Family Friday: Light-Up Ugly Christmas Sweater
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We recently went to a holiday party — specifically, a Festivus party — and the hosts wore light-up ugly Christmas sweaters. I knew ugly Christmas sweaters were thing, but I didn’t realize they light up now. If this sounds intriguing, check out Amazon for a bunch of options (come on, you’d look good in one!) that are around $23–$45. Do note that Target has them as well, for around $30. The pictured sweater is $43.94 and eligible for Prime and free returns. Forum Novelties Light-Up Ugly Christmas Sweater
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Sales of note for 3/21/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Spring sale, up to 50% off: Free People, AllSaints, AG, and more
- Ann Taylor – 25% off suiting + 25% off tops & sweaters + extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off everything + 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off elevated essentials + extra 50% off sale
- J.Crew – 25% off select linen & cashmere + up to 50% off select styles + extra 40% off sale
- J.Crew Factory – Friends & Family Sale: Extra 15% off your purchase + extra 50% off clearance + 50-60% off spring faves
- M.M.LaFleur – Flash Sale: Get the Ultimate Jardigan for $198 on sale; use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Buy 1 get 1 50% off everything, includes markdowns
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?
My daughter showed “signs of readiness” at 3 months and keeping her happy at dinner was a massive fight until we could start purées. We did fortified oatmeal every couple of days for the iron (I was anemic during pregnancy) and as she got older mixed in adult oatmeal and quinoa for texture.
She was active enough that she dropped off the weight curve at six months and we started doing finger foods like avocado, slightly smushed blueberries (nothing like finding a whole blueberry in a diaper), torn up bits of omelette and bread, slightly smushed beans, etc. As well as lots of full fat adult Greek yogurt (all the kids yogurts I could find had sugar in them).
My husband would not get behind straight BLW when he came across a story of babies getting food lodged in their throats and needing surgery/general anesthetic. (He works health care adjacent and some of the pediatricians he knows send him things.)
Our friends did BLW and could hand their one year old an apple. But our kid could do the same at 18 months so…
(Also, your baby knows how to swallow– she’s been swallowing milk for months.)
Sorry, can’t reply in line. Re (2) question on why purees– our baby was EXTREMELY interested in food and desperately wanted to eat beginning just before 5 months. I wanted to try blw, but… He had a very, very strong gag reflex. Literally anything other than a very smooth puree made him full-out vomit until about 8 or 9 months. But he loved eating and wanted to eat a TON. He also gained a billion percentile points once he started food, and has stayed on that curve now for several years, leading me to believe he perhaps wasn’t getting enough formula previously. He was always a happy baby so can’t have been TOO hungry, but would have drunk more if offered (ped gave us a rough limit, unlike bf’ing). He was eating 3 full meals and 2 snacks by 11 mo, and would let you have it if you tried to skip one, so I don’t really agree that food is just for fun for all babies.
Can y’all help me with this? My kid is almost 3 and pretty advanced verbally.
Last night we were getting ready for bed and she pointed to the map on her wall and asked “what’s that?” and her dad told her “South America.” After dad left, as we were getting ready for lullabies, she said to me, in a sad little voice, “The kids have no food in South America.” I asked for clarification and she told me that at school, her teacher told her that the kids in South America “have no food to eat.”
I am not crazy about that. (Not because I don’t want her to know that other people have it far worse than her, or to pretend there’s no sadness in the world, or whatever — but) it’s just such a blanket statement and it deals with big concepts and I don’t want that to be The Thing she ‘knows’ about a whole continent.
Any advice? In the moment I told her, “There are lots of places where some kids don’t have enough to eat, and it is very sad. But a lot of times, nice people help them by sharing. And lots of kids in South America have food to eat, too.” I mean… she’s two. IDK.
just venting, 13.5 weeks and finally gave into my nausea/vomiting after being up puking till 1am for the millionth time and asked my doctor for meds. doc called in the prescription asap, and of course the pharmacy called saying the insurance company won’t cover it without prior authorization which could take up to a week! i mean i know i’m having a baby and should get used to this whole not sleeping thing, but I’d hope to at least get some sleep throughout the pregnancy!
