Family Friday: Dinosaur Sticker Book
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My kids love stickers, but my walls and furniture do not.
My youngest just got a book of these Eyelike stickers for his birthday. This sticker book has 400 dinosaur stickers (they make other nature collections as well) that stick just like regular stickers, but peel off without sticky residue.
In my experience, you have to be super careful peeling them up if you want to reuse them (they rip easily), but since there’s 400, there’s enough to go around.
This sticker book is $6.59 at Target.
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+
Maybe I’m too late in the day but- anyone know of reasonably priced elastic waist/drawstring kids chinos that come in slim? My kid with sensory issues has evidently grown in height without a correlated gain in weight and his 8s are comically too short but also way looser on him in the waist than they used to be (??? He has gained weight just not as much as height??). So not only are the 8s too loose having pulled the drawstring allllll the way tight, the 10s I had stockpiled are just not gonna work. We’ve been using Target drawstring chinos, which have a reinforced knee. Website suggests they sometimes have slim but nothing in stock. Trying to compare across brands is going to take forever – looking at children’s place, carters, primary, but I’m so overwhelmed! Any ideas?
Venting into the void. Before DS started K, we had him go to private OT all summer. I went in on day 1 with a letter from his OT explaining his motor planning/auditory processing and tips for helping him. Fast forward, and the school OT has just “observed” him twice with no further follow up with us, and now we are getting increasingly negative emails about DS’s behavior from the teacher. What’s frustrating is both the “I don’t know what could contribute to his behavior” comments (MAYBE the problems I told you from Day 1 that happen when he gets overwhelmed?!) and referring to him as “not caring.” He’s five years old, he obviously cares and wants to please, even if he is acting out in negative ways. DH was hesitant before about me pushing OT or starting the ball on figuring out if we need an ADHD diagnosis/504 plan, etc., but now he is seeing that my son is getting labeled regardless so we might as well be able to have accommodations in place. The teacher seems nice but she’s writing notes about things like DS using a colored pencil instead of a lead pencil…….like, you really want me to yell at my struggling 5yo over this level of detail in instructions? DH was very similar- he was awful with any rules he didn’t understand the purpose of. I fear 13 years of battles at this rate, and it feels so horrible. He really did well last year in preschool with a teacher that was flexible and used humor, so it makes me even more sad for my kiddo.
If you put more money than you need in a dependent card FSA and don’t use all of it, the remaining money is just gone, right? Or is this employer-dependent?
Happy Friday! Paging lawyer moms who work in law firms. I am curious how many hours a day do you bill and spend at work. I work for a small firm and I am having a hard time billing more than 6 hours day. I’m basically in the office 8.30 to 5. I sometimes take a lunch break to run errands but otherwise eat at my desk. I often find it hard to focus and check my phone, news etc. there haven’t been any complaints about my billable but now I am going through a busy period and I need to buckle up. So I wonder if there is something wrong with me for not being able to focus more or maybe it’s normal. I admire all lawyers who are able to work 10 hour days and be good parents when they get home!
I missed the mother in law conversation yesterday, but just wanted to chime in with a recent WTF. My mother in law made a purposeful visit to “stop by” in the middle of a neighborhood event we were attending with friends so she could drop off photos she had printed. It was just ten grainy photos of her with our kid. Reader, I have not framed said photos.
Recommendations for a backpack with wheels for a 2nd grader? I’ve never bought that kind of backpack and I’m imagining it will be hard to find one that will last.
How are you all updating for autumn?
I have recently got back into Madewell jeans and splurged on an APC sweater. Will probably buy a tote this weekend to replace my worn-out bag.
Also, trying to get better about moisturizing my skin regularly. Got the Revlon one-step hair dry brush, hope it helps control my hair. Really liking liquid lip color, as I need more coverage than my usual tinted lip balm these days.
I’m the poster from earlier this week whose husband wanted to leave open the possibility of having a child with another woman given the state of our marriage. I haven’t been able to respond given a lot of work meetings this week, but I think our marriage is making progress. My talk with DH last Sunday about being nicer to me and listening seems to have resonated.
One poster talked about her DH not adjusting well to fatherhood and I think that’s the case here. DH always wanted to be a dad and before DD was born talked about being a SAHD. He’s finding it much harder in reality, plus he has some health issues which make some things harder for him than for me. Overall he’s a very involved dad and there’s no way I could keep my demanding job without his support, but I think he needs to talk through his dad insecurities and adjust to this new phase of his life. I think we can get there but am always pragmatic about going it alone if I have to.
We got this book for a recent flight and it does have a ton of stickers, BUT only 2 pages to put them on so you run out of space very quickly