Everyone Thursday: Hazel Stone Stud Earrings
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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+
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I don’t usually like to post about referral links, but this website gives a $20 credit if you get referred and I also got a $10 credit for starting a “collection” of clothes. They have free shipping, and they are charging me CA sales tax (which is not that expensive), but I don’t know about other states. They have really cute baby clothes and they also have clothes for older kids and adults, including maternity, and you can get a bunch of gently used clothes for the $20. If anyone is interested, you can email me at southbaysocialtea at gmail dot com. Also, it may be a good place to donate clothes to, as part of the money goes to schools.
I guess they are trying to get the word out with the free shipping, but it seems like a good marketing campaign to me and if I like the condition of the clothes I get and the shipping is not that expensive once they start charging for it, I may keep shopping there…
I will probably cross-post this on C-r e t t e when it slows down a little…
We have 2 kids 5 & 7. Both FT working parents, typically 40-50 h/week each. Both kids are in public school, and there’s no one in the house during the day. I’ve somewhat resigned myself to knowing that the house just isn’t going to be as neat & clean as I would like it (before the youngest went to school, we had a daytime nanny that took care of a lot of tidying & all the kid laundry), but it shouldn’t be an excuse to let ALL of my standards fail.
That said, does anyone have any really good tips/resources/processes/whatever for getting kids to chip in more? I feel like I’m constantly following them around (even in their absence) and picking up messes. Do you have a basket or a bin for each kid so that they can collect their things throughout the day/week? Or a bin per room so that you can corral things to get put back away? I’m really looking for any/all ideas that you have to manage the household on a daily basis. I get that they’ve been in school since mid-august, but I still feel entirely behind and overwhelmed.
I tend to have enough for about 2 weeks in our freezer, I make it all in one go on the weekends with my baby cook (which I love) ,and I store them in great 2-oz containers I bought at baby r us.
I do the ped-recommended 3 days per new food, and start at lunch on the weekends so I can see if anything wrong is happening.
Now that she is on a more ‘adult’ schedule (she’s almost 10 months), I send breakfast and lunch to daycare , as well as a small snack (usually yogurt) that they give her just before I pick her up so she’s not starving in the car.
At the start though, we started with just rice cereals, in the evenings at the same time as we had dinner, and after I nursed her to avoid her being super hungry. Remember, she might only get a tablespoon at first, and it’s ok.
We’re starting solids in earnest next week (where has the time gone?!) and I was wondering how people handle the logistics of feeding their kid solids. How much do you make in advance? How do people build this into their day? By the time we get my daughter home from daycare she’s usually tired and hungry, which sounds like a recipe for disaster when it comes to experimentation.
Someone please help me justify the Rag & Bone Margot booties…