Family Friday: Kids’ Cold Buster Snow Pants
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It doesn’t snow much where I live, but when it does I want to be ready!
These snow pants from cold weather expert L.L.Bean will keep your kids warm and snug for hours of winter play. They’re cut with plenty of room for layering, feature an adjustable waist, and are packed with Thinsulate. These pants are reinforced at the knees, seat, and cuffs so they’ll be ready to pass down to the next kid.
L.L.Bean’s Kids’ Cold Buster Snow Pants are $69 and come in Kids’ sizes 8–18 and Little Kids’ sizes 4–6X/7. They come in pink berry, deepest blue, and classic black.
Sales of note for 1/16:
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- 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+
How much turnover is normal at a daycare/preschool? I feel like we have had such terrible luck with this across multiple centers. I don’t work so much about assistants, but when less teachers and even directors leave, it’s so stressful.
I don’t blame them for leaving, I know it’s a tough job with low pay. It’s just demoralizing.
Help. Anyone else go through this? My generally school loving kinder kid who has gone to full day daycare or preschool since infancy with very little drama, suddenly right before winter break started getting clingy and crying at dropoff. And saying things like “I’m too shy to go to school”. She also mentioned that no one wants to play with her, and my heart of course is breaking. We will schedule a call with the teacher. However, when I asked her wraparound care teacher today in passing (because we were having a tear-filled, hanging onto my leg kind of dropoff), wraparound care teacher says that she isn’t excluded, often plays with the other kids, but sometimes does choose to do her own thing because she for instance prefers a different activity from what the others are doing.
I’m torn between wanting to foster her independence but also wanted to demonstrate to her that if you want to be included, sometimes that means picking a different activity that’s not your first choice. From what I can glean, she likes the learning part of school but feels unincluded in free play like recess, which seems to be leading to big feelings and I’m guessing may be why we’re now having difficult separation times. I may post again on Monday but this is fresh from this morning and I’m feeling so defeated.
Talk to me about the logistics of returning to work. I have a few jobs in the works: one in the suburbs (10 minute commute) and one downtown (one hour commute). I’ve been home 23 months; looking for remote work that whole time but no bites. DH has a somewhat flexible job. I have a kindergartener and two year old twins. I just toured a 6-6 day care that offers summer camp and after school programs. It seems like too much activity (two year olds switch classes every 30 minutes) and too much computers too early. But, they’re open most days. Maybe I’m bribing too picky. My other option is a Montessori, similar to where they are now. The biggest difference is, the place I’m switching to would have before and after care, for a reasonable fee. I have no family near and no backup care (our normal babysitters have 8-5 jobs). How do I look for backup care? Or do I ask DH to cover while I work on that?
Fun sleepover activity ideas for a gaggle of 9-year old girls?
What’s the best time for a pre-K birthday party? I know not Sunday mornings because of church, but do people have strong feelings between Saturday morning vs Saturday afternoon vs Sunday afternoon?
Any advice for helping LB with reflux? I was suspicious it might be contributing to his very poor sleep, but now it seems to be progressing to actualy vomiting around bedtime. And last night chorizo caused fountains of puke. So fun!
I have a call in to the pediatrician. But I would love to get advice based on other moms’ experience to.
Just venting. In-laws were helping out with childcare during daycare’s winter break and they gave us covid. They didn’t think their “mild cold symptoms” were a big deal because they “never get sick” and so didn’t think to mention it…until last night when they finally admitted they were sick and tested positive. I finally tested positive last night after a couple days of negative tests and am hopefully over the worst of it. Kiddo is just over two but can’t keep a mask on and has mild symptoms (that wouldn’t exclude her from daycare if it were any other illness). Husband will probably test positive tonight if his symptom progression is like mine. I have not recovered professionally from last winter’s quarantines, and this is a super busy month for me.
How soon would you bike with your baby in a bike seat for commuting to daycare on a smooth, paved path? I’ve heard the recommendation is to avoid biking for a year in the U.S., but I haven’t looked into the underlying evidence at all. We are looking at an option for daycare that would be about 2 miles away on a smooth path (a rail-to-trail path) and it seems like it would actually be a lot safer and more pleasant to make it a bike commute. The car commute to the same location is very trafficky during rush hour and prone to accidents because of a high-speed off-ramp. Plus, cars are so dangerous more broadly. Has anyone biked with a baby starting around six months? Anyone know the guidelines in European countries where it’s much more common to not own cars?
Any Greek or Roman mythology recs for elementary schoolers? Maybe something my son can listen to on audio?
Also any story podcasts warmly welcome. He does Audible at night, but often wants a podcast for play / art time.
He came home talking about Janus and was fascinated, sometimes the kids stories podcasts do myths but they are hard to dig up.
Anyone have anything that helped with morning sickness? Already on the meds.
Newly pregnant with #2. It was AWFUL with #1 and is starting to appear already. This is probably wishful thinking but I’m hoping I can try some different things this time and maybe it won’t be so bad?
PSA for those of you looking to renew your passport: you can do it online, with a phone photo, and it is SO EASY. Took me all of 15 minutes. You have to meet certain criteria (window of expiration, no name change, etc) but man what a great experience.
For mid-Atlantic weather and little fast-growing kids, I have been really happy with the Cat and Jack snow pants and they are much cheaper (can find on sale for $25). It doesn’t snow more than a handful of times a year here, kid has stayed warm at ski resorts (not a full day of skiing at this age of course), and much more cost effective given the growth spurts. Also team overalls rather than pants for the littles; less snow in the back and rear. Kiddo is 5 and until she is skiing a full day, I haven’t brought myself to spring for the LL Bean ones.
I want to get my husband a fun birthday subscription, I was thinking beer? he loved a snacks of thr world subscription many years ago and I want something fun like that. any ideas or recs?