Accessory Tuesday: Multicolored Bead Choker Necklace
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In my opinion, Madewell has been killing it lately with their accessories. Their clothes aren’t really speaking to me lately, as it seems like all of their sweaters are cropped, but I can’t pass by a pair of shoes or bag made by them that doesn’t catch my eye. This necklace grabbed me when I saw it. It just screams cheerful and happy to me — I love the color combo, the fact that all the beads are the same size, and the gold spacers in between. The length is choker length, but with a 3″ extender option. I definitely think I need this in my accessory rotation come springtime! The necklace is $28 at Madewell. Multicolored Bead Choker Necklace
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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
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- 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?
I’m not really sure how to ask this or describe it, but after having your first kid, do you ever go back to feeling like your pre-kid self? Kiddo is almost 9 months and I’m just wondering if how I feel now is my new normal. Life is pretty good with kiddo, kiddo is an easy baby, generally hasn’t been sick, sleeps well, and is happy. I’m still pretty exhausted between my job and looking after kiddo and pets, but its mostly manageable most days. I just don’t feel like me at all. I don’t feel as sharp as I did pre-kid, because of an injury that happened late in pregnancy and I’m still working on resolving (basically I just have to wait to heal), I don’t have the ability to do either of my pre-kid hobbies and even if I did I’m not sure time wise I could fit them in. We also moved late in my pregnancy so a lot of my routines have changed just because of that. I wouldn’t say I’m unhappy, but I also wouldn’t say I’m happy. I just kind of am. Its all just very odd to me and I’m wondering if its just part of the adjustment or if this is just normal for me now.
Those of you who were on the fence about having a second child, what pushed you one way or another? I’m 37 and we have a four year old who is delightful and bright. I’m completely satisfied with this child and I don’t see any need for another. My husband wants to have a bigger family. I don’t understand his reasons very well, I think it’s just how he imagined his life as an adult. He has a hard time articulating any actual “reasons”. We both work and we’re both tired every day. I see very little room for the huge additional work that another child would bring. What did you do?
Talk to me about newborn photos. How old was your kid when you had them done? Did you and your partner participate (dressed up, appeared in photos)? When did you do a second round, maybe 6 months or a year?
Most importantly, do you think they are worth it?
I’m torn between wanting to capture the tiny newborn phase that disappears so fast, and waiting until he is an older baby to have more active and cute pictures. This is our first so I have no experience as to what’s realistic. Let’s also assume that I’m not willing to do newborn, 6 month, and 1 year pictures. Maybe willing to finance 2 rounds in the first year of professional photos at most, though more likely just the 1 set.
Paging Anonanonanon and all of you helpful ladies who offered suggestions for making my LO’s colonoscopy prep and procedure days go smoothly. He did great and we have a path forward! Thank you for your support.
In case anyone searches for something similar in the future, here were the best tips and takeaways from you ladies and from our experience:
1. Flushable wipes and A&D ointment for prep day. We didn’t end up needing the ointment, but I can see how it could have been useful if the clean out didn’t go as quickly.
2. Popsicles popsicles popsicles! LO thought it was such a treat to get to eat as many popsicles as he wanted. He didn’t ask for real food until dinner time.
3. Food party. Credit for this one goes to my little guy: when I told him he couldn’t have what his sister was eating for dinner, he suggested that we make a list of all the foods he missed and then have a food party after the procedure the next day. We had chocolate, chick-fil-a, tacos, black beans, gummy bears, and chocolate-covered strawberries. Having something to look forward to seemed to help him, plus he invited all of the hospital staff to his party the next day and they thought it was adorable!
4. Puzzles and screen time were great distractions during the process, but by the late afternoon after he was “cleaned out” we were able to ride scooters and bikes outside around the block. Between the popsicles and gatorade he was not lethargic like I was afraid he would be.
5. Working from home on prep day probably won’t work. We front-loaded the miralax and ex lax in the morning in the hope that he would be able to take his normal early afternoon nap (he did!), but there was definitely no working when he wasn’t napping.
6. Kids are way more resilient than I give them credit for. My guy is four years old and nothing about this seemed to faze him. He even told me yesterday that, “that day I got to have all those popsicles was really fun!”
I know that only children have been discussed here a few times. Is there anyone who has or was an only who also doesn’t have any cousins? I’m an only child and my husband’s only sibling is single and having permanent birth control put in place this week, so our only child will not have biological cousins. We’ve been pretty firmly one and done, but for some reason this “no cousins” thing is really freaking me out. I don’t know why! I have three cousins but am not close to any of them and now only have contact with one, who, quite frankly, I could take or leave. And our child is growing up with a local grandmother, which I didn’t have. I guess it just feels kind of scary to know that once my generation is dead, my kid will have no biological family.
