Makeup & Beauty Monday: Glow Peel Pads
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I recently had a blissful day when my son’s daycare was open but my office was closed. I was livin’ the dream and leisurely walked the hair and beauty aisles of my local Target, looking to spend money on “self care” items — including these Pixi Glow Peel Pads. Normally, I would have some price sensitivity on a Target item for $22, but I was feeling pretty zen so I just threw them in the cart. I used them for the first time the other night, and the tingle they gave off seemed pretty reassuring. I plan on using them twice a week or so, as my skin is pretty sensitive, not to mention this incredibly dry weather, so results are TBD. I do like how the instructions make note to also use them on the back of your hands, and I did notice my skin softer there immediately. These pads are available at Target for $22, online and in-store. Glow Peel Pads
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- 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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- 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?
Good morning, ladies! We’re planning to take a quick last minute babymoon to someplace warm from DC and I’d love any recs you might have. We’re thinking Bermuda or Bahamas due to low Zika risk and short flights, but would love any specific recs for resorts/hotels, etc. Thanks so much!!
We live in a 2BR apartment, so our 2-year-old twins share a bedroom (and I have nowhere else to put them). How do I get them to go to sleep when they’d rather play with each other for hours after lights out?!
For background, they’ve been great sleepers since we sleep trained them at 3 months. Then we had to transition to toddler beds. They initially had trouble but learned to fall asleep by sharing a bed or having one of us sit in their room until they fell asleep. I hated sitting in the dark, but now even that doesn’t work (they just ignore me and run around chasing each other). They won’t nap either. Help!
Happy Monday! I know there’s been advice on this here before, so asking for any updates. DS is 14 months, and down to 1 nap at daycare when everyone naps from 1-3 PM.
At home, on weekends, he wakes up around 7 (after being an early riser for most of his short life this feels blissful, but also know it can change at any moment), and by 9:30-10 is ready to nap again. He’ll take a good morning nap, and then in the afternoon will be clearly tired but will fight his nap, or sometimes just hang out in his pack-and-play instead of napping (in our home, it’s nap/sleep/play time regardless so we let him do what he needs to do).
I’d like to push him to 1 nap moving forward on weekends since he’s doing that at school anyway (and night time sleep has been fine so far). Any thoughts on how best to approach? Not sure if I should gradually push back, or just start putting him down after an early lunch on weekends. Kind of not sure how to keep him from getting over tired or stimulated. At school, he just takes the lead from the other kids and then everyone has lights out nap time 1-3.
I have loosely been following Moms On Call, but DS would typically go down for naps at 9:30 AM and 2:30 PM, whereas their schedules have a 9:30 AM and 12:30 PM nap. Any advice would be welcome, and thank you for reading this long, overly-detailed post!
Has anyone sent food to daycare when the daycare provides meals? I hate the waste aspect of it, and I don’t want to be “that mom” who thinks her little one is too good for daycare food, but the meals are really not great – technically compliant with USDA guidelines, but lots of Rice Krispies, sugary cereals, lunch meats, ground beef and hot dogs. I care not one bit if my kid eats any of that (or cookies or cake) at a playdate or party, but day in, day out as 5/7 of her diet I’m not psyched about it. It’s weird because I think of myself as so laid back in terms of baby food nutrition. I used a lot of jars and pouches during infancy and I believe fruit is a healthy part of a meal, which horrifies my BFF, who treats fruit like a dessert her kid can have only rarely. But my 14 month old is currently a big fan of healthy, whole food (I take no credit and am aware this is just luck) and it seems a bit of a shame to introduce a kid who currently loves salmon, plain yogurt, unsweetened peanut butter, blueberries and steamed peas and carrots to all this processed food. Thoughts? Would you try to pack lunches and snacks until kiddo gets pickier? Just have her eat daycare food from the get-go?
We live far from family. When we visit them, it is to visit. My MIL is elderly and I don’t think she’d be a good overnight childminder (plus, I don’t want her to die while watching my kids; she is old and not in the best of health). My parents are old, and also a plane ride away.
