Everyone Thursday: Hidden Pocket Scarf
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The handy thing about wearing a heavy winter jacket is that you have pockets to stash your stuff if you want to go somewhere without taking a huge bag (or even a smaller one), but as spring arrives you’ll be relying more on pockets in pants and dresses. (At least, I will!) Another option to consider: A lot of Etsy sellers make scarves with hidden pockets, like this one from seller Amboo. They’re designed especially for people who are traveling and want to keep their passport and money close at hand, but they’re also great if you want to run out to the library and keep your card on you, or you don’t want to lose your gym card, or you want to keep a $20 on you in case you need it. These are always a good option for spring and some have fun prints. Hidden Pocket Scarf
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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+
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?
So helpful, thanks so much to you both.
Hi everyone, I’m due in June (In Texas) and was gifted some baby clothes. Most are short sleeve body suits, but I have 4 long sleeve 0-3 month bodysuits. Should I gift the long sleeves to a friend in Boston that just had a new baby? I just don’t know if long sleeve body suits (even if we stay in AC at home) are too hot for a summer baby in Texas…
I was also gifted some baby hats. Do babies wear hats in the summer at home or should I gift that to my friend in Boston as well?
We use the IKEA ones with wheels, and an actual bag inside (big nylon bags like laundromats sell). We are wheeling ours down the hall to the laundry room, but you could easily just lift the bag out of any stand you like and leave the stand upstairs. IKEA blue bags with the long straps are also good for carrying laundry.
Laundry hamper recommendations? We need a new one for our bedroom (2 adults–I have a separate basket for delicates/hand wash so don’t necessarily need something with multiple sections, but open to it), plus one for baby’s room. Laundry is down 1 flight of stairs, so nothing too heavy. Whenever I browse, nothing really seems quite right, so hoping you all will have some suggestions.
Bottle strike number 2 over here. My daughter has drank less than 10 oz of milk the last three days at daycare. She did get another 4 oz every day mixed in with cereal and her purees, but this means we are nursing for hours at night. She’s 7 months. Is this a teething thing? I’m going to try another brand of sippy cup tonight.
Bottle strike number 2 over her. My daughter has drank less than 10 oz of milk the last three days at daycare. She did get another 4 oz every day mixed in with cereal and her purees, but this means we are nursing for hours at night. She’s 7 months. Is this a teething thing? I’m going to try another brand of sippy cup tonight.
Am I the only one who is celebrating DST and the lovely sunlight-til-7 right now? Does it really mess up schedules that much? I mean, my son is a toddler who can’t tell time, and sleeps the same amount each night. We tired him out on Sunday afternoon, proceeded with bedtime maybe 15-20 minutes later, and all was fine. In fact, he’s slept through the night for the whole last week, the first time that’s happened in his life!
Here’s a related wardrobe question (the answer might be “big colorful scarf”) but what do you do when you’re at a meeting and the name tags are supposed to clip onto your shirt pocket or blazer, but you’re a woman wearing a high necked dress? That’s pretty much what I always wear to conferences and it’s appropriate for the setting except I have to have the name tag like way up by my head, and it’s awkward. Surely there must be a work around?!
A really fun thing to do is take a vacation where you’re away several nights from your 8 month old, then make sure you get back on Daylight Savings Time day. The next step is to have your regular child care cancel at the last minute because they are stranded out of town due to snow, so your baby is watched by four separate entities over three days. It’s extra fun when you have to leave work early or during the middle of the day to transport your baby from one place to the other.
Observe how his nap times no longer follow rules! Watch him drink twice as much pumped milk per day than he normally does! Enjoy the fact that he now wakes up an hour earlier than usual! Thrill to the experience of apologizing and gratefully thanking everyone helping you out this week! Race home an extra time because while you packed all your pump parts, you forgot the actual pump that you took on vacation! Ignore the 150 emails that you have not had time to get to because you have had meetings all week when you’re not moving the baby around!
Please, please be Friday soon. Please.
So we don’t do family dinner (toddler and a baby) and I feel like we get more quality time with the kids without it? Nanny does dinner at 5:30 before we get home, then when we get home we go play outside, do a project, mess around, then bath and bed. I’d rather do this fun stuff with them than dinner – then we eat dinner after they are down. On weekends we do all meals as a family, and we sometimes take them to a restaurant one night a week, so I know they can sit down for meals with us and be good.
Am I crazy? Should we be doing dinner with the toddler? When did you guys start doing dinner together? I think the nanny thing really informs our approach obviously… It’s just that we both get home at 6 and COULD do dinner together, we just kind of choose not to?!
Experienced working moms, please help!
After being waitlisted for daycare since last spring, DS was finally accepted by 2 daycares this week. I’m at a loss which one to chose.
Option 1: Directly at my office, via my employer. 1 hour commute from home (15 minutes walk plus 45 minutes high speed train) in another city. No outside playground. Bilingual via immersion program in both my husband’s and my first languages. Closes for 3 weeks in summer and 1 week around New Year’s. Start date would make it necessary to extend my already generous 12 months maternity leave by one month.
Option 2: Via DH’s employer. 15 minutes from home (5 minutes walk plus 10 minutes subway) and 20 minutes from DH’s office (but both DH’s and my commute are in the opposite direction). No set vacation times, but kid has to be out of daycare for 4 weeks total each year, agreed upon in advance at the beginning of the year. Bilingual via teachers visiting in the afternoons. Outside play area. Would need to extend my mat leave by 2 months.
Both DH and I work similar hours and do not travel a lot for our jobs ( maybe 2 days per month).
2) seems the logical option, but I am suddenly having second thoughts about DS being an hour away. DS will be 13 or 14 months when starting daycare.
WWYD?
Also – my MIL gave me a Tile. I am not sure what to put it on. I have a system for keys and wallet, and have find my phone set up. How do you all use yours?
Piggybacking off yesterday’s post: can we talk about yelling and the chaos that is dinnertime with two toddlers? I try so hard to do family dinner probably 3-4 nights a week (Saturdays, Sundays, and twice during the week). DH and I end up yelling and having to enforce a time out (3yo) or putting the 19mo old in a booster seat (which he hates because 3yo doesn’t have one) probably 75% of those nights. The kids just turn into total mess monkeys (throwing food, climbing on the table, getting down and running around with sticky hands). Trust me when I say we do not permit any of this behavior. How do you all keep the peace, both external and internal? I feel like it isn’t too much to expect that everyone sit and eat their food – am I wrong? We read books to keep them entertained.
Time change question. We had gotten into a decent bedtime and nap routine before the time change. Since the time change, sleeping and toileting is just a mess. Kiddo (age 3) used to be asleep by 8, but now it’s closer to 9:45, even though we’re starting bedtime at 7:30. She used to take a 1.5-2 hr nap at preschool, but hasn’t napped all week. To make matters worse, I think it’s thrown off her p**p timing, which used to be just before bedtime; she’s been constipated all week, and trying to work things out at bedtime, which delays bedtime further.
I also set her OK to Wake clock half an hour back (from 6:30 to 7) because I thought she was waking up prematurely; now she’s regularly sleeping until 7:30, and if the clock didn’t turn green, I think she’d sleep until 8.
Any suggestions? We have black out curtains that are very effective (I can get her room super dark even for mid-day naps), so it’s not a daylight issue.
When do kids stop napping? I am trying to figure out Fall preschool for my 3 year old. He will be 3.5 when preschool starts. We are on the waitlist for every preschool’s morning session, but there are openings for the afternoon sessions. Right now he naps from 1-4 when he is home about about 1-2:30 or so when he is at daycare. Could he be ready to be napless by the fall?