Everyone Thursday: Tissue Weight Wool Cashmere Wrap
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If you, like me, are always freezing, this light but substantial scarf is a must. I like the blend of wool and cashmere, as well as the zillion colors it comes in — I haven’t tried to wash the one I got last season, but I plan to throw it in the washer with delicates and airdry it. It was $98, but is now marked to $58 at Nordstrom’s clearance sale. Nordstrom Tissue Weight Wool & Cashmere Wrap
Sales of note for 12/30:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – The Half-Yearly Sale has started — up to 60% off! See our roundup here.
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your purchase; extra 40% off + additional 30% off sale styles
- Banana Republic Factory – The Winter Sale: 50% off everything + extra 60% off clearance
- Boden – Sale, up to 60% — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – Semi-annual clearance, up to 85% off; extra 60% off clearance
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers!
- Hannah Andersson – The Twice-a-Year Big Hanna Sale: Up to 60% off (even new arrivals on sale!)
- J.Crew – 25% off full-price styles; up to 50% off cashmere; 70% off 3+ sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 60% off winter faves; extra 25% off $100+
- L.K. Bennett – All sale half price or less
- M.M.LaFleur – Flash sale, extra 30% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale, extra 40% off markdowns, and daily Red Door Deals starting at $19.50
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?
Ideas for a 2 year old girl for halloween? Let’s assume y’all don’t live on my block or send your kids to my daycare so we won’t have twinsies.
She’ll be at daycare during the day before and I assume they’ll have a halloween party…and trick-or-treating to our immediate neighbors at night. I think our down does a trunk-or-treat we might hit up as well for 10 minutes or so.
Thanks to everyone for the thoughtful advice last week about our “reckless endangerment” nanny situation. We ended up letting her go, had my parents come up to take care of the baby while we searched for a replacement, and have already found a nanny who we think will be excellent. The new nanny starts next week. What a relief!
Ignore the hints and stand your ground. Tell your boss the internal deadline is not realistic given the circumstances and ask whether an extension is possible. If it’s not, ask what help you can enlist to have someone working on the project while you are out. No one is going to do what is best for you but yourself, so don’t be afraid to be your own advocate.
Reposting from yesterday in the hopes of getting more replies:
Has anyone gotten pressured by their supervisor to shorten their maternity leave? If so, how did you deal with it?
I’m 36 weeks pregnant and my boss has made abundantly clear his expectation that I work up until the end. (Example: the person covering for me is starting two business days before my due date, and my boss expressed his delight that the two of us “would have at least a few days of overlap.”) I’m having an uncomplicated pregnancy so far, and have only recently started feeling the tiredness and achiness creep in — but regardless, I feel kind of resentful of the expectation. As if that’s not annoying enough, an even bigger problem is that my boss still expects me to cover an enormous project with an internal deadline a couple of weeks after I return from leave. There is no way I’ll be able to finish the project in a couple of weeks, so I feel like his position is a not-s0-thinly veiled attempt to get me to come back earlier, and/or to come back and work like a dog to get this done. I’m not planning to take a ton of time off — about 15 weeks, mostly unpaid.
I’m really not sure how to handle this. When I first shared the news of my pregnancy, I was told to “take as much time as I need.” But now that the reality of my being out is creeping in, I feel like that’s definitely not the expectation.
How did having kids change or impact your marriage? I’m not a mom yet, but my husband and I would like to start trying for a baby in the next 12-24 months. We both really want kids and are excited to start our family in the somewhat near future. However, one of my biggest concerns about having kids is how it may impact our relationship/marriage (both my husband & I are children of divorced parents, so I’m may be overly concerned about this than most people). We have a happy, healthy, fulfilling relationship that I’m really proud of, but I know that having kids will greatly diminish the time we have to focus on our marriager. Any stories, feedback or input from the hive is greatly appreciated.
I can’t seem to stay away from that picture of the Syrian boy. He looks like one of mine when he’s asleep. I feel like I could reach through the screen and touch him, and his eyelashes would flutter open and close again, and he’d snuggle into me the way my own boy does when he falls asleep on me. You hear parents say when they hear bad things on the news “I just want to go home and hug my kids.” I didn’t understand until I had my own. Every child looks like mine now. I donated money yesterday when I first saw the photo. Sometimes I feel like I give money as a sort of sacrifice — like, here take this money and in exchange keep this bad thing away from my own sons. I know bad things happen to children every day, and every night I feel so lucky to have two healthy boys sleeping in their cribs, but that photo just makes it so tangible.