Everyone Thursday: Rayne Tassel Pendant
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I recently stumbled on a Reddit thread where a young woman asked how to wear drapey/tunic style tops without creating — well, I believe her phrase was that she wanted to avoid creating a “boob tent.” As someone who has always been large-of-bust, I’ll agree that’s a problem, and never moreso than when I was pregnant and nursing. For my own $.02, I’ve always thought the trick was a really well-fitting and relatively freshly purchased bra — but a number of others wrote in to say that their trick was to wear a long pendant necklace. So let’s discuss, ladies — have you found pendant necklaces essential to make a drapey/tunic-y top look good if you have a larger bust? This pretty Kendra Scott necklace is pretty affordable at $80-$90; it comes in three colors. Kendra Scott ‘Rayne’ Tassel Pendant Necklace
(I’m linking to our recentish post on Corporette on style tips for busty women, but we clearly need to do a specialized feature here for busty style tips for pregnant/nursing moms (especially if you try to avoid underwires during the period when you’re nursing). Did you find the rules were different? Any great tips?)
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Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus 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?
Thank you so much for all of your kind comments, tremendously helpful and just the suport i needed this afternoon.
Sea bands havent worked unfortunately and i will ask the doc for prescription meds but since i am able to keep fluids and food down even though i just feel like i want to throw it up, feels like i shouldnt need meds, but i will try to not be so hard on myself related to all this. I think accepting it is really key rather than just waiting for it to end and im grateful to the person who suggested that.
Thanks again all.
It is really really hard. I was nauseous my whole pregnancy and it is one of the main reasons I only have 1 kid. Try to just get through 1 day at a time. Even if it doesn’t get better until you deliver, you will get more used to it. And it most likely will get better. But for me, waiting for that magic day that kept not coming was heartbreaking – feeling disappointed/surprised that I was still feeling nauseous was making it worse, you know? So maybe try to work towards acceptance, and stop trying to find the thing that will make it go away. This sounds horribly counter intuitive and cruel, which is not my intention. Just don’t feel like you have to solve it or that you are doing something wrong if nothing helps.
Im 7 weeks pregnant with our first and just so so miserable with all day nausea. Its hard to do anything at work and none of the common tips seem to work. The idea that this will last for 6 to 8 more weeks seems so overwhelming.
DC ladies, any suggestions on great venues for a joint birthday party for a 2 and 4 year old? Bonus points if we don’t have to trek too far outside the city. Event will be in February, so indoors is a must. About 35 kids, since we’ll be inviting everyone from both of their classes.
The 2 year old probably doesn’t care if he has a party, the 4 year old definitely wants one. Their birthdays are 2 weeks part so it seems odd to have a party for one and not the other.
Any suggestions? (The Zoo doesn’t allow parties for kids below 4, so that’s out). Thanks!
Sleep question! So I posted a couple sagas the last few weeks about sleep difficulties, and then discovering that kiddo wasn’t napping at daycare so I moved bedtime up an hour and a half and voila! All better.
But this week, she decided to nap some days at preschool but not all days. And instead of falling asleep within 5 minutes at bedtime, she stays up singing and talking in her crib but only if I’m in the room, otherwise she screams and cries. And she is now waking up at 5:30 am instead of 7 am.
So….how to handle the erratic napping? Do I put her to bed at the same time each night regardless of whether she took a nap during the day? Or adjust bedtime later on nap days?
WHY DON’T KIDS COME WITH USER MANUALS?!!!
I hate having to bargain for pumping space. I have been given small conf room B for pumping which I book for 11 and 3 daily. At 11 I approached the room and another coworker was in their with all of his work spread out. I explained to him how I needed the room and he said that he was “in the zone” and asked for more time. So I said fine and he agreed to leave at 11:30. Now it’s 11:30 and apparently he was asked to leave at 11:20 by big boss who is now holding a large meeting in the room. Ugh. I should have kicked out coworker at 11.
