Maternity Monday: Maternity Rollover-Waist Billie Trouser
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These rollover-waist maternity trousers are a great everyday option for the office and beyond.
These soft, comfy pants feel like pajamas but look like trousers thanks to a pleated front. The front panel can be rolled up or down for added support, and the straight, ankle-length silhouette is flattering on just about everyone.
Old Navy’s Maternity Rollover-Waist Billie Trousers are on sale for $35.99 (marked down from $44.99) and come in four go-with-anything neutrals. They’re available in sizes XS-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 5/1/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 20% off select Dyson hair tools with code + select clothes, shoes & more up to 50% off
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including new arrivals (ends 5/4) + 40% off 1 full-price item (5/1 only)
- Banana Republic Factory – 40-60% everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off all sale + $19 & up spring sale
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off must-have styles + up to extra 60% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Up to 25% off almost everything. Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – $20+ select favorites + 40% off 1 regular-price item + 30% off everything else
Rambunctious almost-5-year-old needs glasses. Starts Kinder in the fall. What should I be looking for as we start our search? Brands, features, etc? Is there a warranty you can get for when the glasses (inevitably) get lost or broken? Thank You!
Ugh. I’ve posted before about my 7 year old having growing pains with a formerly close friend due to diverging interests and (imo) some mean behavior on the part of the friend. Things are usually ok one-on-one, although the other girl has a tendency to make snide remarks about my kid’s (lack of) academic and athletic abilities, which I don’t love. But any kind of group dynamic is bad, and it feels like the other girl is mean to my daughter in an attempt to impress (?) other kids. (I didn’t know this kind of behavior started at age 6!! I feel like it wasn’t a thing until 10 or 11 when I was growing up.) Anyway, nonetheless they’re still on paper good friends and my daughter attended this girl’s small birthday party over the weekend. It was a disaster. According to my daughter, friend singled her out to go last in everything (cake, food, activities, etc.), didn’t want to open her present and immediately discarded it when her mother made her open it, refused to play with my daughter, and then when my daughter found other kids to play with, she told those kids my daughter was a baby and they should all stop playing with her. My daughter came home from the party in tears. I should fight the urge to tell my daughter she should stop hanging out with this kid, right? I want her to handle her own social life, but it’s hard to see her describing someone who treats her this way as one of her best friends.
How do you handle hand me downs/color preferences etc?
My daughter has outgrown her balance bike. Her favorite color is pink. We have a son who is 2.5 years younger than she is.
So what’s our long term philosophy? Do we buy each kid new bikes in their preferred colors as needed (we can afford but seems wasteful)? Do we try to keep these bigger purchases more gender neutral? Is the second child doomed to hand me downs his whole life?
Ideas for a hostess gift for an Easter celebration? My family (me, DH, 2 kids under 10) are joining a family friend’s big family celebration– aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. They have a very big, nice lunch at home, which the matriarch aunt prepares, they have easter baskets for the kids filled with gifts AND an egg hunt. In sum, very generous and lovely. I need help thinking of an appropriate hostess gifts for the matriarch aunt, plus the family friend who invited us.
My go-to would be food, but it is not a potluck– they are all set for the meal (plus we are traveling >3 hours), but I could always bring something to add to the dessert table. A pie? Wine maybe? An orchid?
Just a quick vent, I know this is normal but my three year old won’t stop talking. If he’s awake he’s talking. Especially if my husband and I are talking he thinks he absolutely needs to join with his own topic as well. He will physically move my head so I’m facing him and not my husband. It’s a lot. I keep telling myself I’ll probably miss his chatter one day…
Major fail – we were at the pool for four hours yesterday and didn’t reapply sunscreen and I have four sunburned kids. I feel terribly!
I have them put sunscreen on before school every day but then have one big pool day and it feels like all that effort down the drain. Ugh. This is my ten year old’s second or third burn? Ughhhhh. She’s the only one peeling (her shoulders) but they’re all going to be awkwardly tan after this.
