Maternity Monday: Maia Faux Fur Coat
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Expecting in the New Year? Stay warm in this chic faux fur coat.
Made from recycled materials, this cozy double breasted coat is tailored to accommodate your growing bump. Add a pair of tall boots and a stretchy sweater dress for a winter-ready and pregnancy-friendly outfit.
Emilia George’s Maia Faux Fur Coat is $380 and comes in sizes XS-XL.
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+
Anyone been to Nantucket in October? Is it a good time to visit? Since it won’t be beach weather, is there enough to entertain elementary age kids? My knowledge of kid things to do on the island is really limited to the whaling museum from the final scenes of the Gilmore Girls revival, lol.
Or other suggestions for a mom + 7 year old fall break in the continental US/Canada, preferably central or eastern time zones? In the past we’ve done Vermont, Denver/Aspen and San Diego/Disneyland. Vermont was my favorite of the three which is why I’m leaning towards going back to New England. My kid loved Disney but we have other Disney plans this year, so not doing that for fall break.
4 year old son is very very slim. Even 2T pants can be loose. Pants that fit him lengthwise won’t stay on his waist. We’ve mostly been doing cat and Jack for pants. Have tried primary and carters for shorts. Any clothing brands geared towards skinny kids that I should look at?
How do you find out about summer camps in your area? I’d like to sign up my daughter for a few weeks (not the whole summer) – she just turned 4.
Hi all – posting with an update on my 3 (now 4 year old), “caboose” kid for lack of better wording. I feel like 4 is already at least *slightly* better than 3. While he’s still a spirited kid generally, I feel like I can at least talk him through things (“If you get frustrated, don’t yell, I’m here – just ask me for help!”) and transitions, while still tough, tend to mellow out quicker – like this morning he wanted X for breakfast, and wasn’t happy with A or B options, but eventually was like fine with A and even helped me prep it.
We had his annual ped visit, and I raised all of my concerns regarding some of his noises and quirkier behaviors, and the ped had no concerns nor did she see a reason to pursue any additional eval or therapy. (I was sure she’d suggest OT and/or a ASD/ADHD eval). Ped was pretty firm in that as long as behavior isn’t interfering with his behavior in school + functioning generally, she doesn’t recommend anything except…time.
I will say the last few weeks it feels like he’s made some type of leap speech-wise (he was talking a lot before…now it feels like NONSTOP, and I’m so thrilled), AND all he wants to do now is draw and write.
So now that we’ve gotten all generally great feedback from his speech therapist, his teacher, and his ped…instead of trying to issue spot him…I’m just working on myself and how I can be a better parent to my kid. A lot of that has been re-thinking my own self-care so I can show up better and stronger, especially because I do a lot of solo parenting.
Another 6yo question. First-grader has complained of persistent ‘bad dreams’ since she was 3 or 4 about a mix of themes – monsters, ghosts, house fires, house break-ins, losing mommy, etc. She says they occur almost every night but (as I probed further) not during the day, and they aren’t compelling her to change her behavior, but they do make her afraid to go to sleep at the start of the night and unable to get back to sleep in the middle of the night unless a parent is with her. Oddly enough she said she had no bad dreams while we were on vacation. And I can’t identify any specific stressors at home or school that might be causing them. But it’s basically every night when we’re at home.
Has anyone dealt with this? I have tried ‘monster spray’, ‘anti-nightmare cream’, deep breathing exercises, making her room cooler at night, and a nightlight. When do we rope in a therapist? Do a sleep study? Will she outgrow this (as I’m sure the vast majority of kids do!) or should I worry that the bad dreams signal some underlying predisposition to more severe mental health issues in the future? (FWIW, both parents have anxiety disruptive enough to warrant therapy.)
New issue with my 11yo daughter at bedtime. She heads to bed around 9 and listens to an audiobook. I go in and give her a hug around 9:15/30. Over the past few weeks, about half of the nights, she will pop into my room around 9:45 to claim that she can’t fall asleep. She will lie down on my bed and be out cold within 5 minutes. I generally wait 20 minutes and then walk her back to her room. On that walk, she will protest that she hasn’t fallen asleep, can’t sleep, why am I doing this, etc. The next morning, she remembers walking into my room but that’s it. Any advice on how to preempt coming into my room the first time (9:45)? She tends to come in right around when I’m ready to turn out my light and go to bed. The result is that I end up going to bed 45 min later than I had planned.
Monday morning poll: If the kids are late getting out the door (for all the usual reasons, nothing exceptional) is the parent who can leave without them still expected to stay and help? Assuming one parent does drop-off and one parent does pick-up.
Best and worst gifts from the holidays?
Best: Haba board games. We got several and they were all a lot of fun.
Worst: MIL bought our four year old daughter Louboutins. I don’t even have (nor would I ever buy) louboutins for myself. DD is just as happy with her sparkly target boots. Trying to decide whether there’s a way to return them without MIL finding out.
