Organizing Thursday: Power Pad 3-in-1 Wireless Charger
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The more products that Apple makes, the more I seem to buy them, apparently. Personally, I actually prefer a PC with Windows, but since I switched to a Mac at the beginning of law school, I’ve slowly been learning how to use a Mac.
Anyway, all of the Apple products I’ve been accumulating need to be charged, and I like the idea of having a designated place to charge the things I use frequently every day.
Since starting to work from home, my husband and I have a constant refrain, “Where are my AirPods?” Having a landing station for them is essential for not misplacing these darn tiny things.
The charger is $99 at Target. Power Pad 3-in-1 Wireless Charger
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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- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
for those of you with two toddlers – how do you handle when you are solo and both are having major tantrums? last night was the first time in a very long time that i was solo while both of my 2 year old twins were really tantruming at the same time. honestly, they rarely have tantrums at the same time. i last remember them both being so upset simultaneously when they were babies and were hungry and easily appeased with a bottle. i feel like all of the strategies i read about involve talking to a kid individually but there is only 1 of me, 2 of them and they each have different style tantrums about different things
We have made the decision to keep our 2 and 4 year olds home this year. This is mainly because we have flexible jobs, family help, and concerns about the health risks. What is killing me is the thought that our four year old will suffer socially and developmentally by missing his pre-K year. For others who have made the same decision (or who just have information on this), how are you handling this? Are the social/developmental losses overblown if the child otherwise has family support at home? Have you thought of any ways to mitigate those harms? We are doing playdates but our options are fairly limited because my mother watches our kids and is high risk.
thanks to you lovely ladies i learned about Lucie’s List when I was pregnant. Now I am at the potty training stage and consulted Lucie’s List again, which has a great write up about different methods – do you think reading the summary on there suffices, or am I better off purchasing and reading the whole book?
We’re house hunting and debating between some commuter villages and a slightly bigger town, with school size ranging from 150 to 500. Would school size weigh in on your considerations at all? My son is three and is the most lovely little guy. Nursery calls him the little professor. He speaks like a 5 year old, he’s very affectionate and cheerful, but mellow, quite self-contained and sometimes seems perplexed by kids shouting/roughhousing etc. Think ‘The Well for Boys’ SNL sketch. He’ll be exactly 5 when starting school and children start between 4.5 and 5.5 in Scotland.
For those with older kids into American Girl, my DD got a doll for christmas last year and loves her (she’s in K). She found the American Girl catalogue recently and I suspect her entire christmas list this year is going to be additional doll(s)/clothes and furniture or accessories. She’s particularly enamored with Joss’s surf bus which is SIX HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS and definitely not happening, but I’m definitely willing to buy her some new things for her doll!
I know about the My Generation line at Target. Are there any other good sources for gently loved AG gear? Or alternative makers (etsy shops you like?)
My 3.5 y/o dropped his nap at day care and is a terror when we get home (these events could be unrelated, but it’s the only change in the last week). I bring him a snack at pickup – our commute is about 15 minutes. He just cannot deal with me telling him no. This usually begins by him asking to watch 5 TV shows and me saying “You can watch ONE show when you get home.” Then he screams that he’s going to hit me. It escalates from there and usually ends in a screaming/crying time out at home. Any advice? I try go give choices, offer compromises, and use the How to Talk methods. Nothing is working. DH wants me to ask day care to have him nap again, which is fine but will we just encounter these same behaviors when he drops his nap again?
Y’all, I am at my wits end. My two year screams at the top of his lungs. It’s so loud and high pitched and immediately raises my blood pressure about a hundred points. He’s not angry, just experimenting I think, but it’s soooo obnoxious.
I’ve been trying to ignore it, but it hasn’t worked. I’ve tried patiently talking with him about it, or whispering in response, but everything elicits more ear-piercing screams. Time-outs have been wholly ineffective. He’s now started doing it in the car and I don’t know how much more I can take. Ideas? Commiseration?
For a more frivolous question, please help me dress myself for working from home and chasing a toddler this winter. I’m tired of leggings, but skinny jeans are too stiff and uncomfortable for toddler chasing. (She goes to daycare during the day, but I don’t really want to change for evenings.) For summer I had some linen-rayon blend ankle pants from Old Navy that worked great, but it’s getting to be too cold for them. I tried some Old Navy boyfriend jeans, but they were too stiff and didn’t fit that great. What kind of pants are in between legging and jeans in comfort and casualness? They don’t have to be as cheap as Old Navy, but they are partly for toddler-chasing, so nothing super expensive.
This is the silliest thing, but I was so bummed that we weren’t going to get a school picture this fall because pandemic = no outside visitors. I have one of those dorky picture frames with a space for each year and everything. But we just found out there’s a picture day! I’m guessing it will be a teacher or other staff member taking the photos and they will be a little bit amateur but whatever, at least we’ll have a school photo from this year. Small joys.