Makeup & Beauty Monday: Biodance Caviar PDRN Eye Patch
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Upcoming red-eye flight? Use these undereye patches to fake first class.
These gentle patches improve the look of dark circles and reduce puffiness with ingredients like caviar, salmon PDRN, probiotic exosomes, and caffeine. They also feel cool on your skin — perfect for summer travel.
Biodance’s Caviar PDRN Eye Patch is $23 at Sephora.
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- Brooks Brothers – Dress & sport shirts, 2 for $149
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- 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
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- Nordstrom – Up to 25% off
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We’ve dabbled in the world of rec sports with tumbling, tball and basketball. But my 4yo really just wants to run. His alter ego is Lightning McQueen. Every activity we’ve tried, he loves the warm-ups and then gets bored with waiting around to practice skills.
Obviously I’m trying to add as much outdoor free-play as possible. But he also benefits from structured social activities. Is there anything like track team for littles?
How do you have fun in your marriage? We have been together for almost twenty years and really love each other, but have been increasingly feeling like ships passing in the night, between parenting, big jobs, family of origin stuff, etc. I know date nights and gardening are the major ones, but any other habits aside from those?
I recently inherited a mid six figure sum due to the death of a grandparent a few years ago. We’re fortunate to be on track with retirement and college savings and to have plenty of money for our daily life. The one big thing I want that was out of reach before this money but is now doable is buying a vacation home. We’d buy in the area where the grandparent lived (several states away from where we live), so it feels like an especially apt use of the money. However, even with elementary age kids we’re feeling increasingly tied to our local area for their sports, activities and social lives and I’m sure this will only intensify as they get into middle and high school. But the empty nester years are less than 10 years away and I can see us getting a lot of use out of a vacation home then (we both work remotely) and our young adult kids and their friends and eventually families could hopefully use it as well.
I guess my question is twofold: do you think my instincts about timing are right? That it doesn’t make sense now with kids approaching middle school, but could make a lot more sense once they’ve all left home? And what would you do with the money in the meantime? Just stick it in an index fund with a low expense ratio?
My daughter told me she wants to try tennis. She is still very young (4). I am thinking about taking her to a tennis court and having fun whacking a tennis ball around to get a feel for it. I have no experience with tennis. Any tips to guide her? It seems very young to start lessons. Maybe I’m wrong!?
A positive update for you all – I posted once or twice about how I was really struggling with my son being home sick from daycare so much with very limited PTO and with me struggling to make up the hours in our small apartment that wasn’t conducive to being able to work while he’s home. Two good things: he hasn’t stayed home sick in six weeks or more (praise be) and we moved into a larger place where now we’ll not only be able to easily have enough space for a back-up caregiver (if we can find a good one – still working on that), but where I can now work in the evenings or very early mornings with my full two-monitor set-up and ergonomic keyboard and all of that. Now that I’m no longer sharing an office with my son’s crib and my husband isn’t sharing his office with our dining area/hallway/entryway/storage area (seriously, that apartment was the worst), everything feels so much easier. I feel like I have options again for making the most of the challenges each day can throw at us. If DS is home sick and I have an important call, his dad can take him in a fully separate room or (if he’s well enough), to the park that is literally right around the corner. This is such a gamechanger for us.
I’m mainly looking for sympathy but will take any tips/strategies you have. My 13-year-old gets very very homesick when not sleeping at home, to the point of throwing up from anxiety (yes, we’re working with a therapist). This happens at sleepovers as well as family vacations. We’re gearing up for band camp and a school trip to another city, neither of which I want them to miss. Is this just a power through thing? A phase? I feel so bad for them but I know the experiences of camp and trips are so worthwhile.
My girls have beautiful golden ringlets that I spend about 10 minutes styling each morning. When I style it, it does not impede their play or get in their faces. Occasionally their teachers will restyle it, and the teachers have always said it was just because they (the teachers) wanted to play with it during nap time or a dress up game.
A schedule change means that DH is getting them ready in the morning more often now. He can’t comb their hair or even get it into ponytail – he either won’t or can’t learn. Obviously long loose hair is uncomfortable and in their faces.
So help me figure out the compromise hairstyle. DH thinks we should “trim bangs, nothing drastic” But that doesn’t really simplify the morning care. I think he’s actually picturing a bowl cut, which I find cringingly unflattering. If we have to cut it, I am considering either a pixie cut or the buzzed-sided-long-top cut.
What would you say is the compromise of aesthetics and care?
Morning! Can I ask you all something? I feel silly but i am moatly sharing how I feel.
I have been the preferred parent to my only child her whole life (she is 3). Around the time she turned three, she started to ask for dad, just like can daddy come with us when we are getting ready for the playground, asking him to play with her where before she only ever asked me to play with her, that kind of stuff.
I know this is normal and I am so happy she is showing a close bond with dad. But I feel kind of whiplashed, like where did that come from? Any tips for this type of thing?