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And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- If you’re a working parent of an infant with low sleep needs, how do you function at work when you’re in the throes of baby’s sleep regression?
- Should I cut my childcare down to 12 hours a month if I work from home?
- Will my baby have speech delays if we raise her bilingual?
- Has anyone given birth in a teaching hospital?
- My child eats everything, and my friends’ kids do not – how should I handle? In general, what is the best way to handle when your child has some skill/ability and your friend’s child doesn’t have that skill/ability?
- ADHD moms, give me your tips to help with things like behavior in the classroom, attention to detail, etc?
- I think I suffer from mom rage…
- My husband and kids are gone this weekend – how should I enjoy my free time?
- I’m struggling to be compassionate with a SAHM friend who complains she doesn’t have enough hours of childcare.
- If you exclusively formula fed, what tips do you have for in the hospital and coming home?
- Could I take my 4-yo and 8-yo on a 7-8 day trip to Paris, Lyon, and Madrid?
Anon says
I’ve got the standard School Break FOMO. My kids are home in their pjs with grandparents, eating donuts and watching cartoons. I’m plugging away at work, wishing I was out enjoying the sunshine.
I think I’ll take Friday off so I at least have a shorter week this week.
This is making me realize I need a me-only vacation where the kids stay out of the house and I get to stay in my own pajamas and watch bad tv and have no responsibilities for a day.
Anonymous says
Solidarity. I once paid for a full week of spring break day camp and then took Wednesday off to stay home with no one there. It was glorious.
Anon in NYC says
The few days a year where I have off work and my daughter’s school is open are AMAZING. I get to do whatever I want and have zero responsibilities. Go for it.
Anon says
My daughter is 2.5 and goes to daycare. So it is different. That said, I totally still generally get this around the holidays and over the summer. I really miss having a school schedule! My husband and daughter have more holidays than I do at their job/daycare. I take most of their holidays off, too. I’m on a billable hour regime, so I have to bill more other days to make up for it rather than ‘taking vacation’. It’s hard to make up but works so much better in the end.
Rainbow Hair says
I am only ever home alone if I insist that my husband take Kiddo to the park or something for an hour on a weekend so I can nap. The idea of having a day to myself in an empty house is so appealing. Ha what would I even do? Maybe just a lot of naps.
FP says
Not the same but this is why I work from home one day a week – it’s not the same (at ALL) as having a day off – but a day where I can work on the sofa, take a solid lunch break and do what I want to do instead of being stuck in my office, is so refreshing.
Anon says
+1!!!
Pogo says
I wfh’d recently due to snow and the silence was so weird (DH was out of town and I still took kiddo to daycare). I had to keep the radio on so I didn’t get overwhelmed by the nothingness… I can’t believe I used to live by myself in an apartment when I was young. What did I do with all the alone time?
Redux says
Dudes, you can do this! It is a totally legitimate use of PTO to take a mental health day at home, alone!
(With the understanding of course that we parents have to guard and ration our PTO for a series of illnesses, school inservice days, etc. I know it’s a dream, but it is LEGITIMATE is my point!)
Anonymous says
Yeah, this totally outs me to everyone I know, but I have tried to do this on 4 separate occasions in the last several months. EVERY effing time, I’ve been thwarted. By everything from self/child illness to a &#($-_(# WIND closure of daycare a couple weeks ago. I haven’t learned my lesson and am trying again in a couple weeks. We’ll see what calamity the universe throws my way this time.
But in principle, I totally agree this is a legit use of PTO. I’m sure it will be glorious when/if I eventually succeed.
Anonymous 2 says
I’m not sure if this outs you, because I can think of a few of us that this has happened to, including me. :)
EB0220 says
I try to take a day off while my kids are in school once or twice a year. I actually just took one a few weeks ago, and I usually take one around Christmas to get stuff done. It’s wonderful, whether I have something specific to do or just want to sit in silence and finish my coffee while it’s hot. So, if you can, 100% do it!!
