Make My Life Easier Thursday: Hand Held Spiralizer
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It’s peak zucchini season here and I’m always looking for a way to work more veggies into my meals.
I’ve had this spiralizer from OXO for a few years and every summer, I use it to add some “zoodles” to my spaghetti. Perhaps I should branch out — this open blade design works with longer veggies (zucchini, carrots) as well as round ones (sweet potatoes, beets). In addition to long spaghetti-like noodles, you can also make spirals for salads or stir frys.
This Hand Held Spiralizer is $17.95 from Crate & Barrel.
Sales of note for 12.10
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty deals on skincare (ends 12/14) including La Mer, Kate Somerville, Dior, Sunday Riley, Dyson, and gift sets — the deals include reader favorite lip balms Dior Addict, NARS Afterglow, and Clinique’s Black Honey, as well as Too Faced mascara and Sunday Riley’s Good Genes.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, up to 50% off outerwear
- Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off all sale + extra 25% off 2+ items
- J.Crew – Up to 60% off everything, with 40% off their newest styles
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
- Macy’s – 15% off beauty, including Tarte, Clinique, Dior and gift sets
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Talbots – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
Ugh has anyone had warts as an adult? I had a few white bumps on my hand and just got them checked out by the dermatologist, turns out they’re warts! I’m feeling weird and grossed out about it.
Anyone recently have a kid go through K and can tell me if this is normal? Kiddo started K a couple of weeks ago. Everything seems fine, I notice she’s tired at at the end of the day and not super chatty about what happens during the day but I’ve been told that’s normal. Teacher says she’s a delight. But this morning out of nowhere on our way out the door she says no one wants to play with her at school and if she asks them if she can play with them they say no. I was not ready for this. She was in full day pre-K for the last couple of years and very social there. I’m guessing this just takes time and it’s too early to be concerned, probably overwhelming with all new kids. I’ll keep engaging with her on concrete things to do on the playground if she brings it up (looking for other friends who are not in a group, etc.). She is having a bday in a couple of weeks so we invited the whole class and several kids are coming, so hopefully that will help smooth some relationship building.
Bras- at what age did your daughter wear one? At what age did she need one? What does “need one” really mean?
My daughter is 9 and has the start of breast buds. She loves sports bras and has for the past year or so. Half for style, half because some of her sport jerseys chafe and the sports bra is a nice layer.
In some shirts, I think she’s starting to need (?) a bra – if she wants to wear one of course (and I think she does). Are these the t-shirt type bras they sell at target? My approach is just going to be causal in a store and see if she wants to buy one, but I want to know what to suggest.
As a kid I remember my mom buying me sports bras and that’s it. So at like 12 I had a 1994 sports bra to wear under all my shirts and it looked dumb.
Curious what others are doing/have done. Our youngest turned 4 in June. She’s 42lbs. The rest of my kids and family are vaxxed and boosted. We have not gotten Youngest vaccinated yet. We plan to before she starts K/turns 5, but are not seeing any compelling reason to get her vaccinated before then. She had her annual physical yesterday and the ped asked if we would like to do the vaccine with her other shots; I said “we were thinking about holding off until she turned 5, what do you think?” to which she said “that makes a lot of sense to me.” and there was no more convo about it.
Her preschool class is small and we know the families in it well. Most have already had COVID. The quarantine policy is the same with or without a vaccine. Nobody in our family or extended family is high risk. The only factor at play is that my 95 year old grandmother is in a building that requires all visitors to be vaccinated, but we rarely see her with the kids (and my youngest saw her a few months ago anyway).
We got my oldest vaccinated as soon as possible (9 at the time). We waffled a bit with our then newly 5 year old (who at the time she was vaccinated with the 5-12 dose was the same weight my 4 year old is now!) but ultimately got her vaccinated because it lowered the time she had to quarantine while in kindergarten.
Thoughts? We are pro-vaccine, so it feels odd to not want this for her, but the young child doses seem so much less effective, the variants are changing all the time (and the newer booster for the new strain is just now available, have not looked into what she would actually get). And my pedi who is very pro vaccine did NOT seem strongly in favor (eg. she didn’t even open a conversation about it, just left it at “yep makes sense.”)
My husband is home with our 3.5 year old and 4 month old this week. We had a little time between when I needed to go back to work and when daycare could take the baby, so he is off with them solo. It is really tough right now with our 2 kids because my 3 year old is in an incredibly needy phase, plus of course the baby needs a lot of attention too, so I know he is barely surviving this week.
But yesterday he made it out to the library with the kids and one of the librarians went up to him and said “your kids are so well behaved. You must be a really good dad.” I know that made his day and made him feel a lot more confident, so I’m glad he had that experience. But it did make me think of the past 4 months I was on mat leave and the 2 years I (somewhat involuntarily) was a SAHM during the pandemic and never, not one single time, was told I was doing a good job by a stranger. It’s a little maddening how people are still driven to compliment dads but not moms, isn’t it?
Anyway, I just wanted to share with some ladies who would “get it.”
My aunt, uncle, and 13 and 9 year old cousins are coming over this weekend, and I’m trying to decide on an appetizer. I’m probably going to order food for the meal but I want to make at least one thing. My uncle is vegetarian, which works because I don’t really cook meat. The boys eat everything including spicy food. Any ideas?
Can we please do a CorporetteMoms “book club” on the Archetypes podcast about ambitious women with Meghan Markle and Serena Williams? I’m hesitant given the amount of vitriol and racism they both receive, but I’d also love to hear people’s thoughtful, nuanced opinions. I feel like there was a lot of fascinating topics- the sacrifices we make for our careers and our families, if “ambitious” is a compliment or a criticism, etc.
My elementary-aged kid just doesn’t love to read. Any advice on how I can encourage a love for reading?
Little Pogo before school update: this morning he sauntered over to a group of big kids and said, “hey guys, what’s up”. Didn’t even bother to say goodbye to me.
The toddler was another story, the daycare person had to pry him screaming from my arms. ugh. Only 1 more day of this backup care (which I’m sure is fine, just totally new to him).
Well. It happened. At 20 months my kiddo decided it is time to crawl out of the crib. Crawl is too soft of a term. He literally catapults out of anger. I watched him do it when I put him down for a nap and he did it again at bedtime. It’s like the child is doing parkour…I guess he knew how to do it all along, but he finally decided to take matters into his own hands to protest sleep.
Waffling between doing the toddler bed conversion and just going straight to a twin size bed. Ikea is sold out of all the kids beds.
Toddler backpack recs for preschool? We have a skiphop one that is done after less than a year.
Any tips on working through night terrors? My 7-year-old son has been up 2-3 hours after bedtime for two weeks straight crying or screaming or moaning like he’s in pain, for up to 30 minutes at a time. We aren’t able to get him to tell us anything in the moment, and he doesn’t remember anything the next day.
Internet research says limit screen time at night, make sure he’s not stressed in the evenings, and making sure he gets enough sleep at night. We’ve managed to do the first two and are working on the third (we pull up bedtime but it’s a constant in-and-out of his room if we go much earlier than 8:30). He has been consistently getting 10-11 hours of sleep a night.
Do mothers with salaried jobs think mothers without salaried jobs are lesser than them?
Do mothers of multiple children think mothers of single children are lazy?
Signed,
A mother of one child who does not have a salaried job and who sometimes puts up with jabs from high-powered women of multiple children