Washable Workwear Wednesday: Knit Blazer
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Machine-washable blazers can be tough to find, so I was excited to see this one from workwear brand Nic & Zoe — I always think of the brand for having a ton of popular, classic pieces for workwear (such as this 4-way cardigan, this skirt/dress, or these pants) — and as a bonus many of them are machine washable. I like the simple lines of this blazer, the light lines, and the fact that it’s not only machine wash — it’s tumble dry. Whoa. It’s $158, at Nordstrom. Knit Blazer
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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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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?
FTM here – is it worth getting a second pump? I’m getting a free one through insurance, but Amazon has a great price on the S1. Just not sure whether it will be useful and would appreciate thoughts from others!
Is there anything you would do in this situation to improve bedtime? My 2 year old gave up the pacifier a month or so ago, which she used to only use for bedtime, and although she no longer asks for it, it now takes her an hour to hour and a half to fall asleep. As a result of this, she has been sleeping in a bit later and sometimes that pushes her nap later and then if she takes a long nap, we end up pushing back bedtime a bit. I love the later mornings but not the later evenings. We basically went from a fairly consistent 7 pm bedtime and her being asleep by 730 most nights, if not before, to now 730 to 745 bedtime and asleep around 9 most nights, although sometimes later than that. She spends the night in bed alternating lying down or quietly playing and calling for us with random requests for water, or to be tucked in, or a nightlight or a stuffed animal, etc. We’ve tried letting her go to sleep closer to 8 and it didn’t help. Should we move bedtime back to 7? Just ignore this and let it resolve itself? Last night, I made it a point to get her down at exactly 730 and she was asleep by 8:15 with only 2 or 3 requests for random things, which is progress.
Kat, I really appreciated the earlier morning post at the main s&te today (as did others, I think). Would it be possible to also have this s*te’s posts up closer to 9 am? It often feels like this place is a bit of the “red headed stepchild” to the main s*te (for example, if you click from there to here, there stays open but if you click from here to there, you just get redirected as if you couldn’t possibly be interested in both) but I think a lot of people would appreciate it. Sometimes I just want to post a quick question and then get to work and checking to see if a new thread is up is distracting enough that I feel like I just need to not visit here at all if I want to be productive. Just a thought.
I posted yesterday afternoon at the main site, but am posting here for additional advice.
I have two young kids (one still nursing) and have just jumped into managing care for my parent who lives on the other side of the country. My parent is terminally ill, just moved to assisted living (prompted by a hospitalization), and on heavy pain medication.
Handling everything, particularly the crises, feels like the worst of biglaw, but with higher stakes.
Any advice from those who have been there? Parent is in Northern Virginia if anyone has recommendations for service providers who might help (I don’t know what that would be—another me?).
The next person who tells me that the reason school is closed for the fifth day since winter break is that the district is “afraid of lawyers” is going to get a huge lecture on the real problems with our tort system complete with statistics. This means you, my dear husband.
Yay/nay on the quick zip crib sheets from those that have been there? They look like they’ll be so much easier to change quickly in the middle of the night, especially as I am petite and thus anticipate reaching down to mattress may be tricky especially once it’s lowered.
Drawback is I bet I’ll then have to buy regular sheets once we’re at the post crib toddler bed stage, but what would the likelihood of crib sheets surviving that long anyway? (We do have our own washer/dryer, but in a rental, and it’s hard on everything.)
Last – reality check – how many sheets/mattress covers should I be buying for bassinet (anticipate sleeping 1-4 months?), pac n play (anticipate sleeping for naps, and then post bassinet until we are ready to move to nursery) and then crib?
I know from the LLL site and maybe kellymom that some people produce funky-smelling milk. It’s OK to start with, but after 12 hours, I feel like the smell begins to set in (this is refrigerated / chilled). The one time I froze extra and thawed, it was nasty. I know it doesn’t harm the nutritional value, but I wouldn’t want to drink it (and worry that teachers at day care would think something has gone wrong / it is spoiled). I could see kiddo rejecting it.
OTOH, this is the excuse I’ve wanted to not build up any sort of stash / competitively pump (I know it’s not a thing, but it feels like a thing) and just pump for the next day (so Monday is now a formula day since I don’t pump on weekends or when I am with kiddo) and to relieve discomfort.
Just wanted to say how grateful I am for this community. I post infrequently but I get so much great advice from you ladies. Most recently, this community — especially Cb! — gave me the guts to go ahead with round two of CIO with my 9 month old. His sleep had gotten so bad after a string of illnesses, but I was really waffling on whether to try sleep training again. We are on night 5, with such an improvement — only two, predictable middle of the night wakeups compared to, oh, every hour?, sleeping in the crib rather than my bed, sleeping for 12+ hrs, etc.
Anyway, who knows how long this improvement will last, but you ladies are the best.
Parents of elementary kids: What’s the deal with swearing where you are? The upper-el kids swear like sailors on the playground. 4th graders say the F-word! Repeatedly! I have spent a fair share of my time in manufacturing plants and swearing is the norm. It took a lot of effort to not swear in front of my kids and I don’t say those words at home (although they might slip out at work still… I’m not anti-swearing.) So I was shocked that my 4th grader knows the f-word already. He refuses to use it and is getting teased because he won’t swear?!?
Growing up is fun.
Sanity check please – I distributed invites for kiddo’s birthday party on Monday. Some were distributed at school, and a couple went out via e-mail/text. The only RSVP I’ve received was one (adorable) little kiddo lisping “I can come to da par-tee” to me when I picked up kiddo yesterday. Is this normal? I haven’t done a kiddo birthday party yet, but I would’ve expected that at least the text/e-mail invitees would have responded by now.
Also, kiddo saw another daycare friend distributing invites, and was sure she had gotten one, so she asked to give that friend an invite. Turns out that friend didn’t give kiddo an invitation (which makes sense; I don’t think they are actually friends). I’m worried kiddo is going to have some hurt feelings about that….
Gut check — would you let a kid come to your house when you know the parents found bedbugs in the house?
Back story — I am supposed to host a playdate tonight with a good friend, who’s daughter has been at school at day. Mom just texted that they found a bedbug at their house and are exterminating tomorrow. Mom recently had surgery, and I think is fried and exhausted and in need of a night off. Would you still let the child come to your house for the playdate, or postpone until after extermination is complete?
Yes, I thought it would be easier to treat her own stuff after leaving than enforcing per visit rules for her friend. Honestly bed bugs are tiny, soft bodied, slowing moving nocturnal bugs that tend to stay close to their food source (usually the bed). People are so paranoid about them now, but they aren’t dangerous, do not carry diseases, and really are not the end if the world. Treating them is a PITA but more of a laundry problem than anything else.
Pre visit, not per visit
Anyone else amused by how late today’s post is, the day after a bunch of people asked for an earlier post?