Washable Workwear Wednesday: All-Day Ponte Dress In Colorblock
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I’m loving this dress by Ann Taylor. I like the easy and basic shape of it, but with the added colorblocking triangle that adds a flattering touch to the waistline. Other features that make this a great choice: ponte, short sleeves, and a V-neck! It also comes in purple but without the colorblock detail. It is available in regular sizes 00–18 and in tall sizes 0–16. The dress is $139 full price but is currently on sale for $75. All-Day Ponte Dress In Colorblock
For plus sizes, there’s an option from Calvin Klein at Amazon.
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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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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
We’re off to Berlin next week with our toddler, on the recommendation of moms here! We are staying in a flat in Prenzlauer Berg and are really looking forward to our first real family holiday. Ryanair has changed their baggage requirements so I’m going to have to get a bit creative with packing but it’ll be okay.
Any particular highlights?
Ugh so I took a serious fall yesterday at 32 weeks. Luckily, baby seems to be ok. But the ER said I likely cracked my kneecap. While I’m so so beyond grateful the baby’s ok, I’m so disappointed in myself and really stressed at the thought that I won’t be able to exercise or go to yoga. I also used all kinds of positions in my last labor and I’m concerned what this means for that too (not to mention having to care for my 2 year old). Anyone been there? Or anyone know of a great knee specialist in DC?
Quick getaway from DC ideas for next week? I just realized that its Emancipation Day on Tuesday and Good Friday next week and schools will be closed. We could make one of those into a long weekend…but where?
Do any of you have experience with au pairs? (I searched this site but I don’t think it searches the comments, drat!)
I am expecting my second in September and we are realizing that the two-kid drop-off and pick up is going to be almost impossible without a third adult and are debating between an au pair and a part-time nanny. My older child will be 4.5 when the second is born and is in full day preschool. We’ve decided that we want both kids in full-time day care (we prefer group care for infants) but are going to need help with pickup/dinner/bedtime once I go back to work. And once my older child is in kindergarten, it would be awesome to have some flexibility to have him do some activities (like swimming lessons) after school so our weekends are more open.
It seems like the cost is about comparable for wages for a part time (20 hours/week) nanny on the books in my large Midwestern city and the fees for an au pair (having two in daycare is the real downer..). My understanding is that au pairs can work up to 45 hours per week, and it would be awesome to be able to count on someone for date night or when one of us has to work on the weekend. We’d likely try to get an au pair or a nanny who speaks Spanish as we send the older to language immersion school (and the younger will follow when old enough).
Pros of au pair: More hours/$, flexibility, cross-cultural opportunities for us and kids. Cons: Someone living in the house, potentially having to play parent and boss to a young adult.
Any thoughts or experiences, good or bad? And can you ask an au pair to speak his or her native language to the kids?
What, if anything, can you I about a baby who won’t nap at daycare? LO has been taking one half hour nap the whole day, which leads to so much fussiness all night.
Also, the fact that babies sleep worse after not sleep is such a cruel reality of parenthood. Ugh.
Daycare moms – how long does it take you to get out of the house in the morning? What is your routine? My 13 month old is a night owl who regularly sleeps past 8:30. I have a fairly flexible work start time, but the daycare we’re starting at soon said they would like her to usually be there by 9, because that’s when they serve their morning snack and arriving during the snack is disruptive, which makes sense. It’s about 15 minutes from our house so we’ll have to leave around 8:45. I’m hoping to wake her up as late as possible, so I’ll be all ready before I wake her. What should we do about food? I’m still nursing morning/evening and am wondering if I should just nurse her in the mornings and not worry about solids, since she’ll get a substantial snack at daycare basically as soon as she arrives. Or take something with us in the car to go? I’ve heard that’s not really safe though. Advice about morning routines welcome!
Just need to vent. I had to miss an international conference I was looking forward to a few weeks ago because of hyperemesis. DH has been working around the clock because of tax season and yesterday DD came down with a nasty stomach bug and got sick over a dozen times in a couple of hours. She’s fine today but daycare wouldn’t take her so I have to miss work (because tax season) and also have to miss another conference that starts tomorrow to make up for missing two days in the office. And both our cars have broken down in the past two weeks too. I know it’s a season but I want this one to pass already.
Can anyone recommend a pre-natal to take while TTC (which may take a while). I started taking a regular, full on prenatal and I think the iron is seriously messing with my stomach. I can put up with that if I’m pregnant but is there something gentler I could take while preparing to C? I think my doc mostly wants me to get the folate at this stage, the iron is more for when pg is confirmed. Is there such a thing as a pre-pre-natal?
Anyone have suggestions for motivating a 25-month-old to sit on the potty? We’re at about week 3 of potty training and she’s quite good about going once she’s there, but daycare says she’s been throwing tantrums when they try to take her to the bathroom, I think because she doesn’t want to leave all her friends and toys. We run into this problem at home sometimes, too, but we can usually convince her to do it.
I’m all for bribes at this point, but I don’t know what would work at daycare. It’s a small class, only four older (2.5-3) boys plus her, so her teacher is both very motivated to make this work and flexible enough to do what we suggest, but I need ideas. Do sticker charts work at this age?
I think last week there was a question about children’s eye doctors in DC. We just went to the eye doctors of Washington in Chevy Chase today and it went swimmingly. We saw Dr Vincente and both the doctor and nurse interacted SO well with my 2 year old. Thankfully we don’t have to go back! Just wanted to pass along the recommendation.
Working from home today. Husband is normally on childcare duty today, but has an appointment this afternoon so he enlisted his parents to come over and watch the toddler while I work. The amount of interfamily bickering is going to drive me insane (I can hear them through the closed office door) and the amount of supervision my husband has to provide his parents has confirmed for me (and him) that I was 100% right in insisting they cannot take her anywhere without one of us present – they wanted to take her to the zoo alone. Aside from my concern about their driving, things like lifting her to put her in the high chair or on the changing table, catching her when she runs off, and generally the physical aspects of caring for her are so far beyond them. Not to mention they keep trying to feed her things she doesn’t like (tomatoes – we’re a food is not a battelfield family) or isn’t supposed to have (fat free yogurt (and they had to reach past the baby yogurt to give it to her), despite my express instructions that she needs full fat dairy until she’s 2). Will it kill her, no, but the blatant disregard for my instructions drives me batty.
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