Maternity Monday: Elastic-Waist Maxi Skirt
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An easy pull-on skirt you can wear for work, weekend, and everything in between?
This maternity maxi skirt from 24Seven Comfort is made from a soft jersey fabric with an elastic waistband that accommodates your changing body. It’s available in seven go-with-anything colors, so you can wear it nearly every day.
For the office, just add a classic shell and jacket. For the weekend, pull out your favorite tee and sneakers.
This skirt is on sale for $59.19 (marked down from $73.99) at Kohl’s.
Sales of note for 4/24/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 7,710 new markdowns for women!
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including 100s of new arrivals
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Spring Clearance: Up to 75% off + extra 50-60% off sale
- J.Crew – Mid-Season Sale: Up to 60% off sale styles + up to 50% off summer-ready styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100 + extra 20% off $125
- M.M.LaFleur – 3 pieces for $198. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Friends & Family Event: 30% off entire purchase, includes markdowns
Any app suggestions that help kids learn to read? No i don’t expect an iPad to teach my kids to read but we have a long trip coming up and my recently 5 twins realized some of their friends can read and expressed interest
You guys have been so great when I’ve posted about party ideas in the past. My daughter is turning 7 soon and wants a backyard party (ugh). She wants a rented bounce house/water slide, and we already have a foam machine thing from COVID and a giant unicorn sprinkler. We also have a popcorn maker and a snow cone maker and my oldest kid has been lobbying hard for a cotton candy machine (target has one). I also have some 10/11 year old girls at my disposal to help run things if needed. I’m thinking of making the party either carnival or field day/Olympic themed.
I posted earlier this year about a valentine’s party for this same group of girls and we had so much fun! The key to success was lots and lots of activities because they (my kid especially) have short attention spans and a propensity to scream and run when bored :).
I’m thinking an hour and a half or two hours, maybe 2-4? I think we may invite 20 girls and yield 10ish due to it being a summer weekend.
2-2:45: arrive, play in bounce house/water slide and foam pit, have popcorn, fruit and drinks available
2:45-3:15: 30 minutes of active games. Could use help on these. 3 legged races, wheelbarrow races, a relay of some kind?, obstacle course (we have all kinds of stuff we could do), tug of war (?), water balloon toss, maybe eat a donut off a string? Pass the parcel?
3:15-3:30- cake
3:30-4- more playhouse/foam/whatever.
questions: 1) ideas for other activities/games? 2) do I do individual prizes for the winners? Sort kids into teams when they arrive and have them compete at the team level? have a prize table where everyone ends up getting to pick a prize as their favor? 3) what do i do if it rains? We have a house that could handle kids but…I don’t want to ;) 4) how many kid is too many? She’s the youngest in her class so has already been invited to tons of b’day parties. She also has summer camp friends and pool/neighborhood friends, all of which are in and out all summer long so I’m not sure who is available.
Any favorite products for postpartum baby hairs? I had terrible breakage and flyaways before getting pregnant and now I look like I got electrocuted.
I just found out I was pregnant a couple weeks ago, and am currently just over 5 weeks. Any tips for not driving myself crazy worrying about loss in the first trimester? I have PCOS, so am slightly higher risk. My first doctors appointment isn’t until the end of July. Waiting is the worst.
Had a frustrating weekend with my husband that makes me think we need to sit down and hash out our parenting plan.
Daughter is hitting the fun 2 year old stage, which is both truly delightful and understandably a lot more work/frustration. Husband made a couple of comments this weekend about “I just can’t say no to her” and how he allows/plans to allow unlimited screens/juice/snacks when he’s solo parenting her.
Dude, not cool, especially when this is against things you’ve said in the past. I’m a little dumbfounded why my normally incredibly responsible husband suddenly thinks it’s okay to treat parenting like babysitting. Arrrrgh.
My husband and I are spending way too much time on kid meals – what are your best tips for streamlining? We have a 5 and 2 year old and both need lunch plus 2 snacks sent. (Would happily buy meals but that’s not an option in their camps/care this summer).
I’m having a bit of parenting FOMO today. In my state, it’s state baseball tournament season. Seeing all these social posts about how everybody loves their teammates SO MUCH and has built a community with the other parents is making me a bit wistful. We have never experienced that with kids’ activities, ever. And my son, at least, has never been drawn to team sports so that was just not going to be his/our path. And most of the time, that is just fine. We’re all kind of homebodies and like the freedom to do our own thing. And yet! Part of me wonders if we’re all missing out on this major experience that so many other families seem to be having. The built-in community part seems great (until it’s not, there’s plenty of drama to go around, too, from what I’ve seen). IDK. I would sound insane if I said this out loud so I’m bringing it to my favorite internet moms. ;)
We’re traveling through Seattle for a cruise – me, my husband, and 2 kids, 8 & 10, and will have an afternoon/evening, morning, and almost a full day coming back through. Where we’re staying looks to be an easy walk to the Market or the Space Needle. What should we do while we’re there? Suggestions on what to eat for dinner and breakfast? Looking for interesting/can’t get at home stuff, but not too pricy or complicated.
So my 10 year old is visiting her grandparents this month. She is having such a blast (seriously, they go ride horses every weekend, go to waterparks, arcades, etc – they are spoiling her to death!). We miss her a ton and she hasn’t been great with the phone. Is this a thing with 10 year olds?
It is making me sad and think a lot about how things will be when she (and my younger one, a boy, which is not making me think he will be better about staying in touch) leave for college. What if they don’t call much/stays in touch? I feel like we have built our lives around these kids and it seems so hard to think that in less than a decade they will be leaving to live their own life and who knows what part we will get to play in it. I guess at least it reminds me to be sure to continue to have a life outside my kids/not quit my career on all the days it feels like a lot!
There was a somewhat hotly debated topic in my town’s parents FB group recently – a topic we’ve talked about here too (and I’m sure has been debated since red shirting became a thing). The parent was asking whether it was ok to hold back their summer birthday boy from K not for any developmental/academic reason, but just to give him a “leg up.” There are of course cases where it makes sense to wait another year if your close to cutoff kiddo is clearly not ready, but IMO, that should be the exception and not the rule. But some parents felt that holding back just for the sake of holding back and having them (mostly boys) be the oldest was good. But if we’re not following school cutoff dates, then where does it end? And what about the kids who aren’t held back and who are then compared to kids a year or even more older? I guess in my mind, this is cheating, but maybe I feel more strongly because I have an April kid who suddenly becomes the youngest… (although I haven’t found this to be the case in his particular grade at his school yet). And I think there have been studies showing that being on the older side makes school a bit easier, but someone necessarily has to be the youngest, right?!