Washable Workwear Wednesday: Bessie Jacquard 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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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?
My SIL is very ill and we are heading tomorrow for what seems likely to be a final visit. She is at home and I’m going with my husband and 2 year old. We are driving down 5 hours tomorrow (leaving before naptime) and then 2 hours on Friday but will do the drive home on the Sunday. Any advice? My son is rear facing still and decent in the car but we haven’t done a long drive before. Husband will be driving and I get car sick in the back seat so am hoping he can entertain himself with music and looking out the window but who knows? Planning on spending a few hours each day at the house and will head back to hotel with kiddo, letting my husband maximize time with his sister.
How long has it taken your toddlers to adjust to a new daycare? We just moved our 2.5-year-old twins to a new place and dropoff today was even rougher than yesterday. They were totally cheerful at pick-up, so I know they’ll get over it, but since they started the old place at 3 months we’ve never had any crying at dropoff before and the double “Mommy don’t leave me here!!!” is hard.
Disclaimer: I know this is a personal decision and the answer is different for everyone.
But, if you had the option for PGT/PGD for your IVF embryos, why (or why not) did you choose to do it? I am just looking for other perspectives and to make sure I am thinking through everything. I had initially thought it was not an option because mine are all frozen, but apparently there is a method where they can thaw, biopsy and re-freeze. This would also allow us to choose gender, in addition to only transferring a chromosomally healthy embryo.
Rough start to kindergarten today, the kid who bullied one of my twins for the last year at daycare just registered their school yesterday and was placed in their class. Only 13 kids in their kindergarten class and this kid had to be one of them :(
I am flying for the first time with my pump / supplies on Friday. Can people help me with any and all tips? I plan on carrying on my pump, what about ice packs? Are those allowed? For flying back, I know I can bring my milk. In my carry on I am assuming? Also, I usually nurse or pump 5x a day. Do you think I’ll be able to get away with pumping 3-4 times a day on this trip? I’ll be away 2.5 days in total. I’m so close to weaning, I’m happy I only have to do this for one trip. Thanks all!
this boden top featured is a total win, btw.
NYC mamas-
Stuytown… yay or nay?
Background- My husband may be getting a job in NYC in LIC. The job will require him to live in NYC. Assuming I find a job vaguely in the same pay range as my current one (which shouldn’t be difficult, I’ve looked and have found a lot of options) Stuytown seems the best option for renting a 3bdrm in our budget. The school districts (it seems to be multiple districts) look good from what I can tell… but maybe I’m way off base? Is sending kids to public school in NYC crazy?
This job isn’t a guarantee, but I’m trying to verify whether or not it would be possible for us to actually pull it off budget-wise. Unless there’s something awful I don’t know about Stuytown and District 1 Manhattan schools, it seems like our best option.
Also- among the apartments currently available, we would have our choice of apartments that are zoned to a particular seemingly high-rated elementary school, or apartments that are zoned as “school choice” for elementary school. I assume that if we move in the middle of the school year we need to shoot for one that is zoned to a particular school rather than gamble?
Just started looked at the cost of daycare and it’s CRAZY! We may have a little support from my mom/MIL in the first few months but looking for creative solutions to keep childcare costs low.
My 18 month old shoves other kids a lot. Not meanly, but if a kid is in her way, she will just push them out of her way. She’s the oldest (by a small margin) and biggest (by a pretty large margin, she’s big for her age) in her classroom. Her primary interaction with other children is at daycare and of course her teachers tell her not to shove when they see it, but it seems like they see it maybe 1/3 or the time or less (just from brief observations DH and I have done in the classroom). I know this is probably age-appropriate to some degree and the teachers don’t seem concerned, but I hate to think my daughter is the class bully…but she kind of is! What if anything should we be doing? I feel like a bad parent for not doing anything about this, but she so rarely interacts with other children in our presence.
Help me out with something that I can’t seem to figure out – When did you stop sending bottles to daycare? Particularly if you continued breastfeeding after 1, did you still pump and send breastmilk for awhile?
LO just turned 1 and I’m still breastfeeding and pumping, but am so confused about how all of this works now. I tried asking my sons teachers what they recommend but they just said whatever we want to do is fine.
I feel like sort of a bad person for even asking this, but I’m thinking of doing a weekly volunteering hour working on reading with lower elementary school kids and I’m wondering if I should volunteer in one of the schools in our area with more disadvantaged kids or if I should volunteer at the more affluent elementary school my DD will attend in a couple of years. My altruistic side says I should volunteer where I’m needed most, ie., the disadvantaged school, but I selfishly feel like there might be an advantage to getting to know teachers at my daughter’s future school and building up goodwill with them, especially since I’ll probably be less involved in the school than a lot of her classmates’ moms (I work full time, not crazy hours, but enough that I probably won’t be doing the PTA/Room Mom thing).
My kindergartner has 4 friends from preschool that all signed up to do kindergarten cheerleading. I didn’t sign my kid up/ talked her out of it because (most importantly) it involved 2 weeknight practices and 1 Saturday AM game each week, including TRAVEL games. Secondarily, I don’t like football. If my kid wanted to play football, I could convince myself to suck it up and watch it. But watching football so I can watch my kid can CHEER for the kids playing football is awful. 2 of the other girls that signed up have older brothers that play football, so they are there anyway.
Whatever, anyway, decision was made. But now cheer is starting up. The girls go to 3 different elementary schools, but one is in my daughter’s class and bus. Every day she talks about how much fun cheer is, and how she got to see the other girls. My daughter is so sad!
I’m trying to psych her up for soccer, which starts this weekend. 3 of the girls from the group are on her team, but of course, there’s a cheer game right before soccer practice. My kid plays tennis and that’s how I spun not doing cheer: you do tennis! you love tennis! you are GREAT at tennis! [also, we don’t have time to schlep you to THREE cheer related activities during the week because you are one of FIVE people in this family]. That’s starting up this week too.
But anyway, would like some advice on how if at all to help her manage to feel less left out. She’s making new friends in Kindergarten, which is great! If she didn’t hear about it from her bus friend/classmate, I think she’d be none the wiser on what she was missing out on. But I do feel badly (but not badly enough to sign her up) and want to help her feel less left out when her friends talk about cheer stuff.