I just need a shout out to my awesomeness. All of the following things have happened to me within the last 3 weeks:
1) Returned home from 2 week work trip to Russia. Kiddo was not amused by my absence.
2) Kiddo started new room at daycare. Became even less amused by new routine.
3) In-laws came for a weekend visit. FIL ended up in ER with chest pain and had emergency open heart surgery.
4) Hubby had to reschedule important job interview because of thing #3.
5) MIL moved into our home for a week while FIL was in hospital; FIL moved in for another week after he was discharged.
6) I finally got back to work this week and nailed a major win.
7) Hubby finally completed his interview and got an outstanding job offer.
8) Kiddo seems happier and now super interested in potty training.
9) In-laws left this morning.
I am in such a good mood today.
Touring a daycare today. What should we ask? I’m so sad about it I can’t think straight. Our baby is six weeks right now and will be 3 months when she starts.
Anyone have rain boot suggestions for a toddler with large calves? He’s size 9-10 toddler, and I’ve already tried Carters and Kamik rainboots. The Carters I could get on as long as he’s not wearing pants – not super helpful for rainy days – and the Kamiks I couldn’t get on at all. Help!
I had heard to avoid underwire nursing bras (principally due to mastitis), but as a DD pre-pregnancy and then a G+ during my pregnancy and postpartum, I simply couldn’t do it for longer than the first few weeks when I was mostly confined to my apartment. I wound up buying 2 underwire nursing bras and loved having the extra support. It also made me feel less self-conscious generally and more confident in my work clothes.
This seems like a basic question, but I am at a loss. How do you research public schools in an area you don’t know well?
Our family is moving to a totally new (midsize) city soon. Our daughter isn’t school-age yet, but the public elementary schools in different areas will probably be a major factor in deciding where to live. Without basically any friends in the area at the moment, I’m struggling to figure out how we are going to evaluate public schools.
Part of the problem is I don’t know how to evaluate different criteria. I mean, I can look at Great Schools ratings, but I’m not sure that gives me the information I want. For example, I don’t care as much about test scores. I’d like my daughter to be exposed to (racial, ethnic, and socio-economic) diversity.
I’d love to hear…what are the most criteria for you? And how do you evaluate different schools for those criteria? Are there any resources I should look into?
My oldest daughter is 5, and I feel like in the last five years I did a pretty good job navigating the kid/work balance, but now she started kindergarten in public school. Everything is during the day and at awful times. How do you make this work? I work 7-5, my husband does dropoff at school and she gets picked up by our nanny. Teacher meetings are held between 2:20-3:00 on tuesdays, this morning was a curriculum meeting for all kindergarten parents from 8:20-9:00, last week I attended an evening PTO meeting where they encouraged working parents to join because the meetings are friday mornings (wth??) and the parent curriculum involvement meetings are wednesdays at 2:15. Anyway, my previous feeling of being able to balance it all is quickly dissolving and I’ve been feeling like crap about the working mom thing lately. Do I just have to make peace with the fact that I can’t be as involved with her education as I would like to? How do other people do this?
So today my husband mentioned that he feels like our younger child is “my” kid and he doesn’t get any input into her parenting. Ouch. On one hand, I feel like this is all my fault. She’s now 2, but when she was a baby I was into babywearing and I breastfed her for 18 months. I did almost everything with the baby and my husband did almost everything with our older daughter. So I didn’t start out well. Now, he works two jobs (starting a business) so he’s gone 4-5 evenings a week plus most of the day Saturday. I guess I’m on my own so much that I don’t do a good job of incorporating him when he’s home. I am surprised because he traveled Mon-Thu when our older daughter was 0-2. To me, that situation seemed similar to our current one but apparently he felt much more involved when our oldest was young. I’m not sure why. So what the heck do I do? Start leaving him alone with the kids on his day off? Split up childcare tasks by task rather than kid (aka he gets both dressed, I make both breakfast)? I haven’t dug this hole intentionally and not sure how to get out since he is gone so much.