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My youngest is still obsessed with dinosaurs. If you have a little dino lover in your house, consider this cute hoodie and pants set for fall.
The front zip hoodie has colorful spikes along the hood, back, and sides. The pants also have spikes as well as an elastic waist and functional drawstring. Made from a comfy (and easy care) cotton blend, this set will keep your little dino warm and snug through fall and beyond.
This sweatset is $41 or $45, depending on the size. It’s available at Nordstrom and comes in sizes 2-3Y to 6 to 7Y.
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
Anon says
Thinking of the person whose second grader was having a tough time being separated from their friends — I hope the first few days have been better than expected!
Cb says
Yes, fingers crossed. It’s really tough.
We just wrapped up week 1 here and one of my son’s friends was forgotten. Luckily I spotted him standing with the teacher, and we were able to help (dad forgot it was early release, was at home so we took him to the playpark with us).
1st day blues says
thank you, that really means alot! it’s been rough. I keep telling myself to give it time. 2nd grade was the only year I went to my neighborhood school and it was the worst, I’m having lots of flashbacks this week. I know she’s not me and it’s not the 90s, etc. but it’s hard watching your kid be sad day in and day out. trying to figure out what’s a real issue I need to step in for, and what is stuff she has to figure out on her own. At what point do I call the teacher and investigate? a week? 2 weeks?
Cb says
I think 2 weeks. The first week is so stressful, by week 2 it’s early enough to intervene, but late enough to have given her a chance to stabilise.
Anon says
Ugh I’m sorry. Assuming she’s not getting bullied, I’d probably try a few weeks of setting up play dates with the new kids before reaching out to the teacher.
AwayEmily says
We are finally painting our upstairs after living in this house for almost seven years. The previous owners painted the rooms various shades of “newborn poop,” so this is long overdue. I have ZERO design skills…can anyone help with some possible colors? For our room and the kids’ room we are looking for something pretty neutral, maybe a light gray? And for the guest room a dark blue (it’s a super dark room). Upstairs molding is white, floors are dark-ish wood. The whole downstairs is Benjamin Moore Simply White (downstairs molding is all dark wood; it’s a Craftsman house) and we are gonna that leave as-is.
I will 100% go get samples of anything you recommend and paint giant swatches on the wall just like they do on design blogs!!
Cb says
I find grey so gloomy, but I’ve got a forest green dining room and a terracotta dining room so tend towards the colourful.
Anon says
Our whole house except the dining room is SW Agreeable Gray. I don’t think it’s trendy anymore, but it’s pleasing to my eye and imo it’s easier for rooms to look “wrong” with bright colors than with a bland gray. Gray at worst they look boring.
Anonymous says
Just a warning with this one – the sellers of our house painted the ENTIRE place this color, and because we don’t get a ton of natural light, the walls just look filthy. We’ve repainted everything.
FVNC says
Oooh, fun! When we repainted our previous home in 2020, I used Laurel Bern’s blog as a starting point. She has a lot of guides for various color palettes, I think I used one that was for various shades of whites since we were also repainting trim. We wound up painting our NW-facing bedroom Paper White which is a super light grey. I loved it! I don’t have any dark blue suggestions but I’ve always loved the idea of a navy room, so I’ll live vicariously through your home now :)
FVNC says
Should have clarified: Benjamin Moore Paper White.
Anon says
Our whole house is toque white at 75%. We have fairly dark floors and white trim. As you know, colors can vary so much depending on the lighting.
Anon says
Rather than painting the walls for your samples, I recommend painting large poster boards. That way you can move them around the room or between rooms to see how they look in different corners, from down a hall, etc.
Nashville says
Agree with this. People sell repositionable stickers for paint colors — I found that these were not accurate and wish I’d not spent the money on them. (We only bought two, but they’re going to be the finish of a repositionable sticker, not the finish you’re actually going to put on the wall, so what’s the point).
