Family Friday: Paint Your Own Stepping Stone Kit
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We just spent a rainy long weekend in an Airbnb with several easily bored kids. Thankfully, we had the foresight to bring several craft kits like this mosaic stepping stone.
This ceramic stone includes six vibrant acrylic paints and a brush. Display the final product indoors or seal it with an exterior varnish to make it outdoor-proof.
Creative Roots’ DIY stepping stone kit starts at $6. It comes in more than a dozen versions, including a “#1 Dad” design that would be perfect for Father’s Day.
Sales of note for 5/8:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – Mother’s Day Event: 40% off your purchase. Readers love this popover blouse, and their suiting is also in the sale.
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Dress & sport shirts, 2 for $149
- Express – $39+ summer styles + 25% off everything else
- J.Crew Factory – Up to 60% off everything + extra 70% off clearance + 40%-50% off the Weekend Shop
- Lo & Sons – Mother’s Day Sale: Up to 40% off — reader favorites include this laptop tote, this backpack, and this crossbody
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Nordstrom – Up to 25% off
- Talbots – 50% off wear-now styles and all markdowns + 30% off tops, pants, jeans, and shorts
Hospice vent from another poster. PSA to adult children of parents on hospice: talk to your parents before booking a flight so it doesn’t somehow become the local kids’ fault that you are coming to visit someone who doesn’t want visitors. Please and thank you.
We live in a college town (my husband’s a prof) and we have so many friends heading out of the country on sabbatical this coming academic year and I have serious FOMO. My husband will have a sabbatical during the ’27-28 academic year but we’re almost certainly not moving anywhere. There are a bunch of reasons it doesn’t really make sense for us, including that my 70-something parents relocated here and I don’t want to leave them alone for a year at their age, my kids are tweens who would be very resistant to leaving their friends and activities, we don’t really want to rent our house out but if we didn’t it would be a very expensive year, and we don’t have any foreign language skills and no Anglophone countries make sense as a sabbatical destination for my husband. But I’m green with envy of those who are doing it.
I have read many times that finding an activity you truly enjoy is a game changer, but I have never found an activity I liked. I want to combat my sedentary lifestyle but I don’t have any particular fitness goals. Any suggestions for things I might not have tried before?
Anyone here post-40 also not wanting to give up their long cardio workouts? I am a lifelong slow-ish runner questioning whether I am a) destroying my metabolism by my 3-4x a week running or b) too caught up in the influencer fitness cycle of the moment. I imagine the truth is somewhere in the middle? I do lift weights but not as much as I should and I’m also struggling to lose weight (as is basically everyone my age, right?)
Sometimes I miss the days when there was less information available and pressure to optimize everything.
Best stain remover for kids’ clothing? I’m not happy with the performance of OxyClean lately.