Finally Friday: Andra Kitten Heel
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Ladies, here’s a challenge: plan your next date night, or night out with the girls — because if work isn’t enough, you need a place to wear these fun lace-up kitten heels. I’ve seen higher, I’ve seen lower, but these yellow kitten heels are the ones that strike me as just right. I’d wear them with a simple navy dress (or, hey, navy jumpsuit if it’s a night out). They’re $138, available in three colors, at the apparent king of all things lace-up: Free People. Jeffrey Campbell + Free People Andra Kitten Heel
Psst: while we’re talking trendy, these low block heels are also kind of fabulous.
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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?
Does anyone here regret not staying home? Or alternatively regret staying home and having a almost no experience when trying to get back into the workforce?
I graduated from law school in 2014 and got married a month later. We were both studying for the bar exam but I got pregnant right away (somewhat of a birth control failure because we weren’t trying) so the new plan was that I would take the bar exam after our son turned one.
Our son turns one next month. But the honest truth is that I don’t think I want to take the bar or work as a lawyer any more. I love staying home with him and being a homemaker. I have never felt happier and the thought of getting a job and not staying home depresses me. I never thought I would feel this way but now I do. My husband and I thought we always wanted just one child but now I want more.
My husband is supportive of me being a stay at home mom if I want. He is a lawyer and says he makes more than enough money if I want to stay home and it’s no problem. He is also open to having more children if I want.
My only worry is about not having anything to fall back on if something happens to him and he can’t work (or worse). I went to a T14 law school and did my undergraduate degree at an Ivy League school. I had good grades through both. But I’m worried that if I have to return to work years down the road the gap on my resume (re: lack of ever having a job or worked anywhere besides when I was summering) will hinder me.
My husband has life insurance and we are building an emergency fund. We are paying down his student loans really quick and they will be gone by next June. That’s the only debt either of us have. If anyone faced a similar decision or has any experience with this I would really appreciate hearing about it.
Thought I would post this here as opposed to the main site, as I am looking for gentle recommendations: On valentine’s day my husband was admitted to the hospital for some serious health concerns. He has been inpatient for almost two weeks, and we think he will be discharged on Monday. Even after he is discharged, he will still require pretty intense outpatient care for another week. We also have two small kids: ages 2 and 5. And for added fun: both kids have been sick this week. I spent yesterday morning at the pediatrician with both of them. I’m not sure how I’ve done it, but I’ve managed to keep everything up and running during these last two weeks. Here’s the thing: my job has absolutely no idea what is going on with my husband. I just couldn’t bring myself to mention it. My job is incredibly intense right now, and things should ease up in about a week or two. I can see myself hitting a point where I am going to need to take some time just to catch my breath or else I am going to collapse from physical and emotional exhaustion. Do I bring this up now? Explain it later? Or figure that I’ve made it this far, so why bother? I’m a bit concerned that they are going to think I am crazy (how have I managed to keep going?!) or making this up.
I have an in-person interview for a role I’d like, but wouldn’t lose sleep over not getting. I’ve had 3 phone interviews (two with the hiring manager) and my perception is that this is a meet face-to-face (I’ve got to fly to the office in which hiring mgr is based)/ double check on fit in person, and shop me around to the rest of the team, as he’s said quite a few times that he’s got to figure out how to woo me into the role.
I’m 6.5 months pregnant (and it’s not my first, so I’m extra big), and I don’t have a suit that fits since I don’t typically need suits. I don’t even have a formal workwear dress + blazer combo that looks interview-level appropriate. I’m going to a business-casual environment in Atlanta. Do I:
1. Wear a “smart casual” outfit (black pants, crisp flowy blouse, cardigan….MAYBE either squeeze into an unbuttoned casual blazer; DVF style wrap dress + heels)
2. Buy something
If #2, do I buy (2a) a formalish workwear dress or blazer (2b) full on suit
If this were a first interview for a job I really wanted/needed, I’d go full on 2b, no question. But we are (I think) past the most formal of times, and I have already told hiring manager that I’m pregnant. I would fully mention it up front when getting there (“apologies for the lack of formality here…”). People in the office will be wearing at most button downs + khakis, so I’d be dressing more like an employee than an interview-ee.