Anon says
Yeah I take days off to get things done, but I’m realizing I have never taken a day off just to do NOTHING. I’ve always got some project to finish or a long list of errands or a kid is home for some reason. Or some combination of those. (And I hoard most of my PTO for a one-week vacation and then sick days.) I think I need to give myself permission to have an empty to-do list and let all that wait.
It’s the carefree, no responsibilities portion of childhood that I miss the most. I think I need to incorporate that every so often for myself too.
Meg Murry says
Or if you want to split the difference, sometimes it’s nice to schedule a full PTO day for a chore that only takes part of the day, and then take the rest of the day for yourself. So if you can’t bring yourself to take a full day off to do absolutely nothing, making an appointment sometime in the 10 am – 2 pm block for a dental cleaning, annual OBGYN exam, or to get the car’s oil changed, etc allows you to have one easy to deal with errand so you can feel productive, and then gives you the rest of the day to do whatever – sleep in a little and drink your coffee while hot, take a long slow quiet shower, come home and watch trashy tv in the afternoon, etc.
Rainbow Hair says
Oh it does occur to me that I am taking a day off next month to get tattooed. I couldn’t deal with my unpredictable schedule way out in the future, and my artist being booked up on weekends, so I was just like “eh, I can take a vacation day on a Tuesday.” I should take myself out to lunch and really make a day of it!
SC says
Solidarity. I want a day off to curl up on the couch and just zone out. We’re actually going on a family vacation next week. I’m excited about the vacation (really, I am), but I’m also worried about coming back super exhausted. We’re coming back a day early, so we’ll have Sunday “free”–I’m considering asking a grandparent or even hiring a babysitter to take Kiddo for a few hours so we can nap/do nothing.
Boston Legal Eagle says
We’re also going on a family “vacation” in a few months and we’re coming back early enough that we’ll still have Friday off while dropping kiddo off at daycare that day. You need a true break from all that family time!
CP(YAY) says
My life has become so hectic with two kids, being in permanent busy season and having a husband with an equally demanding job. We both need to work 7 days a week which means our house is a disaster, nothing gets maintained, we never make dinner, the list goes on. Occasionally people have mentioned they have a housekeeper or personal admin. Could you please share your experiences both positive and negative? Also, how did you find your person? We already have cleaners who come every other week is it worth it to someone else?
We’re desperate for a solution!!!!
Anonymous says
If you’re happy with your current cleaners, I would look into having them come weekly to do other jobs like changes or fold/put away laundry and wash dishes/clean kitchen and tidy toys.
I have grocery delivery from a local grocery store that also has a meal prep service so I just pop the meals in the oven when I get home. Alternate that with super simple meals like pasta + jar of pesto. I order online and delivery happens when my cleaners are there to put the food away in the fridge/freezer.
Wow says
I have posted this before, but we have hired a mother’s helper who comes to our house for 3 hours every day. She does both housework and child care but you could just specify that you want housework if that’s what you prefer. She’s not a professional cleaner (I would suggest having your cleaner come weekly) but she will do many very helpful tasks, like laundry, dishes, sweeping, taking out the recycling, veggie chopping, roasting vegetables, etc. We pay $18/hr in DC and hired her through the local university jobs board. It makes a huge difference to come back home and see that the house is sort of orderly.
shortperson says
our housekeeper comes 4 days a week and we have a standing appt with a babysitter on sunday afternoons to be sure to have a block to do work (or, sometimes, errands or one on one kid time)
Anonymous says
Standing babysitter on Sunday afternoons is my dream. I broke down and hired someone to come for 4 hours yesterday after 3 days home with a sick co-parent, sick kiddo and one not-at-all-sick-running-around kiddo. It was glorious, but I felt (and feel) super guilty about it. It somehow helps to know that others do this, too.
Anonymous says
Best life hack EVER has been having morning help for 1.5-2.5 hours daily. DH starts work at 6am and big kids have to be at school by 7:40…while baby is unpredictable. So this school year we’ve had a mom who drops her kids off early come by at 7:30, drive big kids to school while I get myself ready or play with the baby (or let’s be honest sometimes crawl back into bed for another 45 mins of sleep that should have been mine during the night), then she comes back and cleans up the breakfast dishes and whatever else mess we’ve left in our wake, plays with the baby and gets baby ready for child care (which is at my office). On days when I don’t have to go into the office she drives baby to child care center too, saving me 30 min roundtrip. This has saved me so much stress in the mornings. We got lucky finding someone who is a single mom and can use the income and has a schedule that works. We didn’t post for this, but we knew her and worked something out that works for all of us.
