Splurge or Save Thursday: Cashmere Trouser Sock
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Cashmere socks are the ultimate winter indulgence. Quince makes this luxury a little more accessible.
Made from 85% Grade-A Mongolian cashmere, these ribbed socks are both breathable and warm. The seven-gauge knit ensures a soft and cozy feel. Wear them all winter long with your favorite loafers or boots.
These cashmere socks are $29.90 and come in seven colors. They are available in XS/S and M/L.
Sales of note for 1/10:
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- 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
DD is in both girl scouts and cub scouts. Is it acceptable for her to bring her cookie order form to cub scout meetings and either ask families directly or discreetly to buy cookies?
I have a second grader who is 7.5 years old. She came home yesterday with some artwork – a rainbow that covered the entire page then wrote at the top “I hate everyone in this class and the other one.” I found it last night after she went to bed. She was her totally normal self yesterday fwiw.
This morning I was very non confrontational and tried to be as genuinely concerned for her as I could – asked if everything was ok. She said her friends were playing a game that she didn’t know (the game came from their common 1st grade classroom, which DD was not in last year) so she felt out. Said that when she finished the rainbow she wrote that on top. She said she was fine, and then I talked to her about what she can do if she’s feeling left out again, then I dropped it and she went on her happy little way.
Would this concern you for any reason? What more (or less?) would you do here? Let it go fully? We’re pretty close and she tells me a lot. I have no other red flags at all. She has plenty of friends, of play dates, is an otherwise totally typical kid. The post about lying caught my eye though because if she has one frustrating habit, she lies – more like really, really embellishes the truth, particularly when telling stories about playyard disagreements (I’ve had various means for confirming fact from fiction over the last roughly two years as this has presented). Maybe that has something to do with this. Maybe it doesn’t.
What did you wish you knew or did before your kid started kindergarten?
Does anyone have any favorite sleep away camps for a 12 yo girl? My tween has asked to go to a standard sleep in the woods camp this summer. She loves lots of outdoor activities (rock climbing, hiking, kayaking, caving, water activities) and doesn’t want a religious camp. We have a preference for VA, WV, PA, NC for easier logistics, but would consider other areas for the right camp.
She previously went to a girl scout sleep away camps and didn’t have a good experience, so we’re looking for another option. (The camp wasn’t well run.)
I need parenting advice! We are running into issues with 7.5 year old DD lying and stealing! She recently took a stuffie from a friend’s house claiming the friend gave it to her (we only found out bc DH went back to pick up a platter and thanked the kid for giving DD the stuffie noting how much she loved it). On Saturday I noticed her trying to steal some marbles from this house/museum we visited, but was unsuccessful in her attempt bc she realized she didn’t have pockets + i stopped her in the moment, we found 20+ candy wrappers hidden in the downstairs bathroom and then yesterday we discovered that two days ago she (without permission) ordered 4 toys/stuffies from Amazon using the Alexa! (DH just got all these new alexa devices in the house, why i do not know, but he has now disabled ordering from the Alexa) For the thing with the friend I wanted her to go back to return the stuffie and apologize in person but the friend’s schedule did not match ours so she wrote a note and we talked about it a lot. She has a lot of trouble taking responsibility and admitting that she actually did it and tries to place the blame on other ppl. I hope I’m not raising a future criminal! She is otherwise often the most thoughtful/sweetest kid.
(She is currently seeing a therapist and recently started meds for fairly significant anxiety and is borderline ADHD, i have consulted them on this as well and waiting to hear back)
Maybe it’s futile, but does anyone have for avoiding contracting illness from their kids? For context, I am probably a little bit immune compromised due to cancer treatment years ago.
I have a 3YO who is in school part time. I work from home 4 days a week and am in office one. My coworkers are very good about not coming to work sick because we are so flexible.
I’ve had so little recovery time that I’m becoming pretty incapacitated by each illness. Since December 1, I’ve had a sinus infection that turned into an ear infection, the flu, strep, hand foot and mouth and strep again. And before that, since the start of the school year, I had COVID, two sinus infections that turned into ear infections and likely HFM another time. I’ve been on antibiotics 4 times due to the strep/ear infections. My husband only got strep once and one sinus infection in this period.
I am also sometimes sick when my son/husband are not.
It’s definitely impacting my overall health – I’ve lost a ton of hair (derm could not find any other reason for hair loss) and also a lot of weight since my son started school a year and a half
ago.
Is this normal? Can I prevent any portion of this
I need a distraction from work and the national environment today. We’re thinking about buying a house in our very expensive area and while we we’ll have to compromise on a lot and it will be small, I’d love to make sure that it still has family-friendly attributes. My number 1 must is garage and 2 is central air. Wishes are really nice yard, mudroom or at least proper entry, and real sidewalks. What would you look for?
related/unrelated to the post below. I am supposed to go to Minneapolis next weekend (MLK) weekend for a bar mitzvah. from a religious perspective my friend said it is fine to arrive at their synagogue in an uber (for those who don’t know, some jewish people don’t drive/use electricity on the sabbath), but from an antisemitism perspective, is this safe? to have an uber or lyft driver take me to/from a synagogue?
How do I explain to my children that school is canceled because government officials shot and killed a woman point-blank and the city is bracing for unrest?
We’re already minding neighborhood kids for the next couple days (we wfh) and giving to local church food shelves. Not sure what else to do.