Splurge or Save Thursday: Diana Double-Breasted Checked Tweed Blazer
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I can’t have enough tweed blazers. Here’s a splurge-worthy one I’d wear on repeat from now through fall.
This blazer marries sharp tailoring with a slightly loose fit. The neutral weave means you can pair it with jeans, black trousers, and nearly anything in between. And, unlike most luxe blazers, you can hand wash this one at home.
Annie Bing’s Tweed Blazer is $790 at NET-A-PORTER. It comes in sizes XXS–XL.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
I’m not someone who minds mid-day school events (I WFH right near the school and can easily duck out for an hour), but I do find it extremely irritating when the teacher announces to the kids (with no advance notice to the parents) that parents can take them home for the rest of the day…after an event that concluded at 1 pm. And of course all the kids want to go home, and the ones who have to stay at school are sobbing and it’s terrible. God bless my kid’s friend’s mom who had taken a half day of PTO and took my kid for the afternoon.
For families with Yoto players: do your kids each have one or do they share? My boys (3 and 1) love the Yoto player that we have, and obviously fight over it ALL THE TIME (baby wants to listen to wheels on the bus, toddler wants to listen to Daniel tiger; you know the deal). But I’m wondering if I buy one for the younger one, they will still fight eachother and it’s not a Yoto player issue…
Moms with high sleep needs kids, what did you do to get your kid to wake up earlier for an earlier school start time? We currently have a soon to be 5 year old who would happily sleep* from 7:30 pm to 8:00 am each day, but we have to get him to daycare by 9:00/leave by 8:45, and with how long it takes him to do anything, the latest we can get him up is 7:30. Starting in August, we will have to get him to kindergarten by 8:15, and will have to leave by 7:40 to get there. DH and I are absolutely dreading this transition.
Seeking tips and advice now so we can start planning how we’re going to handle this. Thank you!
* by sleep, I mean my son is actually asleep this entire time. He is in his bed. He does not get out of his bed. Per the video monitor, he also doesn’t really move much at all in his sleep. (I learned recently from local mom friends when I posed this question to them that “sleep” means they’re just in their room by could be playing in their room, and not necessarily sleeping, so wanted to clarify.)
I have three kiddos 1, 3.5, and 5.5. We live in a pretty walkable area and are looking for transport options. The 5 year old has been using a scooter but often asks to rise in the stroller after awhile. He’s just over the weight limit for our Double Bob. Is there a wagon that would work for all three, or so I just need to accept that we’ve outgrown all stroller type options?
Our daycare is hosting a teacher appreciation event, sponsored by the parents. We are moving in a month and leaving the daycare at that time. Should we contribute now or sit this out but give individual gifts to the teachers when we leave? We were initially planning to do roughly half our usual holiday gift when we left in a month, but probably not in a position to do both.
Genuinely curious about WWYD? My small team wants to grab dinner one week day for fun. I’m pretty neutral about the idea in general (I like my colleagues just fine, this truly just socialization, there would be absolutely no career harm if I bow out) but logistically it’s a big ask on my husband.
We have a 2.5 year old and (very mobile) 9 month old and 2 stressful 7:30 – 5 jobs without evening hours. The dinner to bedtime period in our house is just stressful right now, even with 2 parents. My husband can undoubtedly take care of it, but understandably isn’t thrilled with the idea (and the same would be true if the situation was reversed).
I’d feel stronger if it was an event I actively wanted to go to (like out with friends) or made more sense from a career perspective. Go or no go?
ps- typing this out the bigger issue is probably it feels like we’re stuck in baby jail at the moment and we need to come up with better systems and hire babysitters etc so we can have non-work non-kids lives.
CW: pregnancy complications
It’s looking very likely in developing preeclampsia and the doctor may put me on bedrest or hospital monitoring for weeks or months. We have a high energy 2yo and only 40hrs a week of daycare. How on earth do we deal with this on the home front? No local family. My mom is great with kiddo and loves long visits, but she has a job. MIL is retired but diametrically opposed to me on every parenting issue (and secretly hates kids).
I have an almost 8 year old and a 4 1/2 year old. The 8 year old has about $40 in savings from grandparents and various things. The 4 yo has about $10 from the same stuff (just less time to accumulate savings). I had the idea that when we go to the pool this summer, I’d ask 8 yo to buy his own snacks (not like lunch or drinks, but treats like ice cream). He was excited about this idea and I think its a good way to teach saving, spending, etc. Problem is 4 yo will want all the same treats, but doesn’t have the same amount of money to spend and probably can’t/won’t do enough chores (optional for money, not regular chores) to save up equally. Thoughts on how to approach this? It doesn’t seem fair to buy 4 yo’s stuff but not 8 yo. At the same time, I don’t want to miss the opportunity to teach 8 yo about money management.
