Accessory Tuesday: Infinity Bandana
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This kind of face covering has been intriguing me lately. I like the idea of being able to wear it multiple ways — bandana, face covering, and headband.
I can see it coming in handy when you have your own office but still need to interact with people in the larger office. It would be easy to wear around your neck as a bandana and then pull it up and tie it around the back of your head when venturing out to the copy machine or the restroom.
For someone who is absentminded like me and has difficulty keeping track of things like a phone or keys, the “Where’s my mask?!” panic is an emotion I’m becoming all too familiar with. If it stays around my neck, I can’t lose it.
This bandana from Dolan is $30 at shopdolan.com. Infinity Bandana
Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
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- 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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I’m looking for a replacement phone case. I’ve had my old beloved Lodis one for 8 years, but it doesn’t fit my iPhone XR and they don’t appear to be making anything similar anymore. Things I love about my old case:
1. The phone slid into a pocket and was kept in place by a snap. I don’t like having a case attached all the time.
2. It was small and very low profile – other than the phone pocket, it had a small zip side pocket and a small card case.
3. It had a small wristlet strap.
4. It came in a bright color so I wouldn’t lose it.
Any one seen anything like this lately? Thanks!
Bandannas are the least effective form of “mask”; perhaps this is better than a traditional triangle shaped mask but it is really not that hard to remember an actual mask.
We are close to being done with breastfeeding, only the “reunion feed” after I bring him home from daycare left.
I am so over my nursing bras.
How long do b oo bs take to settle into their new size/shape after weaning? I don’t want to buy a bunch of new bras only to need new ones again in a few months.
Our 6 year old had a cavity in a molar treated with silver diamine fluoride 2 years ago. Everything looked good through his last dental visit last summer. We missed his last appointment due to birth of a baby, then covid hit, and we took him back yesterday and found out he needs a baby root canal. Obviously we are crushed and beating ourselves up for missing that last appointment because it’s possible we could have avoided this. The dentist and hygienist praised his brushing and flossing habits because all other teeth look great, but this is just so disappointing and I feel like a complete failure as a parent. He has never complained about pain or anything, so I’m hopeful that this is going to have good results. Nevertheless, this sucks.
Learn from me: no matter how busy you are, please don’t skip these routine dental visits. Thank you.
Our school district released #s for how many families are choosing the remote learning option, and I’m surprised by the results. The higher the SES of the school, the fewer kids doing the remote option. If anything, I thought the schools in the wealthier areas would have more kids doing remote because they’re more likely to have a stay-at-home parent and access to better technology. But no — the higher #s are actually at the Title I schools. Is it because the covid rates are higher in those communities? It’s not entirely clear but plausible. Overall, only 16% of the district is choosing the virtual option. The prevailing wisdom was that at least 25% of the district would choose virtual. I’m not sure what the takeaway is, other than the extremes on both ends are the extremely vocal ones? Or more people are homeschooling instead of using the remote learning option?
My husband has to travel next week for work. There is no option (believe me, I’ve pushed back and so has he, but he does work in an essential service). He’s driving, not flying, and being tested before and after so honestly the exposure part is not super concerning to me at this point.
However, I’m almost 9 months pregnant and have a toddler. I do have a babysitter but no family close by (both sets of grands are 2 hours away). I have hired a doula, so in the absolute worst case scenario that I need to go to L&D for either monitoring or the real deal my doula would come with me and babysitter would stay w/ kiddo until whichever set of grands can get here fastest gets here.
But my biggest worry is that today I woke up with just absolute crushing fatigue. Like I’m not sure how I’m going to work today, I may just have to sleep. How am I going to do a week solo? I have the babysitter but short of asking her to move in with me I am not sure how I’m going to do this. It’s kind of just hitting me that I’m ginormous and exhausted. Thoughts and prayers?
