Weekend & Family Friday: Mini Mini Leather Shoulder Bag
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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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This is lovely. I was eyeing up something similar in the window of the Cambridge Satchel Company recently – a lower price point but still very nice quality.
Do any of you all feel like the abundance of kids’ parties and events focused on a particular season can dilute/ruin its specialness?
I felt this last year with respect to Halloween — our kids’ school had a Halloween party where all the kids wore costumes, then we went to a party at a local museum where again they wore costumes and got candy, then we went to a church event “trunk or treat” on the weekend before Halloween, and we went to another Halloween event with games and costumes. By the time we got to Halloween night, they were Halloween-ed out, and it didn’t feel nearly as special!
I know the obvious answer is, go to fewer things, but in some cases, we’ve already paid for them, or they’re a benefit to go with certain memberships we have, so my cheapness says to take advantage! Maybe having the kids wear more like “dress up” costumes to the ancillary events and wear their “real” Halloween costume to the main event would keep trick-or-treat night special?
I hear ya. DH and I love Halloween, and it can feel like a lot even for us. It can be a week-long celebration depending on what day it falls on during the week. My particular struggle is that our family also celebrates Diwali and it is usually around the same time, this year it is on Oct 27. It totally gets drowned out by Halloween. How can it even compete with costumes! pumpkins! and CANDY!
Any suggestions for how to get to National Airport without a carseat? We are going to Disney in a few months, and we won’t need a carseat because we will take Disney transport to and from the airport. But how do we get to the airport? We are about a mile from the metro, but I can’t imagine dragging our bags and daughter on a mile walk. Thanks so much!
Vent: Last night, babysitter was supposed to arrive around 6 so we could grab dinner before a 7:30 show. Actual arrival, 6:45. No time for dinner, but still a chance we could get to the show on time. The traffic lights were against us and traffic was awful, culminating with being about 25 cars back from an accident that shut down the road. Needless to say, we were almost a half hour late, and very hungry, so we skipped the performance entirely ($150 down the drain), and just had dinner. Then we came home to find dirty dishes from the kids’ dinner in the sink (we have a dishwasher!!! just put them there!), and the leftover mac and cheese congealing in the pot. FFS. Not how our anniversary celebration was supposed to go.
Slow friday, can we start a thread of fun/cute things our kids did? Mine is I got my kids matching halloween pajamas- so unnecessary, but my god I love watching them bop around in them. Also my daughter has recently started imitating our conversations- yesterday she asked my husband how his day was, and it was the cutest thing ever.
Does anyone have a frame hiking backpack for your little one that you love? I am having a little bit of sticker shock at the highly rated ones. We usually go on 3-5 mile hikes, nothing crazy, but would like something for the stage where that’s too tough for kiddo.
My DH has been working some unavoidable, insane hours lately, even on the weekends, and I’m feeling really tired and worn out from solo parenting. The grandparents aren’t particularly helpful (a whole other story) and I don’t have a huge stable of babysitters at the ready. I’m seriously considering taking them to a drop-in daycare place for a few hours tomorrow, just to get some peace and quiet and take a nap. Is that terrible of me, after they’ve been in daycare and school all week? Are there any other creative ideas that I’m not thinking of? My efforts to even find a neighbor kid/mother’s helper for this busy period has completely bombed … everyone is just so freaking busy with kid activities of every kind. I feel like I’m crying out for help and NOBODY IS THERE. It takes me a long time to get to the point where I even ask, so when I do, it feels extra crappy when I don’t receive it.
Where do you buy dresses for yourself for daytime non-work dress-up occasions? I recently joined a church choir and need to come up with a church outfit nearly every week. I much prefer dresses to pants or skirt + sweater. The dress must go under a choir robe and also be church-appropriate without the robe. My work dresses are too structured, and all the pretty soft dresses from Reformation and the like are totally inappropriate for this purpose. Over the summer I’ve been getting by with Lilly Pulitzer, but that won’t work for fall and winter. To make things even more challenging, I am super long-waisted so everything needs to be alterable or available in tall (but also small) sizes. Where should I be looking, and for what types of styles?
Sorry to write about such a serious topic on a Friday afternoon, but does anyone else have a spouse with depression? My husband has been depressed probably since childhood. He sees both a psychologist for counseling, and a psychiatrist for meds. He journals, works out, pursues hobbies, and does every other kind of self care he’s supposed to. He’s still probably operating at a 4 out of 10 pretty much all the time where a non depressed person would be at a 7. A normal day for him feels like what a pretty cr@ppy day at work feels like for the rest of us. We had a really nice day once a few days ago, nothing spectacular, but just like a nice day. Later he was like “wow, that was amazing!” I explained gently that every day was more or less like that for me. Does anyone have any suggestions for coping? I see a therapist myself, mostly for figuring out how to deal with my husband. When he’s doing slightly better, which is maybe 2 or 3 days a month, he’s amazing. He’s smart, funny, caring, thoughtful, a great listener, adventurous, and wonderful. But the slog of all those other days is getting to me. It hurts me to see him so down on himself all the time. And it’s exhausting to have to build him up all the time to just keep him close to an even keel. I’ve come to realize that most of the time I don’t enjoy being with him. I love him. I’m not going anywhere. But I don’t look forward to spending time together most of the time. He’s miles better than he was five years ago when he started aggressively treating his depression, and it’s been four years since a major depressive episode (thank God) which I think is largely due to his hard work re wiring his bad brain pathways. So there’s hope it could get better still. But I’m just getting worn out.
Hi all,
Hope this isn’t too late for some responses. I’m 21 weeks pregnant with my first and just had my Level II (~20 week) ultrasound today. I had the ultrasound somewhere other than my OB’s office so I won’t go back to this place until birth, assuming everything goes well.
I opted not to do any of the genetic testing. I’m in my 20s and the results wouldn’t impact my decision about the pregnancy.
But during my ultrasound the nurse said the baby had a thick neck and asked if we had testing done. I said no and she said no problem, that’s perfectly normal and moved on. When the doctor was reviewing the results with me afterward she also said everything looked normal and confirmed that we didn’t get any testing done. I did not ask her about the thick neck because I was upset by that point and tend to clam up when I’m upset.
So, of course, I do a little googling and a thick neck is one of the signs that the baby possibly has down syndrome but it also occurs in a small chunk of normal pregnancies. I have an OB appointment with my regular OB next week and I will ask her about the neck.
Just looking for some encouraging words, I guess. Did anyone have a pregnancy where the baby had a thick neck but did not have down syndrome? If the baby does have down’s, I’ll get over it of course, it is just a little jarring to hear for the first time.
Thank you.