Makeup & Beauty Monday: Mesh Body Exfoliator
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I found this product through one of my favorite bloggers/influencers, Grace Atwood, at The Stripe and @graceatwood on Instagram. I don’t believe this product was ever officially “sponsored,” but she mentioned it several times as a new product she loved.
I was intrigued, just as my loofah puff was on its last legs and I’ve been looking for a better option. I ordered it and immediately understood what the raves were about. It makes my skin so soft and exfoliated, it feels amazing to scrub your back with it, and it is supposed to last for 18 months.
My husband tried it (without my permission — lol) and immediately asked for one for himself.
The exfoliator is $18 and available at Luv Scrub. Mesh Body Exfoliator
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
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
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- 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?
Sorry, I know this isn’t mom-related, but I don’t visit the main site any more.
My POS ex-boyfriend from 10+ years ago has been trying to contact me recently via email. I’m guessing it’s because his daughter had a baby this spring. I’m in contact with her but have him (and his enabler mother, who also tried to reach out) blocked on social media and have my settings as private as I know how.
For the three years we dated, he was physically and emotionally abusive; he lied and stole constantly and gaslighted me. I finally moved away and cut off contact. After I left he had children with several different women and did time in prison. And now I’m incredibly anxious about his attempts to reach out. Does anyone have advice for resources for advice?
There’s SO MUCH DRAMA in our local school board elections and… I’m actually somewhat interested in it? I don’t think anything has made me feel quite as much like a mom.
I’m due in 2 weeks with our first child. What’s your best advice for labor/delivery/hospital stay?
I have my preferences for how things will go down, but top of list is Healthy Baby, Healthy Mama, so would love to hear from people across the spectrum (unmedicated v, medicated v, planned c, unplanned c, etc).
Talk to me about the “mama” phase. Husband just got a job (yay! Yay!) and is now not at home with the kids. We were able to transition our part time sitter to full time nanny. All of the sudden with the twins (girl especially) it’s “mama, mama, mama” all the time. I am not minding too much but it’s a hard hit for husband right as he goes back (it’s like they don’t notice/don’t care) and I suspect I am going to kind if it goes on too long. Kids are 23 months.
Talk to me about the “mama” phase. Husband got a job (yay! Yay!) and so has been going into the office for the last two weeks. We were able to transition our babysitter to nanny, she had been doing quite a few random hours for us and we feel really lucky to be able to have such a smooth transition.
Coincidence (or not), kids (B/G twins) are now just all about the “mama, mama, mama, mama”. Especially my girl. They are 23 months. Is this the phase at which it starts? How long does it go? Strategies for husband? It’s a bit like they don’t care that he’s gone at all…
So I have battled how to type this out without sounding like one of the Wakefield twins, but I’m trying to navigate this petty mom group situation. I’m the only non-iPhone user in this group, so they made a WhatsApp group earlier this year. Over the quarantine, another thread materialized for the iPhone users, and it’s where a lot of invitations and gatherings are being communicated. Two people in this group are usually good about letting me know about relevant items from this other thread, but I just caught wind that one of those two hosted an event, communicated it through the alternate group, and never let me know about it. It annoys me that my phone carrier is the reason for exclusion in this shadow group and frustrated that this person could be so duplicitous (“oh it’s so stupid they exclude you, let me keep you in the loop”). Do they not like me? Are they lazy? How do I stop letting it bother me?
We are moving soon (closing next week) to a place 15 min away, but with more yard space, etc. My son, 2.5 yo, has consistently had rough transitions at daycare — moving classrooms or even going back to daycare after short vacations. I’m feeling horrible about moving daycares. I know he’s going to be so upset. My daughter will also be going to daycare for the first time (due to covid/wfh we’ve been able to wait until now, 9mo.). I’m wondering if I should just suck it up and drive the time to the old daycare (at least 15 min one way, so an hour a day when I’m wfh most days). But, if I change my mind and have both kids in original daycare and then change, I’ve just forced baby to switch daycares unnecessarily and at a young age. (Adding to this, COVID means I can’t sit in on the classroom to calm him down in the room the first few days…ugh!).
