Washable Workwear Wednesday: Harmon Travel Trouser
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Add some fun to your travel wardrobe with these bold blue trousers.
Made from M.M.LaFleur’s easy-care OrigamiTech fabric, these trousers are lightweight, machine washable, and wrinkle resistant. The elastic waistband keeps them comfortable while the flowy silhouette and pleat detailing keeps them sharp.
The Harmon Travel Trouser is $299 and comes in XS-XXL. If ocean blue is too bright for you, it also comes in black.
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Sales of note for 3/2:
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- Ann Taylor – 30% off the Weekend Collection + extra 30% off sale + 30% off your purchase with extra 15% off $200+
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Up to 70% off clearance + 25% off select jewelry
- Express – 30%-70% off everything + $69 all Editor pants, jeans, and chinos
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – End of winter sale, up to 50% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – 4,000 new markdowns for women!
- Talbots – 25% off entire purchase
Sort of following up on the conversation about red shirting the child below, I see a lot of posters who comment that their child is gifted or significantly above average in certain skills or aspects. Is this one of those “if you see it, you know it” or are people measuring their preschool kids for certain aptitudes? It has never occurred to me to think my bright, privileged preschool aged kids are anything other than bright and privileged but ultimately pretty average kids. But how did that poster know her child is above average in spatial reasoning, for instance? Is this measured and tested in more academic preschools or daycares, or is this something people are testing or measuring at home? I grew up in a pretty rural Midwest town, and now live in the DMV, where parenting is much more hands on, so sometimes I just don’t know what I don’t know.
Following up on the discussions of how much free time and when…How much time at home do you get? Is it enough?
For years I felt nearly homebound (although I mostly didn’t mind), with pandemic, then multiple rounds of maternity leave, then the welcome-to-daycare flu seasons. Then I added a weekly family hobby and weeklyish library outings, both arranged 100% to suit my schedule. Of course I felt completely overwhelmed and never got the house clean, but I was so sleep deprived and virus-laden it was a blur.
Recently (aka, this week), we’ve switched to a different family hobby, dipped a toe in the world of rec sports for oldest, and I started a new hobby (which I am loving so much I may stick with it much longer than I expected). I’m lucky that there really aren’t any schedule conflicts, but none of the new activities are convenient or flexible.
I came home last night and realized every single room looks like a bomb went off. I wanted to wind down with a cup of tea (because I arrived home later than my usual bedtime) but I could not find a chair to sit in or a mug to drink from without cleaning (ugh). On the other hand, maybe this is just the aftermath of spring break, a birthday, and Easter all in quick succession?
Mostly I’m just curious how other people live. But I’m also trying to decide if I should buckle down for a busy month, or accept this is going to be my new normal and make appropriate sacrifices.
Thanks to everyone for the responses yesterday, I read them all later in the day. The strong consensus against starting K at 6.5 snapped me back to a common sense, when unfortunate family pressure and an overly permissive school system had started to succeed at gaslighting me. I am still worried school will be extra challenging for him, but will start things at the usual ages and adjust as necessary.
This may be controversial, but parents of middle schoolers: would you leave your child alone in a hotel in a foreign city while you go out to dinner/drinks in an adjacent neighborhood?
We are in a big city in a foreign-to-us country, on vacation. Friends are also here staying about 15 min from us. They are local to this country but also visiting the city on vacation. They invited us out for a late dinner/drinks in their neighborhood. DH thought we could leave our two kids under 12 alone in the hotel (eldest is super responsible, used to staying home alone with little sibling), but I think this is too much (what if something happened to us? What if there is an earthquake or a fire?) If we were in our own country I’d be unsure, but would probably do it. But I was a hard-no given that in a foreign country we and kiddo are less familiar with the protocols around emergencies, there’s no neighbor or relative to call, and seems like an unnecessary risk. DH deferred to me and we declined, but also he thinks I was being paranoid and missed an opportunity to go out with locals for an adult night in the city and I think he was being reckless and self serving. Would you have done it?
Please send all the good vibes today! My younger kid (5) has another visit at the school he’s waitlisted at.
I think my grandmother had these pants in 1983.