Maternity Monday: Sheer Maternity Tights
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My first pregnancy went well into winter, so I wore maternity tights like these on repeat.
These stretchy maternity tights fit comfortably over your growing belly — think of them as leggings, but office-friendly. Use them to winterize your favorite maternity dresses and skirts — you can even slip them under flowy trousers on really cold days.
A two-pack of these sheer maternity tights is $25 at Nordstrom. They come in sizes S/M to L/XL and are available in three neutral colors.
Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
Sales of note for 10/12
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- Nordstrom – 6,200+ new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Flash Sale: 40% off full-price purchase + 60% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Friends & Family Event: Extra 25% off sale
- Express – Big Fall Fashion Sale: 40% off everything
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off at all stores and sitewide, 20% off $150+
- Lo & Sons – Fall sale, up to 40% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Fall Refresh Event, up to 25% off (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Talbots – Friends & Family Event: 30% off your entire purchase
What kind of intervention am I looking for here? My 4th grader (9 years old) has terrible spelling and terrible handwriting as compared to the median in his class. This has always been true, but we assumed was developmentally in-range as no teachers have ever told us otherwise and his grades have always been above average and this summer he tested into the gifted program. But at open house last week we were browsing the student work tacked up to the bulletin board and his is obviously way worse than the average. He has no learning disabilities that we are aware of, but he does have some obvious executive functioning / adhd tendencies– like not reading the instructions and zipping straight to the answer when the instructions say you have to show your work on a number line or whatever. He’s constantly losing his coat/ lunch box/ water bottle. And his recall for seemingly really basic things (e.g., which month comes after this one) is sometimes shockingly poor. Our parent/teacher conference is next week and I will ask the teacher, but any suggestions for what should be on my radar screen? Occupational therapy? ADHD testing?
What are your 3rd grade girls doing for birthday parties? Most of the parties my daughter has attended in the past year have been small slumber parties or large park parties, but she wants a large group and it’s winter in a cold climate so the party can’t be outdoors. It feels like they’ve outgrown the play places and she doesn’t want laser tag, anything to do with gaming/arcades, or roller/ice skating. She likes bowling but doesn’t like the fact that people have to split up into small groups and you don’t really interact with anyone outside your group. She has an artsy crew of friends but we had her 8th birthday party at our town’s art studio and it didn’t go well so we don’t want to repeat. We’re considering an indoor pool party (do people hate swimming in the dead of winter? i do but maybe it’s just a me thing), but I would love other ideas.
Another in law question/vent. Until recently, I had a pretty unicorn situation- I basically got along with all my in laws. DH is a gem to my family and I try to be good to his. We host a lot of holidays and gatherings and generally invest a lot into our family and try to encourage and support our siblings. I am someone who tries to keep the peace and will usually brush off things (unless they really cross a boundary/safety issue). DH has two much younger brothers. One of their girlfriends/life partner and I had a tense conversation that left us both offended, but I thought we talked it out. I tried to smooth things over by apologizing even when she did not, texting her things about the kids, etc. But, I’ve now heard some things that make it clear that I can’t really trust/be friends with either of the younger basically-SILs. Anything I do/say is now taken as an offense somehow, and they clearly talk. I feel burned- these are people I genuinely tried with for many, many years and I thought had a friendship. We had one bad convo and now the whole relationship is changed. It stinks to feel like I have to see and host them forever (for DH and MIL’s sake, I’m not debating this here), but one in particular will likely never like me again. I don’t understand this conflict-adverse attitude. I don’t like feeling conflict or acting surface level/neutral in my personal life (lawyer- I get enough at work). Any advice, especially with the upcoming holidays?
My daughter is new to school and was just invited to her classmate’s 4th birthday party. It’s at a park and lasts a couple of hours. Is it normal for both parents to attend, or should we plan on just one of us going?
Advent calendar recs for an almost-7 year old girl? Last year’s Nat Geo gemstone one was a hit. I tried to get a Needoh one from Aldi but failed (because I wasn’t lining up at Aldi at 6 a.m.). Have done Paw Patrol and Bluey in the past.
I’m not loving any I see on Amazon. I could just do a candy/edible one, but we currently have a 7 lb bag of candy from Halloween hanging in our pantry. Our elf always brings one on Dec. 1, so I’m trying to knock that off my list.
My 6 year old Kindergartener has a sudden increase in fears — scared of being alone in a room in our house, scared of walking into our finished basement even with a grown up, scared of opening his closet to get clothes without someone with him. This came to a head when he watched a (very mild) Halloween program at school that scared him, and it is only increasing after a few weeks. We are trying to be sensitive to him because these fears seem genuine, but we don’t want to play into it too much and increase his fears. I thought this would be short lived but we are 2-3 weeks in at this point. Has anyone navigated this?
Our elderly cat is on her last legs and we’ve started palliative care with our vet. Still, we don’t know whether to expect weeks or months. How should we prepare our kids (2 and 7) for her eventual passing? So far we’ve said she’s not feeling well and to give her space and let her rest.
Has anyone successfully established boundaries with enmeshed in laws?
My SIL in particular has long overstepped boundaries (ordering dinner for my children when we go out to eat, pretending my kids are hers, etc). My MIL is the one who watches our kids through their baby monitors, if you recall my post about that.
Recently my 5 year old told me that SIL let her do something at her house, and told her not to tell me. Telling my children to lie to me is a boundary that cannot be crossed.
My husband is very enmeshed and codependent on his sister and mom, and is unwilling or unable to enforce boundaries. Divorce won’t help, because then my kids will be with the in laws even more and I’ll have even less authority. SIL will definitely step right into the step mom role and totally undermine me at every turn. She doesn’t have children of her own.
I will of course no longer permit my children to go to SIL’s house and I anticipate that being a big argument with my husband (because I’m “overreacting”). We are in couples counseling, but we have not yet addressed this issue. Husband cheated on me earlier this year so that’s been the bulk of our sessions so far.
A recommendation – We opt-out of the school gamefied math apps – so I realised I needed to be more intentional with math facts practice. I was downloading or generating worksheets but it was a pain. I had the Facts on Fire workbooks printed and bound for £20. He’s been doing a few pages a day (no more than 10 minutes) and in the last 10 days, his recall and speed has improved dramatically.
Does anyone have a specific brand/type of hair chalk that their kids have used and liked? I want to get some as stocking gifts but have no idea where to start.
Can we talk about family screen time rules and approaches with the holidays coming up, especially for the under-5 set? Between the travel, the long family dinners, meet-ups with families with different rules, the off-schedule days and weeks with daycare and school, and all the rest, I’m curious how other families are handling it. I might be on the cusp of asking my father to put his phone away around my kids – I don’t think he’ll mind the nudge as he’s always interested in cutting down on screens and getting outside and I’m not sure I want to do another Thanksgiving dinner where he’s constantly trying to show my kids random videos, half of which are just AI fakes, because they popped up on his feed. It bothered me that his attention was always half on those stupid reels when he ostensibly was really interested in spending time with the kids.