Everyone Thursday: Mossimo Blazer
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While I’m usually not a fan of zippered blazers, this scuba knit one from Target looks like really cute, though I’d still probably wear it open. I like the darts and the flouncy peplum, the fact that it’s machine washable, and the five different colors it comes in (burgundy, black, gray, white, and “jade green”). It’s well-reviewed, available in sizes XS-XXL, and ranges in price from $10.49-$34.99. Women’s Blazer – Mossimo
Psst: a friend just wrote to me to tell me she bought and loved this blazer after we recommended it over at Corporette — great for layering over dresses.
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+
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?
I have another potty training question. My kiddo has been “training” for a couple months now, and still regularly has 1-3 accidents a day. We are lucky if we have 2-3 days without accidents in a given week, and generally those days are weekend days.
Our big weakness is nap time. At home, I put her in diapers for nap. But daycare has refused to do diapers for nap time, and she has post-nap accidents nearly every day it feels like. She frequently has another accident at the end of the day after her regular teachers have left and the aftercare teacher takes over.
I feel so bad for her, and so bad for myself. I’m tired of doing potty laundry in a coin-operated shared laundry room! What to do? I know she would protest going back to diapers but I’m so ready….
Congratulations!!
Just wanted to thank everyone for the Internet hugs last week. Certain commenters had suggested that I just take Fmla the very next day. I did that and had a great day with my husband (homemade waffles and a very long walk). I was in labor that night and ended up with a routine (not easy!) labor and delivery and the baby was born Friday morning. I giggled while holding my little guy as my husband called my work, aplogizing for violating protocol by calling 15 minutes late but that the baby was 10 minutes old and that I’d be out for a while. I’m totally In love with my little guy and recovering well. I really can’t thank you all enough.
Potty training question . . . We are thinking of trying a 3-day boot camp for my 2.5yo daughter over Memorial Day weekend. The goal is just to train for daytime. But — we are going out of town the weekend after that, leaving the kids (daughter at issue and baby) with their grandparents for Friday night through Sunday afternoon. Should we postpone trying to potty train in case it’s only partially successful, leaving Grandma to clean up messes in addition to everything else? I.e., what’s the normal “tail” on boot camp? Also, will having different caregivers (we’ve never left the kids before) undo or regress any potty training that does stick?
My whole adult life I’ve been ~15-20 pounds above my “ideal” weight. I never thought about it much because I was healthy, exercised a lot, felt good in my body, and could maintain that weight without thought or effort, so why bother.
Well, nursing has been a (3,500 calorie/day!) miracle diet for me and I’m currently at or below my “ideal” weight. I feel good here and would like to stay this weight. But, we’re in the process of weaning and I’ll soon be starting the next big thing in my career, and I’m worried that no brstfeeding + more stress is going to lead to inadvertent weight gain. I have NO idea about how to maintain a lower weight – no idea about how much I can eat, or how to tell if I’m gaining weight, or what to do about it if I am, since, yeah, I’ve never thought about it/managed my weight before.
What should I expect post-weaning? I don’t own a scale… maybe I should buy one? (I’m tall so my weight can fluctuate 10 pounds before my clothes feel any different).
So we have a lot of young families on our block, and the parents and kids all get along well (everyone comes to bday parties, hangs out in each other’s backyards in the summer, etc.) but I wanted to try to become more friendly with the moms (selfishly, as I don’t have many local female friends). I was thinking of texting them with a ‘come over after bedtime and I’ll supply wine/snacks’, but some of them are on the quieter/shier side, so I thought an activity of sorts might help break the ice. What would you suggest? Book club seems a bit more like homework, but I’m at a loss for other fun low key activities that provide some easy conversation topics.
We are debating a childcare change away from a nannyshare to a preschool setting. I’m really struggling with the weight of the decision b/c it will obviously significantly impact the other family and our nanny. Our nanny is trying to get pregnant, and it’s very likely she’ll be pregnant in the next few months (without going into specifics – assume for the sake of argument she’ll be pregnant this or next month). We would start the preschool in the fall. I really love our nanny, and I feel like I’m putting her in a terrible spot. There are definitely options – the other family could offer to pay her their share only and she’d stay with them (which she may want to take if she’s not feeling great), or they could try to find another baby for a temporary share until she goes out. Or, they might follow our lead and enroll their kid in another preschool. My guess is that they will offer her a job – but not want to start another share, and if she turns it down b/c she doesn’t want the pay cut, they’ll enroll their son in preschool.
Which mean we could put her in a spot where she’s unemployed and newly pregnant. I feel really, really bad about this. We could keep her until she goes out on leave, and then find a temporary nanny to fill in and start our kid the following fall (he’ll be 2 in August). But I can’t decide whether that’s ridiculous from our perspective, and I just feel overly protective of her b/c I’ve gotten close to her. Thoughts?
I missed the hypnobirthing thread earlier this week but I wanted to share that when I asked about it, my midwife recommended podcasts by Rachel Yellin, who is based out of San Francisco. I listened to them every night for maybe 2 months before my birth. It’s so hard to tell whether it’s just the way things would have gone anyway, but I was in labor for 3 hours and had a natural birth because I just didn’t feel like I needed anything. I also did her podcasts for sleeping after the baby comes (sometimes you’re so tired but you just can’t relax bc baby might cry any minute!), parenting affirmations and nursing. Not the same as the full blown hypnobirthing course but it was a good option for me.
You know what makes me sad? When I drift apart from old old friends because of our different situations. One of my best friends of 15 years and I have been drifting apart over the past few years. She and her husband are childless-by-choice, which I have no problem with, and almost made that decision myself. They do all the things that I would be doing if I were childless– amazing vacations and weekends away multiple times a year, staying out late at cool new restaurants, rocking their careers.
And I’m a mom to a toddler who took a step-down job and get excited when I go to Target by myself and cant stay up past 9:00 p.m. She gets really awkward when we talk and makes comments about our different situations that seems clear to me that she is a little bit uncomfortable or out of her element and doesn’t know what to talk to me about anymore. Then I awkwardly keep changing the subject away from my kid because I feel awkward too. I keep hoping it’s going to get better in a few years when my kid is older and we can go off and have a fun vacation somewhere together? I don’t know. It just makes me sad.
We’re planning to take a trip in a few weeks and leave my 3.5 year old and 11 month old with the grandparents. The 3 yr old tends to get upset either when we leave or when we stay somewhere with him overnight (he gets upset when he realizes that we’re not going home to go to bed). I’ve tried to talk up the idea of staying at the grandparents to get him excited (you get to play with the dog! they’ll give you treats! you can bring your toys!), but every time I’ve tried to explain to him that we will be leaving him there, he gets upset. Is there any way to make this easier? Doing a dry run beforehand won’t be possible. Any tips for the dropoff? We have to leave early, so we will take them over around dinnertime the night before – I could stay and do our usual nighttime routine before putting him to bed there, though I would probably have to wait until he fell asleep, but that might not be nice to have him wake up to us being gone.
Looking to get a video camera for each of my two kids’ rooms that will work through an app on any phone (whether iPhone or Android). Recommendations? Thanks!