Second best hack is the afternoon: A reliable college student who picks up the big kids from school, makes sure they do their homework and music practice, drives to activities, and did I mention that I don’t have to yell at them to do their homework and practice???!!!
This year finally feeling like I have the help I need to have 2 demanding jobs and 3 kids…it really does take this much help to feel like I’m not failing at everything and also having some time to breathe.
Sibling stuffed animals? says
Anyone know of a trio of stuffed animals? My sister and i were gifted these nesting bears when she was born, and we each still have ours. I’m having our 3rd girl (and final kid) and would like to give each girl a little stuffed animal when the baby comes.
I could just get like, 3 jellycats, but i was thinking of something more set-like. Any ideas?
shortperson says
jellycat makes different sizes of a bunch of their animals so that would work for what youre looking for.
Anonymous says
This is not exactly what you’re asking for but my toddler is in love with the best toy ever and I had to share.
probably most relevant if you nursed all your babies though.
Manhattan Toy makes a kitty cat that is a mommy cat with 3 tiny kittens that nurse from the mama (using magnets to link the kittens to the n!pples on the mama. IT IS SO CUTE I die when she plays with it. I can imagine it being cute for the 3 girls but maybe not so great because you’d have to split them up. But the 3 kittens are all different colors. Link to follow.
Anonymous says
Nursing Nina cat
https://www.amazon.com/Manhattan-Toy-Nursing-Nina-Nurturing/dp/B0001LATN6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522095452&sr=8-1&keywords=manhattan+toy+nursing+nina&dpID=41I-Usd-3dL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
bears says
My family (parents included) had the Gund “Snuffles” bears, each in a different color. My siblings and I have continued buying them for nieces/ nephews as they come along (although I think we might run out of colors soon!)
Anon says
This is really cute!
Sibling stuffed animals? says
Or 3 dolls, as long as they were stuffed and with different outfits. Older girls are blonde/blue eyes and no idea what the third will be, so probably not look-alikes.
Egg Allergies says
So, my 7.5 month old again reacted to eggs (rash around the mouth) on our ped-instructed second try, so we will be seeing the doctor this week. Neither of us have food allergies, so this is new territory. What should I expect from the doctor, questions to ask? Anyone successfully made birthday cake without eggs (I’ve seen various substitutions, but consensus seems to be they don’t work quite right)? I think dairy is OK (she loves cheese and has been fine with yogurt), no eczema, and baked egg might be okay (she’s had cheese tortellini and meatballs while out before we found out about this, no reaction), but we are holding off on that pending seeing the doctor too. Haven’t tried peanuts yet. So many things.
NewMomAnon says
I haven’t navigated egg allergies, but I’ve navigated some other strange food allergies and can offer this pep talk – there will be an adjustment period, and you will make some mistakes, and they will (probably) be ok. Talk to your ped about what to do if there is an allergic reaction, and ask for an action plan (if reaction is X, treat with benadryl; if y, treat with epi-pen; if z, epi-pen plus 911, etc). And it will get better – you’ll figure out how to avoid the offenders in your home cooking and in store-bought stuff, you’ll learn how to avoid them in restaurants and find places you can trust. It won’t always feel like as much work as it feels like right now.
Anonymous says
I agree with NewMomAnon’s pep talk. And I can add that we’ve had good luck with a chocolate cake recipe, known as “wacky cake” or “depression cake.” Just google it; pretty easy to find. It avoids our dairy allergy, but has no eggs as well, and it is really good!
KateMiddletown says
+1 we make that for a vegan relative.
Carine says
Yes! I actually prefer it to many other chocolate cakes I’ve made. It’s great.
