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Something on your mind? Chat about it here. How is it Memorial Day already — and which sales are you most excited about as a working mom? (Are you traveling with your family at all? Picnicking? Grilling? Doing anything in particular to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military?) On the sale front, as you may have noticed, we did our big roundup of the clothes for work in the Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale that just started — but there are a TON of their best-selling denim styles on sale as well, including jeans from AG, Paige, Articles of Society, Wit & Wisdom, and more. AG jeans (particularly the Stilt and Farrah) are consistently bestsellers, and these medium blue ones look great for a variety of situations. This particular pair of jeans was $188, but the pair is now marked to $154, with a good range of sizes left. Pictured: The Stilt Cigarette Leg Jeans This post contains affiliate links and Corporette® may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support!Sales of note for 4.18.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 50% off full-price dresses, jackets & shoes; $30 off pants & skirts; extra 50% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything; extra 20% off purchase
- Eloquii – 50% off select styles; 60% off swim; up to 40% off everything else
- J.Crew – Mid-Season Sale: Extra 60% off sale styles; up to 50% off spring-to-summer styles
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Spring Mid-Season Sale: Up to 50% off 100s of styles
- Nordstrom: Free 2-day shipping for a limited time (eligible items)
- Talbots – Spring Sale: 40% off + extra 15% off all markdowns; 30% off new T by Talbots
- Zappos – 29,000+ 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 – Up to 70% off baby items; 50% off toddler & kid deals & 40% off everything else
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off spring faves; 25% off new arrivals; up to 30% off spring
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Up to 60% off sale styles; up to 50% off kids’ spring-to-summer styles
- Old Navy – 30% off your purchase; up to 75% off clearance
- Target – Car Seat Trade-In Event (ends 4/27); BOGO 25% off select skincare products; up to 40% off indoor furniture; up to 20% off laptops & printers
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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- If you’re a working parent of an infant with low sleep needs, how do you function at work when you’re in the throes of baby’s sleep regression?
- Should I cut my childcare down to 12 hours a month if I work from home?
- Will my baby have speech delays if we raise her bilingual?
- Has anyone given birth in a teaching hospital?
- My child eats everything, and my friends’ kids do not – how should I handle? In general, what is the best way to handle when your child has some skill/ability and your friend’s child doesn’t have that skill/ability?
- ADHD moms, give me your tips to help with things like behavior in the classroom, attention to detail, etc?
- I think I suffer from mom rage…
- My husband and kids are gone this weekend – how should I enjoy my free time?
- I’m struggling to be compassionate with a SAHM friend who complains she doesn’t have enough hours of childcare.
- If you exclusively formula fed, what tips do you have for in the hospital and coming home?
- Could I take my 4-yo and 8-yo on a 7-8 day trip to Paris, Lyon, and Madrid?
Anonymous says
Eeesh – just realized that when a mom friend texted “what are you doing Labor Day Weekend” and we made plans to drive 3 hours with our families to go to a nearby town with roller coasters and a children’s museum, that she meant “Memorial Day” … and we only realized after she had booked the rooms with the “one week cancellation” policy. GAAAH. I told her I’m good for our half of whatever (we’re really busy this weekend with other family things) but I’m annoyed that she was the one who made the mistake. Just venting. Sigh.
EE says
AAHHHHHH. She should really be offering to eat that unless she absolutely can’t afford to. That’s quite a mistake.
KSM says
Talk to me about surviving a second pregnancy… I’m only six weeks at this point and I already feel like I’m dying through the combo of pregnancy exhaustion which has ALREADY got me floored, early pregnancy insomnia, a nasty cold, seasonal allergies, chasing around an almost 15 month old, breastfeeding, working an intense full time job and commuting 2.5 hrs a day. Oh, and I’m in the middle of the largest project of my career which is perfectly timed to be in high gear through the end of my first trimester. I have the world’s most supportive partner, but I genuinely don’t know how I’m going to make it through the next few months because I CANNOT work any less than about 50 hrs a week for the next 8 weeks or so, and will need to be in the office for the vast majority of that. The advice I keep reading is stuff like “take naps during the day” and “go to bed as soon as your 1st kid does” and other stuff that just doesn’t seem possible with my life. How do Corporette Moms do it???
