Maternity Monday: Maternity Ribbed Tank Dress
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Is it too early to be thinking about the warm sun on my shoulders?
This stretchy rib dress is perfect for those teasing warm spells in early spring. This midi dress features a flattering roundneck, shirred details to accommodate your growing belly, and a soft cotton blend fabric. If it’s too cold to wear alone, add a longline cardigan or denim jacket.
Gap’s Maternity Ribbed Tank Dress is $69.95 full price and comes in “gasoline green” (prettier than the name suggests), true black, sand beige, and medium warm brown. It’s available in sizes XS–XL. Today at Gap you can get 40% off your purchase plus an extra 10% off!
Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
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?
We are flying down to Orlando/Disney on the day before Easter. Kids will wake up in our hotel on Easter.
Ideas for easter “basket(s)” that will travel well? And how to fill them?
We will be arriving relatively late on Saturday so won’t have a chance to do any shopping in Orlando. We are staying off site.
Girls are 4,5, and 8.
Mouse ears, books and good 2 grow disney juice boxes are as far as I’ve gotten. Chocolate seems like a bad idea but also a must have.
This weekend we made the decision to send our two kids to a private school this fall, which requires uniforms. I am a public school kid so this is my first entry into this world. Any tips or tricks we should know before ordering? Both parents work Big Jobs full time so I think I need 5 of everything, right?
Has anyone’s kid done Ninja Warrior? My 4 year old is going to start soon. She loves climbing on things and doing obstacle courses, but I’m not sure she’s particularly skilled at it, and she’s going to be the youngest in the class (her birthday was a week before the cutoff) so I’m a little nervous about her keeping up with the other kids. The teachers will help her out if needed, right?
I just found out that I am pregnant. I did not tell any of my friends that we were trying. I am having a weekend away with some girlfriends, one who is struggling with infertility. My pregnancy will likely come up since I am usually a drinker and obviously won’t be drinking this weekend. Do I text her beforehand? IDK what to do.
I’m feeling a bit like a bad parent today. I was entirely cranky with my kids yesterday. They see their Dad every other weekend and Wednesday night dinners. When my kids have school vacations, teacher development days, half-days, etc., he does not take any time off of his work, and it is entirely up to me to manage their schedules. We have been divorced 3 years (last week! woohoo!). Last summer, my kids went to sleep away camp, so I had one week to myself. Other than that, the reprieve I get is when they have their every other week overnight with their Dad. For many reasons, my local family (my mom), cannot watch my kids for extended periods of time.
Two weeks ago, my Ex informed me that his parents were paying for him to visit them in the Caribbean for a week. I could have told him “no,” but he would have gone anyway. As a result, he brought the kids back to my house on Saturday evening, so he could make his flight sometime yesterday. I adore my kids and spending time with them, and I desperately need those 32 hours every other week to truly rest, run errands, tackle kid/insurance/home paperwork. I was snappish at them yesterday and just generally cranky. I apologized and told them I was in a bad mood and it wasn’t their fault. UGH.
I’m interested in hiring an interior decorator/designer (are those the same?) and am lost with respect to where to start. Have reached out to our realtor with no luck. Any tips? Or, any chance someone here is in the Bay Area and has a recommendation? Pretty small job; just a couple of rooms using a combination of furniture we already have and recommendations from the professional.
Can I just vent that at a time where half my work emails/zooms have signatures where people are volunteering their pronouns, I still can’t search for kid shoes on Zappos and 6pm and a whole host of other places without first selecting “boy” or “girl” if I also want to narrow down my options by shoe size? I finally figured out that I can select either one and then “X” out of the designation once I have picked a shoe size but seriously what does gender have to do with the kinds of crocs I am getting my 4 year old!?!
Later this week is going to be the 2 year anniversary of when everything changed due to Covid. I still remember vividly discussing with my husband how we should voluntarily keep the kids home from school then, and of course that decision was then made for us. Speaking of songs, there are songs and cartoons that will always remind me of our quarantine days (looking at you Mickey Mouse Clubhouse).
And then today, both of my kids went to school maskless. It was a bit jarring, but I think we’ll get used to it. I won’t say everything is back to normal now, but I’m hoping the new few months continue to see low case counts.
How is everyone else feeling?
Looks like technical difficulties with the comments again today… I see “4 comments” link below the post, but no actual comments showing up
What’s the book about only children that folks often recommend here? Search skills are failing me today.
Have any of you banned music from your kids that you can’t stand? My girls like to listen to movie soundtracks, usually a lot more than they’ve actually seen the movie. The most recent is Mulan, and I hate with a fire of a thousand suns the songs in that movie. I realize they are all supposed to be ironic, but I’m pretty sure my preschoolers are not picking up the nuance and joke in songs called “a girl worth fighting for” and “I’ll make a man out of you.” The lyrics are just a litany of stereotypes: “men want girls with good taste and a tiny waist” “it only matters what she cooks like.” Or should I be trying to explain the joke in the songs, or conversely, how much and why I think the movie and the songs failed at the “girl power” message?