Splurge or Save Thursday: No-Budge Shadow Stick
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With two kids, my makeup routine needs to be quick. I regularly use eyeshadow sticks when I need to define my eyes fast.
This creamy eyeshadow stick delivers long-lasting rich pigment. If you have a little more time, blend it with another shade for a custom look — because at $6 a stick, you can definitely pick up a few colors.
e.l.f.’s No-Budge Shadow Stick is available at Target in five shades.
Sales of note for 11/11/25
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- Ann Taylor – 40% off + extra 11% everything
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything! + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off select styles with code + extra 45% off all sale
- J.Crew – All outerwear on sale + 50% off women’s boots + extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything, and extra 70% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – The November drop: 15 new styles + colors! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Extra 30% off clearance + tons of early Black Friday deals! Kat did a mini sales roundup here.
- Talbots – 40% off entire purchase + free shipping
How much and what kinds of foods are you sending to daycare with your 1 year olds? We’re transitioning away from formula right now. For a full day at school (9 am to 5 pm) we currently send in 1 yogurt pouch, 1 fruit/veg pouch, and a bento box of cut up fruit, meatballs or deli meat, crackers or ravioli, and chopped up veggie for her main meal. When we switch to cow’s milk from formula, should we increase the food amount?
Charleston recs for food + activities? Husband and I just booked a kid-free long weekend. We mainly want to eat – we Iove southern/low country cuisine and I know there’s a lot of other good food too – but would love suggestions for anything else fun.
DD requested an american girl doll for christmas but we already have a couple from older sister. Are the our generation dolls similar enough? Would it be totally lame of me to go that route? I think the AG dolls price has gone up since older sis was younger!
How do you wake your kids up in the morning? DS is 5. If I am the one to wake him up, I will open the curtains on his window, give him a hug and a kiss to wake him up, and wait for him to come downstairs. If DH wakes him up, he will turn on the light in his bedroom (which is pretty bright) and maybe turn on some bird sounds on his Hatch, and make it progressively louder. Obviously DS hates DH’s approach and asked me to talk to him about it. I got DH to stop with the bird sounds, but now I have to tell him to stop turning on the light. Is turning on the light a harsh way to wake a kid up? DH takes DS to school on his way to work, so he doesn’t want to be late. DS falls asleep at around 9 pm and we wake him up at around 7:15 am.
Meant to post this on the moms page! Whoops! Do you take your kids to each others’ activities? If so, what are the activities and kid ages? What does the tag-along kid do? We’re breaking our schedules trying to avoid making our toddler tag along to our older kid’s activities because the toddler is a beast to manage, but I’m wondering when/if we can re-assess our expectations.
Okay, throwing another big question out for this group — help me teach my daughter what bragging is? After reading here over the last few months, I’m realizing my bragging “radar” might be off. I grew up in a household where humility and empathy were absolutely stressed as prime virtues. There have been two recent threads that really struck me — (1) the majority of responders seemed to think that, yeah, it made sense that the youth sports kid who was bragging about being the “best” was making all the teams, and that expressing that mentality was helpful and important in making teams, and (2) it is infantilizing to other women, especially, if you are overly considerate of their feelings when expressing things about yourself — example, telling a friend discretely you are pregnant if you know they are experiencing infertility.
In example 1, my father would have legit smacked me if he heard me say I was the “best” at anything. In example 2, it legit never would have occurred to me that would be considered condescending or infantilizing to another woman. My mom would have just said that is being empathetic to the person’s situation, and then you’d let their reaction dictate how you continue to talk about it – if they express excitement, you go for it, or if they are quiet, you find someone else to talk pregnancy details with.
Okay, so actual real life example where I’m trying to find a middle ground for my kids. My daughter won a major award from an organization that is separate from her school. Realistically, no one at her school will know about her award unless she or we tell them. She wanted to tell her friends today, and I told her to go for it — she asked whether that was “bragging?” I told her it is bragging if you tell someone with the intent to hurt them, or you are trying to put them down by telling them (“I won this award and you did not”). But genuine excitement (“I’m so excited about this award!”) is just fine. I also told her she should consider the circumstances of when she’s telling — if someone just failed a math test, maybe don’t tell them right then. But is that infantilizing or just being socially aware? Similarly, is considered just fine to say “I’m so good at [X], I won this great award?” — that last sentence makes my skin crawl, but I don’t know if that is just my family’s stressing of humility or not.
What should I get my baby for Christmas? He needs absolutely nothing and won’t notice, he will be 3 months. But his cousin believes in Santa and is expecting Santa “to bring new baby something extra special since it is his first Christmas” and I, as mama, would also like to give him something adorable and sentimental.
Some thank-you’s: To whoever recommended Pup Academy on Netflix as a show that might satisfy the 3yo, 7yo, and 9yo — THANK YOU! They all like it and I kind of enjoy how totally insane it is. As far as I can tell, one of the dogs is named “Cortisone,” WTF. Oh, and they also loved Bedknobs and Broomsticks; great rec.
And to whoever recommended Maybelline Age Rewind as a good drugstore makeup — you were right! It’s perfect. Pretty light coverage and easy to apply.
I’m very much not interested in ultra-slick parenting influencer accounts, but I was wondering if anyone has recommendations for more “real mom” accounts that have inspired you or given you ideas for fun in your parenting (or made your lives easier with helpful tips). I’m into the outdoors and adventure sports and I’ve LOVED seeing examples of other moms (IRL and online) doing the sports I love with their kids, to name one thing. I also love seeing tips for how to make everyday tasks/routines/errands more fun and I find that our whole family life improves when we put a little more thought into making the humdrum parts of the day that much more exciting. Any fun recs for me?
Yesterday there was some in-thread discussion about the Mighty music player. Does anyone have experience with this? My 7yo really wants an “ipod” for Christmas. and this seems like the closest fit (albeit overpriced). It looks like you hook it up to a Spotify playlist and are good to go.
I’ve investigated other, cheaper options (all of which have screens) like the Innioasis, but the Mighty looks simplest, which is a big plus. Tho we will definitely have to add an AirTag; the thing is tiny.
I am working with a foster agency to provide holiday gifts for a 12 year old girl. Among a few other items, she has requested “a hoodie and sweatpants” and “unicorn academy themed gifts.”
I have a 12 year old, but we are confused about unicorn academy. AFAIK this is a book series for kids in 1-2nd grade and some googling doesn’t show anything other than the books. Is there a movie coming out? Is there possibly some other similar brand that got written down incorrectly? Or if that’s the only thing it could be, ideas for how to shop for this request? If she likes the books, I’m assuming she has read them already (and they seem pretty young for a 12 year old, but I am not sure).
Second, what would be an appropriate hoodie? My daughter wears hoodies every day but they are either from her sports teams/events, distinct interests, or super spendy aviator nation ones. We would happily get an aviator nation one, but is that appropriate if this is going to a tween in foster care? Would it be better to get a couple less expensive hoodies? Is there another trendy one that we aren’t thinking about? According to my kid, pink palm puff isn’t trending anymore and white fox is for a certain “vibe” (she seemed to thin around here it’s more for kids that do dance than kids that play sports? idk). She has a brandy Melville zip up, is that a cool brand nationally or just local to her friend group?