Indoor swim lessons are unsafe, right? Our swim school has reopened with new procedures – instructors wear masks, 4 kids/lesson, no changing rooms before- strongly encouraged not to change after, 1 parent per family masked/distanced, symptom checks, etc.. I really miss swim lessons for kiddo – but I’m struggling to understand if this is safe enough? Has anyone gone back to indoor swim? We’re in the midwest so an indoor winter activity would be amazing.
I know it’s early, but is anyone planning to pull kids out of daycare for an extended period over the holidays to see grandparents? We’ve been back since early August, it’s going great, no cases so far knock on wood, kiddo LOVES school and we’re so happy to have childcare again. But the one thing that’s making me said is our lack of contact with my parents. They’re a few hours drive away, close enough that pre-pandemic we saw them often, but far enough away that it’s not feasible for them to come for the day and meet us outdoors, and none of us feel that it’s safe enough for them to stay overnight in our home while our kiddo is at daycare. So it feels like taking a long break from school is the only way to see them. I’m also thinking it’s very likely we’ll see an explosion of cases a week or two after Thanksgiving, since even the people I know who’ve been very cautious about Covid are planning to see at least a few extended family members over the holiday. So I was thinking of keeping kiddo home from Thanksgiving through the New Year. We’d likely quarantine for 10 days or so, get tested, and then my parents would come stay with us for about a month. Part of me thinks that it’s the right thing to do because relationships with grandparents are really important, but part of me worries things will get really bad come January and we’ll be locked down again and I’ll really regret giving up the last few weeks of semi-normalcy that we had. I know none of us can predict the future, but I’m curious for thoughts/what you would do.
Pandemic health tips? I have gained 10 pounds in the last 6 months owing to LIFE. No mystery here: I am stress (and non-stress) snacking on junk food and not exercising as much as I used to. Any tips for turning things around? I have had good success with implementing a 3-mornings-a-week 20-min jog, but even though I am regularly doing that for the last 3 months I’m not seeing any change.
PSA you can get these mesh washcloths way cheaper – look for Salux cloths on Amazn.
Second time mom with a seven week old. He sleeps well enough at night. He can go down in a dockatot with little work when he falls asleep (7-8) and when he wakes up to feed around 11 and 2-4 and sometimes 6. But- he will only nap in a carrier. I try adjusting wake windows, I’ve tried the dockatot, bassinet, crib. He mostly won’t even nap in the stroller or car seat. Is there anything I’m missing or do I just have to wait a few weeks/months for him to develop more. I sleep trained my older one but I don’t remember this.
Second time mom with a seven week old. Who will only nap in the carrier (not the crib, dockatot, bassinet. Rarely the car seat or stroller). I’ve tried adjusting wake windows, swaddle, etc. he’s able to go to sleep without assistance at night. Anything I’m missing or do I just have to wait it out?
How are people responding when there is a positive case in your child’s school? I thought this would happen eventually, but I am honestly surprised that it happened this quickly in a state that until recently has had the virus under control. A few specific questions: (1) Do you tell your child (9) about the positive case? (2) Did you consider pulling your child from in-person learning? I can’t imagine pulling him from his school (or his little sister from her school), but this feels like such a health gamble.
Sigh. My kiddo with ADHD got in trouble at school today. Again. It’s the same behaviors that we’ve fought for years, but he’d been doing so much better before COVID hit. It’s become obvious how much his social/behavioral skills declined during that six-month period at home. It makes me so sad. We do the counseling, we do the exercises, he takes medication. And it’s still just really freaking hard and I am constantly worried that this very bright kid is going to struggle through life because he can’t follow directions to save his life or acknowledge his part in any conflict. This is mainly a rant, but I am at a loss here. If elementary school is this tough, what is middle school/high school going to be like?