Maternity Monday: Ponte Knit Maternity Dress
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Happy Monday! I love this simple ponte dress for summer and beyond — the V-neck is nice and high, yet flattering, the sleeves look comfortable, and the seams and darts look slimming. I also like that the dress is machine washable. It’s $128, available exclusively online at Nordstrom. Eva Alexander London Ponte Knit Maternity Dress
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Sales of note for 3/21/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Spring sale, up to 50% off: Free People, AllSaints, AG, and more
- Ann Taylor – 25% off suiting + 25% off tops & sweaters + extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off everything + 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off elevated essentials + extra 50% off sale
- J.Crew – 25% off select linen & cashmere + up to 50% off select styles + extra 40% off sale
- J.Crew Factory – Friends & Family Sale: Extra 15% off your purchase + extra 50% off clearance + 50-60% off spring faves
- M.M.LaFleur – Flash Sale: Get the Ultimate Jardigan for $198 on sale; use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Buy 1 get 1 50% off everything, includes markdowns
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?
Anyone have any advice/commiseration as to how to deal with handing off some of the “default parent” responsibilities without turning into a nagging shrew or losing your temper completely? Or anyone else want to share a “I blow up at my husband regularly but our relationship is still fine because XYZ”?
I recently (in the past few months) started a new job where I am 30+ minutes from home and had 0 vacation days for the first few months. My husband works near home, and has taken on the bulk of the day to day kid issues, including getting to school (and home from school when there is no aftercare), packing lunches, etc. However, there is one task that involves scheduling a meeting with my son’s teacher and guidance counselor which my husband has promised me he would handle – and has been promising for months. Its now the last week of school, and sure enough, it’s not handled, and without completing this last signature gathering task we will basically be starting over again next year when my son transfers to the next level school with a new teacher, instead of it just following through from this year.
So, upon realizing this, I basically chewed my husband out this morning as soon as he got out of bed and I was on my way out the door. I’m trying not to make all our interactions me nagging him, but I’m really tired of dealing with his laid-back “I’ll get to it later” attitude – but I don’t want to blow a whole unpaid day off (the only way I could deal with this, whereas he could take care of it in an hour) and now I don’t know if we even can do it at all this school year. This isn’t the only thing where my husband and I are arguing about in regards to tasks/nagging- he says I’m nagging him, I shoot back that I wouldn’t nag him if he would either JUST DO IT or tell me to handle it myself or when he is going to handle it. Then we wind up shouting, both mad and nothing is done.
Anyone have anything I can do differently? Or a way to smooth this kind of thing over? I really don’t want to just handle this stuff myself. One thing that worked for a while was to say “ok, when will you have it done by? Ok, 2 weeks? Ok I won’t bring it up until then” and then ask again at the 2 week mark – but that still doesn’t work.
Normally, my husband’s laid back style compliments my Type A, put it on a calendar, check things off a list tendancies – he calms me down, I prod him a little here or there, it’s all good. But this week has been pretty bad.
My lovely next door neighbor just had baby #2 and I’m trying to figure out what food item I should bring over. I know she mentioned that they were eating GF, but I’m struggling to figure out what to bring over. Older kiddo is 6.
I am tempted just to bring over a roasted chicken, roasted potatoes and a salad. Alternately I could go in a more casserole/freezer meal direction, but when I cook for GF people I tend to just use items that naturally have no gluten in them and I feel like most of my casseroles have gluten in them. Do I do something like fajitas where I send over everything and it’s assemble your own?
Yes, I’m realizing i’m over thinking this. Do I just go get a fruit basket and call it a day? We don’t have Seamless here.
Hugs. You didn’t yell at your kid, you didn’t hit her, and you didn’t make her cry. You did the best you could to manage your frustration in a healthy way, and sometimes we just don’t have the time to perfectly handle every single toddler meltdown. Which…is also why I have only one child, handling multiple children getting out of the house in the morning with little to no help is something I know I can’t handle.
Having a guilty mommy morning. My toddler of course pooped right as we were getting ready to leave the house, necessitating a fight about which pull-ups, clean pants and shirt to wear. Once that was resolved, she had major meltdown about wearing socks and rainboots. Get in the car, she is full blown hysterics, pulling off her boots and socks. We are already late, the weather is terrible and I know I am going to hit major traffic on the way to work, and as I already come in later than everyone else in my group and I have a jam packed day, I am super anxious. So I pull her out of the car, bring her back to the house and ask the nanny to take her to school. I tell her to have a nice day but no kiss, no I love you. She just looked at me. I cried in the car because I feel like such a cr@ppy mom. Hope everyone’s Monday is going better than mine.