As a result, we have never even had an overnight child-free since becoming parents. And our kids can read and do math. We have one adult sitter who would be competent at this and our kids are old enough that they just need to be fed (can do 8 hours of screen time easily), and could almost do this themselves (at least bfast and snacks).
It’s time to try this (my worry — sitter will get married and won’t want to do an overnight by the time we get around to asking), right?
Any tips (do you just pay for a weekend)? Advice? Sitter has a car and already drives them home from school and to the pool sometimes.
Anyone in the mood to give baby name reactions/suggestions this morning? We’re expecting our second girl and the first name came so naturally to us. She’s named after family, it’s unique but not totally “out there,” comes with a cute nickname, will wear well as an adult, goes with our one-syllable last name, gets tons of favorable reactions, etc.
For a little background, we live in the South (although I’m originally from the North), and preppy Southern names have really grown on me. My husband’s not much help in the naming department. I’ve been scouring the internet and was stuck on Elowen Claire for a few weeks (nickname Winnie, which is a cute complement to our other girl’s nn), but I’ve nearly ruled it out because the more I think about it, the more I realize 1) it will always be mispronounced 2) it will always be misspelled 3) it sounds a little too elfish. Vivienne (or Vivian) Alexandra has been on my spreadsheet, but it’s charging the ranks in popularity and I worry it’s going to be the next Olivia or Charlotte. I sort of like Eloise as a more normal but still-not-too-popular alternative to Elowen, but lately the name I’ve been stuck on is Maren. Unique but not too “out there,” preppy feeling, and has the -en ending I like (our other girl is an -ly ending which I also like, but I worry it’s over the top if we have two girls with -ly names).
At any rate, I’m just curious to see how any of the above names feel to a group of well-educated women. And if they inspire any alternative suggestions, I’m all ears. Thanks!
Love Maren and I know a 5 year old one.
I love the story of Margaret Hamilton who wrote the code for the Apollo mission and I’ve always been partial to Margaret. I’d use Maggie as a nickname but a colleague is a Margaret who uses Meg as a nickname.
Other faves are Clara, Evangeline, Kira, Elyse
In the past few weeks, our three year old has developed an aversion to going to daycare. I thought it was just moving up to the next class, but this morning my husband dropped him off and saw one of the bigger older kids (between 4 and 5) have a total meltdown, start hitting teachers, and throw chairs across the room. Our son was fine until this happened, and as soon as this kid came into the room he became visibly upset and wanted to leave. It seems totally reasonable to both of us that his reaction to going to daycare is tied to this new kid at the school and his daily reactions to being dropped off. How would you address this with the school? My husband is of the mind that either this kid goes, there’s a plan for containing him, or we need to find a new daycare for our son. What would you do?
Talk me down that this gets better. My 2.5 year old has slowly gotten more and more picky to the extent that he has stopped even eating his favorite fruits most of the time. This is driving me crazy because 1) I already have a picky preteen, my stepdaughter, and am dreading him growing up to be picky also, 2) he’s not eating any vegetables at all unless they are in a pouch, and we are a fairly healthy family where veg are a big part of our meals, 3) I am throwing away food all the time because he will suddenly refuse things he loves, like string cheese and apples.
At daycare he seems to do a little better. I send a variety every day and sometimes he will surprise me with what he eats. Currently we are doing the no pressure system, where I just put his food in front of him and he eats what he eats. If we at all even suggest that he try something (even a food he normally loves), he will adamantly refuse, so we are just letting him feed himself. We did baby led weaning and that worked great until about age 2.
I got the “Child of Mine” book from the library, but I remember other posters on here saying it’s not a great fit for a stubborn child. I am sick of throwing away food and also him not eating anything but chicken nuggets (or refusing chicken nuggets, like he did last night) and bread.
Do I just ride this out? This is more about control than taste, right? When he is older I want to do the “we eat one bite of everything” method but that’s totally lost on him right now. ARGH!
