Family Friday: First Classic Glitter Star Cloud Rain Boot
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I’ve written about my love of Hunter boots, and that love extends to their kids’ rain boots. Before you blanch at spending over $50 for kids’ rain boots, hear me out — I find Hunter’s rubber lasts longer than other, cheaper boots (I’ve had my own Hunters for over 10 years with nary a crack), and their high quality ensures they last through multiple children.
They have a lot of options and colors, but my kids would be drawn to this one like moths to a flame. There’s something about glitter that acts like a magnet for kids, and these boots aren’t as messy as actual glitter. They’ll add fun and light to dreary, rainy spring days.
The boots come in black and pink. They’re available at Zappos for $59.95 and come in toddler/little kid sizes 5–12.
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?
I’m watching my 7 and 9 yo nieces for a full day while their parents take care of a medical issue (nothing scary, just time consuming). What should I do to keep them entertained? So far I have baking cookies, maybe watching a movie, and I was thinking of getting some fun nail decals. Are there any fun crafts we could do for not a ton of junk or money? Maybe tie-dye?
My husband and my 8 month old son will also be home.
What is everyone up to this weekend? I’m meeting my husband/son at the beach after nursery. My son asked last weekend if we could go and eat fish and chips, and it was so nice to be able to say yes to something. I’ll cycle to the beach (and then back – ugh – since my husband didn’t get time to put the roof-rack on the car) and it’s a beautiful day – only 55C but bright sunshine. And then some friends are coming over for an outdoor playdate on Saturday, it’s the first time we’ve been able to cross the county border since Christmas, so we haven’t seen them for ages.
Daycare officially announced there’s no end of the year party this summer. I guess it’s not surprising but it doesn’t seem that unsafe since it’s outdoors and everyone could wear masks (the kids wear them at school). I want so badly to start getting to know other parents in daycare but I have no idea when that will happen since events and parties aren’t happening. I guess maybe after the kids are vaccinated? Although even then I don’t know, it seems like the era of whole class birthday parties might be over.
Hello hive mind! Would love some travel advice… we will be flying with our baby for the first time this summer. We have a choice between (1) taking a direct flight and then driving a rental car 3-4 hours to our destination, or (2) taking two flights with a 90 minute connection, and then a 30 minute cab ride to our destination.
All flights are around 2-2.5 hours, and the total travel time will likely be the same for either option. Babe will be 9.5 months at the time, so not really walking or talking but definitely wiggly and squawky.
What’s the least painful option here? Unfortunately the destination is set and not up for debate – we are meeting extended family for a long-delayed memorial service of someone we lost last year, and their wish was for their ashes to be scattered in this particular location. My husband and I will be fully vaccinated but obviously the baby will not.
Any recommendations for toddler masks? I have a just-turned-two year old (big head, but not quite little kid size) and we’ll need to figure out masking for him for at least the next couple of months. TIA!
How do I get started with sending finger food to daycare for our 7MO? She mostly eats what we’re eating at home for dinner or has some left over baby-safe food like cooked carrots or Bambas. Instagram accounts to follow? Baby bento boxes to recommend? I’m trying to not use as many plastic ziploc bags but my husband complains about the stasher bags not keeping things fresh so open to ideas there as well. Thank you!
Has anyone had a kid who potty trained really late, like after 3.5? My daughter is 3 years 4 months and absolutely resistant to any kind of potty-training, whether it’s gently being encouraged to sit on the potty or the no pants method. At her 3 year appointment, the ped told us to relax and “she’ll train when she wants to” but this kid is so stubborn I’m really starting to get worried about what happens if she never wants to?! Her daycare teachers are frustrated, and as the world is opening up post-Covid it’s starting to impact our lives (I was going to sign her up for religious school in the fall, but we can’t do that if she’s not potty-trained). We’ve tried every kind of reward we can think of from small (chocolate) to big (planning a trip) and nothing has motivated her. She says she’s scared of sitting on the potty, so we tried multiple different potty chairs and potty seats, but nothing has made her comfortable. I can coax her into sitting on the potty in a diaper but not taking the diaper off, and she’s resistant to using the diaper while she’s on the potty. She knows she’s the only kid in her class who isn’t potty trained, but seems content to stay in diapers forever. She has hit most milestones on the later side of the normal range, so I’ve gotten pretty good at not comparing her development to others, but this feels different because people blame the kid (and the parents) when it’s not achieved on time and there’s so much stigma about preschoolers in diapers. I don’t know what to do!
Bad Mom Confession
I am desperate to confess this here (ha!) because I feel bad about this and yet not (and I didn’t even tell my husband).
So I usually do laundry over the weekend. Last week, i did every stitch of the kids’ laundry by Thursday because I left on a weekend trip and didn’t want to worry about doing laundry right away when I got back.
This morning, my three kids somehow, despite my best efforts to count properly, did not have clean shirts in their drawers for school (they wear uniforms).
I pulled three shirts out of the dirty laundry sorter in the basement and distributed them. The kids don’t know the shirts were dirty. They didn’t smell and were not stained.
Look, I don’t know if I counted wrong, or if they had clothes on the floor and put them in the dirty pile instead of their drawer, or left their shirts strewn somewhere in the house that I haven’t discovered yet, or WHY DO THEY NEVER put away the basket of folded clothes I leave outside their bedrooms before I nag them at the end of the week to do it . . . .
Anyway. I failed on the Laundry Fairy front this week and am sorry/not sorry about it.