Everyone Thursday: R Ponte Knit Blazer
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Burnt orange is not normally my color, but something about this ponte knit blazer is calling my name. Love the classic details like the slant pockets and crisp lapels, as well as the less traditional details, like the ruching on the sleeves (i.e., they stay scrunched). It’s on a great discount, too at Sierra Trading: was $98, now $32. Anthracite R Ponte Knit Blazer
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Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
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?
True! i thought of that.
Just had our 8 week ultra sound yesterday and things look good. However, I’m terrified and dreading telling my family. I’m sure my parents will be happy, but another family member recently announced her pregnancy and the timing feels wrong. My mom and brother work with this family member and she told them the day her period was late. I often feel left out because this family member is so close with my mom and brother. She just got married in June and it’s been and lost her own mother last spring, so I know my mom works really hard to make her feel like she’s loved and supported. I guess I hope waiting to tell them ( maybe till November ) will make me feel less like an afterthought? Pregnancy has not been kind to my emotions and I have this irrational thought that my mom will not visit me in the hospital bc she’ll be too busy with the other family member’s child. Has anyone felt this way?
Ugh. This pregnant lady would be not nearly as nice as you are being, just for the record.
Seriously though, I would classify this as ‘list of things you shouldn’t think about’. Husband goes onto Orbitz.com. Types in City and dates needed. Books first hotel that looks price and location appropriate. DONE. 5 minutes and you just accept that it won’t be good.
You’ve got this. If you can make it through the first trimester with a toddler and a job, you can do anything.
I like this color a lot, and I have loved the knit blazers I’ve purchased over the last year. They are just the right amount of polish for my business casual office, enough structure but still comfortable–I am a fan!
As for things I’m not a fan of, I need to vent about my mother-in-law (and I apologize for kicking off the comments with my grumpiness). My MIL is completely clueless about what it’s like for me and my husband, both working full-time, demanding jobs, active in multiple volunteer roles in the community, with a 3yo who just started a preschool that has required parent volunteer hours, a puppy–oh, and I’m 7mos pregnant. She, by contrast, has not worked since my husband was in elementary school, she lives in a gated golf community in Florida, and her most pressing obligations are the occasional yoga class and shopping.
She has plans to visit us for Christmas, shortly after my due date, and then decided she also wants to come before then, sometime in the fall! Another family member, whom we wouldn’t be able to see at Christmas, will come along, so that’s the only reason this other visit is remotely tolerable, in my mind. So at the end of July we gave her TWO weekends that would work, in all of August, September, and October. MIL chose an upcoming weekend. She will stay with us (and complain, as usual–nightstand is not the right height, not enough outlets in the bathroom, etc.), but the other family member prefers to stay in a hotel.
Well, my husband is texting me this morning because the preferred hotel is booked and WE need to find another option ASAP–apparently he has been tasked by his mother with reserving the room. Like we don’t have enough to do and they haven’t known about this for months! Meanwhile I’m fielding late meeting invites and trying to figure out if he can be home in time to relieve the nanny or if I need to check whether she can stay late that day, being inundated with emails for all the various volunteer obligations going on this fall, spending time on here complaining instead of knocking out my to-do list so I can leave a bit early at lunchtime today and go volunteer at my kid’s school, and I woke up at 4am this morning and couldn’t go back to sleep and I’m tired and need to clean my house.
As I type all this out, it seems silly to get upset over a hotel reservation, but it’s just so typical of her! And I’m frustrated and overwhelmed and on edge about seeing her anyway–did I mention that when she arrived two days before my c-section with my first baby, she greeted me with, “Hey fatso! Now you can call me skinny!” ?? (Those were truly the first words out of her mouth as I stood to greet her. She’d just lost a bunch of weight and thought that was a funny way to say hi, I guess.) A small, mean part of me suspects she only wanted to come while I was pregnant to gawk at my body again.
Ugh. Sorry for the novel. I cannot stand her and just want this visit to be over with.
Does anyone have experience with a late talker? My guys are all over the map on milestones but Twin A has been very late on gross motor and speech. We have a physical therapist for him and just this last week, at 18 months, he’s suddenly walking everywhere — yay! But when we had him evaluated before we got the PT, they also found a speech delay, but he was ahead on neurological development and normal on social/emotional and fine motor. He’s getting a hearing test tomorrow, but if you say “where are your ears” or “where’s your tummy” or “where are your eyes” he points to the right body part. It seems if it were a hearing problem, he wouldn’t be able to distinguish “ears” from “eyes.” Mostly he seems entirely uninterested in language. Twin B is totally, 100% language focused. He spends every second pointing at things, getting adults to name them for him. Meanwhile, A would prefer to look at books by himself and is really non-response to language. For example, if I say to B “do you want this book or this book for bedtime?” B will point to the one he wants. A, however, just claps and makes noises but doesn’t really move toward either book. He’s very affectionate and loves to lie in my lap, or pulls on my pants to be picked up, loves making eyes at all the women when we’re out in public and getting smiles from them. But he just seems to not only have no interest in communication, he just doesn’t seem to recognize when I’m talking to him (but then he’ll put his fingertips together to ask to sing “itsy-bitsy spider” and he does all the hand motions for it). Just totally puzzled. We do plan to separate the boys more on the weekends, each of us having alone time with each twin, just because B will totally dominate all adult attention if he’s in the room, leaving A to kind of do his own thing. But if anyone had a toddler who sounded like my A, would love to hear your experience.