Family Friday: Infants’ and Toddlers’ Animal Winter Hat
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Looking for a stocking stuffer for the baby or toddler in your life?
L.L.Bean is my go-to for quality outerwear. Their animal hat will keep your little one warm and cozy all winter. This hat has a soft lining for extra warmth, earflaps, and a velcro chinstrip. The deer is particularly seasonal, but the other three animals (bear, dragon, and bunny) are equally charming.
This hat is $29.95 at L.L.Bean and comes in sizes 6-12 months to 2T-4T.
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+
This article hits the mark on how I feel when people say “enjoy every minute”:
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/10/early-child-parenting-first-years-hardest/671790/
Time does blur the edges and I can completely understand how, with the benefit of time and experience of having older children, you can reminisce about the early days. But I find that it’s never really a helpful comment to those in the thick of baby/toddler life. Have comments like this from older parents ever helped any of you? Is there something better to say, to keep the early years in perspective?
I know you’re tired of this question. Help me decide on nanny vs au pair. We had a nanny before and DH complained that she was “always in his space.” I find it weird that his “space” is the kitchen because that’s where she always was, but I think he’s just an introvert. So that’s one point for a nanny bc someone living here would be too much for him to handle.
I need housekeeping, kid laundry and meal prep noon-2. Then I need someone to pick up toddlers from day care at 2:30 and go straight to elementary school to pick up kindergartner, give everyone a snack, entertain them for a couple hours, feed dinner, then I’ll be home from work to do toddler bedtime routine. It shapes up to be about 30 hours a week.
Considerations: we have a MIL suite for an au pair but it’s tiny. I wouldn’t want to live there full time. We also live outside Houston: I don’t see this being a big draw for an au pair but what do I know. There’s basically bike trails and restaurants and shopping for stuff to do (you know, like most of Texas). Also au pairs don’t usually drive?
Another consideration: we need to move. Should we buy a house with a guest house and get an au pair? I realize that sounds insane but I seriously need some help here and I’m willing to take some drastic measures to get it.
Help! Looking for a last minute birthday gift for a 10 year old girl. I don’t know her well, but she likes horses and does theatre at school. Just something simple I can grab at walmart. Was thinking about a nice journal and some fun pens, I don’t know if walmart would have good selection of pretty journals.
Gift idea help please… my 7 yo daughter is going to go to her first sleepover in January, and I’d like to get her something for Christmas/stocking that would be fun to use there. She already has a sleeping bag, camp pillow and a headlamp from camping trips. What else should I consider? I feel like this should be easy and my brain is just… not working.
any suggestions on influencers to look at for styling boots/jeans? i just can’t figure it out. I need to see it on other people. this new cropped jeans with ankle boots thing is baffling me.
Hmmm. For the “possible back up” aspect, I might not have this full on conversation. Do you think she’s capable of taking care of older child by herself at your home for a two days? Husband could go the route of “I know the weather, traffic etc around here is terrible. We’ve been thinking that older child might be happier with special time at home with Grandma when the baby comes”. If you haven’t already, you could also email other parents in your daycare class and ask. Even if I didn’t know your family well, I would be happy to help a fellow parent with something like this (and have on several occasions).
Can you help me brainstorm how DH can tell his mom we don’t trust her doing daycare pickup drop off? He’s not the best with words so trying to figure out good ways to phrase it.
Back story: she is our backup plan to help us in a pinch if baby2 comes early. However, I didn’t realize how bad of a driver she is and the area we live in has very aggressive drivers. She is used to driving in TX with wide roads and lots of space. Also has never driven a car bigger than a sedan (she would drive my crv, which is easy to drive but bigger than what she’s used to), doesn’t do highway driving, doesn’t know how to use GPS, etc etc.
I know, it was a terrible idea to even consider her as a backup daycare driver but desperate times called for desperate measures (we were desperate as my attempts to find a driver have been fruitless). I’ve done the ride with her at least a dozen times in the hopes that it’ll improve once she gets used to our car and the route (ten minutes from our house), but it hasn’t. My husband has been in the car with her only once.
Obviously she will know that I think she’s an unsafe driver if my husband tells her we don’t want her driving, so are there any ways to lessen the hurt feelings?
Oh I like the hats with the straps. I loved the Polarn o Pyret ones when he was little, and now he has a JoJo Maman one he’s been wearing for years (has finally grown into his enormous noggin, if not the enormous ears).