Maternity Monday: Maternity Modern Turtleneck Shirt
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While your favorite pre-pregnancy turtleneck may work for the first trimester, this maternity turtleneck from Gap is meant to accommodate a growing bump.
Designed with your changing body in mind, this turtleneck is made from a soft and stretchy cotton/modal blend and features side shirring for extra room. Wear this essential layer under a sharp blazer Monday through Friday and your favorite sweater on the weekend.
Gap’s Maternity Modern Turtleneck Shirt is on sale for $24 (down from $49.95) and comes in four go-with-anything neutrals. It’s available in sizes XXS-XXL.
Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
Sales of note for 1/22:
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This isn’t a big deal, but I’m wondering the best way to handle this if it happens again:
I have a 4 yo who got some duplicate toys this christmas. Husband and I gave her a set of little plastic figures from this show she likes, and then a few days later, she got an identical set from my SIL. I set the duplicates aside unopened to exchange them for a set that she didn’t already have. After SIL left, my husband suggested I could have just let our kid open the second set anyway.
What would you have done?
We spent a bunch of time over the break with my BIL (husband’s brother) and his wife. We both have 7 year old sons, and they also have a 5 year old and we have a 3 year old.
Several times throughout the week, they would praise their own kids to us without the kids present – so only talking to us about their kids (their intelligence, their looks, or their abilities).
It rubbed me the wrong way. I can’t imagine discussing my kids this way, unless I’m chatting with my husband. Especially if I didn’t discuss the kids of the people also present in the conversation. Is this a “me” issue? As in, if I’m chatting with you, I’m more likely to say something nice about your kids than I am about mine? I think it might be me, but curious for a gut check. Also, I can pretty confidently say from context that it wasn’t a “we’re feeling insecure, so are overly compensated” – it was a very genuine, “we think our kids are the sh!t, and we’re going to tell you about why.” I also think my kids are the sh!t, but it’s just not something I would openly tell someone else?
When did you first send your kid to sleep away camp? My oldest is 7, and has never spent an overnight away from us (not by design, we just don’t have family help of that kind).
He’s old enough for the week-long summer camp in our area, but I’m hesitant to sign him up yet. What age is the right age?
My DH is a highly intelligent and successful attorney, but he hasn’t been to the dentist in 13 years. I nagged him about it once or twice, but decided it wasn’t worth my energy. I told his parents and brother recently when the topic of dental app came up, and of course they were mortified. I am looking for a new dentist for myself and once I find a good one I will give him the info, but that’s all I’m doing.
Honest January post — my drinking needs a reset. I’m tired and sluggish in January, which wine isn’t helping, plus I’m hanging on to pounds I don’t need, and I don’t need/want my kids to see me with a glass of wine on a regular basis.
BUT, I work from home, and have realized during COVID that I was using a glass of wine to switch off my work brain/move into evenings, since I wasn’t commuting anymore. I would prefer not to keep soda in the house (as my kids will ask for it incessantly), but I would like to either do or eat/drink something to signify the change from “work” me to “home” me. Tea isn’t doing the trick bc I drink tea all day long. I try to run during lunch, so I’m usually in workout clothes (I work as a consultant, with very little to zero client facing interactions). Any other recommendations?
Does anyone have recs for underwear that holds in the c section pooch? Ugh this is such an inelegant question but hopefully conveys what I’m looking for. For everyday use – just looking for a little compression.
Does your mom still ask you to check in when you arrive home after departing from visiting? Like to make sure you get home safely? My mom also always wants to know our flight info, and texts to find out if we’ve landed, arrived home, etc. I HATE IT. Carolyn Hax had a good column this year on that exact subject about “Demanding false assurances isn’t just tiresome; it helps you postpone real work on sources of worry.” I feel guilty pushing back because it’s such a small thing, but I’M AN ADULT who doesn’t have to tell my mommy where I am all the time.
Building on the post below…Adventure Mom chiming in with reports from a 10 day multi-destination ski trip through Canada with 3 kids (13, 11, and a very young 6). The snow out west was particularly bad this year, so we did some quick pivoting, and cancelled our Colorado plans to try some places in British Columbia.
The logistics were challenging, it was a lot of packing/unpacking/moving a lot of people and gear, the lodging was sub-par in several spots, and it was epically and amazingly worth it. The kids stepped up in ways that legit shocked me – both in terms of their abilities on the (very hard, very steep) slopes we visited, and in terms of their ability to manage/pack/schlep gear.
Skiing/outdoor travel is my happy place, but I guess my advice coming out of this trip is to DO THE THING WITH YOUR KIDS, even if it seems hard or challenging, especially based on behavior seen at home. I know we are incredibly lucky financially to be able to travel like this with our kids, and even with the hard logistics, it was just so worth it. My two older kids were locked into a (highly unusual for them) period of competition and rivalry pre-trip, and this trip just blasted them out of the habits they were forming. They bonded over new ski destinations, and working together to help load/pack. Looking back yesterday, as we unpacked and washed a metric ton of STUFF and they were harmoniously helping and laughing about some of the worst moments on the trip, I was thinking that our vacation would have been SO MUCH harder and worse if we had stayed home. The kids would have fought the whole time, and we would have been climbing the walls by like day 3. 10 out of 10, no notes. Do the thing. Bring the kids. Even/especially if it’s hard.
And so it begins… Camp signups started today which – in fairness is a full month later than last year. Still hard for me to think about what we’re doing in July when it’s 20 degrees F outside with snow on the ground. And also – what will my kid want to do? Would she prefer the outdoor camp they know and love or should we do Adventure Camp or would she like All Girl camp?
I’ll admit that I had these incredible all outdoors on a lake childhood summers and am trying to make sure it’s more than just babysitting all day for the kiddos…
Update from pre-holiday – we got in last-minute snowfall and I got my first ski day as a mom! May have been a little beginner hill that was waking distance from where we were staying, but damn, it was nice. I’m tentatively planning a family trip for next year when our son is 2 and already can’t wait. Real highlight in a great Christmas.
Realistically, how much do you manage your spouse’s health?
My husband is athletic but doesn’t take care of his injuries. He hurt himself a month ago and apart from occasional ibuprofen has done nothing for it. It’s getting worse and this morning he was in tears from the pain. I just ordered some ice packs and braces and looked up the number for a sports med office for him to get an appointment. He’s grateful for these things so I’m not overstepping from his perspective. But I’m frustrated, especially since this is a pattern.