Postpartum Tuesday: Drop Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier
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It’s sniffle season, and this humidifier will help your tiniest one deal with the inevitable congestion and discomfort.
We’ve owned several of these humidifiers (one for each kid, plus at least one that broke because a kid knocked it over) and bring them out as soon as the weather gets chilly. This well-reviewed humidifier has an easy to clean, detachable top water tank that can humidify up to a 500 square foot room. You can also adjust the mist output and (as I can personally attest), it’s really quiet. There are even a range of fun colors to choose from.
Crane’s Drop Ultrasonic Cool Mist Humidifier is available at Amazon.
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+
Thank you to the person who recommended OPI nail envy. That stuff saved my nails (and sanity). I’m now 6 months post HFM and still using it on one nail. But I didn’t have any nails totally fall off! Yay for the little wins :)
In the vein of the Pokemon, wtf is this batu? baku? thing my son keeps talking about? His bestie has one and he’s very jealous but I can’t even figure out what it is to put it on his Christmas list. Is it large? Is it small? Does it have batteries?
In return, my five year old’s newest joke:
How do you get Pikachu on the bus?
You poke-him-on!
Any recommendations for books similar to Llama Llama Red Pajama? I tried the others by the same author but they’re too short, unless I’m missing something.
Help me understand Pokemon. One of my daughters (6) keeps coming home with cards that another girl on her bus gives her.
According to another of my kids (9), kids on the bus give their unwanted or “fake” cards to the younger kids.
So now my 6 year old wants some cards, but idk what makes them unwanted or fake- and I don’t want to get the wrong ones. Some are plain cards and some are all gold (she loves these but they are apparently “not real cards”)
Neither of my kids know anything else about Pokémon. My 9 year old could care less but did clarify that 6 year old got them legitimately on the bus when I started to get suspicious.
I am laughing so hard about this because back in the late 90s my youngest sibling was sooooooo into Pokémon. I was 13 and DNGAF.
Should I purposely aggravate my knee before seeing the orthopedist? I have exercise-induced swelling a pain in my knee that resolves after a day or so but has been plaguing me for 5 months. I finally decided to see an orthopedist about it but because it only pops up after running or hiking, I don’t anticipate I’ll have any pain or swelling for my office visit this week. Should I intentionally aggravate it so that the doctor can see it inflamed?
Does anyone have experience with donor egg IVF? We are considering it, but it looks like it is fairly uncommon and we don’t know any families that have used it.
My Dad’s Cousin died yesterday. We were close with her – always at family events (not holidays but graduations, baptisms, and the like). We have friends coming for the weekend they are flying here. Husband’s friend from high school and his girlfriend. Not sure what the arrangements are but it will be a 2+ hour each way. We have a 6 year old and almost one year old. I’m thinking I would just go to the services by myself but not sure if that makes sense. Thoughts?
Has anyone done a Disney Alaska cruise? Our kids will be4 and 6 and I’m wondering if it’s the sort of trip that will be kid friendly but also interesting and relaxing for adults. Our best vacations so far have been beach trips where I don’t have to cook, clean, do laundry and there’s childcare in the form of kids club or grandparent. I have a lot of things I want to see in the world but it seems more hassle to try and take my kids on big hiking nature trips or European cities. Look forward to hearing everyone’s feedback
I need motivation at work. After 2.5 years of pandemic burnout, a transition to permanent WFH, chronic understaffing, and a tripling of workloads, I was finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel this summer as we got some competent new staff up to speed. Then a Huge Disaster happened on one of my projects. It was entirely beyond my control to prevent or fix, but I was 100% responsible for dealing with the fallout. It put all of my other projects behind and now I am being ordered to start up a new project where the Huge Disaster is sure to be repeated. My boss seems to be lining up her evidence to give me a bad performance review. I need to get my other projects back on track, but it’s so overwhelming. Every time I try to dig in I get a thousand e-mails about administrivia that totally derail me. I don’t have the bandwidth to give my staff the support they desperately need. Travel has started back up and I despise it in a way I never did before. I dread the meetings and events that used to get me fired up. Worst of all, the Huge Disaster and its fallout have damaged my professional relationships and credibility outside my organization in my small and specialized field, so it would be impossible to get a new job.
I finally got a nice home office setup, but it doesn’t help me focus the way I hoped it would. I’ve recently gotten pretty serious about an old hobby that was my undergraduate major, the kind of thing that could still be an actual career or at least a bunch of little freelance jobs if I really put in the work and didn’t care about insurance and retirement and paying for college and needing to be able to support the family on my own if my husband lost his job. All I want to do is work on the hobby, daydream about the hobby, and follow endless internet rabbit holes about the hobby. I spend all day staring at my e-mail trying to get something, anything done. How can I snap out of this funk and get my mojo back at work?
Counterpoint re: this humidifier – we have it, but I have learned that I have to dump out the water every morning and let it dry completely upsidedown (and clean with vinegar weekly) or it quickly develops the gross pink slimy mold.
Thanks for the reassuring anecdata about my breast lump on Friday. I had my ultrasound today and it’s a fluid filled cyst, so no need for biopsy or further follow up.
What do you do when your partner is a good father but a horrible husband? For eight years I dealt with his controlling and manipulative behavior, doing the majority of the housework (and cleaning up after him) and earning the majority of the household income, and barely got a say in anything from vacations to going out to dinner to furniture for our house. For years I put off having kids because I wasn’t sure I wanted to have kids with him, but I convinced myself the situation was temporary and things would be better once he finished a big contract at work, etc. Now we have a toddler. Through couples therapy DH realized he needs to step up or I’m out, so now he does the majority of childcare, waking DS in the morning and making his breakfast, and packing his lunch, to daycare drop off and pickup, to putting DS to bed. He is a good dad but we still have many of the same issues, and that plus the past trauma of our relationship makes me in a constant state of sadness and anger, so we are back in couples therapy. I think about divorce and whether it would make me happier, and what it would do to DS. At what point do you put your own happiness before your child’s?
Looking for recommendations for preschooler rainboots and socks. On rainboots, Crocs have been too narrow in the calf in the past and while I’d like something durable, I’d also prefer to not break the bank. Socks-wise, I’ve been a little disappointed in Old Navy’s sock quality and impressed with Carter’s (though Carter’s is now always out of stock in the size/colors I’m trying to get) and absolutely do not want to pay Primary prices.
A little over a week ago, my 3yo daughter tripped and bit the skin right below her bottom lip badly enough that she got a stitch. It is healing nicely, but what do you recommend that we put on it to prevent scaring?