Family Friday: Girls’ Washed Denim Hazel Jean Jacket
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This cold weather has my kids longing for spring.
This girls’ washed denim jacket blends the best of the ’80s with a collarless bomber silhouette. It features a light tie-dyed finish on quilted denim, front pockets, and a full zipper along with snap buttons. I wish it came in my size!
Appaman’s Washed Denim Hazel Jean Jacket is on sale for $49 (down from $99). It comes in sizes 2T to 14.
Sales of note for 1/27:
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- Nordstrom – 800+ new women’s markdowns!
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your full-price purchase + extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Clearance up to 70% off
- Express – $40 off $120, $75 off $200, $100 off $250 with code
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 70% off everything + extra 70% off clearance (ends 1/27) + 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 $250 off + up to 70% off select sale styles
- Talbots – Extra 70% off select winter markdowns + extra 60% off all other markdowns (both end midnight 1/27)
I hate standardized testing and grades in elementary school. Last night i spent 30+ minutes trying to explain to my second grader that just bc her score on the math standardized test was two points lower than her score on the reading and science ones doesn’t mean she is bad at math! Her response was that usually she gets a 100 or 98 on her spelling tests each week but only gets 100 on math sometimes and otherwise often gets a 95…i could care less about her grades or standardized test scores in 2nd grade, i don’t want her to create an identity that she is “bad” at something bc of this!
wwyd? typically i am on team, let’s be as inclusive as possible. we are hosting a valentine’s party for my twin daughters and we only invited the girls from each of their classes + girls from their girl scout troop at their school who aren’t in their classes. their grade at school has this morning, another mentioned to DD1 while walking into school that she heard about the party from student X. i don’t like being exclusive, but there are 7 classes in the school and we can’t invite the whole school…
Anyone read the article about FAFO parenting in the Guardian? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/29/the-rise-of-fafo-parenting-is-this-the-end-of-gentle-child-rearing
I personally hate all the nauseating phrases and psychobabble of modern gentle parenting but this is…something.
I’m wondering about the norms for sick calls at your peds practice. This morning I called our office at 7:45 and got the on-call line. I asked for a sick visit today because my toddler has had a fever/runny nose/cough all week. I expect that they will tell me to keep giving motrin and liquids, but I want kid to be tested to ensure it’s not an antibiotics situation. The office opens at 8, but the phone hours start at 8:30. By 8:45 I had not received a call back. I called and was on hold so long it sent me to a voicemail (after 10 minutes of the generic message, including that you should call your doctor when you’re sick and avoid unnecessary and expensive emergency room visits). I left a message and immediately called back and got a receptionist after 8 minutes of being on hold. We got an appointment for later this morning.
Is this experience par for the course? Maybe my mama bear is on overdrive, but I think it’s problematic to not receive a call back an hour after my initial call. (Btw, the fever was 103 this morning, so this is not a nothing call).
Our care is fine — the nurses are great, the PAs and Drs are competent and we have no concerns about their expertise. But it is not a warm and fuzzy practice. I chose them due to proximity to our home and the fact they supposedly have same day sick appts.
Would you put your kids in a large school district that has a bad reputation overall (with terrible reputation for some individual schools) as long as you could attend the best options within it? By local accounts, there are some good schools within the district, but when the complaints about the overall district are for things like mismanagement, underfunding, financial challenges, etc., it’s hard not to think that the problems will trickle down to all schools even if some are doing fine now. Our town has two districts and one is universally regarded as good (it’s where we rent now) and the other has the problems I described, but it’s where most of the townhomes and small SFHs that we could possibly afford are located. The realtor has been telling us that it’s very school-dependent and she wouldn’t rule out whole neighborhoods just because the district itself is bad. Feedback from local moms goes both ways – some say avoid the district at all costs and others say “just make sure it’s ___ school.” I went to a poor, rural public school myself that I wouldn’t call “bad” but I do want more opportunities for my son – I could never take advanced classes, for example, and there were no clubs or activities except for sports.
FWIW, class sizes are larger in the “bad district” as a rule. As an example, our current zoned elementary school in the “good district” has a student/teacher ratio of 22.5/1 compared to 28/1 in what’s called a “good” elementary school in the “bad district.” Per-pupil spending is about $15K vs. just $2K.