Finally Thursday: Round Toe Classic Wedges
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This $35 wedge looks great, mainly because it avoids the problem a lot of wedge heels have: a too-casual heel material for work, whether it’s wood or cork. Of course those are more durable than the pictured heel, but there you go. Particularly if you’re rebuilding your shoe collection after some postpartum size changes (don’t get me started on all the heels I had to donate), the price is right. The shoe is available in six colors, including beige (pictured), black, tan, gray, and a hot pink. It’s $34 at Target. Journee Collection Round Toe Classic Wedges
Psst: Target has a “buy 1 get 1 50% off” sale right now on select women’s Merona, kids’ clothing, shoes, and accessories.
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Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
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?
Not sure how many responses I’ll get today, but here goes. We have two year old twins through IVF. We have two more embryos currently on ice. I know we were in some ways willfully blind at the time we did IVF to the fact that we might have more embryos than we needed. No matter how things work out, I don’t regret what we did because I have two beautiful children when I thought I’d have none. Our clinic has sent us a letter saying we need to start paying a yearly fee to keep the embryos or decide what to do with them. We live in a HCOL area and have a tiny 3 br house. It’s big enough — just — for the four of us and we had decided we wouldn’t plan to move (even though when we bought the house we thought it was a “starter”; we were trying for a baby at the time but hadn’t started fertility treatments, and kind of figured we’d size up when we had a second baby). We’re in our late 30s and had kind of made peace with having just the twins. But now that we’re facing possibly giving up the option of having any more kids at all, we’re wondering if we really do want a third. And if so how we’d ever make that work (we can’t really afford a bigger house in our area and would probably have to look at 1 hr or more commutes if we moved). Added to that is the fact that we don’t really agree on what we would do with the embryos if we didn’t use them. My husband wants to donate them to another couple. He is uncomfortable with destroying them and feels that it would be a good thing to give them to someone who might otherwise have no children. I admire that and wish I felt the same way. Instead, the thought of someone else giving birth to and raising “our” baby just makes me cry. I know, I know that it wouldn’t be “our” baby. But it would be. And the thought of it being anonymous and never knowing whether there was a child out there makes me as miserable as the thought of it not being anonymous and seeing photos of some little one who looks like us but isn’t ours (but could have been). I feel that if that baby were out there, I would want it and knowing it wasn’t mine would make me profoundly sad. My husband respects and understands this feeling. For now, I think we plan to pay the fee and give ourselves another year to think it over. (And to see if our situation changes — there are some potential career changes for me that could substantially boost our income and make having a third more feasible.) I just don’t know how to reach a resolution on this if we don’t wind up having a third (or trying for one). I think we’d probably wind up doing what I want, partly because my husband hates to see me cry and tends to do whatever he can to make me happy, even if it’s at his own expense. But I don’t want him to do something that he’s profoundly uneasy about.
How much staff turnover is normal for daycare? My son was at a daycare for his first two years, and assistant teachers seemed to come and go every 2-3 months, but each room was anchored by a primary teacher who rarely changed. We moved him to a new daycare six months ago to be closer to home, and his classroom has already had two main teachers come and go. It’s frustrating for me and it seems hard on him (this morning he didn’t know his teacher at all and was very clingy). At the same time, I hate to move him again only to have more high turnover no matter where he goes, and he really likes his pack of friends right now. Any advice/commiseration?
In total contradiction to the last post, I think we are two boys and done. I sometimes really want a third baby, but realize that my parenting skills seems to deteriorate with chaos. more than I’d admit in real-life. Sometimes I think the hardest part of being done (or even if we went for three and had a boy), is realizing that we will always be the “in-laws.” I realize I’m assuming a lot here (assuming our boys marry girls and have kids, and recognizing that many women do not get along with their mothers), but if they do marry women who have strong familial connections (which I would love for these hypothetical DILs and my boys), we’ll always be second.
Even just reading the posts above, husband’s parents are not often than the primary – or even welcome – support, even when there is a good relationship there. My mom came and stayed with me for a few weeks after my kids were born, and she only visited for a long weekend after my brother’s child was born (and they have a great relationship with my sister-in-law). I am not immune from it! I love my mother in law, and only want her present for short periods of time in my house.
Not looking for a solution – just commiseration and venting about something I try not to dwell on in real life.
So on a different note than today’s other threads….Some happy news!
I had my big ultrasound this week and found out….IT’S A GIRL!!!!!
This is baby #3 and was a huge surprise…I posted here when I found out and had lots of mixed feelings about the pregnancy. It looks like baby is healthy and although I am feeling like a truck has run over me, I am starting to get excited about a new baby. Anyway, I had prepared myself for another boy – I was genuinely excited, we weren’t going to have another baby, and although a couple of years ago I had thought a third child would be awesome, DH really wanted a girl and would only go for it if we could be guaranteed a girl. We actually thought about adoption briefly. But, anyway, I was not expecting nor, I think, allowing myself to think about having a daughter. I think when I had my first son it was such a shock – I had always imagined myself a mother of girls – that I just sort of didn’t want to think that I was disappointed and OF COURSE I absolutely adore my two sweet boys and I would never want them to think I would have preferred girls. So I kept thinking I didn’t want DH and both sides of the families disappointed that it would be another boy…I was going to love this third boy even more because no one else would be excited about him.
But finding out yesterday…I just lost it. I am so, so excited! Sorry for the rambling…we aren’t sharing in real life yet but I cannot keep a secret! :)
Re-post from main s!te:
Are there any legal jobs that are truly part-time? I have been in litigation for the past 6-7 years. Last year, before my second child was born, I went on a reduced hours schedule at my firm. Unfortunately, I still have to bill 32.5 hours per week (on average), which means I am in the office almost 40 hours per week. So the position is not really “part-time.” My husband and I are both so exhausted and frustrated that he has been encouraging me to quit my job to be a stay-at-home mom (more because he thinks that will make me happy). I think I owe it to myself (and my family) to try a step down before I quit the workforce completely. Unfortunately, it seems like true part-time legal positions are almost non-existent. Any ideas?
Kiddo is in the throes of a wicked asthma attack and threw up at 4 am this morning – I chalked it up to gagging from the asthma, but could get a call from daycare at any time. And did I mention we’re getting on an airplane tomorrow? Oh yeah, always fun to fly with the imminent threat of either an asthma attack or puke. And potty training, which had been going really well, is now falling off a cliff but kiddo will not allow diapers anywhere near her body. Add “imminent threat of poop” to the list of airplane hazards.
Is this week over yet? So far, I’ve had a giant work crisis, a vomiting child (they always get sick in the middle of the night right? Adding a lack of sleep to the illness makes everything better) and my MIL, who is our childcare, injured herself. Today, DH and I basically tossed a coin to see who’d stay home. I won? lost? and am at work, feeling just a little guilty that I can try to clean up this mess while DH’s work is being sidelined. (He’d feel just as guilty if it were the other way around, so yay for equality?)
The only upside is DD doesn’t know who the Easter Bunny is, and won’t be disappointed that she’s not decorating eggs today, or that the Easter Bunny is phoning it in and tossing out some cereal and raisin filled eggs Sunday morning (breakfast! an activity! maybe 5 min of peace and quiet).
Anyone else having a week that needs to end already?