Holiday Weekend Open Thread
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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
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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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- 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?
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.
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???
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?)
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.
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!
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’.