Family Friday: Kids’ Keelan Boot
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I wear sheepskin boots every winter for their warmth — here’s a cute pair from Ugg so your little ones can enjoy cozy tootsies as well.
These mid-cut classic boots have a suede upper, fur lining, and rubber sole for traction. Also, unlike Ugg’s traditional pull-on boots, these have a hook-and-loop closure for easy on and off. They come in black, charcoal, and chestnut as well as pink — perfect for matching parent-and-me boots.
Ugg’s Kids’ Keelan boots are $64.95 at Zappos and come in infant/toddler (0-1) through little kid sizes (12).
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+
Christmas Gift ideas for a 3 yo boy (other than toys). We’re pretty set on winter gear so i am asking for some fun/splurgey clothing items. but family is asking for a list and I want to think of functional stuff that won’t be added clutter. like maybe sheets for a big boy bed (he’s still in a crib) and other stuff that he may need in the next 6 months? Would also take book ideas.
Gift idea- working moms of young toddler.
I have a 29 year old working mom of a newly turned 1 year old in my life. I feel like this is some of you ladies.
Gift ideas? No alcohol. Budget ~$150. A gift card would be okay if that’s what you really want, but I’d also like to do a small gift.
I took my 3-yo to the dentist this morning, and they made us reschedule because he coughed. I totally understand them not wanting to see a patient with a cold to prevent the spread of disease, but I just feel like… when is my kid going to be totally cough-free? Maybe next spring? We’ve been basically one week on, one week off with colds this fall, and I don’t see it getting better this winter (fully vaxxed and flu shot though!).
Would you bring a hostess gift when you’re visiting family for the day? We’re going to see DH’s extended family (his aunt, uncle, cousins and cousins’ kids) in a nearby city this weekend. I know it’s not as obligatory as it would be if they were hosting us overnight, but I still feel really weird about showing up empty handed. DH says a gift is not necessary – I can’t tell if that’s because he’s a guy and he’s clueless or because his family actually has a different gifting culture. Also if we should bring one what should we bring? We live in str1p mall suburbia and they’re in an exciting big city, so it’s not like we can bring some fun local food item. We don’t drink, not sure they do either. Not sure how flowers would transport.
For those of you with kids that wake up early– when do you work out? DS is currently about 20 months old. He used to sleep 7:30-8 pm to 7-7:30 am, which meant that I could sometimes workout after bedtime or before he woke up. However, DS now sleeps something like 8 pm to 6-6:30 am… We thought this was a phase that would be short-lived, but it’s been going on for a month, and it doesn’t seem like the time change will help. The later bed time means that I frequently don’t finish eating my dinner until after 8 pm, so there isn’t time to digest and work out before I go to bed. Also, DH is in charge of getting DS ready in the morning, but with DS waking up so early now, DH is normally trying to get himself ready along with DS, so I am needed in the morning routine. (When DS woke up at 7:30, DH would normally get himself ready before DS woke up, so I wasn’t involved in the morning routine.)
How much tv does/did your 1-2 year old watch? My husband pretty much turns on cocomelon every day after work for 1.5 hrs until I get home, and it drives me crazy. The kid isn’t sitting and watching it for hours, they’re up and about in between their favorite songs, but then it seems like it makes even less sense to turn it on if they’re not even paying attention to it.
For those of you with a “big” job and small children, what keeps you tied to the job? Money, status, the work itself? Ive been struggling in a job that’s high stress, low pay, but high status and interesting work, and questioning whether that’s enough reason to stay.
Has anyone taken their kids to Lyle Lyle Crocodile? Would it be a good first movie for an almost 5 year old?
Older kid sleep issue – would love some advice. My kids share a room. They’re generally fine going to sleep. My almost 7 year old though will sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and then wake us up by, e.g., telling us that she’s awake (amazing), or asking to be covered, or saying she’s too hot, etc. It’s a semi-ongoing issue that comes and goes and we have explained to her over and over why we don’t wake up others in the middle of the night, that she can cover/uncover herself, she needs to go back to sleep or lie awake if she can’t, blah blah blah. Generally this comes and goes and we kind of put up with it because it always corrects itself before it gets too bad, and also because the kids share a room and it’s kind of impossible to just ignore her because then she’s going to wake up her sibling, which seems unfair to him.
But the last week or two, she is just in overdrive with this behavior. Sits up at 2 AM and just starts groaning loudly and yelling “I can’t sleep” or screaming “i’m hot! Uggghh”- it’s all super obnoxious and her brother, who usually sleeps through most things, wakes up and is then miserable too (abut more politely). We’re definitely miserable. And every morning it’s the same story – we talk about it, she says she’s sorry, she’ll do better, etc. and then it’s the same thing the next night or the night after.
I’m stuck for how to handle it because I can’t just ignore it due to her brother. And I don’t think she means to do this b/c she really does feel bad – she even makes us cards apologizing for “not letting us have good sleep” – but when it’s nighttime and she’s groggy, it’s like she just can’t think about anyone other than herself. Do I take her brother out to our room for a few days and just let her “cry it out”? Keep trying to explain why her behavior is unacceptable? What’s the move here? We already don’t engage and have a script of “go to sleep” when this happens.
I’m coaching my early elementary daughter’s basketball team this winter. First time coaching a kid sport.
I have practice plans for the actual basketball activities and of course a snack plan. I’m trying to think of some of the “softer” elements I can add to make it fun. Any tips or ideas that you have done or seen done that can make the practice/game sessions a little “extra”? Like good ice breakers to learn names, silly songs that get the kids pumped, cute phrases to use to help describe some of the basics? Thanks!
Shopping help? I’ve bought into the demi boot denim trend. But now I want some short cowboy boots. Suggestions? I’m looking at Kork-Ease Skye and Frye’s Billy western atm.
What shows do your early elementary kids like? They don’t have to be “educational” but I would prefer ones that do not feature people being obnoxious/snarky/mean to each other. My first-grader is growing out of the PBS kids repertoire.