Accessory Tuesday: Diamond Tiniest Alphabet Ring
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I love jewelry with my or my kids’ initials. This delicate alphabet ring would be a great addition to my collection.
Made of recycled 14k yellow gold and recycled round brilliant-cut white diamonds, these tiny rings are meant for stacking. Add one to the rings you already wear or buy more than one so you can stack additional letters.
Catbird Jewelry’s Diamond Tiniest Alphabet Ring is $238.
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For those who have a lot of experience sending your kids to cruise or resort kids clubs, how much do they use screens? We just did a Disney cruise and used kids clubs for the first time. My 7 year old was happy to go, and the staff seemed really nice but I was kind of shocked by how much they used screens. There were giant screens playing movies pretty much all the time, and lots of times there were also iPads out for the kids to play with (not with unfettered internet access). The few organized screen free things like crafts were mostly during open house hours, which meant parents had to stay and sort of defeats the purpose of the kids club. We’re not a minimal screen time family and use it pretty liberally, but I feel like for Disney prices the kids club should be a little bit more interactive – my kid could sit in our stateroom and watch movies for free. But am I way off base there?
I’d like to buy a book as a guest sign in for a sprinkle I’m cohosting this weekend. Problem is, it’s a sprinkle, so the mom to be definitely has the classics already. Any ideas for a good picture book in this scenario?
Did anyone get a baby book to collect pictures, thoughts, I’m not sure what else goes in there, maybe cards? Announcements? Any favorites? I’m looking at the one from artifact uprising but curious if anyone has any other ideas. Thanks!
Any suggestion on how to help a particularly sentimental kid transition from a kid room to more of a teen room, especially when said teen is grumpy on the weekends and not up for all at once big change? My kids’ bedrooms are not that large. We moved into the house in 2019, when my kids were entering 1st and 3rd grades. Now they are in 6th and 8th. My youngest and I repainted her room last summer, moved out a bunch of stuff, and updated her artwork. It is now an ode to Taylor Swift, with a side of Stitch thrown in. It is functional for her at this point. My oldest is more sentimental and doesn’t like change. He is more of a packrat. The problem is that his room is not functional, at his own admission. He has so much stuff in his space, from legos, to taken apart electronics, to an old rock collection. He has homework in the evening and “just wants to relax” over the weekend when he isn’t with his friends. We need to get rid of a bunch of stuff to make the space functional, but he has a memory attached to everything. Any suggestions that have worked, especially for the middle school age?
Hi – I posted yesterday about dealing with my 4 year old’s “big” (for me) reactions. One night in, I already felt so much better, thank you all. Like it was time to go for a walk, and he did not want to, was crying/avoiding sitting to get his shoes on, and I sat him down, acknowledged his feelings AND what was next, put his shoes on, and carried him out. By the time we got to our front yard, he was fine and ready to walk. It was probably 5-7 painful (for me) minutes, but we made it through!
So we got my kid’s recent assessment from preschool. He’s progressing well overall, the only place where we didn’t see progress from his initial assessment in the fall is 1) Handling his own emotions; 2) Resolving conflict with friends.
A few months ago…I would have tried to make a PLAN around this. Now I’m kind of like…maybe time is the answer here, and some continued guidance at home. Thoughts? Age-wise, he turned 4 at the end of 2024.
My 8 year old daughter is obsessed with baseball- she wants to check the spring training scores every morning and evening and watch all the highlights. She also likes to ask for score updates throughout the day if she knows our MLB team is playing mid-day, for example. We’re pretty low screen use, so I hate just handing her my phone or the ipad for this, but I also don’t want to squash her interest. Thoughts on navigating?
Send good vibes pls. Me and the kids have norovirus. 4 year old started vomiting Sunday overnight. Then I started vomiting Monday evening. Then 2 year old started vomiting a few hrs later. The vomiting is so severe it’s almost comical. I’m considering just throwing away the blankets because I have zero energy to wash everything.
The icing on top? We are staging our house early next week to list for sale by the end of next week. Oh and my husband is traveling Wed-Sat.
What time do you arrive at work and when do you leave for the day?
Context is that I’m incredibly frustrated with our family’s schedule right now. I have a flexible job (academia) and it feels like as a result I’m constantly cutting corners because, aside from class, I technically have the ability to cover most things. But I also have things I need to do that I can’t seem to get done because, well, there’s never any time. I am becoming resentful and tired and worn out.
I think I need to find a way to carve out more of the day to be *at* work and try to enforce that as much as I can. But it’s so dang hard (we have 3 kids, oldest in K, and no local family help). My husband tries, but I’m still feeling completely used up right now.
pet peeve of the day. if a bday party invite says something along the lines of that due to space limitations, we cannot accommodate unnamed siblings…please don’t RSVP for your kid’s brother who wasn’t also invited.
My 7 year old daughter has a persistent rats nest in the middle of the back of her head. Her hair is barely wavy, generally straight. It doesn’t matter if we wash it, brush it, braid it…. in about 3 seconds flat after the braid is let out, or the hair is dry, and for certain every morning after she wakes up, boom – it’s back. Her hair is shoulder length and not particularly unruly. She honestly does a decent job of trying to maintain and brush herself but, man, am I at a loss.
What product am I not using but should be? We use Paul Mitchell’s detangler spray which works well to help get it out, but it takes some serious effort. Is this a job for leave in conditioner? Something else? Any specific recs?
I feel like my hot take is that I have zero interest in having anything with my kids’ initials or names or birthstones. It feels a little too “mommy martyr” to me.