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Sales of note for 4.18.24
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- Ann Taylor – 50% off full-price dresses, jackets & shoes; $30 off pants & skirts; extra 50% off sale styles
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- Carter’s – Up to 70% off baby items; 50% off toddler & kid deals & 40% off everything else
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Anon says
What fun activities do you have plan with the kids? We are staying local and trying to think fun ways to spend the long weekend.
Anonymous says
Well the Nutcracker is sold out so that blows one of my plans. But we might go cut a Christmas tree down. Other than that, we’re just kind of enjoying the down time. My kids have already built a fort. I’ll probably let them all sleep in it one night. We might go to a park, bake, or play Lego. Maybe I’ll put together a picnic one day.
Anon says
Doing a 5k Turkey Trot as a family, all the baking, lots of board games (my almost 6 year old is very into SORRY, which is super nostalgic for me since I loved it at her age), going to see a touring production of Frozen on Friday, and doing the external holiday lights on Sunday.
Boston Legal Eagle says
We’re going to Great Wolf Lodge Fri-Sun. Aka kid heaven.
Anon says
Fun, have a great time! I know three families going to GWL this weekend, lol. We were invited to join one of them but already had some plans we couldn’t move. Hopefully we can go next year. I think my kid would love it.
GCA says
Have fun! if you’re in MA, skip the onsite dining and head to Leominster.
Anonymous says
Ugh the food is SO BAD there. My expectations were low but it was worse than school cafeteria food, cold, and expensive.
Anonymous says
Cutting down a christmas tree, lots of baking. We took the kids ice skating last weekend and the oldest LOVED it, so that might be a nice option depending on weather where you are.
govtattymom says
We are going to the movies and will probably also go to an indoor playplace or the trampoline park. We have a membership to the trampoline park so it’s a nice “free” event. We may also go to the indoor pool. Enjoy your fun local weekend!
Anonymous says
We cut down our Christmas tree and decorate. Then we usually just hike or spend time outside :)
Anonymous says
Our kid has some horrible virus that is going around at school, which has wrecked many of our plans. If I avoid catching it I am spending Fri/Sat/Sun rehearsing and performing in the holiday pops concerts with our city’s professional symphony. Yes, that’s right. Holiday pops in November. Hallelujah, hallelujah, ha-lay-ay-lu-yah.
Anon says
Indiana Jones trilogy (one movie a night starting tomorrow) with my 9-year old. (Yes, I know there are more than three in the series now but I refuse to acknowledge it).
Anon says
Do most people actually have tomorrow off? I don’t, although it will be a WFH day that’s light on work since my kindergartner is home.
Anonymous says
I took it as leave. My company used to do a half day with offices closing at 1 but for some reason is not this year. My boss actually tried to schedule a 90 min meeting with her entire leadership team and a couple people outside our dept tomorrow afternoon. wtf? someone must have told her assistant that was a big party foul, because now it’s moved to next week. :)
Schools are off, though. today was a hard day, and now they’re out til Monday.
Anon says
WTF indeed!
Anonymous says
My husband and I both have early closures, our kids are home from school, so we’re WFH. Also light on work because pretty much everyone has checked out and the kids are home. Lots of thanksgiving prep happening!
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
I don’t, and both my kids are out of the house (DS #1 at the Y, DS #2 at preschool/daycare). It will be a lighter day for sure – I have 1-2 things on my work list, and hope to log off early to sneak in a workout.
DS #2’s school is closing at 4, so will pick him up around 3:30.
AwayEmily says
In the car en route to spend Thanksgiving with my in-laws…mildly stressed about having my chaotic 3-kid family around my two SILs with their perfectly behaved only children. But it will all be fine. Also — we checked out “playaway” tablets from the library that come pre loaded with a bunch of kid apps. Such a great option!
Boston Legal Eagle says
Enjoy! We had friends with an only child over on the weekend and the kids all had such a blast running around and chasing each other. I imagine it will be more noise than they’re used to, but I bet your only children nieces and nephews will love having some playmates!
Anony says
FWIW, I have an only child (okay, admittedly not a perfectly behaved one, but still), and both he and I LOVE the chaos when there are lots of other kids around. We like our quiet house day to day but it’s so nice to have a change from that too!
Anon says
Same, I have an (admittedly not particularly well-behaved) only and we love having a full and crazy house for a day or weekend! We also like leaving at the end of a holiday weekend and going home to our quiet house ;) but as a short term thing the chaos is very fun. I have four noisy kids at my house right now!
Anonymous says
I think all the kids will love to play together! We have 8 littles on one side of the family and it’s really fun for short stretches
AwayEmily says
You all are the best. Thanks for the reassurance and reminder that I should lean into the joyful chaos.
DLC says
Our library started carrying those playaway tablet too, and I love them! I can’t afford to get my kids each their own screen, so it’s a good alternative.
Anonymous says
Guarantee you that their onlies only seem perfectly behaved. Mine saves all of her threenager-ness for when it’s just her parents.
Anon says
Yeah, regardless of sibling status I take any observations (or parent brags) about the behavior of children who aren’t my own with a heaping spoonful of salt because many kids act differently when it’s just their nuclear family.
Anonymous says
So much this. I am constantly having people tell me how sweet, calm, and well-behaved my only child is. And I am like, are you sure you have the right kid?
Anon says
We’re in Florida on a trip organized by my in laws and they put our family of 6 (kids 2,4,7 and 8) in a ground floor room with a king bed, a half inflated full air mattress on a tile floor and a pack n play. And it has TWO doors including one sliding to the outdoors with the pool and a dock twenty feet away. I am really trying to be flexible here but we’ve been here a day and last night was pretty miserable. We aren’t leaving the kids alone in the room for obvious reasons, but I feel like we’re being tested by my MIL and it’s not cool.
Anon says
I can see why you don’t want to leave the kids alone in the room overnight, but if there’s another room for you to use can you send the older two kids there? Or have them bunk with cousins? That’s usually a huge thrill for kids that age.
OP says
Nope! No other room – only cousin bunking with his parents. Main living area being used late. No invitation to send a kid to sleep with grandparents! They have one bedroom per family but one sister is married with no kids and one sister married with just one kid (who’s on a trundle).
I think in general with six of us and kids 2-8 we have hit the point that two bedrooms is best for us (or yes an offer or space for one kid to sleep elsewhere). But even a room with a pull out sofa or two queens is fine. The full size air mattress is the real bummer here since it deflates a bit over night… We’re obviously fine but it’s not going to go down as my favorite thanksgiving!
Anonymous says
What even. We are a family of 5 and we are a 2-room family. Honestly we are most often a 3 room family because one of my kids has major sleep issues. But we just did a driving thanksgiving and got two hotel rooms each night, except the time we got a suite that had a bedroom, two queens in the main space, and a pull out couch that had its own nook for my bad sleeper. If we can’t afford that we don’t go.
Anon says
I mean, why are you staying there? They have the rooms that they have, if you don’t like it you could stay in a hotel or Airbnb.
Anon says
That sounds miserable. I don’t know the dynamic with your MIL, but you have my deepest sympathies! I’d be looking for a nearby Airbnb or at least an extra room at that hotel. If this is indeed some sort of in-law test, I’d happily fail and move on with my life.
Anonymous says
This is on your husband. He needs to talk to his mom about your family’s needs and see how/if they can be accommodated. Maybe your family needs to chip in a bit to up-size the place the family gathers. That’s often part of having a large family.