Accessory Tuesday: Joan of Arctic Wedge III Chelsea Boot
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Winters where I live aren’t particularly snowy, so a boot like this one from Sorel is perfect for the occasional soggy commute.
You could get away with wearing this cute and comfortable boot at the office — this classic, wedged Chelsea boot has elastic sides for easy on and off, a cushioned footbed for all-day wear, and lugged soles for traction. It comes in seven colors, and both medium and hard-to-find wide widths.
Sorel’s Joan of Arctic Wedge III Chelsea is $161.99–$199.95 at Zappos depending on the color. It’s available in whole and half sizes 5–12 (for some colors, lucky sizes only).
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- 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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Another round of the endless COVID WWYD? We had plans to visit triple vaxxed, but slightly frail grandparents in NYC for Christmas. We’re triple vaxxed with two kids one vaxxed, one too young — both in in person school this week. NYC seems to be contagion central right now and we know several triple vaxxed COVID cautious people in NYC who have tested positive this week. Said grandparents have been indoors with triple vaxxed people recently. As have we. Everyone is in possession of rapid tests they could use and we have PCR tested ourselves and the kids. Do we? (1) cancel and regroup in March; (2) ask grandparents to rent a car and come to us five days after all of our last indoor gathering; (3) go pick them up and bring them to us after that period (long day of driving but doable); (4) something else? I’m so sick of this but the number of COVID cautious people testing positive in NYC right now is giving me pause.
I do not understand fashion today. Or these boots. That’s it. That’s the post.
I am working today and my husband is off. So far he has let the kid skip breakfast and two other important time-sensitive parts of the morning routine. I reminded her to do them and she yelled, so I asked my husband to make sure she ate and did her tasks. His response? “Why didn’t you tell her to do it?”
This is going to be a long and unproductive day.
What gift are you most excited to give to your kids this year? (or what gift were they already most excited to receive?)
My 3yo loves jewels and anything sparkly and I got him some actual “jewels” (fake, obv), plus a glitter unicorn shirt. I think he is going to flip. Also, a whole boatload of candy in his stocking — kid is a sugar fiend and I plan to let him go nuts on Christmas morning. The 5yo is getting a marble run.
I’m also planning on holding a few presents from distant relatives in reserve to parcel out over the course of the vacation week…we’ve done this the last few years and the kids seem to enjoy the presents a lot more when they don’t get them all at once. My dad got them an enormous fort-building kit that I think is going to be CLUTCH after six days of “family time.”
So far we have needed PCR tests, so we haven’t been using the at-home rapid test kits. I just tried to pick some up at the public library. They were out, but they said the tests they give out must be used within two weeks. This seems odd to me. Is this normal? I was going to try to stock up on enough kits at the drugstore to test my kids daily during the upcoming January surge, but if they expire that quickly it doesn’t make sense.
Talk to me about Tiktok. I know what it is but have never used it. My 11-year-old stepdaughter is desperate to have it. Her mom is in favor of letting her have it but restricting her to a private account (which I guess means she can’t have friends/get messaged or make posts others can see?). Me/husband are concerned that she is still going to get algorithmically served videos that might be problematic (see: the WSJ article today on Tiktok and eating disorder videos) even if creeps can’t message her or see her videos and would prefer that at a minimum she wait until 13 (which I think is the minimum age under their TOS in any case). That being said, I recognize that I am extremely wary of social media based on my own years of heavy usage (and how negatively I think it affected me) and my husband has never used social media at all, so I’d appreciate hearing from other moms on what might be the right middle ground here.
Can anyone recommend Christmas gifts for a 1.5 year old and 3.5 year old? The parents have every toy imaginable, and I’m always really at a loss as to what to get these kids. Yes i know I’m late!