Accessory Tuesday: ‘Bold’ Bracelet Watch
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My first “grown-up” watch was a Movado I still wear today. But, as much as I loved the design, the single dot for 12 o’clock with nothing more made it hard to tell time.
Here’s a version that honors the brand’s signature minimalist design, but with Roman numerals. This 32 mm bracelet watch integrates both silver and gold tones (so, if you’re like me who wears both, it matches all your jewelry).
This elegant watch is elevated enough for the office, but durable enough for everyday wear.
This ‘Bold’ Bracelet Watch is $495 at Nordstrom.
The watch is pretty low in stock, but here’s a similar watch with Roman numerals from the Bold line — it’s $650 at Nordstrom.
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
Health insurance question. Had a baby in February and am now receiving bills from the hospital — two of them, one for me and one for baby. Baby’s care went to my deductible/coinsurance and I was surprised by this — why would his care be attributed toward me when it was clearly for him? It matters here because we get HRA reimbursement for my and my son’s fees once our individual deductibles are met, but we’re not meeting my son’s because his care went toward my limits. My insurance company says that this billing practice is a worldwide standard, not specific to them, and I don’t remember this happening with my other two deliveries. Thanks for any insight!
We are home with yet another covid quarantine. I find it so incredibly depressing to be home with little children. Help to make it better? Can only play magnatiles for so long before my brain goes numb.
My kid is almost three, and he’s started being very difficult at transitions (time to leave the park, time to go to school, etc.). He used to be pretty good if we gave him 5-minute warnings and told him what to expect, but now he’s having tantrums and we have to wrestle him into the car/stroller/etc. while he screams. Any advice for this, or is it just a phase we have to get through?
Anyone else hit fun milestones lately?
After some teary pedal practice, we decided to stop mentioning the p-word to my son. He’s just been using his pedal bike as a balance bike for the past 2 weeks resulting in very bruised shins where he’d bump the pedals. We were halfway home from nursery last night when he said “I think I can pedal, shall I try?” And then he pedaled all the way home saying “I am a champion star!!!”
Back out this am, and 1.5 miles to nursery is much quicker on two wheels versus scooter/balance bike.
Daycare Wait List Q. Our beloved, independent and religious-affiliated center is closing permanently at the end of August. It’s so sad!! But a plan of action is necessary and after calling 16 centers, all with waitlists, we have about 4 centers who *might* have a spot for us before the end of the year. For those who have been in this kind of wait list he11; what tactics might you suggest to this mom on a mission? Depending on the day and where I am on the emotional rollercoaster, open to anything. haha.
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Did anyone hold back their child one year? Our kiddo is born literally two days before the cutoff for kindergarten and DH wants to hold him back one year because he is physically smaller than the rest of his peers (is around 20th percentile for height and weight). I know part of this comes from DH’s own experience being a small Asian kid in a majority white school, which our son will be as well. The only problem is that he’s wicked smart and think he would be really under stimulated if we held him back a year.
For those of you who had a nanny when your baby(ies) were young, did you also send your children to pre-school (full or part-time), and when did you start?
Reporting back from a long weekend in Port Aransas (beach in Texas). It was lovely. Water was oddly…clean, which I wasn’t expecting (and I scrolled past the Texas Monthly article about how bad the water conditions are because I need some ignorance-is-bliss in my life).
We had 4 families represented, 7 kids (all <5), one house, and had a blast. Everyone drove from the Houston area, which took anywhere between 3.5-4.5 hours depending on stops, starting location, traffic, etc. We were literally able to walk to the pier and on to the beach, leave our canopy up all day, come back for meals (mostly easy stuff/takeout), etc.
So, my kid hates school. They are only in kindergarten, which is a half day program in our neck of the woods, and their other child care is more active, more familiar, more fun. School is a ton of sitting and listening. There are no learning disabilities at play, as the kid can read, write, math above grade level – in fact, we had to meet with teacher to enforce that, no, the kid can do these things, so please don’t let them do poor quality work and then go play faster. Also potentially relevant – the school is French immersion, which is common in our area, but not a language we use at home. I thought the second language would be a challenge for a smart kid. I’m hoping that it will clear up with full day school? The kid doesn’t really tell me what they hate about school, just that they hate it. I’m not really sure what to do or if anything needs to be done…
Kiddo is not quite 2 and has started asking for water at bedtime. She then wants to snuggle the cup, so bedtime turns into a soggy disaster. I don’t think she’s trying to prolong bedtime just yet – she’s not good about taking breaks from playing to sip water and sometimes focuses more on the food at dinner rather than drinks – so I think she’s legit thirsty and just realizing it once she slows down. Suggestions for a leak-proof water bottle that a kid her age can figure out in the dark? Or am I going to create another problem if she gets a water bottle in her crib?