Hive, I could use some input. DH doesn’t want to leave our house cleaners alone in the house, leave them a key, or get a keypad for the front door. In fall 2018, the service that we had for 2 years abruptly shut down, we weren’t able to get our key back, and we had to change the locks. We’ve had a new service for a few months/4 cleanings, and even though DH is full-time WFH, it’s on me to schedule the service around his meeting schedule. He’s reluctant to talk about why he doesn’t want a keypad or to have them leave through a door that doesn’t have a deadbolt so that we don’t have to be there. (And frankly, I bet they would be more comfortable if we weren’t there.) What am I missing? Any words of wisdom? – Emily S.
My 15 month old is really starting to favor my husband. I’ve read that this is normal, since they’re starting to discover more people in the world, but still makes me sad. Few examples…always wants dad to read a book, wants dad to pick her up out of the crib, will only want dad when she falls flat on her face. Makes me feel think I’m doing something wrong in the parenting game and I’m even actually better at playing and sillier than dad.
She’s still lovely and snuggly and fun to play with, but I just want her to want a hug from mom when she falls every once in a while.
This phase too shall pass, right?
Random food PSA since we seem to be on the topic this morning:
We let our kid have one or two small pieces of candy each day (like two starbursts or something that size). This, over time, turned dinner into what felt like a hostage negotiation situation. “How many bites do I need to eat” etc.
WELL, I had the genius idea to let kid eat her two pieces of candy as soon as she wakes up in the morning. Now dinner is pleasant, she eats until she’s full with no distraction. And she wakes up in a good mood because she knows she’s getting candy. So. Just an idea for those of you who allow sweets but don’t want it to turn into a battle of wills.
So on the first day back to work after the shutdown, my son has the flu. :( And yes, he had the flu shot.
The doctor prescribed Tamiflu and liquids. Any other advice? He’s 4 and neither of my kids thankfully have ever gotten the flu.
Also, how long was your kid out of school with the flu? Trying to plan if I need to be out this whole week or not.
We’re considering a birthday party for our soon-to-be 1 year old this spring. I’m thinking verrrrry low-key: at our house or a park with some food and dessert (and booze for adults). Some cute decorations, but nothing Pinterest-y. We’d probably invite a couple friends with babies, and other friends without kids. I don’t think we’d do a smash-cake at the party — but maybe we’d do one with just our immediate family. Our families live out-of-state, but we’d invite grandparents and aunts and uncles. My husband isn’t very into it – I think he’s mostly stressed that my parents would come in town for the weekend and turn a low-key event into a big to-do. I’d love to hear some thoughts about what you did, what you didn’t do, what you would have done differently? Thanks!
I’m hoping for some advice and perspective on our new nanny. I am going back to work after maternity leave and my nanny just started 2 weeks ago, while I’m still home to show her the ropes. She’ll be caring for my 6 month old twins. Her infant experience was all in a daycare and there are serious lapses in knowledge about infant safety – she did not know that carseat straps need to be tight, that babies can’t wear coats in a carseat, that bumpers are not safe in a crib or that babies should continue to be placed on their back past 5 months. I have informed her of each of these things and she has seemed to remember them. In addition, in 9 days of working for us, she has tried to cut my son’s fingernails without asking if it was ok and cut a sizable chunk out of his finger (it bled for an hour), she has arrived 5-10 minutes late almost every day, she has left the front door open once and has left it unlocked every time she has come in the house without me, there is still milk in bottle parts sometimes after she washes them, she rarely remembers when the kids woke up from naps or remembers to do tasks besides making the kids bottles and doing their laundry. On the other hand, she is really great playing with the kids and encouraging them to do activities that push them to their milestones.
I had wanted to hire an experienced nanny, so this is definitely not what I was looking for, but I’m trying to decide if I can live with her. A friend has counseled me that its actually good that the nanny is a bit of a clean slate so I can teach her how I want things done. I have been telling her the things I want changed and she acts receptive though it takes me telling her numerous times to change so I’m still waiting to see if some of the behavior will change. My real concern is that she has shown a general sloppiness/lack of attention to detail in how she goes about things, so I’m not sure she will be able to really change and be a more careful person, which I think is important for someone responsible for our babies’ safety. I’ve told her the things she needs to fix and am giving her time to do so, but am I right to be concerned? Would you look for someone else in this situation?