Washable Wednesday: Hourglass Blazer
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On the hunt for a machine washable blazer that’s also easy on the wallet?
This chic blazer has a cinched waist, defined shoulders, and notched lapels. It’s also fully lined and has a hint of stretch for comfort. Perfect for travel, this jacket can go straight from your 6 a.m. flight to your 10 a.m. meeting.
The Hourglass Blazer is $74.62 to $99.50 and comes “blue umbra,” “burgundy fudge,” black, and “brown seal.” It’s available in sizes XXS-XL.
Psst – Nordstrom has lipstick as their “daily deal” and there are a ton of great deals — I have two Chantecaille ones in my cart, but also options from Westman Atelier, Charlotte Tilbury, Lancome, NARS, MAC, Clinique, Valentino, and more.
Looking for other washable workwear? See all of our recent recommendations for washable clothes for work, or check out our roundup of the best brands for washable workwear.
If you need a laugh, I just got an email about next week’s summer camp: “We cannot believe it’s our final week of camp! We are excited to celebrate in the coming days.” (No, Katie, I am not excited that there are three weeks between the end of rec summer camps and the start of school. I am especially not excited to celebrate white-knuckling it through a random patchwork of private camps all over the city until school starts.)
I hope it’s ok that I vent here. I am not telling most real life friends about this because I want to preserve my daughter’s medical privacy but I’m losing my ever loving mind. I mentioned the other day that we were doing a miralax clean out at the doctor’s instructions. He said 2-4 days. We’re on day 5 and I’m not even sure she’ll be able to go to school tomorrow. I’m a single mom so I’m trapped at home with my kid trying to work and we’ve basically turned into goblin people. She plays Pokemon 24-7 and I work and clean up the messes. Agghhhh. Tell me this won’t last forever.
Another daycare question. What would you do if anything? My baby has been in daycare for about 5 months. We call him by his full name, ie Matthew (not his real name). I specified to the daycare that we prefer using his full name and not an abbreviated name like Matt.
The daycare workers keep calling him a baby-ish shortened version of his name (ie Matty). I’ve asked them to please call him Matthew. Then they started calling him a cutesy nickname like Matty bear. I said it was cute but please call him Matthew. They usually call him Matthew around me but my husband said they call him Matty around him. He has corrected them a few times.
Yesterday they sent home artwork with “Matty” written on it (by an adult, obviously). I really like the daycare and the daycare workers, they are very caring individuals. But I’m frustrated. If I escalate to the director, I think it would harm my relationship with the caregivers and it also probably won’t stop them from calling him Matty. Do I just let it go?
Anyone else having a weird week? Work is just… weird, car is in the shop, camp closed unexpectedly for weather – just feels ‘off’.
Not helping is that I have been going through an interview process where I know I’m one managing partner’s ‘pick’ but I don’t know where I am with the rest of the partnership… but it was always understood that this was going to be a drawn out process so I’m not supposed to think about it, I guess…
I really wish I could just take a day off and stare at the wall.
Something nice came up with my husband last week – it turns out his most recent therapy sessions have centered around how to be a better dad and help our children navigate the world. DH is a good dad already, but in the past I have definitely taken the lead in terms of researching parenting strategies and thinking about the kind of parent I want to be, whereas he was more of a “figure it out as we go along” person. It sounds like his therapist has been providing advice on how to support our children while raising them to be resilient/not helicoptered, and how to manage his own emotions when they are being difficult/acting out. It was interesting to me that this is currently the main topic on his mind – obviously I’m not privy to the content of his therapy sessions, but in the past they seemed more centered on work stress and stuff with his own family of origin. Anyway, he isn’t the best at talking about feelings generally, and I’ve noticed a big positive impact on him (both from going to therapy in general and in him trying to be more thoughtful around our daughters and their feelings). I’m glad I encouraged him to go to therapy when he was going through a tough time last year and that he went with it!
What is the etiquette on shoes for mobile babies/toddlers? My one year old is moving up to the walking babies room next week. He’s not walking yet but he’s too big and active to stay with the rolling/crawling babies. He will be required to wear shoes. He’s never worn shoes for more than a minute or two; he takes them (and socks) off or gets frustrated trying to take them off and screams until you remove them. I’m personally fairly anti-foot prison for new walkers but I want to meet my obligation and not be “that mom.”
My plan for next week is to put his shoes on before carrying him to the car. I expect he will take the shoes off in the car; he usually plays with his feet during the car ride. Can I just… bring the shoes to daycare with him and explain he took them off? I don’t want to wait to put shoes on him until we get to daycare because he gets really impatient when we arrive; he tries to get out of his car seat by himself and continues to squirm until we get to his classroom, and then he’s off to play. It’s hard enough to safely take him from the car to the building (in part because he’s so big – he’s 30 lbs and just shy of 3’ tall, he’s like the 110th percentile). And, like I said, I’m not in a hurry to force foot prisons on him. Do I have some moral obligation to shoe my child rather than making shoes the daycare’s problem?