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I’m always on the hunt for a great sweater blazer — particularly one that’s machine washable! They’re comfortable but polished, and look just as great with jeans as they do with a more structured sheath dress.
I feel like Ralph Lauren has had a version of this kicking around for a few years now — it’s available in regular, petite, and plus sizes at Macy’s in a ton of colors, most of them machine washable. Nice! They’re $105-$175, with most of them on sale for 30% off today. (There are also versions at Bloomingdale’s, Zappos, Dillards and Belk.)
The pictured red one comes in sizes XS-L and comes to $115 (with code) at Macy’s, or $99 at Dillards (lucky sizes only).
Pictured above, great sweater jackets for the office: gray / gray / green / navy with pockets / cropped navy (not pictured but also!)
Sales of note for 5.5.24
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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
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- Should I cut my childcare down to 12 hours a month if I work from home?
- Will my baby have speech delays if we raise her bilingual?
- Has anyone given birth in a teaching hospital?
- My child eats everything, and my friends’ kids do not – how should I handle? In general, what is the best way to handle when your child has some skill/ability and your friend’s child doesn’t have that skill/ability?
- ADHD moms, give me your tips to help with things like behavior in the classroom, attention to detail, etc?
- I think I suffer from mom rage…
- My husband and kids are gone this weekend – how should I enjoy my free time?
- I’m struggling to be compassionate with a SAHM friend who complains she doesn’t have enough hours of childcare.
- If you exclusively formula fed, what tips do you have for in the hospital and coming home?
- Could I take my 4-yo and 8-yo on a 7-8 day trip to Paris, Lyon, and Madrid?
Anon says
ok, i need something happy today. i know we’ve talked lately about christmas traditions and thanksgiving traditions. anyone on here who is jewish with any fun Hannukah traditions?
Anon says
We light a menorah and do presents for the kiddo, obviously. She has a cloth menorah that we also “light” each night. I usually buy some Hanukkah themed clothes (this dress this year: https://www.target.com/p/girls-39-long-sleeve-hanukkah-menorah-tulle-dress-cat-38-jack-8482-blue-l/-/A-79605199). This year I bought some Hanukkah decorations to put up around our house, since we’re spending more time at home. I have Hanukkah-themed cookie cutters so we bake and decorate cookies with those. I like latkes but my husband and kid don’t, so we don’t do them that often.
TBH I actually love that Hanukkah is a low key holiday and doesn’t have the pressures of Christmas. I see my friends who celebrate Christmas getting very stressed out about cooking, getting kids dressed for church and pictures, figuring out which family members they see at which time and so on, and I’m very glad we don’t have to deal with any of that.
Anne says
Isn’t that a false equivalent? Hannukah is a minor holiday. I would say that Passover traditions are more in line with Christmas (like what do you do for one of your major holidays). But my answer – give and receive socks! It doesn’t feel like hannukah unless my girls get socks for one of the nights.
Anon says
There’s no right or wrong way, that’s why people have different traditions. Halloween is a “minor holiday” but people go all out, as we have seen
Anon says
Food: potato pancakes – fun to make different colors by adding batches of carrots/sweet potatoes, beets, and zucchini or spinach. Chocolate coins. Homemade donuts – this recipe is easy and fun https://www.cookingclassy.com/15-minute-donuts-from-scratch/
Anon says
Challenge for you all (although posts seem to be loading slowly today?)
I’m looking for books involving two sisters and a brother. Any ideas? Recipient is in kinder so can go picture or chapter book. She’s been trying to find this in library class at school, which I thought was really sweet. bonus if order is girl boy girl. Any come to mind?
Anon says
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbitt is girl, boy, girl if you think she would like a classic. I loved it growing up.
OP says
She loves classics! Thank you!
Blueridge29 says
There are three siblings in the Doryfantasmagory book series, but I am not sure if it is girl, boy, girl or boy, girl, girl. The books are very silly and great for reading aloud or early readers.
Anonymous says
For those of you who are gluten-free, what are some of your favorite swaps for pasta/mac&cheese? thanks!
Katala says
I like Banza pasta and mac & cheese, made from chickpeas so it has more protein. RP’s GF linguini is a good fresh pasta. I personally like quinoa so I’ll swap that in sometimes (I really like quinoa with meatballs and marinara but it’s obviously a different texture). Mashed potatoes also make a good base for meatballs. Also zoodles or another veggie “noodle,” or just have the toppings on veggies – sauteed kale/greens can work well – while others have regular pasta.
Anon says
Not gluten free (friends are though), and I am pretty sure arborio rice doesn’t have gluten, so my recommended swap would be a cheesy risotto!
Anon says
Rice noodles are great! I’m not GF but actually prefer them to regular pasta. There’s some scary stuff about there about rice and arsenic/cancer, so I try not to have it too much though. All the Amy’s frozen dishes have rice noodles.
Anon says
My favorite noodles are red lentil – usually either from Trader Joe’s or Barilla. If you have a Wegmans they also have a pretty wide variety of legume-based noodles.
