Accessory Tuesday: Mita Packable Raffia Visor
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If you’re looking forward to spending long summer days outdoors, a hat is a must-have. This packable raffia visor will be your constant companion.
This visor is made from woven raffia and trimmed with canvas. The back ties ensure a secure fit without crushing your hair. The wide four-inch brim will keep the sun’s damaging rays off your face from your morning farmers market run to your after-dinner stroll.
Helen Kaminski’s Mita Packable Raffia Visor is $210 at Nordstrom and is available in cream or black trim.
Sales of note for 5/8:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Mother’s Day Event: 40% off your purchase. Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Dress & sport shirts, 2 for $149
- Express – $39+ summer styles + 25% off everything else
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – Mother’s Day Sale: Up to 40% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Up to 25% off
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
Swimsuit shopping help: our baby’s first birthday party (how has it been a year??) will be an under the sea themed pool party at home. My c-section shelf is still shelfing, to my dismay, and I’m super self conscious about it. I’d like to find a mermaid or otherwise thematic swimsuit that supports my belly and boobs. There’s a cute suit on Amazon with starfish clasps in the front but it has no support at all. I have a couple of maternity suits I can wear if it comes to that, but I’d like to be a little festive for the party. Thanks all!
I’ve posted before that my younger kid (then 4.5, now 5.5) had strabismus surgery last July. All went well, and the doc asked us to patch ~2 hours a day starting in December. We’ve had follow-ups since, and while the surgery worked in the major ways, his vision isn’t improving at the rate she’d like (He’s at 20/50 vision and she’d prefer him at 20/30) At our last appointment (in May) she suggested he’d be a good candidate for the luminopia device in lieu of daily patching. He’d essentially wear the headset and watch something 1 hour/day. Caveat is it can be really pricey. We decided to re-visit if needed when we see her next month.
Anyway, yesterday the teacher he’s with in the afternoon mentioned she saw his eye crossing when they were talking outside. She said she had never seen it before (she didn’t know about his history), etc. I have a note out to the doc, but I know some of y’all have had this procedure for your kids. Any thoughts/advice/experience with this recurring? I’m open to whatever treatment or even vision therapy but I really would prefer not go through the procedure again!
Cross posting bc over here is usually better!
My husband and I are spending a long weekend in August at a mountain home in Deer Valley with his most important client. These are really fancy people who are always dressed flawlessly (not lawyers). My day to day style is work from home, athletic mom. I rarely go on camera or see clients in person. I would like to look polished for the trip, and can spend up to $1000 to get ready. I think I’m covered for the adventure parts of the trip (I have nicer technical gear from skiing and running, so I’m covered for hiking and “touring”), but I have huge wardrobe holes for all the other “stuff” we’ll be doing.
Recommendations for brands/outfits for —
(1) Pool/hot tub lounging
(2) Chef meals at the house
(3) Nicer restaurants out
And I’m stumped for the mornings? We are sharing the house, so do you just not leave your room until you are fully dressed with makeup on for breakfast? The idea of sharing a house with clients is kind of tripping me up (I certainly don’t have any clients I want to see before morning coffee, but this is a big business development opportunity for my husband….). We’ll have lots of room for ourselves, but obviously meals will be shared in a common area.
Our local sports teams are parent coached. Every season there is an opportunity to give feedback on coaching. I’ve coached, and I’ve had kids in town sports for over 10 years. In that time, I’ve only ever provided negative feedback once, and I signed my name and provided contact info for any followup. (In that case it was a softball coach who dropped f bombs in front of the girls regularly, absolutely berated his daughter, and pitched girls without warmups well beyond what a child of that age should be allowed to pitch, despite parent protest). He has never again been allowed to coach that sport (he does jump in from the sidelines driving all other coaches insane, but that can’t be helped).
Now, I have another situation- a soccer coach of my daughters is just….not right for coaching. He doesn’t know the league rules, doesn’t actually coach at all, just yells commands, and 99% of the time just is there to coach/yell at his own kid. He also makes the kind of scenes that when playing in a real league would get him a yellow card. There are an abundance of volunteer coaches, and I would step up to coach if that’s what keeping him out meant but that’s not at all necessary. He should not be assigned as a travel team coach. In any other situation I would provide direct feedback and/or sign my name to the team feedback….but he’s my next door neighbor. I’ve already said things to him and his wife along the lines of “you know, in the travel league this would be a yellow card” when he does things like flop on the field in frustration or throw his hat and stomp on it.
The kids recently did travel evaluations and I strongly suspect our kids will be on the same team. How do I (if at all) try and make sure he’s not my kid’s coach? If I have to suck it up and personally sign my statement, I will, but I’m hoping for a less direct path since I see him every morning.
My post never made it though yesterday (what’s up with that?) but we need tools and help for dealing with nonstop toddler tantrums at 18 months. Everything is difficult, every step of every routine is a battle, and my husband and I are being worn down to nothing. Allowing more time for transitions does nothing – tantrums expand to fill the time allotted. Being silly helps maybe 20% of the time. We’re starting and ending every meal, diaper change, sunscreen application, you name it just beat down. We have to go to work and can’t just display endless wells of patience at all times. Help.
Woohoo! Local authority just voted through a bell-to-bell phone and watch ban. Locker for primary kids, pouches for high school. Hoping this helps delay introduction – and stop some of the awful behaviour instigated by social media.
Looking for suggestions about how to talk to my daughter about something (sorry, this is long). Daughter (D) is 11 and has been inseparable with a neighbor (N) since they were in diapers. We’ve become close to the family and hang out with them most weekends. N has a 14 year old sister (14), and we’ve basically watched these girls grow up.
I’ve always wondered a little about the mom’s drinking; she’s usually fun and boisterous, but occasionally emotional. In recent years, Mom has been expressing more and more dismay about 14 not liking her or wanting her around anymore (normal teen stuff, I think). But Mom has also been inviting 14 to drink with us, particularly when Dad is out of town. If 14 is (normal teen) upset, Mom will say things like “nothing a glass of wine won’t fix!”, and I’ve seen her invite 14 to have not just a little wine but drinks of a sweet but fully hard liquor. I don’t consider this my business, but i don’t think it’s great.
The family just came back from a cruise and N was at our house last night. She had several “funny” stories about how 14 had convinced her parents that it was OK to get her drinks on international waters, that everyone her age does it, and how she had multiple drinks and was goofy or sick. N is chatty and very comfortable with our family, and was clearly (in her mind) just relaying fun stories from her trip, but I found it somewhat disturbing.
I have no interest in being involved in their parenting, but I would like to explain to my kid that this is not normal and not really OK. Also, D and N have basically considered each other’s houses second homes all their lives, and I’m increasingly concerned that in a couple years this will be N drinking with Mom, with D invited to join, so I need to think through some ways to discourage this and also communicate to Mom that this is fine for her family, but please don’t involve D.
Ugh, why can’t they all go back to arguing over who gets to play Elsa in their princess game?
My kid knows all his numbers except that he mixes up 6 and 9 every time. He guesses randomly between them. Is this a universal challenge or maybe a sign of dyslexia?