Organizing Thursday: Lion Water Hyacinth Bin
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This is a really cute basket for toys, shoes, etc., in a child or baby’s room. I also like it for a “mud room,” where you can assign each child a different animal bin where they can store their shoes and bag. I think it would also be cute as a base for a baby basket to fill with gifts and books for a friend with a newborn. It looks large enough to hold a lot of things, and cute/design-forward enough to be displayed anywhere. It is $19.99 and available at ContainerStore.com — also in bee, unicorn, frog, cat, bunny, and bear styles. Lion Water Hyacinth Bin
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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
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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 in-laws are 70+ and don’t live close (8+ hour drive). We’d like to visit them before we put the kid(s) (still trying to decide if it’s both) back in daycare. We’re trying to figure out the timing for that. I reviewed Emily Oster’s stuff and was thinking we’d be home and extra vigilant for a week before we go (we’re vigilant all the time), but I think they shouldn’t go to daycare for two weeks before (we have a high population of health care workers at our daycare). We feel like we can get there and home safely. We wouldn’t stay with them, but we’re worried that if we don’t do it now and the kids go back, we won’t go for months/a year.
Have any of you traveled for a visit? Any tips?
Is anyone else finding it harder to maintain their weight during these times? Idk what it is but I find that now unless I am tracking what I am eating and being mindful about treats/being sure I exercise daily, my weight will be a few pounds over what it was pre-quarantine. Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this and what you are doing to cope. It’s not a huge deal but just yet another annoying thing about quarantine.
yesterday many people (and rightfully so) were venting about their schools plan or lack there of for the fall. i know most of us (myself included) are not public health or education experts, but we are a group of smart women! I’m just kind of curious what your ideas would be if you were in charge of the school district, to try to maximize education, while minimizing risk, making contract tracing feasible, and make it easy to suddenly provide distance learning for all or some of the students in a class (like if a student’s family member is exposed or positive) taking into account thinks like school buses (for discussion sake let’s assume we aren’t in a place like nyc), the fact that in high school and middle school students generally have to switch classrooms because they might be in some, but not all AP/Honors classes and have different electives or foreign languages, the kids who have IEPs and get pulled out for special services, the teachers and administrators who are in high risk categories themselves or live with people who are, etc. what would be your ideas?
Are you renting a vacation house this summer? We are in DC in a condo and I keep dreaming of renting a house with a yard where the kids can just run around. The city grind is just getting to me and I could use a change of scenery. Any ideas of where to look near DC? We don’t usually vacation around here.
Help with a 5 year old waking up / having nightmares and needing parents multiple times through the night, multiple days a week? Child has 2 nightlights (one motion-sensor) and a string of christmas lights to help with the “dark” factor, but it hasn’t solved the issue.
Anything that worked for your 5ish year olds?
My kids day camp is opening this summer (part of their preschool) and I am sending them. Here’s the question – the preschool is big on carpool and many people do it. Our regular carpool assumed we’d be back to carpooling for this but I’m torn. On the one hand, they’re going to get exposed to kids at the camp (although in theory protocols will be in place to limit exposure). On the other hand, it seems like opting out of carpool would be an easy way to mitigate risk. Socially, am concerned about annoying the other parents we carpool with during the regular normal times school year, but I am still willing to back out! Weirdly the others (3 families – 3 kids) don’t seem at all phased? Not in a hotspot clearly.
Has anyone seen anything discussing risks of cars and carpooling? I assume cars are risky, but also would be the kids and not us in the car – or when we drive we will wear masks and just be driving kids. Agh.
Just found out I failed my 1 hour glucose test (141; 135 cutoff). Did anyone else have this experience? Now I have to sit for the 3-hour… I’ve gained a normal amount of weight thus far (28 weeks) and eat a fairly healthy/whole foods diet (of course I’ve indulged in a sweet treat a few times a week, but not even daily). Ugh.
Did y’all ever take early pregnancy tests or wait until missed period? I kind of think I’m pregnant and I’m six days away from my period – the internet tells me I can take an early test!
Don’t really mind a false negative. Wouldn’t alter my behavior. A positive would be nice to know. Would be disappointed if ended up being a chemical pregnancy that I wouldn’t have otherwise detected!
I posted yesterday to say I’d found out I was pregnant over the weekend… only to wake up to quite a bit of bleeding this morning. Sadly, seems that this pregnancy is not meant to be. Trying to look on the bright side, but right now just feeling sad.
Does anyone have anecdotal experience with hormonal shifts when transitioning to solids? Is this even a thing? Last week was really hard and I felt like I was just angry about everything- like yelling at every small offense. My 8 month old has been on solids for a few months so we’re nursing less, and yesterday I had a thought that maybe this might be contributing to why I’m so rage filled? I used to be able to dismiss my partner’s idiot moments, but I feel like these days I’m more likely to devolve into a shouting rage and I don’t like this reaction. Or I might just be stressed from quarantining with three kids and being unemployed. What’s helping you these days?
I am a Biglaw associate currently working remotely and 12 weeks pregnant.
Under normal circumstances, I would probably wait until I was starting to show to tell my boss.
With Covid, I am concerned about layoffs. Our work has slowed way down. I am one of 8 associates in the group, several of whom are my year, and am usually an average to above-average biller. I am one of two women associates. Between working from home and chronic nausea/exhaustion in the first trimester, I would characterize my last few months’ performance as slightly below average.
A few people I know have recommended that I tell my boss about the pregnancy as soon as possible so if there are layoffs, I will be less likely to be laid off because the firm will not want to appear to be illegally discriminating against me due to pregnancy.
This goes against the conventional thinking that being pregnant could be held against me (perhaps subconsciously).
I am not trying to use pregnancy as an excuse. Just terrified of losing my job/benefits/guaranteed paid maternity leave.
Any thoughts? Am I making too much or this?