Maternity Monday: Oversized Essential Cardigan
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Why not pick up something for yourself while shopping for onesies at Carter’s?
Wear this cozy cardigan before, during, and after your pregnancy. Carter’s Essential Cardigan is made from thick 100% cotton. It has an oversized fit, functional buttons to make it nursing/pumping friendly, and pockets for essentials.
Use it as a desk sweater in a more casual office and take it home on the weekends for brunch and errands.
This cardigan is on clearance for $36.79 and comes in sizes XS–XXL.
Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
My 3-year old uses a high-pitched babbly sounds when playing pretend and “talking” to inanimate objects. It’s mostly quirky/cute, and then they will respond “normally” to us. Did anyone else’s kids do this? I think my older kid did this, but they were just…quieter.
Do any of you have kids that do girl scouts? If so, what are troop dues and what- if any- are the expectations for cookie sales? Other non cookie non-dues based fund raising? What types of activities/supplies (uniforms, badges) are covered by the troop vs paid for by families when they come up?
Not looking for heated debate, just collecting experiences from different troops. I help out a lot with two different troops and I’m curious what things look for other troops/families. Both troops I’m involved with are great but operate very differently.
Does anyone’s use Asana or something similar to “project manage” life with your spouse?
Right now I’m very good about calendaring everything, including things like “schedule HVAC service” or “Replace HVAC filter” but the calendar reminder is sometimes seen and promptly forgotten. There’s no tracking for follow through for either of us with this method.
So our HVAC filter was just replaced after 2.5 years when it needs to be replaced annually.
I was thinking something like Asana can create recurring tasks, due dates, assign by person and also sync to a calendar. I do still want most of these things on the calendar but with the backup of confirming completion.
And this is not to just micromanage my husband (but I guess that is a side effect) but also myself. I had a reminder to schedule the annual vet appointment and then just never did.
So idk what my question is other than to confirm this isn’t overkill?
Just a Christmas gift PSA – if you have a minute, set a reminder/make a calendar appointment for yourself (or whoever is in charge of gift giving in your house) and check on any gifts you already have in your house/office/car that require assembly or may require assembly. Check to see if you have all the parts and also how long you think it will actually take to assemble it.
I did this last night and realized that the bike were giving our four year old didn’t come with the special colored handlebar covers we ordered. Luckily, the company made a replacement order right away and the replacement should arrive this week.
Looking for an app to teach the alphabet to DS who is 3. Bonus if it involves cars, trucks, or trains, Paw Patrol, Blaze or Disney Pixar Cars.
For those of you that celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah, how do you do gifts? DS will be 3 in March, so this is the first year he has gotten excited about opening presents, etc. For Christmas, I had already decided to do just a few gifts (Something you want, something you need, etc.) because we get so much from family. So like a big gift, a small toy, and a few practical things I know he will be excited about. DH has been very excited about getting DS into Hanukkah (which is great!), but he very much subscribes to the idea that DS needs a gift to be opened each night… even though neither of us want 8 days of toys in the house in addition to Christmas. DS also is really bad a planning out the nights himself and has been dipping into my very limited Christmas gifts to make this happen, and I frankly do not want to take over Hanukkah and be coordinating both Hanukkah and Christmas. Any thoughts or advice?
When does the brain fog get better? LO has been sleeping through the night for most of a year now, so I usually get 7-8 hours plus sometimes a nap. My medical labs, including thyroid, all came back normal. But I’m forgetting things constantly at home and at work. Where are the papers I need? At my other office. Where’s the Christmas tree stand? I draw a total blank. I haven’t felt like this since school when I literally got diagnosed with mental fatigue.
Help me with a fun shopping request? I have two boys who just barely care if their clothes don’t have holes in them. My 3 year old niece wants sparkly, fancy, beautiful boots or shoes for Christmas and I am here for it! Any recommendations for over the top glitter boots?
Paging Puppy Teeth and my other fellow puppy owners support group.
How’s your puppy doing? Ours is a handful right now, especially in the mornings, when things are already chaotic. She’s able to jump up and reach our dining table now, and so does that constantly, and even grabs the kids’ breakfast. Of course there’s a lot of constantly yelling “no” and the kids screaming when they get bit. She’s also been waking up at 4:30 to go to the bathroom (previously used to be 5:30), and sometimes just stays up and keeps barking even after we put her back in her crate. That was a fun night. No such thing as sleep training a dog, is there?
If this is the toddler phase of puppies, then my stance on hating the toddler years still stands. Hope she gets through it soon!
if anyone is still looking for holiday gift ideas, my 5.5 year old twins received the Lakeshore Learning Trace and Draw Projector for Chanukkah and it has been a huge hit so far, particularly with my kiddo who is always asking us to look up how to draw things on our phones and draw them for her. i know there is some other kind of drawing projector toy i keep seeing on social media that looks super cool, but I didn’t want to spend that amount at this age.
i have a kiddo (age 5.5) who has become a picky eater and basically doesn’t eat full meals unless it is one of her favorite foods, but then is a hangry mess in between. for example, on Sundays DH makes protein waffles for breakfast, she ate some, but was mad we didn’t have chocolate chips for them. then we went to Sunday School for the Chanukkah celebration. She doesn’t like Latkes and was a mess there until she ate cookies. Upon arriving home it was time for lunch, and she basically ate some clementine, as a snack had cheerios (we are trying to get away from the goldfish, cheezeits, etc. at least temporarily as we try to get her to eat meals) and then for dinner we had pizza + fruit + vegetable. finally after dinner she was pleasant to be around, but the rest of the day was miserable. the foods she likes are pizza, burgers, yogurt, cottage cheese, salmon and chicken nuggets, but i can’t always whip up a burger for lunch. she used to eat grilled cheese or toast with peanut butter, or even plain toast, but won’t. she also used to eat a bagel with scallion cream cheese, but basically just licks the cream cheese off. she also used to eat scrambled eggs. part of the complication is that we are kosher (so won’t serve milk and meat together) and my other child is practically a vegetarian, so I cannot serve meat at every meal, because then that child won’t eat. any ideas?
Cross post. Can anyone recommend a waterproof mattress protector that doesn’t run hot? We just got one from Aller-ease, but it runs so hot that we’re sweating on a cold winter night. Willing to pay for something higher-quality. TIA!
Hi, I’m the anon who was asking about pelvic floor therapy. Thanks for the gentle encouragement – I had my first appointment last week and it went well. She noticed I was a bit uncomfortable and offered to postpone the internal exam to the next appointment. She gave me simple exercises to do in the meantime and I’m feeling better about the whole thing already.
My 1st grader has started to complain about aftercare, mainly because most of his friends have SAHM and don’t do it and he is starting to realize that his friends are going home after school but he is going to aftercare. I feel guilty but don’t see any solution other than getting a nanny or leaning out or feeling guilty. Help?
If you are moving to a new city, how do you go about learning about “best” schools, “best”neighborhoods, etc? We are locating to the US (Colorado Springs) from abroad with no connection to the town except that my husbands job is located there. What is the best way to gather intel?