Anonymous says
For the dark blue I recommend sherwin Williams Naval. I also have no color skills and had gotten a bunch of samples, then realized that was how I ended up with the bathroom color I didn’t like. So I searched for “best dark blue” and that was a popular recommendation. The website has a feature where you can upload photos of your room and it will virtually paint it, which was helpful. Two years later I’m still thrilled with the color.
Nashville says
This is so fun. What is the natural light situation in each of the rooms you’re thinking about? (Lots, none? Exposure direction?)
My favorite color on earth is Borrowed Light by F&B — we have it in a small bathroom with a skylight. But it’s spendy as heck, so I don’t know that I’d spend the money for a full-sized room.
Nashville says
Everything else in the house is Benjamin Moore and is also great. Most of the rooms are Simply White, but we’re going to let the kids pick their own paint colors for their own rooms pretty soon.
greige says
I’ve loved SW Amazing Gray, its a greige so not super blue, and works with wood tones. for 2024 I’d probably lighten it to 50% depending in the lighting in your upstairs. In our craftsman I loved it in a super sunny room. but it was a bit dark in our north facing foyer with minimal sun. I think we went with snowbound for the trim. I felt like Agreeable gray is too blue, our contractor misread a text and painted that in our kitchen when we were getting ready to list, I hated it but the house still sold!
Anon says
We recently painted our house SW Mindful Gray. We have a lot of natural light– house had been SW Agreeable Gray, but it looked beige/yellow in the light. (Previous house was a mid=2010 build and was also SW Agreeable Gray. If you figure out generally what color you want, you can google something like “grays for north-facing houses” and get a list of grays that will work for you and then you can get samples.
For a kid’s room, we did SW Sporty Blue, which is a true blue, but not so dark it’s navy. (We also have dark floors.) We also have SW Clary Sage in a few rooms, including the playroom, and another deeper green as well.
Anon says
We did Swiss coffee for a neutral off-white, which is a bit warmer than a gray if you have warm wood tones. On Etsy, there are vendors who do color matching for whole house palettes. We used that to do kids bedroom colors that looked cohesive with the Swiss coffee in the rest of the house. I also highly recommend painting poster board and moving it around to catch the different lights of day. My experience is that paint is more saturated on entire walls than it looks on a chip! In the past I ended up with a very dark grape room and a forest green-black room when I did not take that into account with the natural light of the rooms!
Anon says
I’ll add that if your rooms are a strong color already, it may be hard to get a good sense of how a paint swatch (even if big) will look because of reflections from the existing paint color. I painted a room the wrong color because of this and now rely less on swatches when a room isn’t white to start.
I’d look at Pinterest and find sample rooms with the same fixtures as yours (floor, couches, whatever else you don’t want to change) and wholesale copy them. There’s no benefit to being original, IMO, as long as you like the outcome.
AwayEmily says
This is all such great advice. The main rooms we are painting are east-facing, which the internet tells me is especially annoying to solve for. Love the idea of googling for ideas, too. Already planning on grabbing some samples of some of the suggestions.
Pens says
I am a paper to-do-list kind of woman. I have always just jotted things down as they came to mind, and I have never successfully transitioned to a phone-based to do list application. I have a toddler whose main meltdown topic right now is mom holding a pen that she can’t hold and obviously a notebook she can’t play with is also terrible. I’m a lawyer, so sometimes what I need to jot down is, like, a few complete sentences, not just a word.
I realize this is such a minor and silly question, but does anyone have any tips? I can’t just not write down things when I think of them, or I lose the thought, but being screamed at while I’m jotting the notes is … less than pleasant. This is probably not a quality or quantity of time issue (I work 20 hours a week, mostly while she’s sleeping or at the park with her dad, and she has my full attention the rest of the day). She shares really well with other kids, but mom having something that isn’t for sharing is terrible. (We both have wallets so she can bring her wallet while I bring my wallet, for example). I mostly love that she’s so into mimicking mom (she tries to fold laundry while I’m doing it!), but it’s non-functional in this area.
