Everyone Thursday: Merona Tailored Ponte Blazer

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A woman wearing a Merona Tailored Ponte BlazerWe’ve featured this Merona blazer before, and we mentioned it in Frugal Friday’s Workwear Report last week at Corporette, but it remains a great option for a blazer under $50. And since it’s at Target, it also fits into the category of Things You Can Buy While Shopping For Your Kids. This has been around for a long time and has really good reviews, so if you’re looking for an affordable, machine washable blazer, definitely check it out. Depending on the color, it has gone as low as $9, but it’s currently $30 in heather gray and black. It comes in sizes XS-XXL. Merona Tailored Ponte Blazer This post contains affiliate links and CorporetteMoms may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support! 

Sales of note for 9.10.24

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

Kid/Family Sales

  • Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
  • Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
  • J.Crew Crewcuts Extra 30% off sale styles
  • Old Navy – 40% off everything
  • Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs

And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interestworking mom questions asked by the commenters!

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Thanks ladies for your solidarity! It’s honestly so nice to know I am not the only sad loser peeing whenever I sneeze. This has taken a huge toll on my self esteem and even basic things – I haven’t gone to a movie in over two years and I don’t try on clothing in stores.

And thanks for the many suggestions – I will let you know what works.

I am feeling so unmotivated to pump. The last few days I have only pumped once – sort of dictated by my schedule, but not really. I know I’m playing with fire, supply-wise. Part of me is thinking, I’ve made it almost 9 months, just push three more to my 12 month goal. And part of me is thinking, maybe I’m not making time for pumping because I’m over pumping.

My husband struggles with big changes (understandable, not something I blame him for) and we just decided to put an offer on a house after a lot of discussion of pros and cons, financial impact, etc. The short story is, we want to sell our current home and upgrade size (we need to within the next year or two), and our realtor had us visit a house before it goes on the market that is perfect but needs a ton of work. We are making a lowball offer, which she (realtor) thinks might be too low, but is worth offering. We (husband and I) went through all the implications and decided it was worth a shot.

But when he gets nervous about things, he shuts down. So I am trying to schedule a time for us to go sign the offer, but he is not responding to text or chat about what time. He is acting like he’s surprised we both have to go and then stopped answering. I’m not sure if he just got busy at work or, more likely, he is shutting down because he is nervous. I always feel like I’m pushing him when this happens. I’m more decisive and less risk-averse than him, and I’m aware of that, so I try to be very accommodating and make sure we are discussing things thoroughly and I’m very up front about how I feel about a decision.

For example, with this house, early on in the process, I said, “I’m interested in pursuing this, but I don’t feel like we have to, so if this is too much house and too much work, that’s fine – let’s not pursue it further.” He said let’s look at the money. We did, and it’s a stretch (mainly because our house now is paid off so it’s really cheap to live there), but we decided it was doable. Again, I said, I’m ready to make this jump, are you feeling ok about it? And he said yes. So now I’m not sure, do I say, again, are you sure you want to go through with this? Or just push it through?

FWIW, when we’ve made “jumps” before, he’s been happy with the result. I’m just really aware that I can be pushy in general in life, and he is a lot more likely to go along with things, because he doesn’t like conflict and he wants to do what I want to make me happy. It’s hard because I just want to sh!t or get off the pot, but I also don’t want to push him into a decision, but I also feel like we already MADE this decision. Ugh. I don’t even know what I’m asking, other than, do any other decisive women on here struggle with this? I love my husband and I understand this part of him I just want to be accommodating without enabling, I guess.

Anyone else suuuper excited for spring? Finally being able to play outdoors! and plant! and not have random snow days!
I also just ordered two more fruit trees for our backyard, we’re gradually trying to plant a miniature orchard back there (our house used to be an apple farm) and it’s making me tear up a little to think that the trees I plan now with my little boy may someday be the trees he brings his kids to to pick fruit! And in the meantime we all get so much pleasure out of watching the fruit grow and ripen (though we got all of 4 apples last year – its a start!)

My son is turning 3 this weekend and we did not plan a birthday party. Work has been crazy for me so we are a bit behind on everything and, honestly, he doesn’t really have a lot of friends. He goes to nursery school and is friends with the kids there but we just didn’t feel like it was necessary to spend $500 to invite all 10 kids and have a huge party for a 3 year old. Anyway, now I feel guilty because I have nothing planned and I want him to have a special day. Any thoughts on a fun activity or a special day for him?

I have the gray version of this and love it, but people said last week on the main s*te that the black version is very shiny in a weird way. Just FYI.

Hi everyone, I returned to work a short time ago, and had a much harder time than I expected leaving my daughter- I never thought I wanted to stay home, and I still don’t, but it was a much harder transition that I expected. I’m strongly feeling the “lean out” at work right now, as my job is relatively cushy. But my performance review, while fine, was not what I expected it to be. So then I start thinking, well, maybe I should explore other options, challenge myself a bit more- but my daughter is in a daycare near where I work, not my husband, and getting a new job would mean moving daycares, which is tough in this city of long wait lists. And then I think, well that’s ridiculous, your job has a lot more pros than it does cons (and I used to work for a truly toxic boss, so that makes me leery of leaving a pretty good set-up). And I haaaaate the whole process of job searching. Thoughts? Advice? Commiseration? I realize I have a long career ahead of me, and I want to get pregnant again relatively soon, so does it make the most sense to just sit tight?

Cate, if you are still willing to part with your Bellefit, please email me at rose in bloom 001 (no spaces) at gmail. Thank you!

Help! My six month old is on the move and our new house has a stone fireplace hearth with sharp edges that is making me nervous. Any ideas on how to protect my little man without creating something completely unsightly for the middle of my living room?

My daughter is 15 months and currently still in the infant room at a small, local chain daycare center. When she started at 7 months, it was our understanding that infants graduate to the toddler room at around 15 months. My daughter visits the toddler room almost every day at the end of the day when they consolidate rooms/teachers, and does fairly well. Yesterday I asked the toddler teachers when they thought her transition would happen since it was my understanding it should happen around when she is 15 months. They told me that another boy (probably a couple months older than my daughter) was in the process of making the transition, and that after that it would be another girl’s turn to move up (she is 1 day older than my daughter), and then it would be my daughter’s turn. They didn’t say it outright, but I think they have to stagger the elevation because of space in the toddler room, not development of the kids. My question is should I ask to pay the toddler rate, which is several hundred dollars less than the infant room rate, if my daughter is only still in the infant room because there isn’t room for her in the toddler room? Has anyone else dealt with this issue? I understand she is still in the infant room with the higher teacher to kid ratio, but she no longer requires the same amount of attention as the younger infants.