Washable Workwear Wednesday: Knee-Length Flared Skirt

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Washable Skirt: Eileen Fisher Knee-Length Flared Skirt Happy Wednesday! I know what you’re thinking: this skirt looks kind of sad. But I think it’s just the way it’s been styled here — it’s nearly sold out at Macy’s, Amazon, and Neiman Marcus (actually, hang on, it’s back in stock for preorder, and looks MUCH better with booties), and it’s been winning rave reviews everywhere else. The skirt is washable (Eileen Fisher is one of the stalwarts for washable workwear!) and at $118, it’s hard to go wrong. Nordstrom has it in two colors (black and olive), sizes XXS-XL. Eileen Fisher Knee-Length Flared Skirt Here’s a plus-size option from Eileen Fisher, also at Nordstrom. (L-5)

Sales of note for 9.10.24

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

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

And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interestworking mom questions asked by the commenters!

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Should I cancel my son’s birthday party? My son is turning 3 in a few weeks, and we had booked a pool party at his swim school for his party. Unfortunately the vast majority of the friends we’ve invited are out of town that weekend, and now it looks like only 3-4 kids will be able to come. It feels awkward and weird to have such a small party, and the friends who can come don’t know each other. Should we cancel and just do something else for our son? Or should we go ahead with the small party? He loves all the kids who are coming and probably won’t care, but it still feels awkward to me. WWYD?

My husband is a great, involved dad. He does a lot of kid pickups and is even taking a few days off over the summer to handle a little of the insane day camp transportation. When I travel for work, he handles everything. He doesn’t always like it, and sometimes he insists that he just can’t take time off when it would really help me out (even when he has no particular reason why he must be in the office), but generally he steps up when I need him to.

A couple weeks ago he stayed home when day camp was unexpectedly closed and I was out of town. Today he took the kid to the pediatrician and is working from home while she is home sick. I am in the office. I feel horribly guilty and also strangely envious of him, even though there is virtually nothing I enjoy less than working from home with a sick kid in the house. I feel like I am weakening my mom credentials by letting him do things that I really ought to be doing. Am I just nuts, or do other working moms with helpful husbands sometimes feel the same way?

More daycare drama/nightmare –

Background: Last spring my kid changed classes. A couple of weeks after she changed, her previous teacher was removed from the classroom and later terminated by the board of directors. Because we weren’t in that room anymore, we didn’t get any official communications from the center about it, but I did get an email from a parent extolling the virtues of the teacher and asking for the parents to send messages of support to the board. Some email discussion followed about how great people thought the teacher was. It seemed clear that no one knew what she was accused of.

Over the weekend, I found out that the teacher was removed after a parent witnessed her striking a child in a clearly abusive way. I heard the information from the parent who witnessed the incident, so I think it’s reliable. The parents of the child who was the victim were part of the email discussion supporting the teacher, which leads me to believe that, at least at the time that email was circulating, the Center had not told the parents about what the teacher did to their child.

I am obviously totally freaked out by this. My husband had to talk me down from immediately quitting my job to be a SAHM and never leave my child with anyone again EVER. What do you guys think? Does this sound like the Center handled things appropriately? Do I have standing to go to the director and tell her what I know and demand some answers? Would this make you distrust the whole center and all the teachers? This center has a good reputation, low teacher turnover, and no major citations from the State, so if we were to look for a new center, there wouldn’t be an obvious way to tell if it were any better.

I know this has been posted over and over, but my 6 month old started daycare this week and I’m struggling with it more than I thought I would. I miss her!

And she naps at home only in a quiet, dark, cool room with white noise, and she didn’t stay asleep at daycare more than 15 minutes at a time yesterday, and I’m afraid she’s going to be chronically sleep deprived for all of her early childhood.

For those of you with full-time nannies, what have you done for your nanny’s birthday? Kiddo is too young to make a project or card – she’s been with us for a little under a year so this question has not come up before…

This is embarrassing, but here it goes. Ever since I had my son, I stink. I never had an issue with BO until now. My son is almost two, and it’s still a problem. I have been done nursing for many months, and I was hoping the post-weaning hormone drop would help, but it hasn’t. I’ve tried every over-the-counter prescription strength deodorant/antiperspirants, but by lunch time, I always stink. I often re-apply halfway through the day, but that only helps so much. Is this at all normal after having a child? What should I do? See a doctor? If so, what type of doctor deals with something like this? Are actual prescription deodorants (rather than “prescription strength” any better?