Maternity Monday: Bias-Cut Satin Midi Maternity Slip Skirt
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This elegant maternity slip skirt can go straight from desk to dinner.
This satin, bias-cut midi skirt flows right over your growing bump. The universally flattering A-line shape works with everything from tailored blouses to cozy sweaters. In addition to the office and pre-baby date nights, this pretty rose-colored skirt would also look great at a baby shower.
Ingrid & Isabel’s Satin Midi Maternity Slip Skirt is $72 and comes in sizes XS-XL.
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Daycare is closed today (was closed last Friday too) for some kind of admin day “to prepare for the new school year.” It’s a daycare. It’s open year round. Tf school year are you getting ready for?
I knew about it in advance and I planned for our old nanny to come, but she moved so now her uber is over $100 (which I paid) and she was 20 mins late both days. I just want to go back to bed until I can drop off kiddo tomorrow morning.
Saying this here, anonymously, as this isn’t anything I’m sharing in real life — but my husband and I are both fully alcohol free after somewhat abruptly stopping two months ago. It took a few weeks to really notice that I was feeling differently, but I absolutely do feel different. Since we decided to fully stop, instead of feeling like I was biding my time to get through a “dry January” or whatever, I stopped viewing beverages in terms of placeholders for wine, but as just on the merits of whatever I was drinking. I feel better, rarely if ever hold any mental space for wine, and my kids love it and are proud of us. We are pretty low key about it socially, as most of our friends still drink, but I’m so happy with where we are now.
Any recs for a very easy-to-clean humidifier for a child’s room (fairly small)?
As background, we have always lived in smaller homes with one living space. We’ve always had a moderate sized TV (the only one in the house) and it’s been fine. We’re not big TV watchers. I basically don’t watch TV, we’ll do an occasional family movie night, the kids watch cartoons on weekend mornings, and my husband watches football (~6-8 games a year at home) and an occasional show.
We bought a new house recently and it now has a big kitchen/living room and basement rec space. The basement space is fully walkout with a great view and doesn’t feel like a basement. My expectation was we’d put a big TV down there for movie nights and football, plus a smaller TV in the main living space for when our teens claim the basement. My husband is convinced we need a TV in the main living space that “proportional to the size of the great room.” His preference is a 95″ TV, which strikes me as movie screen sized and ridiculous. It’s not what I want in the upstairs living space. He says it’s his house and he doesn’t want to go downstairs to watch TV.
How big is your TV? How would you work on resolving this disagreement?
I have a 4.5 year old boy who is loving the junior readers style pre-reader (lots of rhyming, easy to sound out, etc.) but really wants them to be a bit more, action-packed maybe? We do a lot of these at the library, but if you all have any recommendations I am willing to splurge on some for the bookshelf at home.
Venting into the void I had a lovely weekend away (cup filled). DH was on business travel for a month. Came home, all was fine, and then in the swirl of evening routine, DH said something to me out of frustration about something seemingly small (e.g. where to put a certain book) that really hurt my feelings; it was something I hadn’t heard in years and something he once said to me when we were in a very hard part of our marriage.
We talked about the item in question later, but I didn’t bring up that he hurt my feelings because I just wasn’t in the headspace to have a constructive discussion. I know he’s burned out and grieving, but it’s just not fair or right.
I know there are a number of outdoorsy moms here who have mentioned getting out of the house for weekend adventures with (or without) the family. What are your best tips (nothing is too specific!) for balancing that with the chores and demands of home? I find that it’s a bit challenging to maintain a routine at home, which I like when we’re there, especially for procuring groceries and cooking, when we’re spending big chunks of time out of the house. We live in an area where we have some fabulous day trips within 2 hours of driving distance but it does mean that a day trip is literally ALL day. Anyway, hit me up with your tips/recipes/anything you’ve got!
We had some major second week of school scaries this morning (2nd grader). He was so great last week, but I think this morning he realized he’s going to have to keep that up for a whole year. Any tips for making this easier? I think once he makes some friends in his class and gets used to the new routine it will be fine, but the next couple of weeks might be rough.
How do you have your kids address most adults? Our kid is almost 2, so realizing this is something I”ll have to decide on pretty soon.
Growing up, my parents’ closest friends (who we saw frequently) were honorary aunt/uncle, and literally every other adult I knew (other family friends, friends’ parents, random people, parents’ colleagues at take your child to work day) were Mr./Mrs. Lastname. As I’ve become an adult, I’d say 90% of these adults I can now call by their first names… but a few of my friends’ parents are very clear they’re still Mr./Mrs. – which honestly I find a little silly as a 33 year old with a kid of my own!
For our kid, our closest friends have been referred to as aunt/uncle, but pretty much everyone else has been first names for the time being – not that it mattered since he wasn’t addressing them anyways!
I’m in the Philly burbs, not sure what the norm is here. I know Mr/Ms. Firstname was big in the south, I feel like that’s started making its way north as a bit of a compromise between being very casual with first names only or full on Mr./Mrs. Lastname.
I don’t think I’m a huge fan of just first names for adults, but I am not sure why – do I really not like it? Or does it just feel “wrong” since it’s a total departure from how I grew up?
A colleague mentioned in his neighborhood the kids address adults as “Neighbor First Name” or “Friend First Name”. The adults agreed they didn’t want to just be First Name, but Mr./Mrs. felt too authoritative and due to concerns that if a child is sexually abused by someone perceived to be in a position of authority they won’t report it, they wanted to avoid that. To me, I feel like if you’re going to be Neighbor Jane, just be Jane.
I don’t know why I’m so hung up on this? I guess it feels very odd to be to instruct someone to address my peer as Mr/Mrs and it’d feel weird to me to be Mrs. Smith? But then again, while I think a 3 year old calling me Jane is cute is it weird for a 9 year old to just call me Jane? If we get rid of titles for other adults, it feels odd to me to keep aunt/uncle for actual aunts and uncles?
I’m sure a good part of my feeling conflicted about this is also my general “kids these days” thoughts – my BIL is a teacher and I cannot believe so many of the stories he has. He teaches in the district I went to, so I know what used to absolutely not fly there (not all that long ago!) and I’m honestly shocked. I know I won’t be letting my son get away with talking to teachers the way many kids do these days, but still.
Obviously if an adult has a preference on what they’re called I’ll default to that. Just not sure what my default should be.