I am also considering straight up asking hiring manager– “Excited about the trip and want to gauge the level of formality here…” I wouldn’t normally be so bold but I’m both pregnant, and not dying to drop $300 on an outfit I’ll wear once for a job I’m not sure I want.
Stop at a drugstore on your way – grab a birthday card and a few sheets of stickers. The 1 year old will be *delighted* and you’re still mostly in compliance with the no-gifts rule.
We’ve been invited to a “very casual” first birthday party for one of my husband’s colleague’s kids this weekend. (I’m exhausted just typing that.) Husband’s colleague said no gifts, but I feel weird showing up empty handed. OTOH, finding a gift would require a trip to the store sometime tomorrow before the party. What to do?
Ladies, I’m trying to decide about going to see a Dr. about fertility help versus making the decision that expanding my family might mean something other than me getting pregnant again.
I got pregnant at 35 during our first month of TTC with #1 and had World’s Easiest Pregnancy. Been TTC #2 now for over a year. I’m 38, no known health problems.
I’ve watched so many heartbroken friends spend years in and out of doctors offices with fertility treatment, multiple rounds of IVF, etc. I’ve also watched friends realize early on that pregnancy was going to require medical intervention, and decide instead to put their money and emotional energy towards domestic infant adoption, and most were successfully matched within about a year.
I’m worried that once I decide that another pregnancy is “the goal” and start down the fertility help path, I’ll stay on it, no matter how long / expensive / emotionally taxing. I’ll admit I did love being pregnant and would like to have that experience again … but I’m having a hard time determining how much I “value” another biological pregnancy / biologically related kid against the greater value (in my mind) of my son having a sibling(s) close to his age for him to grow up with.
Can anyone here help me think this through?
Random question: do you have any kid-gear thing that you just Had to Have and now you have it and its like an albatross?
For me, it was the Joovy Scooter stroller. I pined over it. I read reviews. I bought it. I assembled it myself. I put my daughter in it and she spit up on it within 30 seconds. Which was about 20 seconds after I realized I kind of hated it. It’s heavy and hard to open. The seat is weirdly shallow. I think I used it 3 or 4 times total and it has been sitting in my hall closet for about a year now. I put it on craigslist, but I’ve gotten no interest. It’s kind of funny how obsessed I was with a stroller.
I have my first PTA social event tonight and I’m nervous like it’s a first date.
I work and pick up my kids at what seems to be an odd time from afterschool, so I don’t know a lot of other parents (but would love to know more). I have a feeling that the at-home moms know each other pretty well, so I want to seem like an awesome and approachable person (which I am), but how do I dress the part? I can change from work clothes (pencil skirt, sweater) before I go.
I was thinking casual dress + cowboy boots (I tend to be a very Garden & Gun / Farmer’s Only-type dresser and we are in the SE US but in a city) or something like a DVF Reina dress (different boots). It’s too cold for Lilly, but Lilly seems to not be a bad default for something like this (but what do I know)?
You guys, TGIF. My husband has been traveling for work this week and I am just so exhausted. This isn’t the first time I’ve been alone with my daughter for a week, but it was so much harder this time. My daughter has been waking up progressively earlier each day, I had to give her my first solo bath due to a really gross blowout that got everywhere, there is just so much stuff to wash every day, and this morning she projectile vomited all over herself, me, and the couch about 15 minutes before we were going to walk out the door.
We usually hand wash bottles and pump parts because we don’t run the dishwasher every night (it usually isn’t full). Mid-way through the week I just started running it every night to deal with the bottles. I was just over it.
Props to all of you solo parents on here. I really need, like, 6 drinks and to go to bed at 8pm.