Splurge or Save Thursday: ICONS Charles Leather Blazer
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This splurge-worthy leather blazer does double duty — first as outerwear for cool days and second as a suit jacket for a relaxed office.
This buttery soft, relaxed-cut jacket is fully lined and has all the traditional suiting touches — double button closure, notched lapels, and flap pockets. Add jeans for a casual fall outing and tailored trousers for the office.
Rag & Bone’s ICONS Charles Leather Blazer is $995 at Nordstrom. It is available in beige and black, sizes 00–16 (most sizes only have a few available).
Sales of note for 2/7:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
- J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off one item + free shipping on $150+
DS #2 will be 2 next month. He has EI for general development support – a lovely worker comes 2x and month and plays games to encourage him to communicate/talk, follow directions, etc.
He didn’t qualify for OT, PT (we had gotten him in private before the EI eval for his late walking – he was walking after 2-3 appointments/at 19 months), or speech therapy at his eval but qualified by 1 point for this general developmental support. While he’s nowhere near the ~50 words for his age, he does have words, uses gestures, is learning words, and has 1-2 phrases.
Question for current/former EI parents: I’m just wondering…what are we waiting for? I’m thinking he’s a little delayed but nothing major, making progress, glad EI is here to monitor, but not sure what to look for in terms of outcomes.
Hey all,
I am going through a very rough patch at work and, while I want to stick it out, probably need to have an exit strategy. In the meantime…anybody have good stories of getting fired and coming out way better on the other side? Or using the excuse to take some time off and really figure out next steps?
Omg, my comment that wouldn’t post all morning has now posted 3x. Jeez. Sorry!!
Ideas for Thanksgiving weekend staying with my inlaws? I never enjoyed it much, but since LB arrived we haven’t gotten along at all. It’s in the suburbs, not baby-safed at all, and the only entertainment is constant screentime. Sometimes I can take care of errands during a visit, because they are right by the mall, but Black Friday makes that unappealing. Help me plan how to cope?
I have stuff-buyers in my family. Here are some suggestions for useful gifts that may check the “toy” box:
– Fun pajama sets & slippers (the obnoxious character kind). “Oh XXX is Kiddo’s fave character!”
– seasonal necessities that are also toys sleds– an awesome Christmas gift, accessories for a swing set, a sand box & toys, etc
– toy storage, such as a bookshelf or toy box
– things that are good filler/ more packages to open: craft/art supplies. Chalk, foam stickers, cardstock, coloring books, play doh, etc.
– fun but necessary items: rain coats/boots (Hartley used to have a unicorn color changing one. It was my 2year old’s best day ever when she got that, plus matching boots and an umbrella), hats/mittens/snow gear, lunch boxes& water bottles with their favorite characters on them, etc.
The good part about all of these suggestions is you can photograph your kid using/wearing them. Get a winter coat and you’ll see it on her all winter long.
I agree with others that if you need diapers, either make it a separate request (we cannot afford diapers, can you help us out?) or see local resources. Grandparent– especially those that love to give gifts– won’t wrap up diapers for a 1 year old to open on Christmas morning.
How would you handle this situation?
My 1st grader is in a classroom with two children that have pretty severe behavioral/emotional issues. One kid I know from preschool and he’s got severe emotional regulatory problems and will do things like scream/tantrum for 30+ minutes, threaten to (or actually) physically harm himself (bang against desk, jab himself with pencils/scissors that sort of thing). He has not yet been physically violent to other students but he is getting worse, not better, so it’s a concern to me as a parent.
The other child has physical outbursts/tantrums that have turned violent toward classmates. Yesterday he didn’t want to follow the teacher’s instructions so started running around the room throwing classroom objects. The teacher had pencils and markers thrown at her, my kid and several others were hit with flash cards, unifix cubes, etc. I wasn’t there so can’t be sure, but it seemed more like a tantrum in which he was throwing things and the people happened to be in the way, vs throwing them *at* people, if that makes sense. They had to “evacuate the classroom for safety reasons” aka the whole class left with the teacher while the school psychologist and another teacher stayed with the child having the tantrum.
Anyway, I have a meeting with the principal later today. My biggest concern is helping to get the teacher the support she needs to ensure my kid- and the other kids- feel like they are safe in their classroom. I’m annoyed that this is the 3rd or 4th time they have had to “evacuate the classroom for safety reasons” and yet only the first time we were told. I’m also bothered by the fact that there was not a second adult in the room when things went sideways, so the class had to wait for another adult to arrive before they could leave.
