Family Friday: Heirloom Gingerbread Organic-Cotton Baby Pajama Set
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I never thought about looking at Pottery Barn Kids for pajamas, but I need to start, because they have some cute ones like these.
These over-the-top adorable, gingerbread baby pajamas would be perfect for holiday photos. Made from 100% organic cotton, these PJs have embroidered peppermints, lace trim, and a matching hat. There are even matching pajamas for kids and grown-ups (lucky sizes only).
Run, run as fast as you can to get these baby pajamas on sale for $23. They’re available in sizes 6-9 months to 18-24 months.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
I’m so blindly furious at my husband today I feel like anything I say to him will be destructive to our marriage and I don’t know how to dig ourselves out of this mess. Sorry, this is a novel.
We have a 3 year old and a 1 year old and have fallen into the common “young kids are hard” pattern where we both feel overworked and unappreciated. We’ve been muddling through.
He went away for a friends trip last week and has had a stressful week at work this week. On top of the solo parenting, I’ve been doing all the holiday kin keeping and magic making. We’re flying out to spend the holidays with my parents/family this weekend. I’ve been doing all the laundry/packing/plane planning.
My Mom has dementia, fell and broke her hip recently, and my Dad found out this week his PSA is rapidly rising so he possibly has prostate cancer.
Last night I yelled at my husband that he needs to stop complaining about this trip and start helping prepare for it. He yelled back that it’s been a busy week at work and I never appreciate him or what he does.
I am just still so ragey. Like, way past this one argument about prepping for the trip. I don’t know. I just, don’t know.
Another teacher gift question – we got my daughter’s first grade teacher a box of her favorite candy and an envelope that had cards from both us and our kiddo along with a $25 gift card. The teacher wrote both me and kiddo thank you notes but only mentioned the candy. Would you say anything? I don’t want to be like “you insufficiently appreciated my gift!” but I’m kind of worried the gift card didn’t make it to her.
Has anyone traveled to Banff with young kids? We’re considering a trip in August with our 2 and 4 year olds. I really enjoy national park type of trips and we used to do a ton before kids and haven’t attempted anything since. We also haven’t done Yosemite or Acadia but I’m drawn to Banff! Would love some tips. The timing is not flexible as that’s our preschools planned week off.
A random pre-holiday update :) I posted about a week ago about making a firm break with a very long (and honestly beloved) habit of my daughters sleeping on mattresses on the floor in our upstairs bedroom. My husband and I moved to a room downstairs, and my daughters are sleeping upstairs. I had posted bc I was struggling ending what was, honestly, a pretty happy set-up for us, and worried it would cut down on some family closeness that we shared.
A week in, and I’m so glad we did it. If I’m being honest, I still have a moment right before I fall asleep that I miss the physical presence of my kids being close by, but overall, everyone is happier. Bedtime is SO easy bc the kids (and all their stuff) is in one place, rather than running to get clothes from a downstairs bedroom, then upstairs to brush teeth, then pulling out a mattress and putting down blankets, etc.
Most importantly (and I left this out of my original post intentionally bc I thought it would derail the post, which was that I was having some sadness at changing this up but knew I needed to do it for the kids), but my 9 year old is thriving under the new set-up. She has severe OCD, and her most persistent intrusive thought over the last two years has been an intruder breaking into her room while she sleeps. She got to a point in the last six months where she was physically incapable of sleeping in a room on the first floor and without a parent and her dog in our upstairs bedroom. So, breaking the habit wasn’t as simple as it would be for a non-ND kiddo (like my 11 year old, who was completely agnostic about where she slept). It was ultimately her therapist that advised we move downstairs and she stay upstairs with her sister, as that was the right amount of exposure to the intrusive thought (no parent or dog in the room to keep you safe from an intruder), without totally removing the scaffolding (she’s upstairs and her sister is in the room too). We can continue to scale too – when her sister is ready for her own space, she can come downstairs to the other bedroom on the first floor, and perhaps we can switch rooms back at some point in the future.
You guys, this is the real win of the move. She is SO PROUD OF HERSELF that for the first time in about a year, she’s sleeping in a bed (not a mattress), she falls asleep as soon as she gets in bed (not waiting for a parent to go to bed), and she’s sleeping so much better. It’s hard for me to put into words what a true win this is for her.
I still struggle with some guilt that we aren’t all on the same floor, as I wonder if this ever would have become an intrusive thought for her if she didn’t go through a period of sleeping in a room alone on the first floor. I try to remind myself that OCD means your brain pours out anxiety like you are pouring out a pitcher of water, and if the bedroom set-up hadn’t been an issue, the “water” would have found another hole to fill. But regardless, I’m taking the win for now, but also am exhausted b/c I’ve gone back to a VERY old and very bad habit of staying up way late for revenge bedtime bc no one is waiting for me to go to bed!!
Idk if my friend reads this blog, but I had to share bc I think it’s such an amazing example- i just learned my friend (a woman, who is also a doctor as her job) is the den leader of her son’s all boy Cub Scout troop.
Hi Internet Friends! Work has been wild and I’ve missed you all. Everyone surviving the lead up to winter break?
Tonight, husband and I have a date planned where the kids go to grandparents over night. Last night, we mutually decided to skip our previous plans (dinner and a movie) in lieu of good takeout, fancy cocktails at home, and wrapping all our Christmas gifts while watching It’s a Wonderful Life and sipping said cocktails in our sweats.
The theme of our Christmas is ‘Good Enough’ in terms of gifting. How are you all surviving?