ER says
The second pregnancy is hard. Can you stop breastfeeding? I would stop breastfeeding and stay/eat dinner at the office 2-3 nights a week, if your partner is supportive. Working through dinner will give you some extra time. I worked way more than 50 hrs/week during my second pregnancy (but I didn’t have a long commute and had a relatively easy pregnancy). As soon as the nausea subsided even a little bit I started hitting the coffee pretty hard. It goes down easier as a latte with some sugar rather than black drip coffee.
KSM says
Having a couple late nights in the office is brilliant. Already talked to my husband, and he’s good with it. Great recommendation!
I’m not sure how easily I’ll be able to give up breastfeeding and which one would be easier/harder at this point. I’m down to nursing only at bedtime, sometimes in the morning before work, and if he wakes up in the middle of the night (because it takes 15 min to get him back to sleep if I nurse, vs. an hour if I don’t), which maybe happens 1-2 times a week. He is SUPER into nursing though, and it definitely seems like more work to wean than to just stay the course. That said, I know it is harder on my body that I’m both growing a baby and creating milk for another at the same time… Ugh, I just don’t know which is better at this point :-/
lawsuited says
Following. I’m 9 weeks and the exhaustion, throwing up and unmedicated flu is hitting me like a ton of bricks.
au pair scheduling q says
We’re hiring an au pair primarily for the flexibility she will afford our lives (mornings, evenings, weekends). Any suggestions for how to keep track of her scheduled hours? (Google calendar, or wall calendar, for example?)
Anonymous says
I’m going to be Chicago next weekend with a four month old – any suggestions for things to do? She’s obviously too young for kids museums or playgrounds so I guess I’m asking more for stuff that I might like to do where i could bring a baby.
For KSM says
Wow, you are amazing!
But you need to extinction sleep train your kid this week. The nasty truth that the attachment people never talk about is that kids are black holes. We all instinctively know that letting our kids watch as much TV as they want will rot their brains; letting them eat as much candy as they want will make them vomit; letting toddlers eat as much bread as they want will result in f’ing rickets.
Your toddler needs to learn to soothe themself before the baby comes or they will always blame the baby for taking you away. Sleep train now!
anon says
Helping out a 15 month old who’s getting up in the night once or twice a week is exactly the same as letting them watch infinite TV and infinite candy, yes.
Reading about everything this person has going on, I don’t think eliminating 1 15-minute toddler wakeup a week is going to solve her problem.
anon says
If she wants to sleep train, then by all means she should, but that really doesn’t sound like the biggest problem to solve here.
Really?? says
Really it’s more that her 15 month old is going to hate / resent their younger sibling forever, but yeah enjoy trying to put limits on your kid when they reach whatever arbitrary age you feel like. Is it 16? 18? 24? At least do the rest of us a favor and make sure your kid entitled to your body and not my kids’.
KSM says
For what it’s worth, I don’t think I would say that my son isn’t sleep trained. He sleeps consistently from 7:30 to 6:30 every night, with a reliable nap between 12:30 and 3pm. He frequently makes little noises at night or fusses for a bit and puts himself back to sleep fine independently. Once or twice a week he doesn’t seem to be able to put himself back to sleep though (which, honestly, is likely driven by discomfort or teething pain as he has been CONSTANTLY sick with head colds and/or teething for like 9 months), and that’s when our options are either for me to go in and nurse (which generally puts him back down in 15 min, often with an ibuprofen dose if he seems to need it) or trying to comfort him without nursing (which takes FOREVER, even if we also give him the ibuprofen dose). I had been thinking of that more as a night weaning thing than a sleep training thing.