Maternity Monday: Active Sculpt Full-Length Maternity Leggings
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When I was pregnant, I lived in leggings. If you’re looking to stock up on a few pairs, consider these from Amazon Essentials.
These over-the-belly, high-rise leggings are made from a stretchy, soft, moisture-wicking fabric. Wear them for maternity-friendly workouts like prenatal yoga or as part of your weekend uniform.
The 27-inch inseam is designed to sit just above the ankle, but if you’re petite like me, these would probably run full length.
These maternity leggings are available at Amazon in black or burgundy (lucky sizes only) for under $25. They come in sizes XS-XXL.
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
We are going to Disney with an almost 6 and 11 year old and debating whether to stay at Disney or outside of it and if at Disney what resort. We don’t really care about deluxe (we usually are out 8 am – 10 pm on vacations and kids are good sleepers so will pass out the moment we come home) other than decent accommodations and good food but care about maximizing time/activities at park/minimizing lines. Looking for recommendation from those who have been!
On theme for travel…we are considering a trip to London for spring break (end of March; we know weather will not be ideal). In terms of where to stay, any neighborhoods or particular hotels we should focus on? Kids will be 10 and 7. Thank you!
Favorite word to substitute for the f-word? DH and I need to clean up language in front of the kids. My 3year old overheard one of us use the f-word and has starting using it when he is frustrated. It is…not good.
Puzzle recommendation! We got a Cobble Hill Family Puzzle for Christmas and it is really neat- one puzzle with three different sizes of pieces so adults and kids could work on it together. Nice way to spend a rainy Saturday, and my kids said a couple times how much they liked it.
Has anyone potty trained twins? I need some help. They will be 3 in a month. Both boys. They’re mostly pee trained but will NOT poop in anything but a diaper. So they poop before they go to day care and when they get home. I’ve tried putting them on the potty after breakfast and after day care. Usually one poops in his diaper while I’ve got the other on the potty. Then I put a diaper on potty boy and he poops in it while I’m cleaning his brother. It’s kind of a circus.
My 2-year old starts her twos program tomorrow! She’ll go three days a week, for 2.5 hours. I’ve been a SAHM with her for about 1.5 years and now I’ll have this extra time…and I don’t know what to do with myself. Background is that there is some underlying tension with my husband around this because he’s pretty jealous I’ll have this time. I get it – his job enables us to live very comfortably on his income but the job is of course pretty stressful. So I have this time coming up, but it feels….complicated. I’m thinking I’ll use the time to work out, handle the bathroom remodel we desparetly need, and spend some time extra time cleaning but that all sounds…boring lol. What would you do?
I posted a bit about this last week, and need some (more?) reassurance that it will be OK. I also welcome any tips. I’m working on choosing my battles to avoid power struggles – like you want to play your toy while I put on your shoes to go to school, fine. You want to spin your empty steel plate around while I get breakfast ready? Fine. You want the fruit out of the container vs. the one on your plate? Fine, as long as it gets eaten.
My DS #2, 3, is driving me bonkers and I feel so guilty for feeling this way. He’s just being…3, and is also SUPER clingy right now. Bed time he literally screams/cries for me once I leave the room. (Per the advice here, I’ve let him be, and he has more or less wound up in his bed the last few nights). Nap time this weekend he did the same except didn’t nap and just ended up playing (the playing is fine, but the seperation anxiety). I was literally in tears yesterday, and I felt so guilty about getting so frustrated at a kid who I love dearly and is just acting their age.
They started potty training him in school last week which is likely part of it (and plus, being 3), and since I plan to focus on potty training during MLK weekend I let it be at school – I’ll take the help for now. Meanwhile, I’m already dreading it and I don’t want to be in this headspace for it! That isn’t good for anyone.
