe he will do anything like that. Anxiety about her house is a typical excuse she uses when she doesn’t want to do something; she won’t stay overnight because someone will break into her house (there’s never been a break in, but also, if someone will break in then you don’t want to be there!). She is right that he would be mad if she went without him, but frankly, he should apologize for his behavior if he wants to be included. And if he is so terrible that you can’t leave him alone, then LEAVE HIM!
I’m hurt. I thought I’d accepted that I have the mother I have, not the mother I want. But every once in a while she manages to surprise me. I’m not sure how to respond or if I’ll respond. What would you do?
Do the men/boys in your life usually were their underwear under their swim trunks? Just curious how (un)common this is.
My husband is dealing with some eldercare stuff with his dad while his mom is out of town. After just 24 hours of this I think he is finally beginning to understand what it is like to be a working mom and the primary parent.
I’m going to a moms/babies weekend at my friend’s cabin and bringing my 20 month old. She has a 2 year old and she’s invited two other mom friends with their similarly aged babies. I haven’t met the other two ladies. I said yes because I’d love to meet other moms and catch up with my friend, but now that it’s coming up I’m a little nervous. What should I bring? What should I suggest we do? There is a hot tub but no pool, big back yard with a bubble machine and sprinklers. It might also be rainy this weekend.
Just letting this out here because I cannot mention it in real life. A colleague in my side hustle casually mentioned that he’d given my name to someone who is hiring for a very cool opportunity and now all I can do is keep searching my email to see if I missed something. It would not be possible or appropriate for me to follow up on my own. Aaaaaaah.
Can anyone comment on the safety of 95 roadside hotels on the way to Hilton Head? We usually stay in Rocky Mount and have no problems. We’d like to stay a little further south in Smithfield this time. Looking up both shows that they have a ton of crime, much higher than the national average so I’m sort of spooked? Especially because we’d have a car full of stuff for the trip.
If you do allowances, when did you start?
Listening to Care & Feeding and they have someone on who pays their kids for reading. Do you pay your kids to do stuff? I’ve got a very able but reluctant reader (loves an audiobook) and I’m half tempted.
It’s the last week of school. My kids seem pretty done with it all. I don’t feel remotely ready for summer break. The younger one has a few camps lined up for June. July is still a big mystery. The teen has not had luck finding a summer job yet and needs to put in more applications. Got into a big argument about it yesterday; I should’ve known better than to poke that particular bear during finals week.
Ah, another aspect of the hobbies while parenting conversation – resenting one partner for having a hobby at all while you do not. Watching this go down with a neighborhood friend whose husband shares a hobby with my husband that takes them out of the house one evening a week. He pulls his weight and is by her own account a great father but she admitted to me that she thinks he shouldn’t go “until I have something to go do too, but I’m prioritizing the kids.” Seems like a recipe for toxic vibes…
What do you do when you offer your toddler a choice between two things, the pick one of them but then keep changing their mind between the two? For example, I offer a bagel or cereal for breakfast, they pick the bagel. But then when it’s ready, the demand cereal instead. Or this weekend, I gave them the choice between the playground or the library, the picked the playground but when we got there they demanded to go the library, but once we left for the library they demanded to go back to the playground. In the later example, I said we were not going back to the playground right then and took them to the library. But it sucks to take a crying kid to a place that is suppose to be fun.
To the commenter from last week whose daughter was having wiping issues, two suggestions:
* A squatty potty – I actually think that basically everyone should use one; it works way better for the shape of our GI tracts.
* Instead of wet wipes, you can just have a spray bottle of water that sits on the toilet tank; fold (don’t scrunch) a few squares of toilet paper and spritz them with water – flushable, cheap, easy.