Family Friday: Changing Color Rain Set
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Speaking from (ahem) personal experience, kids sometimes refuse to dress for the weather. If your kid is raincoat-averse, here’s a “magical” coat that might make them wish for rain.
This raincoat changes colors when it gets wet! A drizzle is enough to get a pretty floral pattern to magically appear. This coat also has an attached hood, zip front, and pockets (to keep treasures and little hands dry). It’s even part of a set that includes a pair of rain pants. And, Deux par Deux, a new-to-me-brand, is from Quebec, where they know challenging weather.
This Changing Color Rain Set is $106 to $115, depending on the size, at Maisonette. It’s available in sizes 18m to 8y.
Sales of note for 12.10
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty deals on skincare (ends 12/14) including La Mer, Kate Somerville, Dior, Sunday Riley, Dyson, and gift sets — the deals include reader favorite lip balms Dior Addict, NARS Afterglow, and Clinique’s Black Honey, as well as Too Faced mascara and Sunday Riley’s Good Genes.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, up to 50% off outerwear
- Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off all sale + extra 25% off 2+ items
- J.Crew – Up to 60% off everything, with 40% off their newest styles
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
- Macy’s – 15% off beauty, including Tarte, Clinique, Dior and gift sets
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Talbots – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
Are blackout curtains necessary for a nursery? I ordered Wirecutter’s top rec for blackout curtains which arrived today and they don’t seem that great. We have giant windows in the nursery, with transom windows (? not sure if this is the term, but square windows above our regular windows) so I don’t have a great way to add blinds that would cover the entire set of windows. Open to blackout curtain suggestions (need the length to be ~120″) OR if this will be no big deal, please tell me that too please (: Baby #1 due in 3 weeks
My 5 yo DD came home yesterday acting finicky which turned into a total meltdown that I sort of felt was coming. She has been showing regression signs for a few months but wasn’t willing to open up. I think she bottled up a lot of emotions and they all came tumbling out. She says her Kindergarten class is too noisy and loud. The boys are too rough, the sounds, activity, it’s a lot. She is my sensitive child- artistic, emotional, sweet, quiet, helpful. She says she loved her preschool class- (2 teachers to 10 students vs 1:20 in her public school Kindergarten). She says her teacher is angry all the time- we know her teacher quite well (she also lives on our street) and she does seem stressed out and tired from being a baseball mom to her 2 middle schoolers, and she also told me the kids behavior changed in covid and became increasingly difficult to manage- I feel for her because 20 kids is a LOT! Our school on the surface level is really great, and there is an incredible feeling of community, but I believe my DD might do better in a smaller school setting like a Montessori. Her brother on the other hand is in 1st grade fully concurred- yup she is right… it’s soooo loud and rough… and I LOVE it!!! But it crossed my mind, how to manage these divergent needs? Before the kids were in school, I thought I’d never split the kids into different schools, but now I’m seriously considering.
Recommendations for a beach vacation in the first 2-3 weeks of August (yes we are late to the game). Two parents and 2 kids who will be 18 months and 4 years old. I just want something with a nice beach, nice pool(s), good food, and that will be easy. Prepared to pay to get what I want (but would prefer not the utmost tippy top prices) – probably going for a week to 10 days. We wouldn’t usually do all inclusive (mostly because we aren’t big drinkers – hardly drink at all) but if that makes it easier or a better all around experience that’s fine. May be able to convince the grandparents to come but don’t know yet. Should we go to Beaches in Negril or something like that?
Headed to Ireland from the US with my two kiddos next month and renting a car to drive around the country. My oldest no longer requires a car seat but my youngest is 9 and about 65 lbs. She rides in a backless booster at home. We will be doing a fair amount of driving. What do folks do in this situation? Bring a backless booster (I have many). The info I have found online is less than helpful (car seats from US are not legal in EU but don’t rent a car seat either).
I woke up at 3am this morning to pee and thought, the name Laverne is never going to make a comeback, and Shirley probably isn’t either–not in the way that old timey names like Mabel and Stella and Beatrice are . . . Squiggy would be a cute nickname though! Why was I thinking about Laverne and Shirley at 3am?! I’ll never know, but please use this opportunity to throw out other names that will probably never make a comeback. Olga?!
Happy Friday!