Family Friday: Kids’ Organic Mock-Neck Sweater
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Over the holidays, my youngest wore a sweater like this one to watch The Nutcracker for the first time.
While the holidays are in the rearview mirror, this red sweater is still a great choice for upcoming winter holidays like Valentine’s Day and Lunar New Year. This mock-neck sweater is made from soft organic cotton, so it isn’t itchy, and has a traditional cable pattern at the shoulders, striped collar trim, and front button placket for easy on and off.
Hope & Henry’s mock-neck sweater is $23.97 (marked down from $39.95) at Nordstrom and comes in little and big kid sizes.
Sales of note for 3/2:
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- Nordstrom – 4,000 new markdowns for women!
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I yelled at my two year old this morning and I feel so horrible. He wanted baby food. I was changing his brother’s diaper. He got mad and took the glass jar of baby food and smashed it all over the floor- shattered glass everywhere.
I raced over and there’s my toddler, stunned, covered in pink. It was the baby food but my immediate thought was blood spatter and I freaked. I actually yelled at him-raised my voice and told him that was a terrible thing to do. It could have really hurt him or his siblings or the dog- everyone was barefoot and nearby at the time.
We hugged it out and calmed down, but he was very upset at daycare dropoff and I know it’s because he was still emotionally fragile from the morning. I really feel terrible.
I’m considering Costa Rica for my 40th in December. We have a 3 (will be almost 4) year old. DH and I traveled extensively before having a kid and this would be our first big international trip with her. I would add, DH and I have each been to CR separately but a looong time ago so we’re interested in going again and think its a good family destination.
I’ve done some research on resorts and areas of the country and looking for feedback and recs. Ideally we’d stay somewhere with a kids club so we can have a few hours break at times. I’m up in the air on going all inclusive or not; CR is pretty safe and we like getting outside resorts.
Most of the resorts are in Guanacaste however we’d also like to do Arenal for a few days, though the hotels/resorts in Arenal all look v expensive or small/family run. I don’t like driving in foreign countries but DH doesn’t mind, so we could rent a car and drive there. We’d like to do “light” hiking (nature walks) with the kid and some other outdoor activities if possible.
I’m on the flip side of the conversation the other day about having more kids. I’d love to have another but I have a lot of very reasonable anxiety around the whole process. Pregnancy and delivery were terrible, but I’m more concerned about bringing a child into the world who will have medical/social/etc. needs that LO will be stuck managing after we’re gone. I feel like we got so lucky with our baby – he’s perfect, happy, chill – we can’t possibly get that lucky again. Anyone else feel this way. FWIW, we’re in our early 40s so that plays a lot into my fears.
The pictured kid is adorable but he looks SO OVER IT. My kid is tiny but he’s already developing this look when I take too many pictures. Like ok mom I’m doing my best to humor you but it’s been days (minutes) can you please stop.
Looking for some anecdata – when do people in your area start drop off playdates?
Our oldest is in first grade and started drop offs in kindergarten. She also carpools to an activity with her bff. We invited a newer friend to a sleep-under party, and the invite included drop off and pickup times. We have had the traditional playdate with this new friend already, where I had to sit and chat with the parent for 4 hours. Mom responded – thanks for the invite, I will also be coming. Of course I said okay, but I’m not really looking forward to having to entertain this woman for the duration.
(Reposted because I posted too late yesterday!)
Talk to me about 1st to 5th grade boys and how you control for videogame habits. We live in a neighborhood where nearly all the boys have no limits on videogames it feels like. 2nd grade boys also play fortnite and my husband doesn’t want our 6 year old playing shooter type games which I agree with. We have some cooperative type games on our PS5 but it feels like boys that play fortnite don’t want to play anything else. How much videogames do you allow and what type?