Random question…I was hoping to get myself a nice ring to celebrate a big professional milestone. Something I can wear on my left hand…I have vague ideas of a green stone in an Art Deco-ish setting. I’m not sure where to start.
My caveat is that I DON’T want the stress or cost of a “real” jewel. I have a $50 fake diamond for my engagement ring (in a vintage setting) and it’s great. But I’m striking out on figuring where to get something that’s high-quality in the setting, but not a real jewel. Does anyone have any websites they’d recommend? I’m so wary of Etsy these days…it seems like it’s a lot of drop-shippers and low-quality stuff pretending to be handmade, but if there’s a specific seller people have liked then I’d give it a try.
We’re taking our first flights with kids at the end of this month, and trying to figure out what to do re: car seats. Kids are just turned 4 (and big for her age – almost 50lbs and almost 4 feet tall), and just turned 2 (also big for his age). Right now, we are leaning towards NOT bringing them into the cabin and just using the lap belts, but checking car seats so we have them to put in the rental car when we arrive. I don’t want to gamble with rental car company car seats. At home, they are both in car seats (Nuna execs), which I love but they are beasts. Any smaller/lighter car seats to recommend? Is my plan to not have car seats in cabin a bad one?
Wondering if anyone is willing to share information about their perimenopause journey. I’m 42.5 and it seems that my cycle is becoming a bit irregular. How do you balance knowing that is going to happen with getting worried about pregnancy when you’re late? Just keep tests on hand for peace of mind? Anyone willing to share how/when their physical symptoms progressed? If I have any other symptoms at this point, it would be irritability. Thanks in advance!
Has anyone planned to quit breastfeeding/pumping when it’s time to return to work, but by choice and not necessity? I am mostly pumping with some direct breastfeeding and it’s taking a toll, plus I have low supply so we need to supplement with formula anyway. I work from home and in a lot of ways, pumping will actually be easier when my baby is at daycare, but I’m finding that my instinct is to stop pumping so that it doesn’t take away from the few awake hours per day that we will get with him during the work week. Plus I would be able to sleep more at night and we could streamline our logistics, which would help me be more present during those hours. Based on experience so far, i expect supply to crash when I reduce pumping, which would also prevent nursing (which we both enjoy more). I think I’m willing to take that risk. However, I also have several friends who regretted “giving up early“ and while their experiences are not mine, it does give me pause and make me want to truly consider whether this is the best option for us. In addition, my baby was five weeks early and he won’t be entirely producing his own antibodies by the time he starts daycare at almost six months actual age, almost 5 months adjusted. I have no freezer stash to extend that. I have a very supportive husband who will follow my lead on all things related to feeding. Thoughts and considerations to keep in mind?
I am at my wit’s end with our 6 year old. He can be incredibly charming, and sweet, and silly. He is also incredibly defiant, fixated on past wrongs, and melts down at the drop of a hat. When he melts down, he either screams at the top of his lungs and/or hits, bites, or kicks me or his other family members. This behavior is largely confined to being at home – at school, he is seen as a cooperative and helpful student, and we don’t get any reports of him being physical with other students. Everyone says we should be grateful for this, and I am. But it is SO wearing to have multiple fights every day. He sucks the air out of the room during these outbursts and I really feel for his older sister. Every morning it is a fight – either to get him in the shower, or dressed, or to put his shoes on. At night he will fight dinner, or teeth brushing, or pajamas. Today he screamed and went limp right before we were about to head out the door. I am reaching the limit of physically carrying him places (he’s a big kid) and if I do, he will kick me while I carry him, or scream that I am hurting him. He has always been a strong personality, but I guess I just assumed that some of this behavior would moderate as he got older. This really came to a head while visiting family over the holidays – he (and we, as parents) were really at our worst at times, and my mom reacted really poorly to seeing him physically lash out at us. I had to stop her from intervening/escalating the situation several times.
So – I am not sure exactly what I am asking here. Venting, mostly, because it is so hard and I want to cry almost every morning once hems successfully out the door. And nobody really sees this except for me and his father. And advice, also, I guess – is this something that warrants having him see someone? Sometimes I wonder if he has a personality disorder, or if it’s just me failing as a parent.
Everyone gleefully drop their kids back to school this am?
I spent the last 4 days of break sick as a dog, and we had a long travel day yesterday, so I’m taking it relatively easy. I cleaned my desk, did a bunch of recycling, and am slowly doing teaching prep (my goal this year is to get my students to stop sending me emails starting with hey!).
My husband had to take the car in this am, so I was solo, and and thank goodness I’m not the one doing mornings most days. I let my son cuddle the cat and do 3 duolingo lessons before wandering out the door to walk to breakfast club. We weren’t late, but we also weren’t efficient.