Family Friday: Girls’ Studded Velvet Dress
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We’re all going to The Nutcracker this weekend! While my oldest has plenty of festive outfits for the occasion, she’d love to add this one to her wardrobe.
This comfortable velvet dress has everything: sparkly metallic studs, soft tiers, and ruffled trim. Add a cute faux fur jacket, tights, and shiny flats for a party outfit that your kid can wear to holiday gatherings and beyond.
J.Crew’s Studded Velvet Dress is $44.50 in green (lucky sizes) and $80.99 in black. It’s available in sizes 4-14.
Sales of note for 1/22:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Designer clearance up to 75% off!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off all full-price suiting, tops, and sweaters + extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Clearance up to 70% off + up to 50% off outerwear and cold-weather accessories
- Express – $40 off $120, $75 off $200, $100 off $250 with code
- J.Crew – 50% off last-call winter styles + up to extra 60% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 70% off everything + extra 60% off clearance + 50-60% off hundreds of styles
- Lo & Sons – Winter sale, up to 50% off (ends 1/31) — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Neiman Marcus – Up to 70% off select sale styles
- Talbots – Red Door Sale on Sale: Extra 50% off + 15% off markdowns + 25% off one new favorite
We love this Melissa & Doug Matching Game, and it’s now almost 70% off. I might stock up on them for gifts: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VO1CIE/?coliid=I1D2LEKE1W8FM4&colid=KXUB9Y1GFWGL&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it
What can I do about my stomach skin after baby? I’m a fairly small person who had a pretty big belly by the end of my pregnancy, baby was 10 days late, emergency c-section following labor. I got some deep, wide stretch marks on my stomach to the point where my skin is thinner at the marks and is giving my skin texture like cellulite. I am nearly three years postpartum, so it’s no longer a wait and see situation. It makes me very self-conscious. Are there any non-surgical options?
I just realized that I have no idea what public school gifting norms are. My kid’s kindergarten class parent is putting together a group holiday gift. This means that we don’t give the teacher an individual gift from my child, right? What about bus driver – do people typically give a card and gift card?
I have finally reached the moment where it feels like the list is getting shorter! No shade to those on the struggle bus– last night I was literally crying in the Walmart parking lot. But this morning I pulled the turkey out to thaw, delivered the teacher presents, and caught a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel! We got this!
Can i just rant for a sec? I thought i was 100% done Xmas shopping and assigned the “foodstuff” stocking stuffers to DH last Sunday. He went out shopping including going to the gourmet Italian market where we usually get stocking stuffers and then …. just came home because because he was flumoxed when the brand I normally buy on one of the items wasn’t there. Like you were IN the store and couldn’t find ANYTHING that could be shoved in stockings!?
Note: this is on the back of asking him to take DS to buy secret santa gift for classmate, knowing they were driving right past Walmart. They went into Walmart and then DS couldn’t decide….. so they came home empty handed which I didn’t realize until I came back from work trip and realized no purchase had been made (leaving 48 hrs to delivery of gift to school).
Like driving around this time of year is the WORST part… you were there… GAAAAAH.
Rant over. Trying to decide if I bail him out today so that we can actually enjoy Sunday.
Before we all pile on to DH – he obviously had to solo parent while i was out of town (in Dec) for 4 days and he took the day off to take DS skiing today while i wrap up work and I will make him drive all the way back tomorrow so i can ski too. :)
We’ll be celebrating Hanukkah tonight without our 7 year old for the first time since she was born. She’s on an overnight trip with her best friend’s family. This trip is her best friend’s big holiday present, and for various reasons, including scheduling constraints on our end, it could only happen this weekend. I know she’s going to have the best time, but I’m kind of in my feelings about it. My little kid is not so little!
Just a scream into the void: my fridge died. The new one will be delivered Dec 24, and of course it’s back to 50 degrees outside this week. Thankful for helpful neighbors, a nearby Costco with mini fridges, and that we had planned to be home for Christmas and don’t have houseguests coming but… Not what I needed this week!
My longer and much whinier post got eaten, which is probably best anyway, but I am going to post again because I would love recommendations to offer my husband on how to not shut down when a baby is crying a lot. He skews sensitive and anxious and has a hard time moving past it if our now-toddler is fussy for any extended period. His coping hasn’t gotten all that much better in all this time and it’s time for some resources. Any ideas?
Random recommendation but if anyone is looking for a last-minute gift for long-haired friends/kids/partners, I got the Kristin Ess Softening Lightweight Hair Oil from Target a few months ago and it has been a total game-changer for my winter frizzes. I put some in my hair as it air-dries and it looks a million times better — smooth and silky. I use it to touch up dry hair and make it smoother, too. I feel like I’ve tried a ton of mousses/serums/creams for these purposes and this is the best one so far.
Helllllp my 9 year old daughter just wrote a letter to Santa asking for “something unique, something magical, something no other child in the world has”!!! Is there anyone more creative than me who has an idea of what I could put under the tree???
My family will be in NYC next week. DD10 and DD8 are not the most adventures eaters. Any recommendations for restaurants around Bryant Park, the Highline/Circle Line Ferry dock, Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Today is rough. Poor sleep all around, our toddler is sick yet again from the daycare virus du jour and is fussy, my husband mentally shuts down if crying continues more than a few minutes and I am SO over that, and we’re supposed to host a family member for the weekend. Pray for me.
And in an actual request, my husband clearly needs to get it together on this crying thing – babies cry. We’ve barely started the toddler phase. The more upset he gets about it, the more unpleasant it is for all of us – nothing is less re-cheering than a stone-faced parent struggling to deal. I’m obviously kind of low on sympathy at this moment but i do think he would be open to resources to help. He skews sensitive, anxious, and a little codependent. Any ideas for something that might help him realize that crying isn’t a disaster? He worries that it means there’s something seriously wrong when it’s usually clear to me that it’s a tantrum or hunger or what have you.