Accessory Tuesday: Cleo Flat
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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
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I have a similar pair if sketchers knit flats, and I think they are comfier than Rothy’s!
Anyone know of good companies for packing and moving state to state? Company will pay relo expenses and we will need to get car shipped as well.
Any experience or thoughts on Freemie vs. Medela? It’s time to order, according to the insurance gods. I had a Medela last two rounds (a long time ago), but it’s bit the dust, so my options are open.
I am at a conference and go home today and couldn’t be more excited to hug my kids (3 & 1). I am so impressed by those of you that travel a lot. This is my longest trip away (3 nights) and it’s been emotionally very hard on me.
I am in need of a mattress. I want to be able to order online, sleep on it, and return it easily if it does not work out. Has anyone had any success buying a mattress recently?
I’m struggling with 4 year old preschool. It’s a full day play-based program, but I still need before and after care because of the school hours. This means I never see the teachers who are with him most of the day. I assumed no news was good news (they don’t send daily sheets home like our daycare did, and from what I can tell there’s no clip down/ color rating/ etc behavioral system). I always ask him about his day and he tells lots of stories, and every so often they’ll include him not listening or having to apologize to a friend. I assume some are embellished or exaggerated, but figured I was getting close to the truth.
Today I had a later meeting so dropped him off at school and actually saw his teacher. She greeted him and said “let’s try not to go to the principal’s office today, okay?” I asked her about that and she said “Oh he had a pretty rough day yesterday, but today’s going to be a good one!” I had to pull away, but now I’m a little shocked. He didn’t mention anything like that last night. He had a story about some friends wrestling in line for snack, and another story about learning the letter D for dog and dad.
So now what? Do I email her and ask for more details? Trust that if I didn’t get a note home, it couldn’t be that bad? Now I worry I’m not getting the right answers from him, or I’m not getting a good picture of how he’s behaving at school. But if it’s not rising to the level of something he wants to talk about at night, do I consider it minor from his perspective and just part of learning? It feels wrong to ask him if he got in trouble every day and focus so hard on bad behavior. But should I do it anyway? Is there something I should be doing so I can help him have a better day? Something I should ask him to get a better sense of what he did each day? Or do I just leave this alone and trust it’ll work itself out?
Yes some of this is my internal issue – I’m used to the daily sheets and now I feel like I don’t know what’s happening. I never see the teachers and I’m realizing this will be the case for the next 14+ years. I totally get that. Trying to strike the right balance between concerned over-involved helicopter parent and uninvolved, frazzled working parent is so tough.
When calculating maternity leave/fmla, do you include holidays where the office is otherwise closed? From what I can tell our policy is silent on the issue.
I’ve been feeling pretty burned out lately and buckled last night and booked a Caribbean cruise for the week after Christmas. It was outrageously expensive because it’s a late booking for a holiday week, but last year I hated that week. Both kids were home from school and restless. The weather was lousy. And all of our friends were out of town. So this year we’ll be out of town too.
Any advice for a first time family cruise? The kids are 6 and 3 (fully potty trained). Did your kids like the kids club or did they resist? Did it feel like a cattle call? Any super successful strategies to make it fun?
We’re moving to another city in a couple months and for some reason I thought finding childcare would be easier than it is here in our VHCOL city. But finding spots for both an infant and toddler is proving really hard. And we’re coming from a place we LOVE. There’s an opening at a place that h & i both weren’t very comfortable with – esp the infant room. Trying to decide if we should just pay the deposit to have something lined up? Ughhh. So hard bc we seriously love our current daycare. ?
DD woke up this morning with a streaming nose and at daycare drop-off her teachers confirmed there’s a cold going around the classroom. We’re supposed to fly Friday and so far every cold she’s gotten has turned into an ear infection on day 3-4, so exactly when we’re supposed to be flying. Flying with an ear infection is supposed to be really painful, right? What would you do? Take her to the ped preemptively right before the trip? Cancel the trip? If it was a vacation I’d be inclined to just cancel and eat the sunk costs but it’s to see my husband’s sister and I know he’ll want to reschedule, at significant additional cost (I’d be fine with him going alone but he doesn’t want to do that because the purpose of the trip is for his sister to see our kiddo).
Any stories of potty-training without a “method”? Everyone I know has done one of the crash course “a fairy stole your diapers and now you have to use the potty” or the “Oh Crap” method type things, and I can guarantee that would not work with my child. I’ve been super worried about potty training because he’s so stubborn, but recently we switched to pull-ups, and he will occasionally use the potty. Apparently yesterday at school he actually asked to use it twice. He says “no” a lot when we ask if he wants to use it, and asks for a diaper instead of underwear. But he is proud when he does use it and occasionally says yes.
Am I just prolonging this by going so gradually, or can that actually work? Surely people did something like that in the olden days, or we wouldn’t have pull ups, right?
I recently thawed out my frozen eggs (frozen when I was 35) and my hopeful transfer is set for tomorrow. I went from 19 eggs down to 7 day 3 embryos, so i’m hoping at least a few make it to day 5 or day 6. Would appreciate any and all good vibes! This process is nerve-wracking.