I have already talked to the classroom teacher– I had to reach out when the kid that screams was seated next to my child and she came home with a headache two days in a row because “X was screaming in my face all morning long.” She’s a wonderful teacher but this is, in my opinion, beyond the capabilities of normal classroom management.
Any tips or advice on how to approach this with the principal/ what is reasonable to ask for? FWIW, my neighbor has a child with similar behavioral issues. He attends another school due to weird district boundaries and is two years older. I have considered reaching out to her to understand what kind of accommodations he has at school but I’m not exactly sure how to use the information as I know it’s an ongoing battle with them (neighbors are extremely open about it; it comes up basically every time we get together– kiddo has been sent to the principals X times, here’s the latest way they’ve made us feel like bad parents, etc).
Again, the goal here is to ensure my kid FEELS safe and not like every day might be a day she gets a book in the eye (this actually happened to a child in PK– the kid with the throwing issues did it), and obviously that is IS safe.
for those of you with big jobs or spouses with big jobs, how do you find time to get anything personal done, like especially if you have the kind of job where you work again after the kids go to bed. I don’t have that kind of job, but DH does and I feel like despite lots of outsourcing we are drowning, particularly since our kids stopped napping (we have 4 year old twins).
WWYD. My 1st grader is in a classroom with two children that have pretty severe behavioral/emotional issues. One kid I know from preschool and he’s got severe emotional regulatory problems and will do things like scream/tantrum for 30+ minutes, threaten to (or actually) physically harm himself (bang against desk, jab himself with pencils/scissors that sort of thing). He has not yet been physically violent to other students but he is getting worse, not better, so it’s a concern to me as a parent.
The other child has physical outbursts/tantrums that have turned violent toward classmates. Yesterday he didn’t want to follow the teacher’s instructions so started running around the room throwing classroom objects. The teacher had pencils and markers thrown at her, my kid and several others were hit with flash cards, unifix cubes, etc. I wasn’t there so can’t be sure, but it seemed more like a tantrum in which he was throwing things and the people happened to be in the way, vs throwing them *at* people, if that makes sense. They had to “evacuate the classroom for safety reasons” aka the whole class left with the teacher while the school psychologist and another teacher stayed with the child having the tantrum.
Anyway, I have a meeting with the principal later today. My biggest concern is helping to get the teacher the support she needs to ensure my kid- and the other kids- feel like they are safe in their classroom. I’m annoyed that this is the 3rd or 4th time they have had to “evacuate the classroom for safety reasons” and yet only the first time we were told. I’m also bothered by the fact that there was not a second adult in the room when things went sideways, so the class had to wait for another adult to arrive before they could leave.
I have already talked to the classroom teacher– I had to reach out when the kid that screams was seated next to my child and she came home with a headache two days in a row because “X was screaming in my face all morning long.” She’s a wonderful teacher but this is, in my opinion, beyond the capabilities of normal classroom management.
Any tips or advice on how to approach this with the principal/ what is reasonable to ask for? FWIW, my neighbor has a child with similar behavioral issues. He attends another school due to weird district boundaries and is two years older. I have considered reaching out to her to understand what kind of accommodations he has at school but I’m not exactly sure how to use the information as I know it’s an ongoing battle with them (neighbors are extremely open about it; it comes up basically every time we get together– kiddo has been sent to the principals X times, here’s the latest way they’ve made us feel like bad parents, etc).
Again, the goal here is to ensure my kid FEELS safe and not like every day might be a day she gets a book in the eye (this actually happened to a child in PK– the kid with the throwing issues did it), and obviously that is IS safe.
Not sure what I’m looking for here- advice? Commiseration? My dilemma is this: husband and I have a one year old. Money is tight at the moment and we have a small house. We are inundated with presents for her. She just turned one and Christmas is around the corner. My in laws also don’t have much money but they lavish her with gifts. We do not need or want them. What we need are things like diapers, gift cards, or 529 contributions. ILs refuse to buy those things because they’re not “fun” and baby “deserves to open presents.” ILs get very offended if their toys aren’t played with regularly. They will 100% notice and be upset if the gifts are donated or returned. What do I do? The amount of waste makes me unhappy. Husband does not mind if the house is cluttered with unused toys but I do. He doesn’t see this as a problem and thinks I’m coming across as ungrateful.
Looking for enabling here.
I can totally pull off a square necked velvet bodysuit under jeans as a ‘casual holiday’ look? Going to get a dark green bodysuit and wear with higher waisted straight legged jeans.