My 8 year old is asking more questions about where babies come from, so I bought a copy of Its so Amazing to read with her. My question is, how do I approach this? Break it into chapters to read every night? Let her read it on her own and set aside time to talk about it? Give her on overview before reading it together? Read it together with her dad/my husband, too? Any advice appreciated! She’s my oldest and my parents did not talk to me about it at all!
Novel ahead. I posted last summer about considering guardianship options for our child (I can’t find the original post on this site, either by the terms I used or the date, so bear with me – the search doesn’t work and the post is indexed to the wrong date). I was the one who asked about choosing my cousin “Susie,” cousin “Bonnie,” or brother “Joe.” Unfortunately, we lost that pregnancy and the question got put off, but I am pregnant again, the question is coming up again, and I’m struggling with the decision still. My husband is also undecided. Quick refresher on the options:
Susie: my cousin and very best friend, mother of 2, married to an awful deadbeat husband “Tom” who has gotten worse since last summer, some money problems but an inheritance in the wings, lives in the worst of the worst of the red states. I’m most concerned about Tom – there is definitely some undiagnosed pathology there and he was also against having a second kid for themselves (he got a vasectomy two weeks after the baby was born when normally he’s slow as molasses to do anything). I have no concern that he would be violent, but I think he would be cold and surly whenever he’s asked to help with our child and would NOT model an equal partnership or a loving household – to a level that actually makes me a little sick. I would pick Susie if not for his existence so my child could grow up with her love and with cousins. The only other thing that worries me about Susie is struggling with anxiety and PPD, especially about parenting. It feels like the “stable core” of their household is threatened, and to a greater degree than when I last spoke and when the consensus here said to choose her. Their household is unhappy.
Bonnie: Susie’s sister, my second best friend, married to a man who can be a tad annoying but is overall a good person, childfree by choice, financially stable, lives in a nice blue state two states away from us. She has specifically told me that she would be glad to serve as a guardian and “we would rearrange our lives to make it happen.” I still have reservations because I’d like for someone who doesn’t want kids to be able to live that life, but she is a loving person who I KNOW would do all she can to serve our child (and if it matters, she’s not a “never kids” person – she’s said they’re pretty sure they’ll choose to stay childfree). I was previously more concerned about some lifestyle aspects, but those have paled lately.
Joe: my brother, lives several hundred miles away in the same state, 8 years younger than me (and not yet 30), a good person. I’m still not sure if he wants kids, but he’s in a stable relationship that he told me was “on the marriage track.” No way to know if that will still be stable in the future. We’re not as close as I am to Susie and Bonnie, but he’s a good person and I think could do a good job. There are certain aspects of his life, like being really organized and planning great vacations, that would bring a good quality of life to a kid.
My husband’s family is all abroad and he doesn’t have any close-enough friends to consider for this role – it’s really down to Susie, Bonnie, and Joe. My biggest concern right now is Susie’s husband, Tom. I’m concerned with how awful he has become and how he has very much NOT stepped up to the plate after their own second kid. I think he makes Susie’s anxiety and PPD a lot worse and that he really models behavior that I don’t want for my kid – think silent treatment and sulking often. Susie has indicated that she does not want to get divorced because she doesn’t want to be separated from her kids or cause them any harm. She says Tom doesn’t want one either.
I think I’m now leaning towards Bonnie and approaching my husband for the next round of talks with her as my first choice – thoughts? I feel like when I’ve written it out, it seems clear, but I honestly can’t tell if I’m “overreacting” on how much Tom is a problem.
DS is almost 4 and has never had fruit juice. Is there a benefit to giving him juice? It seems to me like the cons outweigh the pros on juice, but every kid I know drinks juice so I may be wrong. He doesn’t eat fruits or vegetables so would juice be a way to introduce him to those flavors? He drinks water and milk and usually stays pretty hydrated. Don’t want to give up milk because he drinks whole milk still and he is a picky eater so it is a good source of calories.
How are you handling long flights with newly potty trained kids? I sort of assumed I’d use an overnight diaper just for the plane ride, but now that the trip is coming up I’m worried doing that will set us back on all the progress we’ve made with training. Should we just try to take him to the bathroom as frequently as we can and bring lots of changes of clothes?