Weekend & Family Friday: Faux Shearling Coat
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When I want to buy something trendy that I know will go out of style in a season or two, I always check the youthful/inexpensive/teen brands at the department stores. This season, I’ve been tempted by the “teddy bear” coats I’ve been seeing everywhere. They look so comfortable, and even though my first reaction was “Huh?” they’ve grown on me. Some versions of this trend still make me scratch my head, but I like this one from Kensie. It’s super fluffy and has a wide lapel and hidden closures. I wouldn’t wear it with professional pants as it is styled here, but I think it would look cute with a dark wash pair of jeans. It’s $128 (regular sizes)/$168 (plus sizes) at Nordstrom. Faux Shearling Coat
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
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
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- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
Inspired by the recent comments about using “ok to wake” clocks for young toddlers, I am going to purchase one for my ever-earlier-rising 20 month old (thanks, time change!). Does anyone have the more expensive Hatch or Little Hippo clocks, rather than the basic $20 Mirari and similar models? Just trying to determine if the extra $30-40 is worth it. Thanks!
I have the Hatch clock (which we also use as a white noise machine) and a 7 month old. She’s probably too little to understand the simpler OK to wake clocks, but she gets the Hatch clock I think because the noise changes as well as the light. Also the app is awesome – if we need to change the wake up time we can do it super easily so overall the setup is a lot more programmable than the cheaper clocks. That said, with a 20 month old who has better understanding of everything, you may be OK with the cheaper one.
Two of my cousins had babies in the past few weeks and I’d like to send them each a little care package. What would you send or enjoy receiving? I was thinking along the lines of granola bars and maybe a water bottle? We’re not super close so I’m struggling to think of things that aren’t too personal preference based.
Sleep regression. 21 months. Hard to put down for bed, up multiple times at night, early wakings, etc. Too tired to write complete sentences.
Help! CIO? Extinction vs. checks? Ride it out?
Since this is a place full of lawyers who are moms, thought I’d ask if any of you have suggestions for language in a living will about pregnancy. I understand no one can give legal advice.
I would want to be kept alive if my baby was viable, but otherwise not. Does that make sense? For purposes of not bumming myself out too much I refuse to research this, but I would be scared of getting in a car accident at 14 weeks pregnant and then having some kind of drama about whether to keep me alive for the baby to be born – I feel like this actually happened to some woman whose parents and husband disagreed?
But if this were to happen at 37 weeks, my answer is different. Has anybody else thought about this? I will ask my actual lawyer, too, but wanted to see what the hive has done.
Slight Rant here:
I am usually the coordinator for tasks outside the norm (thanks, emotional labor!) – and in the past have basically done RSVP + gifts + whatever to parties. We recently had an invite to a party at [place husband doesn’t like], and I asked him to look at the invite, determine whether to go, and RSVP.
He decided we should go and RSVP (it was at a headcount kind of place), so he made a group text with me and the other parent. Later that night I saw the invite in the trash.
A family member unexpectedly died so I was out of the state and across the country when the party happened the next weekend. When I get back he says: I didn’t take toddler to the party because 1) I didn’t know when it was, 2) I didn’t have a way to contact the parents. Then asks me if I know how to get in touch with them to apologize.
I don’t care if my kid went to this party or not. I’m just so ridiculously frustrated that he didn’t think back to a week ago and say “hey I RSVPd, I still have that text message, I can ask for information”. Or even just not saying anything to me and leaving a “sorry!” note in the other kid’s cubby at daycare! ARGH!
I have one son who is 23 months. In the last two weeks, he’s gone from sweet, quiet and cuddly to loud, demanding, insisting on always being held, difficult to put to sleep, etc etc. Is this just the transition to 2s? Are there any coping strategies? I’m having a hard time finding joy in this kind of parenting. It’s very difficult to start and end my days with a little guy who seems unhappy all the time. My husband is helpful but my son is very velcroed to me right now.
fwiw, we both work full time, and the kiddo is in daycare from 9-530. He’s been in daycare for about four months (nanny-share before that).
This is probably a stupid question, but how do you get a convertible car seat through the airport when you’re traveling solo? I used to do the infant seat + stroller combo, but she’s outgrown that. I’ll be pushing her in an umbrella stroller. Are there ways to attach the carseat to your back?
I took up a collection for one of my kid’s daycare teachers for the holiday. I have $720. There are two teachers and two floaters for which this money is going’s. My plan was $350 a teacher and $50 per floater, but one family opted out.
Do I do $300 per teacher, $50 per floater and maybe buy a small gift (chocolate etc) to go with the gifts with the last $20? Buy a token plant or whatever for the office staff? Do $325 per teacher and $35 per floater? $325 per teacher, $25 per floater and the gift idea above?
I don’t want to poll the group because it will be 947295 emails and I’m just gonna throw out ansuggestion but I can’t decide :-).
We are doing cash because in my unscientific poll of 3 teachers (not this center), that is what they want.
+1 I’m a T&E lawyer and I always suggest putting things in writing – you should designate a decision maker (whatever that is called in your state) and fill out whatever forms your state requires for end of life decision making. In my state your decision maker can make end of life decisions without any specific instructions needed. However, I always suggest a separate living will to spell it out because I think it can give your decision maker peace of mind to see a document in which you wrote out your specific wishes and signed your name. If this is not a thing in your state (again see a lawyer), I think it’s still a good idea, even if it’s not legally binding. Your partner may be so overwhelmed by the circumstances they can’t remember the specifics of what you said on the subject.