Accessory Tuesday: March Birthstone Locket
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There’s a lot of birthstone jewelry to commemorate your special day, but I haven’t seen a birthstone locket like this before.
Made from 18k gold vermeil, this locket features natural aquamarine (other birthstones are available) and includes free engraving. Add your own photo to make it even more personal.
Monica Vinader’s gold vermeil birthstone locket is $149 (chain sold separately). It’s also available in sterling silver for $139.
Sales of note for 3/2:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off the Weekend Collection + extra 30% off sale + 30% off your purchase with extra 15% off $200+
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Up to 70% off clearance + 25% off select jewelry
- Express – 30%-70% off everything + $69 all Editor pants, jeans, and chinos
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – End of winter sale, up to 50% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – 4,000 new markdowns for women!
- Talbots – 25% off entire purchase
Tangentially related to yesterday’s avalanche risk discussion: How willing are you to yield to pressure to take risks for work-related purposes? My boss routinely accepts invitations to fly with a donor on the donor’s small private plane. I have a strict policy against flying on small planes, but I imagine that if I had to do development work this would be a limiting factor and I’d feel pressured to go along with it. There are also some teambuilding and retreat activities that I wouldn’t want to do, but would also feel weird about skipping. On the other hand, I go into jails without blinking because it’s just part of my job and seems perfectly natural. How do you think about risk at work?
I have a book recommendation. I’ve been reading my kinder the Vanderbeekers books and we’re both totally absorbed. They remind me a lot of the Penderwicks, which we also loved and which were recommended here, in that it’s the day to day adventures of a quirky big family, but it takes place in Harlem and is a fun view of NYC too.
How much communication do you get from your kids’ elementary or middle school? The earlier question about email addresses has me curious. I have a kindergartener; we mostly get blanket communications once or twice a week at most. We get an email every other week from his teacher with an overview of the weeks’ curriculum; we get peppy notes in our app from a school admin to praise a high visibility event (school play, school award); we get a weekly email from PTO. Son also gets a paper put in his folder if there’s a classroom item that requires parental involvement, like dress up for 100th day of school or bring Valentines. I send school an email for absences.
My sister has a fourth grader and it seems like she’s emailing with the kid’s teacher a few times a week, in addition to email blasts from the teacher and school. Do older kids have more needs? Is it school/teacher/parent specific? Is it about behavior management or project deadlines?
I have two daughters – 8 and 2.5. I was the middle of three girls with firm upper lip Irish catholic parents and household. We never said I love you (still don’t), never ever talked about boys, mom never exposed us to make up, we didn’t talk about puberty until you had to (even still, tampons were called “products” – as in “tell me if we run out of ‘products’ and I’ll get more… like what??) just a very strict, somewhat cold upbringing. Expectations were high, school came first and at the expense of a lot, I think. I never called them for help when in a sticky situation for fear of consequences (thankfully I was never in THAT deep..) and certainly never asked for advice for anything that wasn’t school related.
I do think my parents did the best they could with the emotional resources they’re had at their disposal, which was even less than they offered us, but I’ve been thinking a lot about that recently. I think my underlying question is, moms who are close to their daughters even through the tough tween years, or daughters who read here who had good relationships with your parents… what did you do? How did you do it? I know all kids are different but I look at my 8 year old and I know we’re in a sweet spot – she’s rational, has some Big Feelings but also can self-regulate. We’re buddies. She likes spending time with me and DH, together and separately. I shower her with “i love yous” and we joke about her crushes (which was UNfathomable in my house). I just don’t want to do anything to let that slip away. I realize it’s not all in my control, but I don’t want to proactively make bad choices that will cause her to keep things from me, etc.
I hope that makes some kind of sense. I absolutely know there’s not one right answer and this isn’t black/white, but I am curious if anyone has thoughts on this. Been talking to DH a lot about it and just curious for other’s insights.
I have a really dumb question but I promise I’m not a troll I’m just a new mom.
How do babies play outside? Do you put them on the ground? Or on a blanket on the ground? Is a blanket safe? He won’t wrap it over his head or something? Is the ground safe? What if there’s a twig or bug? My baby is newly mobile; when we went outside last fall, I’d put him on a blanket and he’d just kind of lay there. Over the winter we’d walk in the stroller on nicer days. But now he’s rolling and scooching backwards and almost crawling. I don’t think he’ll stay on a blanket. Do I need to get some sort of playpen? Or do I just… let him exist on the ground? Can’t I wrap him in a little bubble and keep him with me forever???
Has anyone been to Sesame Place Philadelphia? If so, was one day enough or did you think that two days were better? TIA!
Moms of 8th grade boys, please tell me the executive function gets better? I do a fair amount of scaffolding for my kid and when he does the work he does fine. But tracking the work remembering to turn the work in all seems to be a challenge. I’m so tired, I already have a job. Thank you. I think I just came here to vent.
My son is going to a birthday party this weekend for twins. He was invited by the twin that is in his kindergarten class – they’re friendly but he’s not one of the kids my son usually plays with and we’ve never met the other twin. Should we bring a present for both of the twins? That was my initial thought but wanted to see what others do. Any gift ideas for twin 6 year old boys?
How do you share the mental load about school activities with your spouse? I created a Gmail account, “_______’s parents at gmail dot com.” Now that DS will be starting kindergarten in a new school in the fall I want the school to send all email communication to that email which will automatically forward the emails into DH’s and my personal email accounts. Has anyone tried this, and has it backfired?
Voted in my state (TX) primary today! I actually feel very cautiously hopeful, and happy to see people turning out. I’m usually an early voter, so it was fun to vote on election day. My polling center had a steady crowd for the Dems (usual caveats apply – I live in a blue county/city, and in a specifically progressive neighborhood).
We had 113 items to vote for on the ballot. 113!