Family Friday: Mila Snow Pant
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As someone who is petite, finding pants, let alone snow pants, that fit off the rack is a lifelong challenge.
Nobody’s Princess, an Aussie ski and snowboard outfitter, designed snow pants that actually fit a range of women’s bodies and heights. They come in sizes AU6/US2 to AU24/US20, as well as short, regular, and tall lengths. The side stretch panels, adjustable waistband, and stretch fabric means you’ll be comfortable on the slopes or building a snowman with your kids.
These snow pants are $230 and come in a rainbow of colors.
Sales of note for 5/8/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Up to 50% off select styles + 15% off fragrance (exclusions apply; ends 5/11) + give $150 in gift cards, earn a $25 promo card (ends 5/13)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your full-price purchase + extra 40% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 40-60% everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – $25+ select styles + extra 45% off all sale
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off must-have styles + extra 50% off select sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 50% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 25% off all tops, pants, jeans, and shorts + 25% off all markdowns
For petite ski clothes, try Flylow and Trew
Any suggestions for basic budgeting/financial literacy activities for 1st & 2nd graders? This is for a scout troop, not my own family. They love pretend play and arts and crafts. They’re all very familiar with identifying and counting money and making simple change so I want to focus more on the saving and budgeting aspects. I was thinking of having them play shop for pretend foods with Monopoly money to build a “meal” but that feels sort of silly, I don’t know. Any other ideas? Wildly different economic circumstances at home, if that’s relevant, which I feel like it is.
Does anyone have suggestions for how to deal with parents who are getting weirder as they age?
My father was always “traditional” in how he viewed women (best if a SAHM and homemaking), immigrants (taking American resources) and LGBQT (my sister is gay and that’s anti-Christian to him), but he has gone full on Trump supporter and more extreme. His views for how women should behave, in particular, don’t align with mine as a working mom with a STEM degree and the breadwinner in my family (and two impressionable daughters). I don’t agree with him at all on immigrants or gay rights either, but those topics are more easily avoided. The women point is harder because he doesn’t agree with who I am or my family structure and finds it uncomfortable. My sister just doesn’t share that part of her life with him and he pretends she’s not gay, despite being aware. It’s an uncomfortable truce, though he fixates on it and then says inappropriate things pretty frequently.
My mom is very anti-Trump but has lost all of her filter. She is very unpredictable and extreme and explodes at things that didn’t really happen pretty frequently. Lots of made up slights. Lots of rants about how she’d rather be dead than live through this administration and how she’s glad she’s old and going to die soon. She can be wonderful, but you never know what version you’ll get.
I’m the only local-ish child with my siblings being scattered and far away. I have distanced myself because of my parents behavior, both to protect myself but also my tween-aged kids. Inappropriate things come out of their mouths pretty frequently. The distance has been okay for now, but we’re hitting ages (mid-70s) where my parents are going to have serious health issues and need more support.
Do I just cut contact completely or try to support them even knowing they’re going to be awful to me, create lots of drama and be entirely ungrateful? I dont think I can be minimal contact and aware of needs and do nothing. They’re my parents and I don’t want to abandon them, but it’s going to be really unpleasant to have more contact while trying to help.
Would this annoy you? Why does this annoy me?!
A new family moved into the house next to us. They have a nanny who comes from like 8 to 5, M-F. She parks in front of our house. We live on a suburban street with ample non-zoned parking (we live in Boston). Their house has room for two cars to park in front of it, and we have room for two cars to park in front of our house. I have no idea why she parks in front of my house, and not in front of theirs. It is not impacting me in any way shape or form, but I admit to being annoyed when I see her parked in front of my house, every single week day, and not in front of theirs. The only minor (v v minor) inconvenience is that she is usually getting in her car and leaving, just as I am pulling into my driveway with kids. I also have a sitter come once or twice a week, and she is often parked where they are parking (but there’s still enough space that it’s fine). My office also faces out the front window, so I’m usually staring at her car all day, rather than our neighbor’s tree.
For the record, I am not going to say anything to them. Seems like a large downside for very little upside since I’m not actually inconvenienced or impacted. But, like, park in front of your employer’s house!!! Not ours!! We had a nanny for two years during COVID, and I made it point to tell her to only park in front of our house!
Anyone here have a password manager they recommend? Long overdue to set one up and just don’t want to do the research. TIA!
Recommendations for dealing with annoying mom friends? Play mental what will she say next bingo, have a let it go style mantra?
DH moved to me and even though it’s been a few years, he’s had a tough time making friends. First there was Covid and then idk people just don’t socialize like they used to. Everyone in my friend group says how much they like him but none of the guys make an effort. Except for one. Who is my least favorite of the group. And I like his wife well enough, but they do not have a relationship or parenting style that I want to emulate. They have a more traditional mindset and we’re the opposite of that; DH is the one with the part time job and time to take care of the house and kid, but these friends insist he’s right to do things like go out drinking midday for hours with the other husband so he’s unable to do daycare pickup or make dinner because as mom I should be doing that anyway (that only happened once and he was extremely apologetic).
DH shares my views on the couple and is doing his best to develop other friendships. On the plus side, because the guy is the only husband of the group who reaches out to other men, we usually see other people we enjoy when they invite us out. So I’m definitely not trying to cut them out. I just need coping skills when they spout off nonsense about DH babysitting his own child, etc.