DS #1 was no picnic at 3, either, but I think I just blacked it out because I also had a newborn, it was COVID days, and I had a lot of other very heavy life stuff going on.
i am the ski school OP from last week. thank you all for your thoughtful comments. fortunately day 2 was much better than day 1. it sounds like the instructor they got on day 1 was just not a good fit. i was also annoyed getting called to pick them up because the group only had 4 kids, and my kids made up half the group. if half the kids in the group go home, something must be off! my twins (age 5.5) had barely ever seen snow before, let alone a mountain and the instructor took them on the chairlift first thing (yes I realize that back in the day there was no magic carpet, but when i learned to ski 33+ years ago we had a T-bar or something for lower hills), and they were petrified and felt unsafe. the second day we split them up, which worked better for their learning, and their instructors started the groups on the magic carpet followed by the chairlift. it turns out they were like the only group of first timers who went straight to the chairlift. i also enjoyed skiing. in the past i’ve done it but haven’t really enjoyed it, but it was so peaceful not having to listen to anyone complain…lol. also as a kid in ski school I was always being pushed to go faster, get to the next level, etc., but i am a more cautious person who never liked speeding down the mountain and on this trip i realized who cares if i only ski greens as long as i’m enjoying myself. i hope to instill this attitude in my kids as one in particular is a more cautious kid who doesn’t like to go super fast. in the end we left on a positive note, because after that first day I was thinking we’d never go on a ski trip again.
I am having a hard time disciplining my 3-year old. He will deliberately not follow directions, will scream at us, hit us, etc. I have trouble raising my voice with him because it brings back traumatic memories of yelling in my house growing up. I would get yelled at even if I did nothing wrong, and I lived in fear of my parents, esp my dad. This means that DH does most of the disciplining and imposing consequences (time outs, taking toys or tablet away temporarily, etc). This does seem to be effective in getting DS to understand consequences, but only after 20 mins of screaming from DS, which I can’t take. I usually give in to DS as much as I can to avoid getting him upset. Therefore DS walks all over me and doesn’t respect me, and that we are inconsistent when it comes to consequences. How can I get past my own childhood trauma to address DS’s negative behavior effectively?
I listened to the Best of Both Worlds Ep on “Organize Your Life 2024”. I don’t LOVE this pod, and stay away from any of the big GOAL SETTING episodes, but here and there are are a few good kernels to glean.
This one just…really annoyed me with smugness. One of them was like “I workout everyday between 5-6:30 because it’s just THAT important to me” and I visibly recoiled. I’d love to be able to prioritize exercise daily, but my energy flow and the rhythms of this season of life don’t allow me to do so. Sometimes I just want to LAY DOWN.
Maybe it’s just me, but I just feel like the hosts (and a lot of time-management/productivity people, not just this pod) just treat planning and every week/day like there are no curveballs – e.g. no kids have to be ran to the doctor, no appliances break, no work fire drills, etc.
I know not everything has to be for everyone, but just putting this here as a vent. Thankful for this community which skews more realistic for me.
I’m taking my 9 year old to see Annie (broadway touring) on Saturday. She is not familiar with the story. Should I have her watch the movie first? I feel like Annie was so much part of the culture when I was a kid that seeing it on stage was definitely not my first encounter. I want to her enjoy it and not be confused (but also don’t want to “spoil” the experience). How should I prep her (if at all)?
Thanks for the MP3 recommendation ahead of Christmas. I bought it for my son and it’s gotten hours and hours of use every since. I find the sound a bit tinny, so we hooked it up to a mini speaker for bedtime, so it doesn’t annoy me, but he’s really enjoyed having his own control of his device, without it being a tablet with other temptations.
Another parent of a 3 year old wanting some commiseration or tips. Now that it’s Monday and I can breathe again I am feeling less bad but honestly during weekends and daycare breaks I just feel like I have an incredibly hard time enjoying any time with my 3 year old. It’s like he turned 3 and overnight he just plain does not listen. Maybe after telling him 3-4 times does he somewhat comply with 25% of things. I feel like I used to have really effective strategies – I give warnings (counting to 3 used to be super effective), I tell what needs to happen directly and calmly, and then I implement a boundary – remove the toy, get him dressed or into his seat myself, send to calm down in his room alone. But his behavior lately is so out of control and nothing works. I don’t know how many times I can do escalating punishment for hurting people without improvement! We’ve been leaning in to giving one on one time, we even took him out for his own special activity this weekend to try to address attention issues if that’s what’s driving this. We do play with him and bake treats and do so many things he likes. But the moment we are back home or the treat is over he’s shoving his sister on the floor, hitting, kicking us if we’re all on the couch, head butting us, throwing toys at the tv or other people, screaming for candy. If we say he needs to play on his own he just wrecks the house, dumps every toy on the floor and empties drawers etc. we’re trying a sticker chart and I don’t think that’s working. I’m at my wits end, I just plain don’t like him lately. He’s really smart, and we have high expectations for behavior so maybe this has become the issue I just don’t know anymore. Please tell me this is a phase.