Amelia Bedelia says
my daughter has an egg allergy (among MANY other food allergies) and we’ve done the depression era cake. We used it for her first, second, AND third bday!
shortperson says
some babies are allergic to scrambled/fried type eggs but can eat eggs baked in things. most babies with egg allergies grow out of the allergy so dont worry too much. and it’s a golden era for vegan desserts, both in terms of cookbooks and storebought stuff.
Anonynous says
Your pediatrician may also decide that a mild rash around the mouth is not a big deal. A couple times my baby had fish and then a rash around the mouth. It never really broke into blotches or raised bumps and was gone within an hour. We called it a “rash” but the pediatrician felt it was just “topical irritation”. Her reaction to fish was gone by 1.5.
So take a picture of your kids rash!
Msj says
My kid had the same and thankfully grew out of it shortly after age one. Even though it was fairly mild, it was never wracking and I have tons of respect for parents dealing with more serious allergies. We did a watermelon”cake” for the first birthday (slice of watermelon topped with whipped cream). But I recently had an awesome egg free birthday cake that tasted like the real thing , so it can be done!
Anonymous says
My 2 older kids have a variety of food allergies; both outgrew their egg allergies by age 2ish but still have life-threatening allergies to other foods so we are Epi-Pen carriers.
Egg (and dairy) allergies are extremely common in babies and most kids will outgrow them by age 1. For that reason, my pediatrician didn’t even want to schedule an appointment for allergy evaluation until we’d had issues (more serious than a mouth rash) with 3 different foods while kids were infants. Not saying this to minimize your very real concern – I truly hope you don’t have a real, long-lasting food allergy to deal with.
NewMomAnon has great advice for the doctor visit. And it’s true that baked egg often = no reaction. Also, most of the time the allergy is to the egg white protein so you might try giving yolk only. If your baby’s reaction was just to a whole egg (or an egg white/yolk but separate from other foods), ask your doctor if you can try giving foods with baked egg (TBH, I would actually try this at home if the only reaction had been a small rash around the mouth to direct egg consumption – babies are less likely to have immediately life-threatening reactions so it isn’t terribly risky, obviously ask your doc and poke around food allergy blogs to get more perspectives).
Biz Mom says
Our almost 3 year old doesn’t understand how to wait for his turn and is picking up a nasty habit of pushing classmates when he wants to do something first (he is so excited and worked up, he can’t contemplate not being first). I want to nip it ASAP before it becomes a trend :) That seems to be the main situation where he pushes. Looking for advice or good books that talk about taking turns/waiting in line/not pushing/manners and not being selfish? I’m panicking! He had been an occasional pusher, but in the past week it has gotten bad – it’s almost like he discovered it as a tactic to get what he wants :/
Anonynous says
I think you just have to tell him (many, many times) that if he pushes to go first he will have to go last. Then pick him up, put him at the back of the group and wait out the screaming. It sucks, but it’s an immediate, related consequence.
Amelia Bedelia says
yes, this.
Biz Mom says
Definitely will try this!
Anon says
This is not the exact same, but there is a Daniel Tiger about sharing your own toys. The song is “You can take a turn, and then I’ll get it back.” If you don’t find anything else, you could watch it and then talk about turn taking generally. If he is in preschool or daycare, his teachers might have some ideas. And, honestly, if he is in that kind of setting, I’m going to guess (1) they’ll know how to take care of it, and (2) he’ll get social pressure to stop being that kid. There is also a Daniel Tiger about waiting – they have to wait for trolley to arrive. “When you wait, you can play, sing, or imagine anything” is the song/lesson.
If it was me, I’d just make him wait in line/not be first as much as appropriate (it’s not right never be first either), as much as you can. But honestly, he is so young to grasp these concepts. Just model appropriate behavior. It’ll work itself out socially with preschool, kindergarten, etc.
Biz Mom says
Thank you! I feel like there is a Daniel Tiger for almost anything! We have not watched the one on waiting yet so will add it to the rotation!
Losing things says
In the last month I have completely lost one library book and nearly lost another. Lost two pairs of sunglasses (no big honestly, but including it anyway) and just this Sunday lost my toddler’s jacket (it was under the stroller, but still, it fell out while shopping *somewhere*). I’m late thirties, one toddler, not a super stressful job, and feel like I’m losing my mind.
