Family Friday: Indoor Play Tent
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Make sure rainy days aren’t a bummer with this indoor playhouse.
This spacious play tent is large enough to hold three small kids at once. It also has delightful details like side pockets, a flag banner, and string lights. The padded mat ensures it’s comfortable for hours of play — and it also works as a bed tent on top of a twin mattress. And the machine washable fabric makes it easy to clean in case the camping gets a little too real.
Costway’s Play Tent is on sale for $62.99 at Target.
Sales of note for 5/8:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Mother’s Day Event: 40% off your purchase. Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Dress & sport shirts, 2 for $149
- Express – $39+ summer styles + 25% off everything else
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – Mother’s Day Sale: Up to 40% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Up to 25% off
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
After a very long road, we are preparing to sell my childhood home. I had a very complicated childhood, and my brother and I had a ton of big/little trauma growing up. Our family home is both a source of comfort and pain. It reminds me of the good and bad I experienced growing up, and provides a sense of closeness to my parents – both of whom passed when I was young. We had always hoped my brother (who is still local to the home) would be able to stay in the house, but financially, he isn’t able to. So we are selling.
I’m struggling with whether I will feel a sense of relief when it’s gone, or more adrift. Anyone been through this and have helpful stories of whether it helped to move on from the last physical place where you saw your parents, for instance. Yes, I do have a therapist, but I’m looking for real life stories right now.
I want to start taking my toddlers camping a few times a year. Planning to use my 1900s-style small dome tent, not one of the multi-room mansions tall enough to walk around inside.
What kind of bedding should I get for them? I don’t see any reason to invest in serious REI gear at this point, but I do want something comfy that will last a few years.
Talk to me about how you handle sleep deprivation and transportation. I’m pregnant with my second, and between toddler wake ups, need to pee, and the hormonal anxiety, I am absolutely not sleeping enough, to the point where I am a danger on the road. Like, I nearly got myself t-boned trying to make a left turn this morning because my observation and reaction time is in the toilet. (Yes, this also effects all other areas of my life, but those other areas don’t experience an immediate risk of death or injury when I’m out of it.) However, I can’t just stop going places. Toddler needs to go to daycare, I need to go to work, I am not in a major city so public transit is a joke and we don’t have uber or lyft here. I’ve mostly been riding my bike places, but the bike is currently out of commission and in need of a brake service. Is there some answer that I’m missing or is this a reason why the US has so many car accidents?
My husband is cheating on me. I had a feeling something was up, went through his phone, and the texts confirm. It started in February and has continued. Nothing physical yet but clearly he has the intention.
Just this morning, an hour or two before our marriage counseling appointment, he was texting her “good morning love” and talking about our children (we have 3 young children).
The obvious answer is to divorce him, right? We recently began marriage counseling and I thought things were going well.
I really, really hate the idea of blowing up our family but I’m also not interested in being a side piece in my own marriage. Our HHI is 340k or so in a HCOL area; I make slightly more than he does. Financially it would be a hit and ruin the plans we’ve made, but more importantly I worry about the impact on the kids.
Any recommendations for ultra lightweight sun shirts for toddlers? We have some with hoods but daycare policy is no hoods for sleeping. My little guy runs hot so willing to have lower protection rates in favor of lightweight – they’re often in the shade at daycare so not too worried about that aspect.
8 YO DD and DH are traveling for two weeks. It’s just me and my toddler at home, and we’re half way through. The most unexpected source of joy in this time? Unabashedly throwing away ALL THE STUFF. DD will neverrrr notice any of what I’ve tossed so far is missing. Seriously. I’m a little ashamed at the level of clear-headedness and happiness this cleanout is providing me. In the past I had to be so sneaky about tossing things for fear she saw them in the trash can. Think like toys she hasn’t touched in years, random party favor plastic junk and everything in between. I have one more trash pickup mid next week before they get home, and I WFH today and expect it to be slow… It’s go time!
I’m in it right now. My husband is out of town dealing with a complicated situation with his parents this weekend. I am at home solo parenting our children, while dealing with/making tough decisions for a child who has a complicated situation.
I’m not looking for advice – I need good news. I’d love to hear how you managed through a situation that looked bleak and dreary at the time, but you got through/things got better.
We have one of these (not this exact model) and while it was a pain to set up and take down, it really did get a lot of use and love, especially during play dates and on bad weather days.