Weekend & Family Friday: Doodle Rolls
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This looks like a great idea for a kid who loves to color — plus it likely takes up a lot of time in the day over several days! I love that you can personalize it with a single name or up to three names — and if you use washable markers, you can wipe it down with water and reuse it.
The themes are adorable, and one of these would make such a cute decoration for a bedroom or playroom once finished. I think this would be a major win as a special gift, for the holidays, or as a treat.
The 4′ x 4′ size is $55 and the 4′ x 6′ is $65 at PaperdollStudio.ca. Doodle Rolls
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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- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
Anyone hitting the labor day weekend sales for kid stuff? I’m looking for new jammies and new shoes. Even with the sales at Carters, the Amazon version 3 pack sleep and plays are still cheaper. I’m trying to decide what to do for shoes. I know people love Stride rite, but I’m having decision paralysis. All summer we’ve lived in the native kids shoes that I bought from a friend after they didn’t work for her son. I think my kid has normal feet. Any specific recs? Can I just keep her in footed pajamas her whole life and not have to think about baby footwear?
Book rec, My Big Shouting Day by Rebecca Paterson. My son’s nursery teacher recorded a reading of this during lockdown and my son was obsessed. It must have sunk in because today he was a gremlin this am and when I asked him if he was feeling better he said “I just had a big shouty day, sorry Mama!” and gave me a cuddle!
Does Primary usually do a big sale sometime in the fall? I need to stock up on clothes for kiddo, but I’d like to wait if they normally have a sale.
What’s everyone doing about buying new coats and shoes for your kids? My kiddo is almost 5 and needs a fall jacket that will hopefully also be the carseat winter jacket. I really just want to take her to the store where she can try on several brands in multiple sizes and I can see what fits her well, what is too bulky for the car seat, etc. I just feel like ordering online/returning doesn’t work for this. I mean it could, but I want her to be able to try on 5-6 brands in multiple sizes. She is currently going to in-person pre-K everyday, but it ends at 2:15. I’m thinking about just taking her to the store right after school. I mean, this is an essential, right? She’s literally been in a store twice in the last six months. So we’re not taking this lightly. But I think this counts for an exception. And I kind of feel like as long as we’re out, I should get her feet measured to order some new shoes.
Please send good vibes my way. It has been one hell of a week. I gave birth to my second child, who had a very scary episode several hours after birth where he choked on amniotic fluid he had swallowed and started turning blue. It took a team of several nurses to help him clear it. He is doing fine now, but I’m still a bundle of nerves that it might happen again. Then, less than 36 hours after he was born, my beloved aunt lost her battle with cancer. She lived out of state, so I won’t even get to go to her funeral or be there for my mom (who lives in the same town as my aunt). I have a good support system, but I’m a bit of a wreck right now.
new nanny started this week. It’s the first time we’ve ever had one. On 3 of the 5 days there was some issue.
Day 1: “oh wait I forgot, I’m on vacation in Ohio and we aren’t returning until Tuesday”
Day 3: I have to have a cyst removed and stitches so I’ll be late today
Day 5: “I have a stomach bug. I can still come but wanted to let you know.”
I told her not to come. And now work is thrown into a tizzy. And the whole Ohio visit business is making me a little crazy. I found out about that after we hired her. Should I have made her quarantine after returning? I should have. But I didn’t because we needed care. We are in NJ and in a county that has very low infection rates. So now this makes me second guess my whole family’s labor day weekend plans. Should I stay away from my parents? Brother’s family? The beach where we planned to be on this lovely weekend? Does Covid manifest itself as a stomach bug ever? Ughhhhhh I hate this.
Parents of elementary-school kids: Where are you buying pajamas for your kids? I’ve always bought Carter’s, even for big kids, but I’ve noticed the fabric quality has gone downhill over the past few years. They become shapeless and faded in a hurry. I’m hoping to avoid Hanna prices but maybe that’s the way to go since they’re older and in the same sizes longer? They both wear a new pair almost every night … drives me bonkers, but I have given up on policing this battle.
I am starting back to work in a few weeks. I’ll be WFH with a full-time nanny. Because I’m WFH, rather than pumping we’re going to try having the nanny bring the baby to me for feedings. However, this means I need to block time on my calendar so nobody is trying to get me on video when I’m nursing – which means I need to put the baby on some kind of schedule. Right now, he eats about every three hours, starting from whenever he wakes up in the morning, but to make this work, I’m going to need to feed him at a set time every morning. He typically gets one night feeding although occasionally he sleeps through (he sleeps from 6-7.5 hours at a stretch, generally wakes between 3:30 and 5 for a feeding, and then goes back down for a few hours). Is it as simple as waking him to feed at 7 AM even if it’s only been a few hours since he last ate? Any other suggestions around how to get a previously-unscheduled baby on a schedule? He’ll be 14 weeks when I start working again.
(Note: I am senior enough that I generally have the ability to block my calendar/decline to be on video for meetings in order to facilitate this, and I will have a limited supply of pumped frozen milk and formula available for the nanny as well. Baby is primarily breastfed but gets a formula bottle before bed.)
Anyone have any resources (books, podcasts, websites, anything really) for becoming a more grateful person? I had the Covid sads pretty bad this spring and summer, which felt understandable to me given that I was trying to work without any childcare and dealing with sad, anxious kids 24/7. But now we’re back in daycare, DH and I can work without interruption, kids are socializing and thriving, and even though our lives are probably 85% normal (which I know is so much better than so many people) I’m still grieving that missing 15% (vacations, birthday parties, kids’ museums and indoor activities, etc) hard. I know it’s understandable to miss this stuff, but so many people are missing the big things I have now like childcare and I feel like I need to reset my mindset somehow to be more grateful for what I do have and not so focused on what I don’t have. Especially because I feel like it could be a really long time before all these little luxuries return.