Tell me this is normal. (Or what I should get checked out!)
NewMomAnon says
I swear I’m still having fallout from the time-change. I often find myself scattered and forgetful during season changes.
But if you’re worried – talk to your GP. Instinct trumps stranger internet advice.
EB0220 says
It’s very normal for me. I am incredibly forgetful in general, though. I was really bad about losing things in my late teens/early twenties before I developed some habits to remember my stuff. With kids, I get pretty distracted by managing them and it’s easy for me to forget something. I always do a sweep of a space before we leave (restaurant, hotel room, library, etc.). When we’re using the stroller, I keep loose things in a bag or clip them to the stroller with a carabiner. I also do regular checks of the critical stuff (wallet-keys-phone) to make sure I have everything. It helps, but I still lose things from time to time. That being said, if this is otherwise out of character for you or you have other symptoms, a doctor visit never hurts!
Meg Murry says
You aren’t the only one. We joke that I have to give up on finding one thing (currently at my house it’s my earbuds) and when I lose a second item and am hunting for that I often find the first item in someplace completely random like on top of the fridge.
I’ve learned to not sweat the small stuff (the earbuds were cheap and I’d had them at least 3 years which may be a record for me), and to develop systems for the big important stuff (keys always go in the same spot when I walk in the door and also have a Tile on them, prescription sunglasses go in a bright colored pouch in one of two purses, etc). NOT running around trying to do 10 different things also makes a big difference – even if it drives my husband crazy. For instance, if I trip over my kids shoes when putting away my keys, I just kick them out of the way and come back later – NOT put them away right away. Drives my husband nuts, but I’ve learned the hard way that I absolutely must deal with the priority things in my hands or I will set them down somewhere random and then we’ll spend an hour that night retracing my steps as to where my wallet went until I find that it’s next to where I put away the kids shoes, etc.
Also, getting enough sleep makes a huge difference, as does talking to myself when I am at home or alone in my office (physically saying “I am setting my keys, phone and wallet down right here on top of my coat”, etc).
You aren’t alone, and you aren’t completely losing your mind – but some extra sleep, slowing down and some kid-free time to decompress may all help.
Anon says
I moved to a new, smaller town about a year and a half ago. My social life here is virtually nonexistent. Any recommendations on how to meet people socially? It seems like so much of my meeting people knowledge base is all for professional networking. And, honestly, some of my best friends in my former town were people I met during professional networking experiences. But I’m just at a stage where I don’t want to go through the motions of someone trying to sell me a service to meet people. We do belong to a church and there are a few opportunities there, but they’re mostly directed to women who don’t work outside the home (translation: retirement age, not necessarily SAHMs who are same age friend material) and, therefore, takes place during the day. I’m around 35, so could maybe qualify for some “YP” type stuff, but have really moved past the YP stage in my life/career. Would love some advice!
EB0220 says
I’ve found school/daycare to be a good way to meet fellow working parents in a new area. Also, if there’s an activity or sport you enjoy you could find a meetup group or gym in your new town. Those have been the most reliable sources of friends for me, and I’ve moved pretty frequently as an adult.
mascot says
How old are your kids? We didn’t start really making lots of same age friends until our kid started school. I will also put in a plug for volunteer groups like Junior League, Rotary, that sort of thing.
Redux says
Does “YP”mean “young person?” Does asking this question make me an “Old Person?” I’m only 36!
avocado says
I think it means “Young Professionals.”
Our local ballet company just started up a series of “Young Professionals” events, and I was Highly Offended to discover that I am ever so slightly too old to participate. I guess this means it is time for my midlife crisis.
Redux says
Oh, I’ve never heard of this fountain of youth/professionalism! Is this a branded thing? YP ™?
mascot says
I see this a lot in law- young lawyers groups are a thing. I’ve also seen it with philathropy organizations. Young professionals don’t have the money to be big donors so they have these auxillary groups and events to get them in the pipeline for when they are older/wealthier.