Splurge or Save Thursday: e.l.f. 16HR Camo Concealer
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In this heat, I need a concealer that won’t melt off my face by lunchtime.
e.l.f.’s bargain-priced 16HR Camo Concealer has thousands of five-star reviews. This best-selling concealer provides up to 16 hours of full coverage. Apply this lightweight, matte product with the large doe-foot applicator to correct, contour, and highlight your skin.
This concealer is $7.00 and comes in nearly two dozen shades.
Sales of note for 7/11
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Designer clearance, up to 60% off!
- Ann Taylor – Semi-annual sale, 60% off sale and 40% off everything — readers love this blouse and I always love the variety of colors/textures for this jacket (it’s a great separate)
- Banana Republic Factory – Extra 50% off sale
- Brooks Brothers – Up to 40% off sitewide + 40% off 3+ items
- Express – Up to 75% off all markdowns; sale on sale, up to 70% off
- J.Crew Factory – 60% off clearance
- Lo & Sons – Summer sale, up to 50% off
- M.M.LaFleur – 25% off jardigans (Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off on other items)
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
DS is 6 years old and recently says that he’s still hungry after dinner. I suspect that his eyes are bigger than his stomach since “I’m still hungry” usually comes up when he sees DH eating something. Or he wants what I perceive to be a treat, like coconut water. I usually offer something like vegetables to test whether he’s truly hungry. I feel like DH typically gives in (disclaimers: he’ll give him actual food, not candy) What helps you distinguish between true hunger and wanting treats? DH feels like he doesn’t want to send him to bed hungry. I don’t think DS is truly hungry.
Hey all — updating on the camper situation, since I saw the ask for an update a few days ago.
Background – I was serving as “local parent” for two neighborhood kids who were attending camps with my children in a different state from where we live (working remotely from a local spot near the kids’ camp). Both neighborhood kids had an exceptionally hard time adjusting, and I was struggling with how to help the out of state parents gauge whether the kids should be brought home or not. At the end of the day, one kid made the full 3 week session, and one made it a few days. Kids were 11 and 13.
Biggest takeaways —
– Know thy child. If your child is really more of an indoor cat, who doesn’t like bugs or sleeping outdoors, and isn’t very physically active in their day to day life, don’t send them to a super rustic outdoor camp that requires a ton of physical activities. You will not change your child’s entire personality and preferences simply by having them go to camp. For the child who didn’t make the full session, they physically couldn’t do it, and it became a safety issue. For the kid who probably just would have preferred nicer facilities, they did an awesome job of pushing through discomfort, and turning the corner to really love the camp, but it took a TON of hands on support from me as the local parent.
– The drop off REALLY matters. If you spend the entire drop off saying how terrible the facilities are, or how much *you* couldn’t handle it, then your kid absorbs that, and at the first sign of adversity, will think “wow, this is terrible, I want to go home.”
– The pick up matters too. If your kid does get through the adversity, and makes the full session, be PROUD of them, and show up to support their accomplishment.
– From my perspective, be pretty picky about who you send your kid to camp with! It’s hard to bring a friend who really struggles with camp — both of my kids felt responsible for their friend from home (they’ve done this same camp for like 5 years now), and it really made it difficult to incorporate into the fun flow of camp. Both of my kids said it’s probably best to find a friend from camp to coordinate sessions with, so that you have a buddy who already loves camp, or just go solo, as most kids find friends right when they get to camp.
How do you guys handle (if at all) low-stakes sibling annoying behavior? I will give two examples, both from this morning (it was a long morning). The 8yo and 4yo share a room and can come downstairs when their Hatch turns green. Today the 8yo RAN down the stairs so he could be “first,” which he knows very well his sister hates, and she was upset. During our car ride to camp/daycare, the 4yo was already a little shaky because of a sunscreen snafu and then the 8yo started singing a song about how her lovey was going to get lost forever, and she again was sad. Other examples: a kid glaring or making scary faces at a sibling, a kid humming a song they know the other one hates, etc. All of these are, I think, very normal sibling behavior. They are also soooooo annoying to me. I am wildly inconsistent in how I react (if at all) depending on my current level of patience, which is not great! How do you all handle stuff like this? Whatever you do, it’s probably better than what I do, sigh.
can anyone explain concierge medical services to me? I’m in NYC and am so sick of trying to find a PCP.
How do you deal with the why stage? It really tends to grate on me after it’s been 20 minutes of going in a circle about one topic. After the 5 time I have to answer the same why question, I just want to scream. Is it just a matter of making it through, and knowing it will eventually end? It does eventually end, right?
(I don’t mind the why questions when they are on different topics. It’s when it’s the same two or three questions on repeat for a whole 20 minute dinner that bugs me)
For the past week or so, my 3 year old has been insisting both parents come do bedtime and lie down with her. This is totally new snd not what our routine has been. We have been obliging, but I am trying to think about it from a developmental perspective. Have any of your toddlers gone through something similar and how did you handle it? How long did it last?
Curious – do you feel “seen”/supported by mom internet messages like “we’re all just surviving out here” or “just try to make it through another day” and and the like? This seems so common as like, the motherhood baseline (constant struggle) and yet in my conversations with friends IRL, the vibe is more like “it’s usually fun and enjoyable, occasionally go into survival mode.”