Venting into the ether. I am feeling super down and discouraged as a parent. My middle schooler has ADHD and has had a rough couple of months. I’m getting multiple calls/emails from school every week about his behavior. He is not the mean kid, or the physically violent kid. The adults see his good qualities: bright, inquisitive, very engaged in the work. But he is the attention-seeking kid, the kid who can be really disruptive, the kid who definitely does not act his age. It’s the same story at home. He’s starting to get a complex about always being the “problem kid.”
I am at a loss. He goes to therapy to build skills. He has a 504 plan. The adults in his life, at home and at school, truly want to help. He’s lucky that he’s pretty darn charming. But truly, the kid cannot stay within the rails and it’s so freaking exhausting for everyone. And as he gets older, the grownups have less grace and tolerance for his behavior. He never “means to”; he’s just completely incapable of implementing his coping skills in the moment. Very typical ADHD stuff, the hyperactive type.
Is this ever going to get better? I am feeling super down about parenthood in general. This is not what I thought life with a young teen would be like. When most parents with kids his age are starting to feel freedom and are able to give their kids more independence, our kid is clearly not there at all. And nobody really has any answers; I feel like therapy is throwing away our time, money, and energy at this point. I’m worried about the future, and our present lives are pretty bleak. I have started closing myself off from friends because I can’t deal with hearing about their normal-kid troubles when we’re bogged down in just covering the basics.
TW, MC, Roe, Abortion
I had to have an emergency, unmedicated, manual abortion in November after a failed IVF transfer around 8 weeks. Baby was not viable and I was medically at risk. I’ve had an undue amount of personal tragedy in my life to be honest, and to date this goes down as the most traumatic I’ve ever experienced. It also came after 2 years of IVF.
With today’s news, I find myself caught somewhere between wanting to turn off the news altogether, ignore all of it, and being so angry that I can’t even seem to function properly. To think this procedure I had – horrendous as it was – would not be available to someone in my exact shoes is beyond comprehension. I was reading on another s !te about different types of abortions, nuances of week X vs week y, and found myself kind of reliving it all, basically in low key tears at my desk. But I’m guilty feeling like this knowing I’m undoubtedly a privilaged white lady with means who lives in a deep blue state and will probably be a-ok.
I don’t really know what my point is. Maybe give everyone a little extra grace as this new plays out? No one in my circle really knows what happened to me on Nov 1. They just vaguely know I had an IVF transfer and miscarried and that I had a really hard procedure but I’m fine now. This is striking me in ways I never anticipated, and I’m sure there are others like me out there.
I have a nearly 1 year old and reading the comments here makes me feel so depressed sometimes. Does anyone NOT feel like parenting is just so hard and thankless and draining and that they would be happier without kids? It seems from all these comments like it never gets any easier, career, hobbies and marriage all have to suffer, and I’m just not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. There was a post on the other page today about how pregnancy/parenting made some people more pro choice because they know better now about the toll a child takes on you.
I could never say this in real life but I routinely wish people had been more real with me about parenting rather than badgering me to have a kid because I’ll regret it forever if I don’t and then turning around when I’m struggling and saying “well, you wanted this, welcome to parenthood.”
TBH we’d all probably benefit from doing a gratitude journal instead of spending time here!
My kids are still little, so I can’t speak to what it’s like when they’re older. But by and large, I think the happy parents are the people with good partners who have made sometimes tough decisions about how to prioritize. For example, moving to be near family so that you have extra support. Or taking turns with who has the “big” job so that life feels more sane. Or minimizing after-school activities. You pick your battles. Of course you can’t pick your kids :)
One thing in general that frustrates me… so many moms I know are very happy to spend a lot of time places like this and FB complaining about how no one supports them, the system is a mess, etc etc. If you have all that time… then go do something! Run for office! Get involved! There’s all this shouting into the void that could be shouting at someone–you know, politely!