Looking around online it seems like there are a million things that I would not have wanted to wear while pregnant. Midi skirts that require heels to look good (and the big buzzer goes UNNNNHHHHH)! Skin-tight dresses requiring super Spanx (UNNHHH)! Jogger track pants (UNNNNHHH) — at least when I was pregnant I didn’t need any…
Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently… Breadwinning Mama reviews a new makeup line called Stowaway. The Washington Post interviewed Anne-Marie Slaughter about her new book and how she believes we “utterly devalue the importance of caregiving roles in our society.” The New York Times gives you “five…
I don’t know about you guys, but the sweatshirt trend has coincided wonderfully with motherhood for me — including lovely, warm fleecey goodness like this one. After too many incidents where the boys got yogurt/snot/spit/lord knows what else on cashmere sweaters, I almost exclusively wear stuff like this on the weekends or on long mommy days. This one…
I was on the Limited home page looking for something else when this picture flashed by, and I had to go off to hunt for the product. After wearing the heck out of the Halogen long cardigan I bought at the last big Nordstrom sale (similar to this one), I’m considering more. I like the burgundy…
We’ve talked about childcare pros and cons, but we’ve never directly talked about childcare with family as caregivers — and I keep seeing stories about how grandparents move to New York to help raise their grandkids — so I thought we’d discuss. There are obvious pros — love! money! — but the logistics strike me…