Speaking of teeth… I have a one year old and it’s nearly impossible to brush his teeth. I can get a few brushes in during the morning but I wouldn’t say I’m doing a good job. I can’t get him to sit still or open his mouth so that I can see what I’m doing. Any tips?
I switched to a regular toddler toothbrush which seems to work better than the other baby brushes I had. I had the Smile Frida brush that goes on your finger but I couldn’t get it aligned properly to get his top and bottom teeth most of the time and even then it was touch and go as to wether or not I’d lose a finger. :)
We’ve had our first run of the mill cold, kids had low fevers and stuffy noses for a day, next day was runny noses and coughing. We kept them home from daycare. But the screening questions to return ask if you’ve had any of those symptoms in the last 14 days. Does this mean that even though it was just a run of the mill cold, and they are mostly better, they have to be out of daycare for 14 days from the date of their last symptom? That could be 3 more weeks the way coughs linger…
In NY, fwiw. Realizing we are going to have no school/daycare come fall if this is the way this works…
After 6+ months of almost chronic pain and two surgeries, I’m finally feeling a little bit better health wise. I have basically been wearing men’s pajamas for the better part of a year as a result of covid and my health issues. I’m coming out of it now and want to look just a little bit nice while also feeling comfortable working from home with a toddler. What are you ladies doing to feel like/look like yourselves during all of this? Nice sweats? Small jewelry? I put on some small studs and under-eye concealer today and I’m really happy about it.
Ugh after a summer of antisocial ness, we are supposed to see friends (and their kids) this weekend. Then another friend wanted to drop off a present for DS yesterday and I suggested a socially distant hike. Kids mostly kept distance but all are under 8 so it wasn’t perfect. Now other friends making me feel bad.
And I think I did the wrong thing! I DO feel bad! I’m pretty sure we didn’t get Covid! But we shouldn’t have done it! Yet my kids were so happy to play with other kids and honestly I’m exhausted by making all of these grey area type decisions! And when school starts back (for us planned virtual then in person after Labor Day) it’s just going to get worse! The emotional labor here is real.
Oh I should have added, Friends don’t trust friends we went on hike with. I started crying this morning. I honestly didn’t put that much thought into it and should have.
My mom is watching my 22 month old for the foreseeable future. Any recs for something he can nap on at her house? An air mattress? A portable/fold-up toddler bed? He’s not a fan of our pack ‘n play. Thanks.
Fairfax just released sample schedules for elementary learning and… yikes. They are basically having kids sit in front of a computer for the length of an entire school day, four days a week. I thought it would be 3-4 hours a day!
I hope it’s not too late in the day to get responses, but here goes: Am I nuts to be thinking about going back to full time work during the upcoming school year, assuming we’ll be distance learning all year? I was a biglaw associate when I took a step back around 5 years ago to contract part time and have control over my hours and work flow while kids were young. It’s been great, but I always planned to ramp back up to full time once kids were in school. 2020 was going to be my year! Then….you know, covid. Online learning was not good this spring; I found it extremely difficult to get work done (even though in theory I am very well situated with my hours and flexibility); I often fantasized about hiding out in my home office all day (and in this fantasy, I guess my kids would be able to manage themselves). My work is steady and super low stress, but I am not feeling it anymore–and that was the case before the pandemic. I miss having coworkers and even working in an office; obviously that’s not do-able right now anyway, but again this has been brewing since pre-pandemic. I worry a lot about losing marketability. I also worry that there may be a big return to the workforce once things normalize, such that for me to have a better chance of getting hired (since I expect it’s going to be tougher with my ramp-down), maybe I should try to get in now. I’m far enough out from firm life that some of the time, I semi-convince myself that it would be manageable to juggle online school and full time work. But then I think, if I were still at a firm, I’d probably be so envious of my current situation. So, please, for those who are working busy firm hours with young elementary students at home — I’d love to hear your thoughts. Am I nuts for even considering this (assuming I’d be able to get hired if I tried)? Clearly some of you are managing to do this — how bad is it really?