Family Friday: Long-Sleeve One-Piece Swimsuit
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It’s almost pool season, and if your kid has outgrown last summer’s suit, this long-sleeve one-piece suit from Athleta Girl has it all!
This suit is made from 80% recycled nylon plus spandex for stretch. The quick-drying fabric provides excellent sun protection (UPF 50+) so you can spend more time swimming, surfing, or exploring. The front zipper also makes for easy on/off when your kid is ready to move on to the next adventure.
This suit is $65 at Athleta and comes in sizes XS/6 to XXL/16.
Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
I needed to make some major headway on a work project yesterday, so I put the kids to bed and then formatted a spreadsheet for two hours. I was so proud of myself for being productive when I normally veg. Fast forward to this morning and I realize my source data is incorrect. So far I’ve spent 4 hours correcting the work I did last night. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Thank you for all the responses earlier this week about the job options. You all were spot-on and I’m going to accept the first option. I’m really excited!! – Even with the lingering and occasional thoughts of “what if I don’t actually know what I’m doing?!”
Anyway, my children’s dad has shown his true colors, yet again. He lost overnights on the weekend earlier this year after the kiddos had free access to a controlled substance at his house. He was supposed to have the kids during the day the weekend before last, but he drank heavily on Friday night. He had alcohol in his system on Saturday morning and, by the terms of our agreement, because he had alcohol in his system on Sat morning he did not see the kids that weekend. He also lost his job earlier this year, and “just” found a new job that “requires” him to work weekends. So he reached out last night that he has to work this weekend, and won’t be able to see the kids on Saturday or most of Sunday. My youngest has lacrosse games on Saturday morning that I would attend whether or not its “my” time. I love my kids, but I was really looking forward to a few hours on Saturday to myself in my house. Even though I wanted to totally veg out and watch the Diplomat, I may switch to a family walk and gardening.
I don’t need a massive RCTC or Yeti or other pricey cooler, just something that will keep a family (of 4)’s sandwiches and drinks cold and safe in our 95 degree summer temperatures. Or drinks cool for the weekend if car camping. Cheaper coolers didn’t seem to keep anything cold and struggled with even keeping things cool. Everyone loves deli meats, so food safety is big. Any good things to check out? We have a Walmart with a good outdoor selection and camping store.
Ugh, I so wish suits like this had existed when I was a young, sporty kid who got constant sun damage. Rashguards started coming out when I was in my early teens, at least, but they were way less cute than this.
I’ve noticed the last few weeks that the things I usually find restorative aren’t doing it for me anymore. Even on nights where I’m getting a good amount of sleep I’m waking up tired and zombie like. Time spent on hobbies or with friends is fun but I’m but not energizing like it usually. What’s wrong with me? I’m 39 so not young but maybe not old yet. I know I’m mostly eating trash right now, but in the past when I’ve had periods of unhealthy eating it never affected me like this. Any thoughts as to what might be going on? Thanks!
For my sins (and because I complain about parents who drive/park terribly so often), I’ve ended up on my son’s school’s active travel committee… We’ve had 90 responses to the survey in 4 hours, and now I have to figure out how to map out all the hot spots. I swear, 80% of the problems would be solved if the council/police could be bothered to enforce traffic regulations.
No anti-15 minute city conspiracy theories yet, so there’s that!
Thank you notes for kids bday parties? I feel like I’m typically, but not always, a TY note person. Texts and calls often in lieu these days but not possible to do that with the 17 kids at her party + another 4-5 family gifts. I feel like of all the parties we go to, we get them maybe 1 out of 5 times? I know there’s definitely a TY note 100% of the time camp out there, but curious what others do/see/expect.
DD isn’t able to write the notes herself. She can obviously sign her name but it’s something that would 100% fall on me and is approaching borderline past due (party was 4/29). DH’s handwriting is atrocious. truly.
I grew up very blue collar but live in a fancy neighborhood now and know some very rich people. But is it usual to have your middle schooler have a strength coach? Middle-schooler is a girl, in this case. I thought that you weren’t really supposed to be doing that for growing bodies, but my kids are younger. Is this a thing now?