Are you taking your toddlers to meet Santa for photos? In Chicago and suburbs you have to pay around $40.00 for photos with Santa. Our daughter is 16 months. I am wondering if its worth the price and the effort of taking her to a crowded place. Also, do you get yearly photos with Santa? Thanks
Can anyone comment on wagons? Trying to decide whether to get a regular red wagon or one of those folding ones. uses would be for 3 and 5 year old to ride in to park, push things around in, etc. Thanks!
Please help. My 18 month old will not nap at home anymore. This has been going on for at least a month. He has been down to one nap a day since before he was 1, so it is not about a nap transition. He naps beautifully at daycare Mon-Thurs. Fri-Sun at home, without fail, he refuses. He stands up the moment we leave the room and yells our names, jumps, hollers, until we get him. If we don’t get him, the yelling eventually devolves into hysterics. We sleep trained him originally for bedtime and naps so we don’t have a problem with modified CIO, but it just isn’t working for naps anymore. We have tried everything, mimicking what they do at daycare, etc. He will usually fall asleep later in the afternoon in the car or stroller, but I don’t want to encourage that, plus he is still tired mess by late afternoon/early evening. It is really making our weekends difficult as we have no time to ourselves/to be productive, and as he is not a pleasant little human for the afternoon. He does sleep through the night just fine.
Please tell me someone has been through this and has a magical solution. I am so jealous of friends whose toddlers take 2 hour naps every day – what I would do with that kind of free time during the day on a weekend!
Relatedly, I often see “go in and pat their back” as a soothing method for sleep refusal issues – do other babies over the age of 1 stay lying down when they are crying in their crib? My LO is always standing during these stand offs, he would never ever let me lay him back down or pat his back if I went in to encourage sleep. He’d just grab me to be picked up. I don’t understand this advice!
Our daycare now requires that we write the date on our kiddo’s lunchbag every day. Does anyone have any creative ways around using scotch/painter’s tape? I was thinking about using some kind of plastic dial-calendar (do they make those?) or maybe some premade date stickers? Does anyone else’s daycare have this regulation, and what are you doing?
Tell me your experience. Some of my questions:
1) To truly do BLW, you’re supposed to feed them from your dinner. How in the world do you get dinner ready and eaten after work in time to get a kiddo into bed on time? How do you convince daycare to get on board? I feel like hard core BLW requires a SAHP.
2) Since “food before 1 is just for fun”, why do people even start kids on purees/cereal at 4-5 months? Is there an actual benefit? Does it really help kiddo sleep through the night or is that a myth?
3) Has anybody done a combo of BLW and purees? Or is there some reason you’re not supposed to do that?
Curious to hear different experiences.
I also get it, but if he’s actually pulling his weight in other areas then I would try to adjust your mentally towards more of a “team” attitude rather than an “individual” attitude. I think it can be a slippery slope when you start to compare what you’re doing vs what he’s doing (unless it’s obvious he isn’t pulling his weight). There must be plenty of thankless tasks that he does, gets no credit for, and you benefit from. If you want an actual solution – have him be involved in sending out cards, or just stop sending them. A lot of holiday stress for moms is actually self-induced. We’re adults! We can decide what the holidays look like for our families! Sometimes we forget that.
Does anyone else feel a little tinge of resentment every time they sign their husband’s name to a Christmas card or on a gift tag, knowing that he did nothing to locate, book, and schedule the photographer for the Christmas card photo, buy the Christmas cards, write the notes in the cards, buy the stamps, address and mail them, think of gifts for all the children in the extended family, buy the gifts, or wrap the gifts? He pulls his weight in other areas, but it still irks a little to give him credit for these things when he had literally no role in executing them.
Can anyone share their experience on having a paraguard removed? I am a bit of a wuss regarding pain and I am wondering how bad it will be. TIA!
Can we talk about night terrors? Kiddo just started having them this week, and we are…terrified, spooked, unprepared. She goes to sleep fine and then starts screaming and kicking in her sleep. I try to comfort her but that makes things worse. I spoke with her doctor and she said that the goal is to get kiddo to calm down and go back to sleep, but I am not sure how. Should I ignore the night terror and let kiddo work it out on her own?
Well, I’m officially into my full length down coat, and thinking about doing a long weekend to a family-friendly all inclusive in Riviera Maya in February ish. Corporette moms meet up? Does anyone have recommendations for family with 3 and 5 year olds.
Novelty items like this seem so wasteful. It makes me sad to think of the materials, labor, shipping, environmental impact, etc. that went into creating something that will be worn once or twice for a laugh and then discarded.