Budget Thursday: Babydoll Peplum Top
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I haven’t bought a babydoll top in a long time, but another blogger I know, The Budget Babe, recommended this top and I thought it looked really cute. I got it in this deep red, and I like it a lot.
This is not my usual style of top at all, but it feels floaty and bohemian and summery, and it’s very forgiving on the tummy, as well. It’s a cozy, comfortable shirt, and it’s easy care.
The top is available in a lot of prints and solid colors and is $18 (although you may find a clickable coupon), and it’s eligible for Prime. Babydoll Peplum Top
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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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Ugh. Drop off was such a nightmare today, we never had this before the pandemic but now that he knows mommy and daddy are home all day he’s constantly begging to stay home. Which is ironic because it’s not like we have time to devote to playing with him! I guess it’s a testament to how fun we managed to make four (five?) months in quarantine. But man was the screaming and crying and clinging so so tough. Daycare let me know he was fine after about five minutes, but I admit I cried a little in the car. The mom guilt is STRONG today.
Welp, 3.5 glorious weeks of daycare and now someone is sick and being tested for Covid (heard the secretary gossiping about it this morning). Fingers crossed it’s a routine bug.
I just need to vent. My fb feed (which I try to stay away from) is full of people this week saying things like “if you don’t want to get sick then you stay home” and still arguing about masks, and so on. I have a kid with special needs who is higher risk. We do stay home. We stay home when we aren’t in a pandemic because the world isn’t made for us and other families exclude us. The lack of compassion for the vulnerable is just such constant weight and drags me down every day. And what does staying home now mean? We still have to the grocery. DH and I sometimes still have to go into the office because we need jobs to be able to provide for our kids. So we should stay home forever too? I’m just so exhausted and trying not to lash out at people online so I’m venting here instead. I’m very thankful for this group of cautious and kind parents that is a respite from the rest.
one of my my 27 month old twins has suddenly become very challenging. pulling my hair, throwing food, etc. this was a child who when i wrote down things about her on her 2 year bday, one of the things i wrote was that she was fairly easy to reason with for a 2 year old…ha. when she throws her food, i tell her that food is not for throwing and that it must mean that she is done, and take her out of her high chair (she is very very verbal and previously used to say “all done.”) and the hair pulling will happen when i am playing with her. sometimes i can tell it is coming and i try to stop her and tell her that i cannot let her pull my hair. she does well with books, but there doesn’t seem to be a “hair is not for pulling” any tips?
Does anyone else have a kiddo with ADHD? I am really struggling with mine right now and could use some commiseration. He’s in fifth grade and harder to get out the door than our kindergartener. We are trying so freaking hard to help him build his executive functioning skills and sometimes it seems like we aren’t getting anywhere. The tension in our household is palpable sometimes. Like this morning, when he’s bouncing from task to task without really getting anything done, all while being completely hyperactive. When he’s in that state, he cannot be reasoned with at all. He can present as neurotypical at times, so even my closest friends really don’t understand what we’re dealing with on the regular. They see this fun, quirky kid (which he is!), but not the complete and total exhaustion we feel from dealing with a child who is extremely bright academically but cannot finish the simplest tasks sometimes. After consulting with the ped, we’ve determined that it’s time to up his medication dosage … here’s hoping that helps. :(
He was seeing a therapist in Before Times that we like a lot, but the telemedicine appointments were so unhelpful that they’re on pause for the moment. I may need to rethink that.
Anyone else completely underwhelmed by online kindergarten or online school in general so far? Kid finished her “reading” and “math” lessons in 10 minutes (total!!) this morning and is now watching a science show on netflix (not assigned by her teacher, just a thing to pass the time while I work). We have two fifteen minute zooms today and that’s that. I’m doing the “teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons” book as a supplement. We started it over the summer and I’m going to keep going with a lesson a day until we’re done with it.
I’ve on one hand heard that most of real life kindergarten is learning to do school routines like sit still for circle time on the rug. And then other people are telling me that kindergarten is “too academic” and stresses kids out. I…. don’t know how that could be possible. I talked to friends of mine whose kids were in two different (allegedly really good) elementary schools for kindergarten last year and they were both underwhelmed by the actual academics of kindergarten. Maybe my expectations are unrealistic? Maybe this is just what public school is? Kindergarten is getting all the kids on the same page about basics like the alphabet and the numbers 1-10? And for kids who already know that stuff it’s reinforcing their confidence or something? Idk. Seems … really basic?
Silver lining, if this is going to take a handful of minutes per day, I’m way less stressed about trying to work and guide her through school at the same time.
Need some advice and hope others have been through this. 3.5 DD had her first private swim lesson yesterday At a good swim school. I did not get in the water with her (just how the lessons are). She screamed bloody murder the full 30 mins. Like hysterical. And pre-COVID she was never the child to get separation anxiety at drop offs. In general she loves the water but is nervous about deep water, even with me or DH. Obviously she hasn’t had a ton of chances to swim this year but we’ve been to a lake a bunch to swim and grandparents pool twice.
Do I keep going? What would you do?
We use Comotomo bottles and have to label them with kiddo’s name for daycare. I bought a daycare pack with from name bubbles and I have to say, they just don’t work – the ones on the bottles have come off in less than 2 months and the ones on the clothes (affixed to the care label per directions) are also coming off – I keep finding stickers in the laundry. Any better recommendations specifically for Comotomo bottles, and also for clothes?
OP here – this is similar to what it is. It’s not casual Y lessons. To give DD some credit she cried hysterically but still did what they asked. They practiced scooting along the edge, climbing out, etc…and we’re paying out the nose for these because to me swimming is an essential life skill/safety issue. Sounds like we will persevere.
This top looks like something from Wilt that would cost 4x as much. I am seriously tempted, even though I am super skeptical about clothing from Amazon.