Just wait it out? I don’t really want to give a toddler her own a pen and paper every time I need to jot something down, but maybe that’s the solution…
Anon says
Could she have her own notebook and pen? Our toddler has a water wow book, where the paintbrush is like a pen and the book is spiral bound. That would be less risk than giving her a pen. Or could she have an unsharpened pencil? I often have to give my toddler her own pencil so I can write my grocery list in peace!
Or maybe you could use the speech-to-text function on your phone for your notes?
Pens says
Yeah, I think I probably just need to give her her own “pen.” I kind of realized that as I was writing this out, haha. Now to find a pen-like object that doesn’t actually contain ink because my degree of trust around pens is zero after a certain incident with the couch… The unsharpened pencil idea might work, because I use Stabilo pens that are yellow and kind of look like pencils. Thank you!!!
Cerulean says
Crayons or the Crayola markers that only work on special paper.
Anonymous says
Those Crayola color wonder markers are great. I would put them in place she can get them whenever she “needs” them and then just remind her to go get her special notebook and pen when she needs to.
Anonymous says
Crayola makes small spiralbound coloring/activity books for the Color Wonder markers that might be enough of a “notebook” for her.
Anonymous says
I’d either give her something of her own as a distraction (an age appropriate writing utensil and paper) or decide that this is when she starts learning that not everything belongs to her. Honestly, as frustrating as it is, I’d go with the latter. But I might try to make a big deal out of it as Mommy’s pen and notebook. Then she’ll just learn and deal with it going forward (not that it won’t be painful as she does learn). Or maybe she would be satisfied helping you pick your pen. “Can big girl help me get a pen so Mommy can take her special notes? Oh, great job, big helper, this is perfect for Mommy.”, etc…. But if you get her a distraction every time, that’ll take like three times longer than just writing your notes and moving on.
Pens says
God, I’m glad I asked here. We are usually pretty good about making the harder for the parents but more developmentally appropriate choice where it’s necessary, so thank you for the reminder that that might be the better option! She does really love helping, so giving her helper-related tasks but holding the boundary of “no, you can’t have paper” might work.
Anon says
At least with my own kids, it would be years before this would really sink in. It’s an important lesson to teach, but I would not assign this lesson to an activity that (1) is important to you, (2) that you are doing multiple times a day, and (3) is already at frustration level for you.
I have a daughter who is similar, so I’d just have two identical notebooks that you pull out at the same time. I wouldn’t actually give her an age appropriate one; I’d let her have one that looks similar to mine. One automatically goes to her, the other is yours. Don’t wait for her to ask for yours, just make it a practice that you hand your daughter her notebook automatically when you pull out yours. Then, have like 5 of the same interchangeable pen handy, so if she wants yours, hand it to her, and grab another.
Anon says
I have the same issue. I gave my daughter a notebook and washable crayon. She doesn’t have unlimited access to it but if she knows it’s hers and will ask for it, and usually i give it to her unless she’s fully melting down or not listening
Anon says
Can you give her a mini magnetic drawing board? My daughter got one as a random prize and I’d imagine it’d be super easy to keep with your notepad.
anon says
I have exactly the same problem, and letting my toddler play with the pen cap 75% solves it. The other 25% is repeating over and over that he has to let me write.
YMMV, but my paper todo list book is also one of the places I will occasionally let him play with a pen. I rarely refer back to the old pages, and he doesn’t totally obliterate the readability either. I tell myself I’m investing in his checklist skills from an early age.
anon says
Edit to add: I couldn’t give my kid anything that actually writes unless I were watching like a hawk. I’m sure he’d love a notebook and pen just like mine, but I still wouldn’t be able to write my note-to-self before I forgot it.
An.On. says
I agree – when I’m at my desk at home, my kid wants to sit on my lap and 9/10 is fine with a blank piece of paper and whatever pens and highlighters I can dig out of the desk. And if you’re worried about messes or injuries, maybe try one of those “magic” marker sets where it only writes on the special paper. I think Mess Free is one of the brands.
Pens says
Somewhat comforted to see that this is such a common issue! Great ideas here — thank you to everyone for all of the suggestions!