Makeup & Beauty Monday: Hydro Boost Facial Moisturizer
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Now that we’re in the middle of fall, I’m stocking up on some of my favorite moisturizers.
Neutrogena’s Hydro Boost is one I buy over and over again. Clearly, I’m not the only one — it has tens of thousands of five-star reviews. Its hyaluronic acid draws in moisture and locks it in, immediately quenching your skin.
This gel moisturizer absorbs quickly, yet moisturizes like your favorite cream. It’s also perfect for wearing under makeup.
Neutrogena’s Hydro Boost is $17.54 at Amazon and $17.59 at Target.
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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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?
Specific light coat recommendations for a toddler for 40-50 degree weather? A sweatshirt is too light, and our puffy coats are too heavy. Thank you!
Does anyone use a very part-time nanny/sitter to pick children up from daycare and hang out with them for an hour or so while you/your partner are wrapping up your day/commuting home? I’m thinking of looking for something like this (a few days per week or every day) but feel nervous about someone else driving my LO around. I’m curious to hear about your experience if you have tried something like this.
Given our commute times and work locations and that our daycare still isn’t back to regular operating hours (and I’m on the wait list for every place within a reasonable distance that has longer hours), I feel like this is something we may need.
October through early November is one of my busiest work seasons, every single year. Sitting here at my desk, bitter that I’m not spending fall break with my kids. Could I technically take the day off? Sure, but I can’t really afford to lose a day of work at this point. Instead, I tried to fit in all the fall break activities over the weekend, on top of the normal weekend chores, and I am beyond exhausted today. Sometimes working parenthood really effing sucks.
Working mom poll:
Our school district has half day Thursdays basically every other week. There is no after school on those half days, so working parents just have to…figure it out. It stinks, there is complaining every year, but that’s how it goes.
Due to crazy weekend schedules with sports and family stuff, those half day Thursdays have become a pretty common day to have a birthday party. My oldest is in 3rd grade and COVID notwithstanding it’s been like this since she was in K. One parent will “take the bullet” so to speak and host a party, everyone else gets to drop off their kids and have their Thursday afternoon back.
Anyway, I just sent an invite out for my kid’s b’day which is on a half day in November. Of the 15 kids we invited, at least half have dual-full-time-working families; almost all have two working parents (but some are part time). I just got a decline from one parent (mom) with a note saying “We cannot attend. I work full time.”
I’m not sure how (if) to respond. Lady, I know people work. I work full time too. I took the afternoon off to host. If I do a b’day party on a Saturday, 75% of the kids can’t come due to activities or family stuff. Other parents tend to have nannies/sitters during this time, send the kids outside to play with neighbors, or rotate houses for playdates. Of the kids coming, 5 kids are coming with one parent driving. We are bringing 4 kids home.
I say nothing, right? I’m wondering if it’s the first time that her kid has been invited to a mid-week party like this, though that would be really surprising since she’d have had to make it through K and 3/4 through 1st without that happening.
Posting here on suggestion from the main board. I have serious fertility issues that mean my options are donor eggs, adoption, fostering or remaining child free. For those who were in a similar situation, how did you make the decision? Any advice? Everyone I know has children genetically related to them so I don’t have a good model for any of the other options.
Talk to me about tasks and errands I can outsource to a woman who babysits occasionally for us and is super trustworthy. I’m taking on a new leadership role at work, expecting our second baby early next year and want to avoid all errands on weekends. I also have a chronic health issue that makes me tired and it’s not possible energy-wise to run errands during the week. I have good childcare, good grocery delivery and a cleaning person, so really looking for all the other recurring and ad hoc errands that are escaping my pregnancy brain today.
What’s been a hit with your kids for after a game snacks? Bringing them tomorrow for my first grade daughter – Gatorade’s and rice Krispy treats were big but don’t want to do the same thing as everyone else!
Would love some anec-data from other moms. I am currently 15 weeks pregnant with my third. I’m struggling because I just feel huge this pregnancy. This baby happens to have the exact same due date as my first, so I can look back at those weekly bump photos (yes, I was that kind of pregnant lady six years ago…?) and see how I compare. I can’t believe how pregnant I look this early! I know they say you show faster with each pregnancy, but this fees ridiculous. I wasn’t ready to tell people until all of my genetic tests come back, but….I am very visibly pregnant.
Did you look much bigger with your third plus kids? How did you hide it???
Nobody can really hide it by 15 weeks unless they are very apple-shaped when not pregnant. People politely pretend they don’t notice.
I know this has been answered in the past, but search is failing me. We’re in the middle of transitioning our 12-month old off of formula and bottles. We give milk in a sippy cup at meals and she drinks a bottle of whole milk at bedtime. She was previously sleeping through the night but now wakes up around 2am screaming – and won’t stop unless she gets another bottle of milk! How do I get this to stop??
We finally got hit with a covid quarantine. Grateful that it is the first but, of course, less than an hour after my husband goes to get the kids, my boss blows up and demands way more detail than usual in a presentation that I didn’t have handy. So now I have no child care and MORE work.
And I had been having a superb morning. At least I had that first hour of joy!
My mom had a small stroke this weekend, she seems to be doing great, but in ICU for observation. She’s 67, a widow, and still working. However, she misses a lot of work due to health reasons and has worked maybe 1 day in the last 3 months. I know it’s time to have some serious conversations with her as the responsible/lawyer child. What questions should I be asking? I want to persuade her to retire, transfer her house to a TOD deed, ask about final plans/wishes. What am I missing? She’s an open book if I ask the right questions, but doesn’t volunteer anything.
Covid-cautious moms, how are you handling babysitters? Are you having them? I am desperate for a date night but the babysitter is the hangup. We have no family in the area. Our closest friends have small children in different schools. Obviously we would require a sitter be vaccinated. Our kid is good about wearing a mask, and we’d ask a sitter to wear a mask too. But that’s more or less impossible at bedtime, I don’t know that it’s reasonable or sane to ask my kid to go to bed In a mask.