Realist says
Rice. Zucchini noodles (Zoodles) and Carrot noodles. I don’t like most of the gluten noodle substitutions. My own opinion is that glyphosate, not gluten, is the root of most “gluten sensitivity” and that most of the gluten free substitutes are going to be contaminated with glyphosate or other pesticides and be just as bad, particularly if made with beans. If I use a substitute, I try to go for gluten-free items made/grown in countries that don’t have much glyphosate use, like Mexico and Italy and avoid countries with heavy use like the United States and Canada.
Coach Laura says
Interesting about the glyphosate. I have celiac disease and was undiagnosed for 30+ years, so I got a lot of gluten and a lot of inflammation. I also developed a lymphoma that can be related to Roundup and roundup/similar chemicals are used to “ripen” wheat. Glyphosate is in roundup.
That being said, I do eat a lot of rice pasta from Italy. Never liked the US rice pastas. I like Jovial brown rice pasta – which is made in Italy – and my son likes Barilla, which is corn and rice but made from non-US ingredients.
Realist says
Glyphosate is an antibiotic and just seems generally terrible all around, we are using way too much of it now. I mean, if you ask anyone with even a basic understanding of science, “Hey, should we randomly spray millions of gallons of antibiotic continuously across vast swathes of the earth’s surface?” they would say “What, no! Terrible idea.” But governments has another answer, I guess. With celiac, I’m sure it doesn’t matter how clean the wheat is from glyphosate, but I am pretty certain glyphosate causes inflammation (“gluten sensitivity) in many people who could probably otherwise eat gluten just fine. The science is still in early stages, though, so I can’t be 100% certain on that theory, although it certainly matches my experience with our family’s healthy.
oil in houston says
barilla gluten free pasta are very good, and that’s what I use when I make a g/f mac and cheese, works well
DLC says
I feel like this is a lost cause, and a very low stakes question but…. anyone have tricks to get your kids to look at the camera for pictures? And maybe (here’s the real unicorn…) even smile? I’m talking those candid shots that you take on your phone. I took my three kids hiking yesterday (8, 4, and 1) and I swear every picture of them features at least one of the following: 1) the back of someone’s head, 2) crying, 3) the top of someone’s head, 4) someone’s arm in front of a sibling’s face 5) someone’s arm in front of their own face 6) eyes half closed as if drunk, 7) someone moving out of the shot at the last minute…. (i’m sure you all have a similar list…)
The one year old gets a pass, of course, but the other two…. I’m sure in a year I will be glad for anything that I managed to take, but I get so unaccountable annoyed trying to capture pictures of them sometimes….
anon says
Candid is literally the opposite of asking your kid to smile and look at the camera.
Anon says
Oh man, it’s so hard. I make poop jokes (yes) or say words they think are silly. And recite lines from the Book With No Pictures. But my youngest is 20 months and we have like three pictures total with all of them looking even semi pleasant at the camera. It is HARD! Eagerly waiting to see what others say.
Anonanonanon says
Similar, I ask my husband “how do you think a hamster poots?” and he’ll do the noise, then “how does an elephant poot?” etc.
Anonymous says
For my 2/4/7 year olds: “I am trying to take a picture. if you all look at me and smile, I will give you candy.” Works 9/10 times!
Any says
Take a lot. Rapid fire clicking. Then delete 95%
GCA says
This is how professional photographers do it! 95% of shots get tossed out. Use the rapid burst function on your phone, one of the photos’ll be good.
Anonymous says
we’ve had some success with “whatever you do DON’T SMILE”
SC says
We’ve had some success getting Kiddo to smile by asking him to say something really silly instead of “cheese.” Something like, “Say Buffalo Boogers!” but whatever random, silly thing comes to mind each time. Also, if we’re taking a bunch of posed pictures (like the first day of school or Halloween costumes), we let him move around and be active. We’ll get a few angsty pictures of him posed in one spot, and then we’ll get a smiling picture where he’s in triangle pose or something. Basically, he smiles when he’s happy, and he’s happy when he’s moving. Motion blur is a real problem in our photos, though.
Anonymous says
Did you take them hiking or for a photo shoot? How many photos of you hiking did your parents take when you were a child? I get it, I also love cute photos, but let it go, stop documenting everything, and let them be kids.
Anon says
Kind of this. I make “family yearbooks” each year and my first ones with the kids were full of 300+ pictures, which is just way too much. No one needs their life documented that much. I’ve now settled in the 50-100 range, which feels like a decent amount to capture a year of life. When you map out holidays, birthdays, school pictures, family photos, a vacation or two in the before times, you end up needing only a few photos at an activity every month or two to round out a good photo history of the year.
To get a good picture at those few activities, we go for the tried and true “Dad pretends to stub his toe or run into a wall, which makes the kids crack up” comedy routine. But we also allow for weird faces and looking wrong ways since we have all those other occasions where we’ll probably get everyone looking good in at least one or two pictures for the year.
