Family Friday: All Star Eva Lift Platform Florals
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My oldest saved her money to buy a pair of Converse sneakers like this pair and wears them almost everyday!
These canvas-upper shoes have a cushioned foam insole and a lightweight platform. The embroidered flowers add a fun touch for spring.
These sneakers are $60 at Zappos and come in big kid sizes 3.5 to 6.
Sales of note for 5/19/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Lots of markdowns on AGL (50%!), Weitzman, Tumi, Frank & Eileen, Zella, Natori, Cole Haan, Boss, Theory, Reiss (coats), Vince, Eileen Fisher, Spanx, and Frame (denim and silk blouses)
- Ann Taylor – 50% off summer-ready styles
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – 50-60% off select styles
- J.Crew – 60% off sale, and 40% off packing picks (prices as marked)
- J.Crew Factory – New arrivals, plus up to 60% off everything plus extra 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Daily flash sales, and lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off. 5/19’s flash sale: Jardigans down to $175-$209, dresses down to $150, blazers down to $250
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 30% off dresses, skirts, shoes, and accessories
Ugh. I overdid it on the retinol two weeks ago, and my face still hasn’t recovered. It’s red, peeling, and itchy. I’m only using very gentle soap and lotions — but any recommendations to speed up the healing process? I honestly look WAY worse than I did before I used the dang product.
I’m here for a poll on appropriate consequences for my just-turned-10-year-old’s behavior this morning. I was at the gym, but this is what DH reported. When he was told it was time to get dressed, he spit in my husband’s face and called him an “FA” (the initials, not the words, but he’s aware of what the initials stand for). To his credit, DH stayed calm and went with, “There are going to be consequences. We’ll talk about it after school.”
Things we’ve thought of so far:
– Apology note to Dad tonight.
– No personal screens this weekend.
– No friends or fun outings this weekend. (But honestly, we didn’t have any plans, and he’s completely happy to be home.)
– Once he’s finished with the school projects he needs to work on, he has to help his dad fix a wall he damaged several months ago. (We were going to make him do this over the summer, but we could start now. The main effect of this consequence is that he won’t have time to work on the big Lego that he got for his birthday and has been waiting all week to do.)
What would you do? Feel free to be creative.
FWIW, we’re also talking about adjustments to our overall schedule and morning routine for these last few weeks of school. But we want to communicate that it doesn’t really matter how tired or cranky he is, spitting and pseudo-cursing at his dad are not OK.
A good thing: some parents at our elementary school started a bike bus and it has been so fun! 20 kids biking together with a handful of parents. It feels super safe and I love when the bigger ones cheer the little ones up the hills.
This has been the longest week ever. I genuinely think that part of the exhaustion is flipping the calendar to May and seeing ALL of the year-end events, plus field trips, plus spring sports over the next 6 weeks. Just on the music front, there was a chorus cabaret this week, band concert next week, formal chorus concert the following week, and then the band participates in the Memorial Day parade in our town, and then non-8th grade members of the band perform at the 8th grade graduation the following week. Each event also involves a dress rehearsal before school. I am officially a taxi service. Anyone want to commiserate?
My first grader has a relatively new classmate who doesn’t speak English well. At first my daughter said she was nice, but lately she has been very physical with my daughter and others. She pushed my daughter down a slide, which resulted in a badly skinned knee, and twisted her arm. When my daughter complains to the teacher or recess supervisor about these injuries, the other girl lies that my daughter pushed her first and my daughter gets told to cut it out, though thankfully has not (yet) gotten in any serious trouble. Yesterday my daughter told me that the new girl hit her friend in the stomach, but then burst into tears and said she was the one who got hit. Both those girls had to go to the principal’s office and my daughter and another friend who saw it happen were also sent to the principal’s office as witnesses. Despite all three of them telling the principal that the new girl hit my daughter’s friend unprovoked, my daughter’s friend was the one who got in trouble! 30 minutes of sitting alone in the principal’s office — so I guess like a detention, although my daughter didn’t use that word.
I’m really frustrated — I realize it must be awful to be the new kid in a school and not be able to communicate well – but I’m not sure why the school keeps taking the new girl’s side when there are multiple kids being hurt by her and backing each other up that she’s the aggressor! Is this sort of thing normal? Is this a situation where I should complain? Who would I even complain to if the principal is aware and involved?