Maternity Monday: Mia Secret Fit Over-the-Belly Straight-Leg Pant
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If you’re expecting, keep your weekdays simple by adding a few pairs of these versatile maternity pants to your work wardrobe.
These comfortable, stretchy pants have a full belly panel for built-in support. The slim and straight silhouette pairs well with flowy maternity tops. They’re available in five neutral colors, so you can wear these pants on repeat all nine months.
Motherhood Maternity’s Mia Secret-Fit Pants are $40 at Target and come in sizes XS-XL.
Building a maternity wardrobe for work? Check out our page with more suggestions along both classic and trendy/seasonal lines.
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Finding stylish and professional maternity wear can be such a challenge, so I love seeing a detailed review of these Mia Secret pants! The ‘fit over-the-belly’ style is such a game-changer for comfort during a long workday while still maintaining a polished, straight-leg look. Great find for working mamas
I have a 4.5 year old son. We got a big bag of hand-me-down clothes, and while I gave away most of the dresses from the haul, he pulled out some sparkly skirts and dresses that he really wanted, and he puts them on most days right now (usually a sparkly butterfly skirt on top of his excavator pants). He has varied interests (dinosaurs! Excavators! Unicorns!) and loves anything sparkly. Several boys at his preschool like to wear dresses so to him it’s no big deal. I think it’s wonderful and tell him he can wear whatever he wants (as long as it’s weather appropriate, so right now he has to wear something warmer under the sundress). My 80-year old mom who is otherwise a wonderful grandma keeps making little comments like “why are you a girl today?” And “can you try to dress like a boy today?” And my son’s dad (my ex) seems to imply that this is something I’m doing to my son (sigh). I just want them to let him have this joy while it last, and to have no shame associated with it. I asked my mom to stop and just let him be, but she will still drop the occasional comment.
Guess I’m just venting but has anyone else dealt with this?
Grandma has the flu won’t be traveling to see us for Christmas as we planned. Our kids will be majorly bummed, especially because we also had to cancel thanksgiving travel for illness. Any ideas to make them feel better? We’re hoping if she feels better she can come next weekend, so we can do a mini-Christmas then.
We did early Christmas with my in laws and it was a lot – the sleeping arrangements are grim (spring filled mattress on the floor, with a giant hole and damp coming through the chimney – they aren’t poor, they just can’t get it together) and they insisted on cooking meat despite no expertise. But everyone got on fine and it was lovely to see my son with his cousins (he’s 8, they range from 21-30). And now we are at my parents and will get to properly relax for the next 10 days. It’s my birthday and T decided to “blend me my own tea” as my present and it was actually delicious (cardomom, cinnamon, hibiscus ground in a mortar and pestle). I’ve finished a book and started another in front of the fire.
My husband grew up working class and he has terrible grammar. He says things like “where’s she at” and “me and him are going” and “she don’t like that.”
He is so wonderful in every other way, but it grates on me now that our kids repeat his speech patterns.
Is there a way to encourage them to use correct grammar without hurting his feelings and being the grammar police? He is a blue collar worker and doesn’t have any real need to use correct grammar at work.
For those who celebrate Christmas, do you put presents under the tree before Christmas or wait until the day of? Do you do this based on habit/tradition or because of your child’s personality?
Travelled yesterday with our newly 5-year-old and 8 year-old to DH’s side of the family. Granted, it was a quick flight (~1.5 hours) and we are very relaxed on screens on travel/vacation, which helped but OMG it was SUCH A SIMPLE TRIP, even compared to flying with a 4.5 year old this summer. Obviously, kids were tired, some minor arguments/meltdowns, but to be expected during travel.
We’ve been here for <24 hours and I can emphatically feel the difference. Of course all caveats apply. I've also decided I'm not policing screen time and food (all within reason) while we're here (through Saturday). I've also decided since this is DH's side of the family, I don't have to be cruise director/primary parent ;)
Happy Holidays y'all – and for those of y'all juggling a toddler or two, nap schedules, etc. this holiday I wanted to echo the other posts — there is a great light at the tunnel.
Kids are currently playing with grandma facilitating/watching. I'm on PTO but doing some work clean up in PJs while drinking HOT coffee!
I want to be a better auntie to my long-distance nephew. Nephew is 8 and is my brother’s kid. I have a nearly 6 year old so we FaceTime with him, but they don’t have much to say to each other. I’m just not sure how to connect consistently. He’s into Fortnite, which 1) I know nothing about and 2) want to keep my kid off of for as long as possible.
one kiddo developed a fever yesterday and we are supposed to leave for vacation on Wednesday! this same kiddo got the flu and missed all of our spring break trip while twin sister went. both kids were sick during winter break 2024, thanksgiving 2024 and our summer vacation in 2024. i realize this is very much a first world problem, but it would be nice to take more than one trip with healthy kids in a two year period!
Can someone please explain to me how I spent three hours yesterday wrapping what seemed like a small number of gifts for one child, which will all be opened in well under an hour? I swear I used to be able to knock this out in an hour and a half with twice as many gifts.
Arghhh we have my daughter’s best friend over today and I’m going insane. She’s a sweet kid and a very loyal friend to my daughter, but she’s the hardest kid on the planet to host because she complains non-stop about being bored and begs me to let her have screens. For this reason we usually invite her on outings to public places or for movie nights/sleepovers, rather than daytime play dates, but her mom asked if we could help with childcare today and I couldn’t say no. She’s shooting down everything I suggest – pretend play, fort building, a hundred different varieties of arts and crafts, going outside, Legos, audiobooks, board/card games, etc. I’m going to give them a movie this afternoon but I don’t want them to do that all day. My daughter has plenty of behavioral challenges but she’s not a kid who whines about being bored a lot or demands screens and having this kid over gives me a new appreciation for it.
On the heels of a vomiting virus (not norovirus, thankfully), Santa has blessed us with HFMD just in time for Christmas! Symptoms began 12/18 and I’m hoping we parents don’t get it so we can go to our cabin rental on 12/28. Thoughts on whether that’s an ok thing to do? It would be just us, no other families.
I’m the poster from Friday with the nine year old with a letter to Santa for something unique and magical- thanks so much to everyone who replied! I ended up getting a geode and, riffing off the charm bracelet idea, a locket with pictures. I’ll also add an “acceptance letter to Hogwarts”-ornament to our tree. Please cross your fingers for me that this will meet the expectations 😬
Sorry- more venting.
I’m the poster whose MIL bought her 4 year old a Switch for Christmas. I talked to my husband and learned more about the Switch. We were in agreement we’d be fine using it as a whole family TV gaming system. He talked with his Mom and they decided we’d buy it from her and gift it to both the kids for Christmas. I don’t quite get how that wound up being the end result, but it’s truly not important to me as long as we’re on the same page about usage.
My husband was in charge of the Switch, bought games, set it up etc. I’ve been wrapping gifts for the past week (which is my favorite Christmas task) and finished last night! Until this morning when it dawned on me to ask how many controllers it comes with. Husband is stunned I have not bought extra controllers.
I hate this darn thing.