(i realize this might make me sound like a terrible person, and i have a lot of guilt for thinking any of this about my own child, so please be gentle)
I have fraternal twin girls who are lower elementary aged. One of my girls is “bigger” compared to most other kids her age, and this past weekend we were with my cousins, and between all of us, like 15 kids, and my daughter was the only “bigger” kids. she is built so differently than me or DH or any of our relatives. she is the only kid amongst her friends who is built like this. it’s kind of like she never lost the toddler belly. she is also generally a messy eater, some fine motor struggles, etc. and i realize that me growing up in a society of diet culture is probably what makes me think this way, but i hate that this bothers me! sometimes ill see cute outfits and think that my daughter shouldnt wear it bc of her body. how do i change my mindset? (i obviously try very very very hard to keep my mouth shut and have never said anything negative to her about her body, and i dont want to be part of the problem)
Also a question about flex work scheduling. I am in a job that is very flexible and remote, 25ish hours a week. It used to be 40hrs a week and I had the kids in aftercare at school to cover it, but I switched to a new role in March. I also have the opportunity now to do some consulting work for a friend’s company maybe 2-5hrs a week at a high hourly rate doing some very interesting work. I’m torn about how to schedule this all and if I should even take the side gig. A few considerations.
– Kids will be in 1st, 3rd and 4th grades next year. They’re fairly independent and the 4th grader especially craves independence.
– DH is supportive of whatever makes me happy, but his work is not flex or remote, it is 8-5 M-F but is highly regular.
– My 25/hr week job is steady with great benefits, but is boring. It’s individual contributor work.
– The consulting opportunity is exciting but also a little nerve-wracking. I never contemplated being out on my own. It would be as a 1099. The biggest benefit would be the exposure to interesting projects, and people (not that I’m an extrovert, but it might give me just enough people time). The biggest potential downside is that my friend warned me there are a bunch of bros at the company. I don’t know how much I’d have to deal with it.
– I have the option with the kids to do full aftercare M-F or the part-time 3 days a week.
– 3 years ago I worked in a very stressful position 80-100/hrs a week and a part of me feels guilty about the effect that had on my kids. Though, paradoxically I acknowledge that I had much better quality time with the kids then than I did with the 40 hour job. I’m not sure, maybe it’s because the stressful job also had really interesting work, and I knew that if I didn’t prioritize quality time with them it wouldn’t happen, so I always made time to read to them at night, play silly games and go on hikes. Lately, I just feel sluggish and lazy.
– My life could greatly benefit from a hobby other than work.
One idea I had was to put the 2 jobs into 4 days a week and take one day off to focus on me- half day me/hobby other half day kids stuff. I would probably do full time aftercare with this option.
Another idea was spread the 2 jobs over 5 days, slot the me time in during free spots, and do the part time aftercare, which gives 2 afternoons of kid time.
Thoughts on how to arrange things?
Remind me that even when it’s a busy season, it’s not a crime to take 2 days of vacation for the Easter holiday? I was going to try to make it work without taking off work and finally decided that was dumb. I have the vacation time, and I need to take it to make the rest of the weekend manageable (and enjoyable).
I have gotten so much better about work boundaries, but busy seasons still trip me up.
We would like to take our school age kids to DC for the weekend but have no idea where to stay. Would like to be in the city itself vs. somewhere like Alexandria but otherwise flexible. They’ve never been and we haven’t been in ages, but they’re learning about all this stuff in social studies and we want to show them the sights. Any neighborhoods or specific suggestion welcome. Budget is around $250-350 a night.
I have a meeting with the nurse today to kick off our first IVF cycle. We are doing IVF for secondary infertility after multiple losses and I’m feeling hopeful and nervous. Any advice, things to ask, and success stories?
Also, even if things go perfectly, my oldest will be 3.5 by the time she gets a sibling, and realistically closer to 4. I was hoping for kids closer together, but such is life. If you have that age gap, does it work well?
My hours are being reduced (joy), but I have flexibility on structuring them. What worked best for those of you who have done about 75% time with an infant to take care of? When I was on my own, Fridays off would have been priority, but I’d like more time with the baby on other days too. He’ll be in daycare full-time either way, although most likely with a half day depending on how this schedule shakes out.