Nursing/Postpartum Tuesday: Baby Socks with Gift Box
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Here’s a cute (and practical) gift for the baby in your life.
These darling socks from Bombas have all the features you’d want in your own socks — seamless toes and an easy-care cotton/poly blend. They also stay up and on better than other socks — especially important since babies love trying to take off their socks! Best of all, these comfy socks come boxed ready for gifting.
This 8-pack of baby socks is $46. They come in three mixes: purple rose, navy jade, and white gray.
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+
Does anyone have a city stroller recommendation? Looking for something lightweight, very easy to fold/unfold, small folded size, and wheels that are useful enough to brave a curb without too much effort. A plus if it adapts to an infant seat. Budget up to $500 but it doesn’t need to be a status brand. Just need something actually comfortable to use on a regular basis for a petite mom. We do have a BOB for hiking which we love but prefer to only take it for seriously rough terrain as it takes up so much trunk space. Last time we had the Summer Infant DLite and I hated it so much even though we only used it in the airport, I would gladly spend a lot more money on a better stroller. Thanks!
Help! My one year old bites. She’s not aggressive, she’s teething, but we got a notification from daycare that she bit another child today. Being that she’s only a year old, she doesn’t understand much. We try to redirect with teething toys. Is there anything else we can do?
Anyone in Brooklyn have a CBT therapist to recommend? I am struggling, mostly to manage my demanding job and my kids. I’ve tried something more like talk therapy in the past and while it helped me through an acutely tough time, I don’t know that it really helped long term. I need to really change my way of thinking, and hoping CBT can help.
Just reporting back from my comment about my brothers noncompete issue. Thank you so much to everyone for the advice and lawyer recs! It looks like his noncompete with his current employer is laughably broad in scope and he’ll be able to move on to his new job without issue.
Any advice on how to help kids cope with parent work travel? DH has started traveling every 3-4 weeks, and I’m traveling every couple of months. Our 4yo in particular is having a hard time with it. He’s okay in the evenings, but in the mornings he’s really down and refuses to participate in getting ready for school. Drop-offs are a nightmare, and he’s giving his teachers a lot of trouble.
Tips on getting adjusted to a new boss? I am in the non profit space and my colleague was just promoted to the head job. I report directly to him. I enjoyed a really good relationship with my previous boss, and this transition is just…rough on me. I’d like to become the trusted advisor/implementor that I was for my old boss, for my new, but it just feels awkward, almost like starting a new job — except my energy and my enthusiasm is lower. Would love to hear any good tips and tricks!
Hope this isn’t a total repeat/sorry if I missed it, but thought we could do a holiday tips thread.
The biggest thing I do for my own sanity is a google doc spreadsheet for Christmas/holidays. I add a new tab each year, and copy/paste in the list of names and tasks (family members, work assistants, daycare, cards, etc.). It’s great because I can see it on my phone as well. The columns are name – gift – where from (in store, online Target/etc.) – amount. I can easily look up what I got last year. Throughout the year, I can add in ideas for the following year. And, I can keep a tab on spending. This sounds crazy, but honestly if you have a large family (or if you’re forgetful like me) it can help a lot. It also has saved me from forgetting that I hid a gift in the back of closet or whatever because I see it on the sheet!
Our two year old kicks and screams during diaper changes, and kicks us in the face. We will start potty training next month, but until then what can we do to stop the kicking? I’m not great at discipline, but I am going to get a black eye pretty soon.
Depending on his role and the field, would he be able to do a little consulting? I’m in tech and at least in my corner of the world while there are hiring freezes for FTEs, there is still a lot of slush money that can be used for contractors for one-off projects. For example, I have 20k of “use it or lose it” type money that I’m using to have a former employee that left to be a SAHM for a couple years do a one-off project. She gets extra holiday money, and I get a boost in productivity for the end of the year. I can’t hire her part time, but we scoped it as a 15k project she’s doing over 2 months for me.
There are also firms like Guidepoint, GLG, Alphasights, Coleman that hire experts as a one-off. He might get a little gig there. It’s not big money but it’s fun to do and use your brain/expertise.
Business Talent Group (BTG) is another one where he might pick up projects.
Again, totally depends on his skill set- I’m sure there are similar places for more tech-oriented people at tech firms.
thanks to those who chimed in yesterday about how to get my kiddo to take meds. both kids were up half the night, just returned from the doc and turns out kiddo has a really bad double ear infection, so now i need to get those antibiotics into her, and hopefully the kids sleep tonight bc DH is heading out of town until Friday.
My husband is having a rough month, his job is being eliminated at the end of the year and he was really hoping to have something else lined up, but nothing has materialized yet and he’s feeling very down about it. He’s in a tech field and a couple of companies he was talking with are in a hiring freeze right now. Is there anything helpful I can do, other than plan some fun activities to take his mind off it? We will be OK for a few months on my salary, so we don’t have to go into super-saving mode just yet.