Weekend & Family Friday: Eileen Denim Jacket
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Sales of note for 2/7:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
- J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off one item + free shipping on $150+
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
Thinking back to the “fitting” as a mom thread.
How old were you when you had your first kid and do you judge women that had their first kid significantly earlier or later than you did?
Most of my kid’s friends’ moms are about 7-11 years older than I am and at a recent birthday party for a kid turning 4, one joked that I was good with toys assembly because I was closer to the kids’ age. I’m in my late 20s, so that is objectively untrue.
Is it too late to do cute things your kids did this week? I’ll start.
When I picked up my 4 year old from school the other day, he said I looked like a police officer. I was wearing a cobalt button down blouse and black pants. Fair enough, I guess…
weird question and i know it’s a slow day so I hope I get responses….. this weekend we are going to a beach house where we intended to have my 3 year old sleep in a bed. At home he is still in a crib, but he’s 85% for height and I thought he’d be too big for the pack and play. I mentioned it this morning and he kind of freaked out and said ” I want to sleep in a crib!!”. Anybody know of an option other than PNP and a full size crib I should consider? He may just need to suck it up.
marine layer has great mens clothes. i get my tall/thin dh all his tshirts there in the “marge” size which fits him better than anything else we’ve (i’ve) found.. most of the womens clothes i find are designed for skinny young hipsters but i have a few shirts i like.
How do you help a toddler learn to walk safely near the street? She squirms, tries to walk into the road, etc. it’s very scary.
Sorry for a heavy-ish topic right before a holiday weekend, but can we talk about connecting with your spouse post-kids? I feel like a lot of the advice out there is about how not to fight and how to ensure your spouse is doing their share around the house and that’s not our issue. My husband and I are a great team in parenting. We bicker occasionally of course, but most of the time I feel like we are running everything smoothly and getting along great. The problem is that we don’t spend any time alone together and, I think more problematically, neither of us seems to particularly want to? For parents, we have a fair amount of free time (one toddler who goes to bed at 7 pm and still naps) but we spend most of it doing our own things. To be fair, we spent at least this much time on work and our separate hobbies pre-kid, but, simply by virtue of being a childless couple, we also spent a lot of time alone together too. We had dinner alone together pretty much every day, at least. Now we have family dinners, not dinners as a couple. The few times we’ve paid a babysitter so we could go out to dinner alone, we both just felt like it was a waste of money because we weren’t connecting on seem deep level and there was no reason our kiddo couldn’t have been there – in fact I think we both enjoy family meals a lot more than meals as just the two of us. That’s weird right? To prefer the company of a toddler to your spouse? I don’t really know what I’m asking, but I would love advice if anyone has been through this and successfully reconnected or can reassure me that it’s normal and just a phase.
My son has his first babysitter tonight (at nearly 2). Any tips? I was going to set out his PJs, sleepsack, white noise for bedtime, and get his dinner ready. We’ve met her briefly and she’s a nursery school teacher so I assume she can handle just about anything. But my husband is on a train and I’ll be on stage at an event so feeling slightly nervous about it.
Hoping he napped and is in good spirits today – he’s been at forest school with the big kids everyday this week and while he loves it, he only sleeps for the 15 minute drive home from the forest.