DLC says
Hah. Fair enough point. I just wanted one picture of the kids at the summit of the hike, because it was quite a feat to get there. The rest of the pictures I took were totally candid action shots. I do remember that my parents were very big on taking posed pictures when we were little; this was in the days of film, and I feel like the stakes were a little higher to get the one shot of everyone. I think it’s interesting how the evolution of digital photography has changed how we capture images of our family.
Rdc says
My kids love looking at photo albums so we look at them frequently and also talk a fair bit about “let’s take a nice picture for the photo book.” (I usually order printed books from Shutterfly once a year, but ask me how the 2019 book is coming …) They still aren’t great but usually we can at least get everyone looking the same general direction.
DLC says
I love all these suggestions. Very practical and hilarious. Thanks!
anon says
Help. My fifth grader is gradually turning into what I like to call an indoor cat. Getting him to do anything active and go outdoors is like pulling teeth. He’s not into sports, and I’m not forcing that, but even telling him to go ride his bike or scooter or go to the playground is met with a litany of complaints and never lasts very long. As a family, I feel like we have done a decent job being active together — lots of bike rides, running, hiking, swimming, and boating over the years — so this is disappointing and somewhat surprising because we’ve tried to build a family culture of being active. Not athletic, necessarily, but active! And also? He has ADHD and really struggles when he’s not burning off energy. Maybe it’s the age, but I don’t think it’s OK for him to be inside all the time. Can any moms of older kids weigh in?
AwayEmily says
I am not a mom of an older kid but I am a certified indoor cat and one thing that helps me is listening to audiobooks while I walk outside. Seriously, I get the audio version of books I really, really love and then only let myself listen to them on walks.
I’m married to an outdoor cat who comes from a family of outdoor cats — basically, holidays with them are hikes followed by Frisbee games followed by a jog and all I want to do is sit around and read. It’s hard.
Anon California says
Between Covid and a month of sealing the house up against bad air and running purifiers in every room 24/7, my younger elementary kid turned into an indoor cat with lots of anxiety about going out. What’s been helping is planning hikes for him that include a picnic with really awesome, plentiful treats (we normally don’t have many treats). I don’t know that this is the healthiest way, but it’s a helpful transitional tool.
anon says
Ah, yes, treats may help. I’m so sorry about the situation in California; it sounds terrible and absolutely a good reasons for a kid to get anxiety about it!
Anonymous says
Is this about being inside and not seeing the sun, or about being inactive? Kids can be active indoors, and inactive outdoors.
Can he do something like geocaching/pokemon go that gets you outside moving while gaming? Does he have friends that can come over and play outside together (nerf darts, etc)? Our neighborhood is amok with 10-12 year olds and all they do is stupid tricks on their unicycle things, race scooters, and shoot eachother with nerf darts. Part of this is because the parents are not allowing indoor playdates so it’s pushed the kids outside.
Anon says
is he at in person school? and what exactly is it that he likes to do inside? are you suggesting he go outside and ride his bike or scooter by himself? or with others? depending on his personality, he might be bored if he is doing that by himself.
Anonymous says
question: when can you let your kid go for a walk outside by himself without needing to be outside to supervise? my kid is the same and he WILL NOT walk with me.
Anonymous says
Walk to where? My first grader walks home from the bus stop. She rides her bike down the road to her friend’s house (it’s walkable but she’s in a hurry. About 1/4 mile). Around the city is a different story. We live in the burbs.
Anonymous says
Why would he want to go ride a bike alone or scoot alone or go to the playground alone? Do you do those things alone?
anon says
We literally tell him to go find a friend to do those things with. And yeah, I have no problem doing stuff alone, nor did I as a kid, but I realize that’s not everyone’s jam.
Anonymous says
Ok but literally how? Does he know how to find a friend? Does he have friends? Do you think he’s calling them? Finding them on the streets? Clearly what you’re doing now isn’t working so maybe he needs more help!
Anonymous says
Yep, I would’ve had trouble with this as a kid. No kids in our new neighborhood we moved to when I was in 2nd grade, was very shy and never wanted to call friends from school it would get self conscious about calling any given friend too often. Luckily I had a sibling for outdoor play.
Anonymous says
I’ve got an only child around this age and he is equally reluctant to go ride a bike, practice his sport (he’s quite athletic), or play outside/explore when he is by himself. He also has ADHD and I think it reduces the appeal of anything that isn’t super stimulating. We’ve found that we have to help him initiate non-screen activities as well as encouraging play dates. I don’t have a ton of advice, just know you aren’t alone.
fallen says
Can we share evening routines again? Now that it’s getting dark/cold and we can’t do playground for part of it, I am at a loss on what to do with my kids (who are honestly super bored of staying home).
Mine (2+7 year old) was great before.. bike/walk to playground, dinner, books/bath, bed. Now it’s dinner, try to play random games/color/kids get cranky [ part i am trying to fix], then books/bath and bed.
Anon says
Can you put them to bed any earlier? Mine always accepts an earlier bedtime when it gets dark earlier.