Accessory Tuesday: Maryna II Oxford
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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+
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
You guys. This is my toddler’s sixth week in daycare. She has only attended for two weeks on a part-time basis (1/2 days in the beginning to adjust, a long-planned family vacation, and two full weeks out for illness already). Now she is sick AGAIN and will probably be out for the rest of this week. I feel like I’m paying for nothing – we’ve paid almost $3k for less than 40 total hours of childcare. I expected the winter to be bad, but I didn’t expect so many illnesses immediately, given that we started her in late spring. Is this normal? How I am going to survive the winter? How am I going to keep my job when I’m out 50% of the time? (DH is a teacher and is doing basically 100% of the sick days in the summer but I will have to do almost 100% once the academic year starts…)
Consider asking your OB for a genetic disorder screening like Counsyl to see if you or your husband are carriers of any recessive disorders. My husband and I didn’t do this test until we already had conceived, since we had no family history of any issues, and still had some surprises show up that impacted our family planning going forward. It’s rare for you to both match for the exact same disorder, but it still happens and I wish we had known what we would be facing before I got pregnant vs. after.
Update on my morning readiness woes with the 3.5 yo. Yesterday, she messed around so long she missed breakfast at daycare entirely (I gave her a granola bar). Today, as I was getting ready to implement ALL the suggestions from yesterday she got out of bed and (without a good morning) said: “I will hurry up today because I want breakfast at school”. And she did! Do real consequences actually work?! How long will this honeymoon last?
My 5-year old is a mosquito magnet. We spritz her with bug spray (the natural stuff alternated with the DEET stuff) and she still ends up with horrible welts– they are raised, red, and hot to the touch. I gave her benadryl last weekend on the theory that she must have some sort of allergy to the bites. What can I do to keep these bites at bay? It’s really hot where we live, so my suggestion to wear long sleeve tees and leggings is a hard sell. Is there a better bug spray to use? Or good hot weather protective clothing, maybe from REI or somewhere like it? She’s mostly just in the yard and on the playground and seems to be the only kid who attracts so many bites despite all having the same routine. We use a mild shampoo and no lotion, and scent-free laundry detergent. Suggestions?
Was googling a babysitter we’ve used in the past (last summer and summer before) in a popular vacation destination and saw that she was arrested for domestic violence and assault 9 years ago (age 26). She actually runs a babysitting company in this small town – which seems odd? We’ve used her multiple times in the past and she seems like a very nice woman but now I don’t think i can use her again – overreaction? Should I allow her to explain? Need a gut check here!
We talked about bike shorts awhile ago but I don’t think this specific question: is there a place to get long-ish ones? Like that come to just above the knee? We have some cat & jack ones but my daughter would like them to be just an inch or so longer (she’s a 3T, if that’s helpful).
I had a miscarriage a couple of weeks ago. It was very early on, etc. We did IVF for our son who is 2. Now every stomach pain or ache that I have I think it’s another miscarriage. Have only told a couple of people about the miscarriage so thinking that posting it here may bring some emotional healing. Thanks for listening.
Last week I had asked folks to weigh in on if I should go solo with DS (1.5 years old) on a trip that was supposed to be me, DH, and DS visiting friends in FL now that DH couldn’t go due to a work deadline popping up. Appreciated allllll the feedback, and I took the minority approach and….actually have opted not to go.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized I was really dreading it due to the logistics, and knowing that I’d also have to most likely help our friends with a few things here and there (since they are from a different country) in addition to managing me and DS also was increasing the mental load for me.
Plus, our friends were travelling to FL from their home country for Disney and shopping, us joining them for a non-Disney weekend was a bonus for all parties if it worked out. They completely understood and we’re paying 100% for the AirBnB that was rented for the weekend (which was our plan all along). Served as a good reminder to me that we don’t “have” to do all the things and take on the emotional labor and planning because we feel obligated. Happy Tuesday!
This might be a better question for the main s!te but have any of you decided not to have your own kids? We’ve been TTC for six years; I’m currently working with an RE to manage my endo/PCOS, but…I think I don’t want to get pregnant anymore. I’m 33 (and I’m in therapy fwiw). We adopted, which is probably coloring my decision (DS is 2.5). DH has always said he’s fine with whatever I decide, which is both nice and sort of makes me feel like “this is your problem to figure out.” I’d be interested to hear your perspective.
My toddler girl strongly prefers pants with pockets (who doesn’t?) and I’m having a hard time finding summer-weight pocketed pants since we mostly buy leggings and leggings never have pockets. Any recommendations? Thanks!
My 4 year old daughter gets the concepts of “start/beginning” and “end/finish” mixed up. She gets frustrated when trying to tell us which show she wants to watch (like scrolling through all the episodes of My Little Pony on Prime) or which story in a collection she wants to read. She’ll even get mad thinking that “we can play after dinner” means “play before dinner.” Its such a basic concept that I’m not sure how to explain it to her, although I can understand why she’s confused (to this day I get right and left mixed up). She’s good at counting, should I try relating start and end to numbers? Read books about opposites?
Real question – Why is every store always out of stock of most sizes in maternity clothes? This is not my first pregnancy but I need to fill some work-related gaps and Gap, Asos, Old Navy, and Loft are ALL out of sizes in work pants. Is the margin low on them? Why can’t they figure out stocking? Hoping someone here works in that area and can enlighten me. (I’m becoming desperate for pants and rechecking every morning!)
My husband and I are planning to start TTC in the next 3 months. Other than the obvious of stopping birth control and taking folic acid, do you have any suggestions for prepping the body/mind for pregnancy and making conception easier? I read the article on here about the pregnancy corridor, but it includes the standard list of things I was already aware of. I’m gynecologically still young (late 20’s), moderately fit, and don’t smoke or take any prescriptions other than BC. This will be our first child.
Oh these are bad
DD, who is 2.5, is going through a phase of taking off her pajamas and diaper at night. As you can imagine, this creates a mess. Sometimes we discover it before we go to bed and other times not until morning. Short of putting her in backward zip up PJs, does anyone have any tips?