Everyone Thursday: Triple Layer Beaded Necklace

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Triple Layer Beaded NecklaceI really like this white and gold triple-layer beaded necklace. (I’m unfamiliar with the brand, but Last Call has a ton of good stuff from them right now). Here’s my thought process: I love wearing my pearls, in part, because I feel like they really brighten my face — but I don’t often wear my pearls around my kids because, well, I like my pearls. Yes, there are faux pearls, but this statement necklace is so much more fun — and for only $35. Score! Lydell Triple Layer Beaded Necklace

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)

And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interestworking mom questions asked by the commenters!

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I took advantage of the Loft’s after-Christmas sale to order a few pairs of maternity shorts and capris (just found out #2 is on his or her way, and all my maternity clothes are for winter). Anyways, they arrived in the mail. The shorts with the demi-belly fit great. The capris with the full coverage are a nightmare! I mean, I fit into the “pants” part just fine (with a bit of room to spare even), but the belly part are like too-tight Spanx on my not-yet-even-bloated stomach! I figure since they were $4 I’ll see if a tailor can salvage them, but wow. Has anyone else had a similar experience? This is my first time buying Loft maternity pants.

I missed the discussion yesterday re daycare waitlists, but just wanted to offer this : even if the list is long, it may still be worth getting on. In our area, many centers don’t remove people from the lists unless they affirmatively turn down a spot. So there might be 50 families on the list for the Infant classrooms, but the first 20 don’t even have infants anymore because so much time has passed since they got on the waitlist. We got on a bunch of center waitlists, but ended up going with an in-home daycare when I returned to work. A few months later, we got a call from one of the centers, and a spot had opened up.

Even though an in-home daycare wasn’t our first choice when we started thinking about childcare, we ended up loving it, and we felt like it was perfect for our daughter given her age and the age of the other kids there. It was a hard choice, but we did take the spot at the center. I can understand why people would turn the spot down, and the center could find themselves burning through the waitlist fairly quickly.

I’m really getting weary of the SAHM mantra: “I didn’t have kids just to pay someone else to raise them.” I subscribe to a couple other pregnancy message boards and see this all. the. time. I don’t want to engage in any mommy wars, but I find this comment particularly tiresome.

As a child who grew up in full-time daycare, and as a mother who expects to put her kids (starting as infants) in full-time daycare, I feel like these women just have no clue. I have a wonderful relationship with my mother, in part because she worked all the time when I was growing up. She was a great role model. Once my sisters and I left for college, she continued to have an amazing career. She is now going to retire in a couple years at the top of her profession, after 40 years of an extremely fulfilling job. She can choose to volunteer in her retirement, teach or mentor others, or just relax. She has saved enough that she doesn’t need to rely on her kids for support. She can take trips, eat at wonderful restaurants, etc. She has decades of fascinating stories and insight about being a women in a male-dominated profession that she can share with me and her grandchildren as they grow up.

Anyway, it’s fine to be a stay-at-home-mom. But don’t tell me that my kids will be harmed or unloved if I choose to put them in daycare.

My department is merging with another and i just found out that the other manager will be taking over both departments and I will be working for him. Currently we are equals, but I was told this decision was made because he has less restrictions than I do (ie having to leave to pickup kids from daycare at the end of the day). Anyway. just a boo for me.

I am home with a sick kid for the second day in a row and fear I may be home tomorrow too. My office is pretty flexible with regard to working from home (several colleagues are home today because most of the schools are closed, but their kids are older and presumably don’t need the constant supervision that my toddler does). Yesterday, I took a PTO day, but I am new to the job and don’t have a ton banked. If I worked approximately 5 hours yesterday (during naps and in the evening) and do the same today, is it reasonable to consider today a “work from home” day instead of taking another PTO on the basis that I worked more than a full day if you add in yesterday’s work? I am fairly confident that my boss won’t care, but I still feel a little guilty and don’t want to take advantage of his flexibility.

Also, sick kids have got to be one of the hardest parts of being a working mother. I so desperately wish we had family nearby…

Update on sleeping: all of your comments yesterday helped me commit to the sleep training, so we did it again last night. Of course, last night she fell asleep in my arms during our bedtime singing – then woke up 45 minutes later. I went in, gave her a hug and checked her diaper, told her that I was going to leave but would be nearby and that I knew she could figure out how to fall asleep on her own. I did yoga for the next 20 minutes as she cried (and I turned off the monitor, what a concept!). By the time I had finished my yoga, she was done crying and was sitting up in her crib staring again….almost 3 hours later, she finally fell asleep. And she fell asleep clinging to a small lovey I keep in her crib, which she has never seemed to notice before!

And then I realized that I didn’t really have a plan for when I could nurse her during the night – I knew I couldn’t wait until she woke up on her own without messing up the progress she had made. So I went to my sleep training books (yes, I have four), and decided to wake her up an hour before her usual 2 am wakeup for a dream feed. That worked, she fell back asleep after 10 minutes of crying, and then I woke her up again half an hour before her usual 5 am feed. I don’t know if she fell back asleep after that – I went back in at 6, found her awake, and pulled her into bed with me so I could get a half hour of snuggles.

I feel like I learned a lot more about my daughter last night – that she is strong and resourceful, that she is more flexible and resilient than I have ever believed, and that I have been babying her and feeling sorry for her too much when I could have been encouraging her to dig deep and grow from challengng situations. I didn’t expect to be so proud of her this morning!

Pumping question : how did you wise ladies scale back pumping at work? I’m five months out and would love to go from three sessions to two. My goal is to ebf until at least 6 months so I’m afraid of dropping one before then because I’m afraid of it killing my supply. I currently pump at 930, 1230 and 330 more or less and produce 25-30oz (twins!). Is there a way to do this without a drop in production? I’d like not to fully wean until closer to a year
Thanks!