Accessory Tuesday: Croissant Charm
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Want to recreate your childhood charm bracelet, but all grown up?
GLDN has so many charms to choose from, including this cute croissant. This dainty, made-to-order charm comes in gold vermeil, sterling silver, and 10k gold. Wear it as a pendant, as an accent on hoops, or on a charm bracelet. Add a few more charms to showcase your personality.
GLDN’s croissant charm starts at $40 for sterling silver.
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My baby is starting daycare next week. I know from reading here that monetary gifts at the holidays to daycare workers are welcome/expected. Am I supposed to bring them something on the baby’s first day?
Question: Would you name your kid the same name (first and last) of someone you know but don’t see regularly? My husband and our kids have a common Irish last name. We live outside of Boston so Irish last names are common. Our naming style is pretty classic … which means there’s a lot of overlap with Catholic names. So, let’s say the last name is Reilly and we love the name Maggie (short for Margaret).
My mom’s best friend’s daughter’s name is Maggie Reilly. I see Maggie’s parents probably every other month and run into Maggie maybe 1-3x a year. Growing up I was very close with Maggie’s sister who is my age (Maggie is about 5 years younger), but haven’t stayed friends with Maggie or her sister.
The agreement was that our kids will have my husband’s last names and we’ll use first/middle names from my side of the family, so using my last name isn’t an option. Funnily enough though, Maggie isn’t a family name… we just like it. But, our other kid has a family first and middle and the middle name here would also be from my side of the family.
What values are you trying to teach your kid that are weird and way outside current USA (or western) norms? And how do you push back against the messages they receive elsewhere?
Asking because my kid received a themed character shirt for his birthday. He knows I prefer other characters for reasons, but I have not said anything about this gift. Of course he wanted to wear it to school and got a ton of compliments about how cool it is.
idk what i’m seeking – commiseration, support, advice…DD who is nearing age 8 can be the sweetest kid (she is incredibly thoughtful, yesterday at art class made a picture titled ‘1 in a Million,’ dedicated to my mom who is 1 in a million) and generally will say very kind things to people…but she also struggles with anxiety and adhd tendencies. Last night she said to me, “i don’t want to be ashamed of myself, but i feel like i have to be.” she said that her classmates think she is gross and weird. (she has some bad habits/sensory seeking stuff that is kind of gross, like picking the skin on her hands, sometimes picking her nose, blowing bubbles with her saliva, but she is very self-aware in the sense that she acknowledges that she feels like her body is making her do those things). she told me that girl A in her class told girl B that everyone should hate her (not sure i believe this is true, though obviously i didnt tell her that), and that she doesn’t know what to say when people call her ‘silly’ or ‘weird.’ we are working with therapists/psychiatrists, but i’d like to help her figure out what to say back to kids when they say something mean to her.
My mother recently gave my daughter her charm bracelet from when she was growing up. Her parents drove the family all over the country visiting kitschy tourist spots, and my mother collected a charm at each one. Sadly the silver is tarnished, but it is still fun to look at the charms and imagine my mother as a child getting out of the car with my grandparents in the middle of the desert or wherever at each of these wacky places.
One of my very favorite christmas SNL skits is about the pandora charms, if anyone needs a laugh. “Pandora charms say the things you want to tell her the most. Like, ‘I know what job you have, and that job is nurse.’ Or ‘You like drinking.’ Or ‘This is a dog.’ And once you’ve bought a Pandora bracelet, you can get her one of these $60 whatevers for every birthday, Mother’s Day and anniversary for the rest of her natural life.”
Starting putting together a packing list for our trip which includes an 11 hour flight each way (plus a short flight to the hub) and I’m starting to get a bit nervous about the flight. Kid is 8, great traveller, but we’ve not done a long flight since he was a toddler. I’ll download audioboks, and I’m assuming BA in flight entertainment is decent. But he is not a great sleeper on the go. East to West, so it’ll be daytime en route out.
I feel like there were some lodging recommendations for Big Sky, Montana at some point but search is failing. We would go for skiing, but some other family members who don’t ski might also be interested in joining so I’m open to looking at a variety of places. They would probably get their own lodging not on the slopes but we would want to be close for meet ups. I’ll take any and all recommendations! Also thoughts on whether it would be too much of a zoo during presidents week?