Accessory Tuesday: Heart Necklace
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I love the simplicity of this heart necklace from Cloverpost. When I saw it up close, I wasn’t sold, but when I saw it on the 20.5″ chain it became more modern and of the moment.
I like the elongated heart shape with the shallow indentation and appreciate the restraint of the design. With the length being on the longer side, it would be nice layered with other gold necklaces, but I’d probably wear it solo as shown.
The necklace is available at Shopbop for $75. Heart Necklace
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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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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- 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?
A Tuesday laugh for everyone: husband just got me a pair of fancy wireless headphones. I was wearing them while cleaning and set one down on the counter so I could talk to him. Less than 3 minutes later, the earbud wasn’t where I had left it.
I looked on the counter. I looked on the shelf. I went through the mail basket. I asked my 4 year old and he hadn’t seen my headphones. I ended up looking (effectively deep cleaning my kitchen) for 2 hours, with my husband helping for an hour. I was really upset at myself – I hadn’t even owned these 72 hours and one is missing??
Well, as a Hail Mary, I take the other earbud over to my 4 year old and ask him if he’s seen one of these. “Oh, that’s my Tracker!” Uhh… REALLY. Buddy, have you seen one?
“Oh, yeah! I took it into the car when daddy was moving the carseat and it fell on the floor where my carseat was yesterday.” He then took Daddy outside and GUESS WHAT WE FOUND. Yep.
Facepalm.
Are you all taking your kids to playgrounds? The playgrounds in my county are all closed, but I just learned that the parks in a neighboring county have been open all summer. Playgrounds are a mere 15 minutes away.
My little one is great about her mask and even in the Before Times I went to playgrounds at times when they were empty. Any thoughts?
My son is really interested in family photos and is asking about people who have passed on, in particular, my SIL in who passed earlier this year. They had met a few times and he has vague memories of riding on toy tractors but we haven’t figured out how to explain that she’s no longer with us. Any advice? Due to covid, we aren’t seeing any family so people are a bit abstract to him to begin with.
As somoene who has been a broke single mom before, I know what I’m about to say reeks of so much privilege it’s not even funny, but I can’t help it.
I really really really do not like having a nanny. It’s what we have chosen to do right now, because I’m immunosuppressed, but I DON’T LIKE IT. I dread even the most basic “we’d like for there to be less screen time during the day” conversations, but them I resent that I’m handing over half of my income to someone that isn’t doing what I want, which is unfair of me. It’s such a sellers market for nannies right now though, it took weeks and weeks to find this one. I hate having to interact with someone every time I emerge to use the bathroom. I just hate it. I never fantasized about having one, I know financially and in a pandemic it is a luxury but that makes it worse. Our childcare costs will now be at least $20,000 more for the upcoming year. We’re fortunate that we can swing that, of course, (lol never retiring looking forward to dropping dead at my desk at 80) and I’m so thankful that we can, but I just really do not like it.
PS thanks to whoever recommended blossom and root last week. I bought it and put it in a binder and talked about it with the nanny. Fingers crossed.
Any thoughts on long term disability insurance? My old job offered it, and since I’ve switched jobs I have to decide whether to keep paying for it on my own.
My six-year-old has always been a pretty decent sleeper, but things seem to have gone off the rails recently, and I’m close to losing my mind. She wakes up in the night between 2 and 4 and just…will not go back to sleep. This happens about once a week. She does not seem to be especially anxious, although life is weird for everyone right now and I expect she has internalized some of that. Any suggestions for encouraging her to go back to bed? We have been having her read/play quietly in her room so that my husband and I can at least rest, but that is only successful about 50% of the time.
Thank you all for your kind words last week. It has been a rough few days, but It will get easier, and I have a lot to be thankful for.
if you have young kids who you still carry/pick up a lot, how do you stop them from touching your mask? i keep reminding mine not to touch it, but inevitably sometimes they brush against it, do i just wash their hands right away? i guess if the idea is to treat the mask as if it is covered with covid, it makes me anxious to be holding my kids wearing one, but i don’t see another option?
HELP. My daughter is turning 6 on Sunday and her birthday plans have been upended. We were supposed to have a small family gathering (outdoors) last weekend, but my dad was in the hospital so we canceled. He is thankfully doing better but I don’t feel good about trying to re-host something this weekend. He’s still pretty vulnerable to infection. Any great ideas for making it feel fun and special, even if we forgo the party? I will still make a cake and her favorite meal, but it seems kinda lame. :(
I am so over the many big and small disappointments of 2020.
If there’s anyone who is looking for a carseat-safe coat for little OR big kids, let me throw out my recommendation for the Lands End primaloft jacket. I bought one for each kid and they rave about how soft and fluffy it is. And it’s not fluffy at all — it’s pretty darn flat and compressible IMO — but it has the channel quilting and seems very cozy. I wouldn’t use this for deep winter, but it’ll be great for late fall/early winter/early spring. It is very reasonably priced, especially on sale (and LE is running sales now).
i just read that they are re-launching golden girls with black actresses. that’s cool except when i realized the actresses cast are people i consider to be in my age range!!! Tracee Ellis Ross! Come on! They just had her having a baby on blackish not too long ago!
I just experienced two chemical pregnancies in a row. Essentially, I had positive pregnancy tests with progressively fainter test lines, then my periods started one week late. I have a call scheduled for my doctor later today, but just wanted to know if anyone has undergone anything similar? How did it turn out for you?
feeling kind of sad today with all the back to school pics. we made the decision to keep our two year old twins home with our nanny this year instead of starting them in preschool. we had been hoping to meet more people bc we are newish to our area and i know that even if we had sent them this year its not like i’d be meeting new people since parents can’t go into the classroom. i felt like we were finally making headway in making more friends here, but it was like one step forward, three hundred steps back to go covid
This weekend we tried to move my 5 year old from her carseat to a booster seat. I didn’t think the booster seat was that wide, but when we put it in the car it overshadows the passenger side buckle and we have to use the center buckle to fasten the seat belt (booster seat is in the passenger side seat). Is it safe to have it buckled like that? It also means that she can’t buckle herself in, or undo it herself. The booster seat is Graco, do I need a narrower one?
I feel like a tiny bit of a failure. DD is almost 2.5. We (inadvertently?) relied on daycare to help force some transitions (bottle to sippy cup, 2 naps to one, etc). She’s now with a nanny full time and it occurred to me that I have no idea when to do potty training. She also uses a pacifier for sleep only. She’s also still in her crib.
I just ordered a training seat and step stool for our toilet. She’s expressed some interest/curiosity and nanny is more than willing to tackle potty training with us, but what about the other stuff? She’s not going to be 5 and in her crib with her binky, right? Kidding… mostly.
She’s also insanely strong willed and every bit as much of terrible twos as you could imagine right now. (Where did my sweet child go??) The thought of reading a book right now about child behavior/development is laughable given we have zero – nay, negative – downtime right now given 2 WFH very full time jobs and said strong-headed 2YO. Any quick sound bites or blogs or books that are easy to digest as we think about implementing time outs, setting boundaries and consequences and all that fun stuff?