Makeup & Beauty Monday: Barrier Restore Cream Comforting Daily Moisturizer
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Holiday merriment + holiday air travel + frigid winter weather means my skin could use a little TLC to start off the new year.
This creamy, yet lightweight moisturizer restores your skin’s natural barrier with ingredients like peptides, shea butter, and hyaluronic acid. Use it daily (under your favorite sunscreen, of course!) to soothe and moisturize dry and dull winter skin.
rhode’s Barrier Restore Cream is $32 at Sephora. A mini size is also available.
Sales of note for 1/10:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 2,400+ new women’s markdowns!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase + extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – End-of-Season Sale: clearance up to 60% off
- Cuyana – Free shipping on orders of $95+ (readers love their totes!)
- Express – All new and on sale, buy 1 get 1 50% off all women’s tailoring and jeans
- J.Crew – 25% off full-price styles, and up to 70% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory– Up to 50% off select cashmere + extra 60% off sale
- Lo & Sons– Winter sale, up to 50% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Neiman Marcus – Up to 75% off when you take an extra 40% off sale
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale! Extra 60% off sale sweaters, coats, scarves, and shoes + extra 50% all other markdowns + Red Door Deals from $24.50
Yesterday DH brought up the idea of having a third. We have two wonderful kids, 4 and 6, and my age is not an issue. I love our family and think my kids get the perfect amount of attention right now. But I do wonder if in ten or fifteen years I’ll be wishing we leaned into more chaos, bigger family, less money, wilder dinner table, more siblings. It is impossible to know whether my thriving children would be more positively shaped by MORE – as in a bigger family – or more attention. They are the same gender and very close. I also worry that my life as an empty nester will feel even emptier if I have only two, and when I’m quite old, only two who will come visit me. Surely my life can be rich and full in other ways? What if my relationships with my children are the deepest, most loving relationships I’ll ever know? Would I be selfish for wanting another, and would that result in three wonderful children but, relative to having two, less deep and fulfilling relationships with each?
We successfully taught my kid to read using the 100 lessons book and now I’m curious if there is something with a similar format that a parent could do with a kid for math? It has been fun to work together on this little project but my kindergartener doesn’t have homework yet, so I’m looking for another collaboration that will also help cement some early learning skills. (We still read together daily, and are working on expanding the reading skills, but would be fun to have another thing to work on.)
We are applying to a private school for our kids for next year (K and 3rd). We’ve done all the parent/family visits, testing, essays…all that’s left is for the kid’s visit days. It’s only an hour or so for the future Ker and a half-day for my older kid. What to expect? I’m especially curious because I understand the visit has more weight for the younger kids (e.g. my future Ker).
Also talking to local families here who have had experience, but also wanted a more general view.
TIA!
I let my six-year-old stay home today because she’s had a cold and this morning she was crying that her throat hurt. So now she seems totally fine and is watching tv while jumping around the furniture. Wish me luck.
Gut check please? I think a friend was obnoxious but DH thinks it’s nbd. I’m generally annoyed by Friend and I could be letting it color my feelings.
Over the weekend, we were at a kid birthday party with a bunch of our friends and their kids. As the adults sat down to eat lunch, our baby started fussing, so DH held him in his lap while he ate. While we’re eating, a friend sitting next to DH looks at our baby and announces, ohhh looks like someone needs a diaper change! There was no smell. Baby’s pants were slightly floofed, but like, that’s just what a baby wearing a diaper looks like? The whole table looks at DH so he gets up to change the baby.
I think it’s incredibly rude to tell a parent who is holding their child that the child needs a diaper change. Especially while the parent is eating. And especially when the diaper isn’t even dirty! I probably would’ve said, eh he’s fine for a few minutes, and just let people think I’m a bad mom who lets her baby sit in a dirty diaper, but DH is much more agreeable than I am. Am I wrong in being annoyed by Friend?
15-month well baby visit is coming up and we still don’t have mama, dada, or other special words for parents, which is a 12-month milestone. He babbles the sounds all the time but doesn’t consistently connect them to people or consistently point to the right person when asked “where’s dada?” Going to raise it with the ped obvi but would this concern you?
Hapoy monday, all. Recommendations for toddler towels, preferably with hoods? I am looking for a comfortable, thick towel. Thank you!
for those of you with kids who night trained late, how did you handle sleepovers? DD is in second grade and still wears a pull up at night. She really wants to go on this sleepover with her girl scout troop, but is understandably anxious about the pull up or having an accident. she still wears pull ups at night. i have not even really attempted night training yet. she does wake up in the middle of the night if her pull up is too wet to switch to a new one, but recently she fell asleep in the car (which she always does) and had an accident. tips? thoughts?
My 3.75 yo has been so aggressive to me lately! We’ve dealt with hitting problems before, but that was more impulsive. Now he will come from across the room to attack me, or flash from calm to physically aggressive with no in-between.
He’s hitting, biting, pinching, hair-pulling, and headbutting. 99% of the time it’s at me, lucky for the baby’s safety. He says things like, “Do I have to hit you?” and, “My car is going to drive into the kitchen and smash mommy.”
This isn’t normal is it? I feel like my sweet kid is turning into a psychopath? WTH do I do?
I think it would be better for my health if I ate less processed food, but I’m getting hung up on the differences between ultra-processed, processed, and packaged and what the health implications are. In my head ultra processed is something like Pringles or Raisin Bran Crunch cereal, processed is something like frozen ravioli (or is this also ultra processed); maybe processed food is like store brand shredded cheddar cheese, and packaged is like frozen green peas or frozen strawberries.
Putting microplastics aside for these purposes, for something like green peas, peas sold in the produce aisle shucked or not are obviously the least processed and packaged. But is there really a meaningful difference between produce aisle peas and frozen peas (just plain peas, no butter sauce or salt added)? I thought they were basically the same. Is that wrong? Similarly, is there a meaningful nutrition / health difference between rice that takes 20-25 minutes to cook, minute rice in a box, and 90 second microwave rice (the plain kind – so like plain basmati rice)? Does anyone know of a good resource I can read on these distinctions?
To make my life doable I need packaged food and I guess processed food like 90 second rice at least some of the time. I can’t make everything from scratch.
Hi! book question…my daughter loves Patricia Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles (four books, about a spunky princess and dragons, some excitement but no serious peril and nothing sad/no deaths). Any recs for similar books? We’ve read all four and listened to the audiobooks several times. would love something with similar vibes…thanks so much!