Shopping help! I am attending a wedding at the end of March, when I’ll be about 14 weeks pregnant. Judging by my last pregnancy, that will be the time where I just look larger/more bloated than usual, without an actual bump yet. Any tips on what style of dress I should look for? I’ll be telling people I’m pregnant by then so I’m not trying to hide it, I just don’t want to look frumpy.
Any thoughts on when I’ll feel up for overnight visitors (non-family) after my first baby is born? A friend just asked to visit with her husband 5-6 weeks after baby’s anticipated arrival. Not a friend whom I’d either expect to nor feel comfortable asking to cook or clean, so definitely some entertaining responsibilities required. We do have a cleaning person and my mom nearby to provide help, and husband would be fine to take them out solo to entertain them.
Thanks to everyone who gave me Portland recommendations! We ate our way around Portland with our friends (went to OTTO twice on the kids’ request, the other mom and I hit up Eventide for oysters and wine, and one of my children demolished two donuts in a single sitting), went sledding, did the children’s museum, and watched an unexpectedly good children’s play. For a long weekend with a gaggle of small children on different nap schedules, it was very productive.
Posted on the weekend post and got some good responses, but wanted to open it up to the larger weekday crowd…advice on what I (37 year old mother) should wear to Disneyworld next week? Generally I mean – I can check the weather forecast on my own. Are most little girls decked out in Disney gear or in normal clothes? My kiddo is four. Thanks!
Does my kid need to wear anything different when he starts crawling (like shoes)? Right now he’s generally in zip-up footies. He’s just starting to crawl.
What’s the best way to push back on daycare saying your kid has a fever? I don’t know what’s going on, but somehow our daycare is getting temperature readings that are clearly wrong. Twice now, we’ve gotten calls that our kid had a 103 temperature in the ear and we had to go get her ASAP. The first time, we took her home and she was running a low grade fever (100.7 rectally) so even though their reading was clearly off we were fine keeping her home the next day. This most recent time, I got her home and measured her ear temp as 99.1 and rectal temp as 99.7 – neither is a fever. She did appear fussier than normal, and woke up crying once overnight, so we took her to the ped this morning, who also got a normal temperature (98.5 in the ear) and said she has a mild ear infection that should clear on its own (we have an Rx for antibiotics just in case). I want to send her back to school tomorrow – because she seems to be on the mend and ear infections aren’t even contagious anyway – but I’m worried that at the first sign of lethargy or fussiness they’ll take her temperature and send her home with a “103 degree fever.”
I’m a first time mom and they obviously have way more experience with childcare than I do, so I feel weird telling them they’re wrong but….clearly they’re wrong.
Potty training from cloth? I’m taking 4 days to try and potty-train at home but what do I do about nursery if he’s not consistent after the time at home?? Send him in pull-ups so he can get them down himself? He can push down his trousers and take off his nappy but not sure if he can do it in a hurry.
Nursery is hippy dippy and I don’t know how rigid they’ll be about reminders so I want to set him up for success if I can.
I found out yesterday that I’m having another boy. I know I should be happy because I had a miscarriage in September and all the chromosome tests for this pregnancy came back perfect. But I also lost my mom seven years ago and am having a hard time letting go of having a future mother/daughter relationship.
I cried. My three year old brought me his favorite stuffed animal. I’m not sure what I’m looking for but wanted to say these words out loud and I’m not sure it’s something I want to talk about in real life (outside of therapy and my husband).
Any suggestions for a gift for a dear friend with an uphill IVF battle? They just had a failed retrieval and the prognosis is not good. I’m in treatments myself so I know that just being a listening ear and compassionate friend is important, but I’d very much like to get something sent to her house to bring a smile to her face that is not flowers (because those are already en route). We’re in suburban Boston in case that helps. My heart breaks for her.
We just moved my 2yo and almost-4yo into the same room. So far, a few nights in, medium success. I could use some advice…what rules/tricks have worked well for other room-sharing families? Do you have guidelines as to when they are allowed to chat and when there’s a hard cutoff? And what happens when one wakes up earlier? We are an OK to Wake clock family, and when they were in their own rooms they would just hang out and rest if they woke up before their clock turned green but now they wake up and immediately wake the other one up too. Maybe I need to just accept this as the new reality? thank you! (PS it is also super cute to listen to them chatting!)