Accessory Tuesday: Yommi Chelsea Bootie
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Happy Tuesday! These stylish booties look like that rare mix of sleekness and comfort — and I love all the colors they come in. I’m picturing the black patent leather ones here because, well, they look good for slush and cold rain — but there are a bunch of options in suede and regular leather. (Ah yes, and they’ve got great reviews at Nordstrom!) They were $167 but are marked to $129 at both Nordstrom and Amazon. Nice. Yommi Chelsea Bootie
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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I like this boot so much better in any of the options other than the patent one shown.
Hi ladies! Has anyone held a science party for their kid’s birthday party? We’re hiring an entertainer who is supposed to be great who is going to do a bunch of experiments with the kids e.g. vortex fog rings, bubbling potions and clouds on the ground.
I’d love to hear suggestions on science-related party favors to give to the kids, decorations as well as any other ideas in keeping in line with the science theme. We gave out magnifying glasses last year for a nature related party so that’s out. Thanks!
Oriental Trading has a section for science party supplies including favors:
http://www.orientaltrading.com/science-party-supplies-a2-13770945.fltr?keyword=science
We are having dinner with our close friends for Christmas. Do you have any gift ideas for a raffle/gift exchange? Around $50.00. We will trade gifts with each other if we do not like. I have no idea what to get…
I just ordered a Just Play Doc McStuffins Clinic doll and I think she’s going to love it! Thank you all for the recs!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UAYBYTC/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
What do parents of small children do on New Years? Last year I was a zombie with a newborn, but this year my baby goes to bed at 7PM, which seems to eliminate pretty much anything other than getting a babysitter? For those in the DC area, last year we ventured to Noon Yards Eve and it was PACKED and overwhelming. On the one hand, I like not feeling weirdly pressured to come up with awesome plans, but my usual 10PM bedtime seems pretty lame.
With the understanding that this is kind of a personal situation because no one on here knows us personally, I am hoping for some opinions about an incident with my MIL and how to handle it going forward.
My 10-month old son has been out of school sick with RSV (and other things – when it rains, it pours) for more than a week and a half. Last week, my MIL came to help care for him, as she has done many times in the past. She is a wonderful woman with a very kind heart, but she suffers from some mental illness. I do not know exactly what it is because I have never asked, but the end result is that she is very emotional, not always there 100%, and just a generally flighty person who often makes poor decisions. For example, she has never been able to drive herself to our house without getting lost on the way because she always gets off the highway one exit too early and gets turned around. But like I said, wonderful kind person, who my son adores.
When she arrived at our house last week, I showed her all his food, and his motrin and tylenol on the kitchen counter. There were several other medications in the same place, including kids Dimetapp (a cough medicine) and a prescription hydrocodone cough syrup that was prescribed to me. I remember specifically telling her that he only gets the pain relievers because the doctor said no cough medicine. There was also a notebook with the medications listed and the times/dosage etc.
Long story short, at some point, she decided his cough was so bad that he needed cough medicine and drew a full adult dose of my prescription cough syrup for him. Apparently at the very last minute, she decided she would call my husband first to ask if it was ok to give him cough syrup and when he realized what had happened, he came close to losing his mind. She of course, felt horrible – called him crying several times afterwards, and then he felt horrible for yelling at her. I have no idea what happens if an infant takes an adult dose of hydrocodone syrup, but I can say that thinking about it makes my stomach turn over.
Tell me what you would do, keeping in mind, this is the only family we have available to help watch him when he is sick. I told my husband that at least for a while, until I had time to give it some real thought, that she could not watch him. He thinks its ok – he says I shouldn’t have left my prescription out and she was just trying to help. I think maybe he feels bad about yelling at her, and he’s right, we can’t never leave him alone with her again. But in my mind, she has made it clear that we can’t trust her to make rational choices (this sounds harsh, but I’m not sure how to better say it) – we can put all the medicine away, but how to we guess at whatever might happen next time? We shouldn’t have to hide the medications is my point.
Anyways – what would you do? Am I being too serious about this? She feels horrible and will never do it again.
My 2.5 year old needs a sleep study to address some possible apnea issues. I can’t imagine him actually tolerating the monitors, sleeping in a hospital, etc. Does anyone else have experience with this? The thought of him all strapped in brings tears to my eyes, but that could also be the pregnancy hormones flaring up.
We’re headed out of town for almost 2 weeks. I asked my husband if there was anything he could think of to add to our packing list: cell phone chargers, birth certificates, pouches, etc. He said, “I don’t actually need a list like that.” YEAH NO KIDDING BECAUSE I MAKE IT. hashtag invisible labor.
You can’t leave your child alone with your MIL. Period. My parents did the same thing with one of my grandmothers who actually lived in our house while I was growing up– until we were school age, we were never alone with her. Apparently on a few occasions when she babysat my older brother while he was a toddler, he ended up getting injured and once was in danger of drowning. So my parents said nope, no more, and made whatever arrangements so that there was a babysitter or other family member around. She just couldn’t be the only line of defense. She was fully “with it” mentally, but just did not observe the kind of constant level of attention that the situation evidently required.
So I’m super duper pregnant, didn’t sleep well for 2 days and just feel absurdly off. Like, foggy and achy and the only thing I want to do is go home to bed and I have to finish a project at work. Tell me it’s just normal and gets better?
Anecdata, but when I was 39 weeks I had a day like this where I just felt really, really off. I hadn’t been sleeping well and had been achy for a while before, but that day it was a whole new level of awful and brain fog. I ended up going into labor that night!
Just successfully talked my dad out of sending my 3 yo twins an indoor basketball hoop set. Did I mention we live in a townhouse? All five of us (kiddos, au pair, husband, me) and a giant dog? He visits every couple of months. WHY DID HE THINK AN INDOOR BASKETBALL SET WAS A GOOD IDEA?! I did NOT successfully avoid the complete Christmas village that my mom sent — five pieces, including a huge Santa’s Workshop — that I was supposed to display where exactly? My mom didn’t ask. Just sent it, then notified me it was coming. She was miffed when I asked how to send it back. Also did not dodge my dad sending (ugly, but not intentionally ugly) Christmas sweaters to my sons. He asked if he could send sweaters. I said sure. He never specified Christmas sweaters. My MIL bought them Christmas sweaters (which are very nice sweaters, and which she asked me about before buying them) back in October. My dad will ask why they’re not wearing his sweaters in the Santa picture. Ugh. This is my dad who also sent a giant playhouse to the kids when they were a year old. Again, without asking me. Just notified me it was coming. I hate to complain that my parents love to give us gifts, but seriously, ASK first on this stuff! Rant over.