Make My Life Easier Thursday: Ice Cream Maker
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I’m not sure if an ice cream machine makes my life easier, but it does make it more joyful!
I got this machine from Cuisinart for my birthday, and I’m never buying another pint of ice cream again. I’ve never made my own ice cream before, and it’s absolutely magical — just some chilled milk, cream, sugar, salt, and flavoring (I haven’t tried a recipe with eggs yet), and in about 20 minutes, you have fresh ice cream!
This model from Cuisinart makes up to one-and-a-half quarts of ice cream, and the wide spout makes adding mix-ins easy. It also comes in seven colors so you can easily match your kitchen decor.
This ice cream maker is $69.99 for most colors and is available at Amazon.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- 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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Can anyone who works remotely with a nanny comment on how that is going? I love daycare in theory, but with short staffing and recent changes am scared that we won’t get through the next year, so exploring alternatives for our toddler. The biggest problem with a nanny is we don’t have a huge house and I’m afraid I’d be distracted by LO/LO would want me throughout the day.
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Hi All! I’m looking for a children’s book recommendation that explains/accepts/loves all family types. Last night my 5 year old (6 next week) asked all types of questions about families (why some kids have two daddies and two mommies), how two boys who marry each other have kids, follow up questions about adoption, whether families have to look alike, etc. I’m not an expert at explaining these concepts in the best way for a child to understand (although I try my best), and I don’t know what the typical language/definitions/explanations used in schools are. I just want to raise a kid who accepts everyone and knows that all kinds of familes are awesome. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance!
WWYD? My 3.5 year old has never used the potty successfully except a couple times when someone got her onto it mid-accident. At daycare’s urging, we sent underwear and they “trained” her to not go in her underwear and just use her diaper or pull-up at nap. But I’m not sure this is forward progress because she is still not using the potty at all. I’m also a little concerned about the physical implications of a 3 year old holding it for 5+ hours. Taking away the nap diaper just results in accidents – she’s plenty verbal and doesn’t like soiling herself, she’s fully aware pee and poop are supposed to go in the potty, but her fear of using the potty is apparently greater than her fear of accidents. I feel like at this point maybe we should just back off and try again in a few months (although that’s been our strategy for the better part of a year without much success) but daycare is happy that she’s in underwear and accident-free as long as she gets a pull-up for nap.
I have 2 kids too young to be vaxxed and my husband and I have been super careful through the whole pandemic, waiting for our kids to be vaxed. We’ve both been WFH, but he started going in one day a week a few weeks ago. Yesterday he said, btw, I’m going in to the office tomorrow for a work dinner that he thinks will be indoors. Its in NYC, which requires indoor diners to be vaxxed, so I know it isn’t the worst, but its totally unnecessary (this isn’t a dinner he needs to do to advance at work, he just doesn’t know how to say no). We haven’t eaten indoors since March 2020, so I feel like he should have discussed this with me, even if the end result would have been that he would go. Am I wrong to expect that?
Best easy-to-clean straw cup for milk for a 14 mo who likes to throw her cup on the floor when she’s done? (We’re working on that…) We’ve been using the Munchkin one, but I feel like it’s hard to get the straw really clean around the valve. Maybe I need something with a wider straw?
Family photo help! We’re getting our photos taken outdoors in November. It could be freezing, or it could be fairly nice. I’m going for a muted fall look. My daughter is wearing a plum/fig-colored sweater from Oshkosh with a floral dress (charcoal dress with lighter floral print). The rest of us (DS11, plus DH and I) are mostly blank slates. I have a light gray sweater dress that MIGHT work, but I worry that it might clash with the warmer tones in DD’s outfit. Both DS and DH have khaki pants and jeans.
I’ll put a link to the sweater in another post since it’ll go to mod.
The sweater: https://www.oshkosh.com/oshkosh-shop-kid-girl-clothes/V_3M047010.html
The print on the dress: https://www.oshkosh.com/oshkosh-shop-kid-girl-clothes/V_3M060613.html?oshkosh-xsellPDPYMAL1#zone=pdp-rr-2
My kids have a half-day today and no school tomorrow or Monday. Yay? Anyway, I just walked into my 10 year old son’s room, and it stinks. Not like a slight odor of something, but fully smells like I remember the boys dorms smelling in the freshman dorm kind of strong. He wears deodorant and showers everyday. What am I missing?