Family Friday: Matching Heart Pajamas
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Is it too early to be thinking about Valentine’s Day?
I got onto the matching holiday pajamas train after my second was born. (It does make for some cute photos.)Then I started asking, why limit myself to the holidays? These matching pajama tops and bottoms from Primary are perfect for Valentine’s Day or just because. They’re made from comfy organic cotton and come in sizes for everyone, including tops and bottoms (XS–XXXL) for grown-ups and footie pajamas for babies.
The kids’ top and bottom are $19.50 each and available in sizes 2–3 to 14. If you’re looking for more heart-related clothing, check out Primary’s Heart Shop to outfit the whole family! (And for every order from the Heart Shop, Primary will donate $5 to The Conscious Kid.)
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?
Halle-freaking-lujah our county health dept updated their guidelines so daycare/pre-K kids who can wear masks will only have to quarantine for 5 days after exposure (down from the current FOURTEEN, regardless of masking). This made my weekend so much better.
Our 7 year old daughter tested positive over the break; DH got it from her but I didn’t. What we both did: wear kn95/kf94 masks all day; improve air flow with partially opened windows; run air purifier in rooms where DD was sitting; maintain distance from DD to extent possible and move to an adjacent room when DD was eating/drinking. What I did differently from DH (may or may not have helped me not get it): continue to mask after DD went to bed (I assumed covid was airborne for at least two hours after DD had been in any room); only removed my mask in rooms that DD did not enter and could be closed off. My extra precautions were inconvenient but helped me feel more in control/less stressed.
Has anyone done adventure travel with their elementary aged kids? Pre-pandemic we were still in little kid travel mode, by the kids are bigger and more adaptable now. I’m considering booking Egypt or Vietnam for next winter break. We did lots of very off the beaten path travel pre-kids so this would be the first in a while. I’m focusing on fairly well established destinations/routes as an intro trip.
(Cancelation policies are pretty good in case C-19 is an issue and am willing to take the risk of booking now that we’re all vaccinated.)
Recommendations for a swimsuit that can be used for pregnancy (26 weeks +) and post-partum (hopefully breastfeeding)? Would prefer something with significant coverage as lots of pool/lake time will be around grandparents with Br*** of greatly varying size.
Does anyone have a good system for keeping track of adorable things their kids do that they want to remember? DD is almost 1.5 and starting to do so many cute things! I’ve been writing them down in my planner, but I’m wondering if anyone has come up with a better way of organizing it.
Is there a tactful way to tell other parents they can drop their kids off at our house for play dates if they’re comfortable? Kids are 4-5 years old and in daycare together. We’ve never been able to schedule a second play date for our kid and I think it has a lot to do with other parents not wanting to waste a weekend afternoon hanging out with me and my husband. I get it – we’re both quite socially awkward and terrible at small talk. But my kid and the other kids always have a great time, and I think we’d have more luck if we could communicate that the other parents don’t have to stay.
Also when do drop off play dates become the norm? Someone told me not until 8 or 9, and that made me almost cry. I hate feeling like my lack of social skills and introversion are holding back my social, extroverted kid, because I’m not the mom other moms want to hang out with.
What’s everyone up to this weekend? We’ve got swim lessons on Saturday and a trip to the tile shop, then a park meetup with my son’s nursery pal on Sunday, and we need to up wallpaper stripping for the plasters who come on Monday (I implore you, do not paint over wallpaper!) and my university teaching term begins on Monday.
Exciting news to share: I am going back to working at a bigger public accounting firm after this tax season. I am so excited!
The problem: I was ready to leave my current job in the fall. And I didn’t take the opportunity because I deluded myself into thinking the reasons I wanted to leave might improve. And they haven’t. Now I have to get through the next three months here because quitting right before tax season is a massive bridge-burning Thing We Don’t Do in my profession. I have been struggling with the most horrible sense of rage and bad attitude lately on top of the toll the pandemic has taken, and I’m sick of feeling angry all the time.
How do I get through the next three months with a reasonable amount of humor and grace? How do I adjust my attitude? How do I just let things roll off my back? I thought that having this exciting new thing on the horizon would help, and it did for a while, but now I’m back to an exploding inbox, a toxic work situation where I’m treated like a peon and made to beg for resources, and a very clear understanding just how grossly I’m currently being underpaid (new job =35k raise).
Unsolicited advice: if you’re ready to leave your job, start interviewing and get out now. Don’t wait for it to get worse.
In further confirmation that a leave of absence was the right idea, i just picked up my preschooler – we’re in preschool quarantine number…four.
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Has anyone had a preschool age child do pelvic floor therapy? (it’s entirely external with kids this age, FYI, so won’t be traumatic or anything). I believe it’s mostly used for incontinence issues, but we’re hoping it can help our 4 year old who has enormous difficulty releasing urine. There’s pretty clearly a psychological component as well (it is easier in situations in which she’s more comfortable, i.e., home) but I think she really doesn’t have a normal understanding of how to consciously relax the proper muscles, because she often tries to bear down and push. So I’m hoping physical therapy might help her get a better understanding of how to control her pelvic floor muscles and make using the bathroom less stressful.
I bought these heart PJs for my whole family, including my parents (at their request). They’re cute!
My grandmother passed away in October of 2020. Because we are a military family, her remains will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery in DC. Due to the pandemic and other unique situations related to Arlington, her funeral was just scheduled for this April. Her husband (my grandfather) and my dad predeceased her, and all of our family is buried at Arlington. Her daughter (my Aunt) and my sister and I are the next closest relatives.
The funeral will be at 9am on a weekday, and I am unsure whether to go. If I go, I will bring my two children with me, and we would need to fly, stay in a hotel, etc. (There is no one here to watch them.) I was close to my grandmother, but I grieved her passing nearly 18 months ago. My mom will be there, and, for multiple reasons, I am trying to add some distance to my relationship with her. My mom would pressure me (and my children) to behave in the exact way that she approves, agree with all of her decisions, etc. On the other hand, I want to remember my grandmother and show my children that death is a natural part of life and that they don’t need to be scared of this (which is 100% what I grew up with).
If we don’t go to the funeral, I will plan a trip to DC down the line (someday, when Covid is hopefully more of a known quantity). I graduated from high school in DC and want them to see that DC is a great city, and not only the resting place of my family or a place where people are sad. Any thoughts? What would you do?
Has anyone had the experience of testing positive on a binax (faint line, but there’s one) and negative on PCR? my daughter keeps testing positive on binax but had a negative PCR post an exposure, I am so confused. Not sending her anywhere but want to know if she has COVID.
Has anyone hired a parenting coach? Is this a thing? I need help. I follow the IG accounts, I read the books but what I really want is someone to tell me what to do in specific situations with my specific kid. Surely this exists, right? If we have sleep consultants, there’s got to be general parenting consultants?
Welp, here goes. 4yo tested positive yesterday. Rest of us (including the toddler) are negative… for now. For anyone who successfully avoided a full-household outbreak what did you do?
Our plan is 1:1 defense, with 1 parent + toddler (unmasked) upstairs and 1 parent (masked) + 4yo (trying to get him to mask unsuccessfully rn) downstairs.
Like others on this board we have been very careful and in the past 12 days LO has only been to school, my parents’ house (they are negative), church (everyone fully masked and distanced and no close contact notification), and a playdate which was unmasked. The playdate kids are all symptom-free. Of course DH is kicking himself about the playdate, but it was with a 5yo who is vaxxed and a toddler home with a nanny (and DH’s friend, the dad is of course vaxxed and fully wfh). So who knows. Obviously someone in there was asymptomatic positive and we’ll never know.