Make My Life Easier Thursday: Plant Watering Globe Set
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While these watering globes probably wouldn’t have saved your office plants from the Before Times, they might work for your upcoming summer vacation.
These would make a great hostess gift for the frequent-flyer plant parent in your life. This set comes with four colorful, hand blown glass bulbs. You simply fill the bulbs with water, make a shallow hole in the soil, stick them in your pots, and your plants will slowly draw up the water. You can use them both inside and out for your moisture-loving plants.
Wyndham House’s 4-Piece Plant Watering Globe Set is $46.05 at Amazon.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
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- 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
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- 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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Good morning! Longtime reader, occasional poster, and definitely anon for this. Just found out I am expecting our 2nd. Our 1st is just over 2. Early days in an upper 30s pregnancy. I suppose I’m looking for any advice on two topics: 1. Embracing the news (this addition is very much wanted but we had just started trying and given my age – yes I feel like an idiot for saying it – I assumed I had a few months before this happened
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Apologies for the banality of this question, but I’m a first time mom and I’m stumped as to the best option.
We have a 9 month old who is super tall and rapidly outgrowing her Skiphop tub (that we’ve been using on the kitchen floor with a bunch of towels around it). We need to transition her to the bathtub soon. Unfortunately, our (only) bathtub is less than ideal.
It looks like this –
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Except that the door is 1/3 the width of the total tub instead of 1/2 the width. And it is a jetted tub (ugh – gross – we have never used the jets). It’s a rental so we can’t remodel the bathroom. It is the only shower/bath in the house.
What would you do? Put the skiphop or some sort of bath seat in the tub and lean over the open-door edge to bath baby? Get in the tub with baby? I should mention that it is a tall, narrow tub (taller and narrower than standard) so leaning over/bending to pick up baby will be a challenge. The bathroom is TINY, too, so not a lot of space to manuever. If our yellow lab lies down on the floor in there, she pretty much takes up all the floor space.
Please share your wisdom! I know how dumb this question sounds but I’m stumped and wondering if there are other options I haven’t thought of.
Is anyone else worried about what COVID is going to mean this fall for those of us who have kids? I am sending my son to full-time preschool, daughter is signed up to school after-care with bus, I signed up my kids for after-school activities, and I found my nanny a new job now that we outgrew her.. all all under the assumption that COVID risk would be low with vaccines. And now with Delta I am wondering if I made a mistake and need to re-think our plans. We live in the NE were cases are still low-ish it but they are rising rapidly. UGH.
Heading to spray park with LO (21mo) for the first time. What do I need to know/bring? Thanks as always!
Low stakes question – what bag do you send to daycare for your infant’s (6mo) stuff? I’m eyeing the PBKids backpacks but not sure what size to get. All daycare requires is 3 outfits in individual bags (plus a box of diapers and container of wipes, but I assume those won’t go in the bag).
Selling a house for the first time and home inspection is happening right now and I’m freeeaaaaking out. It’s just an informational inspection for the buyers but I’m so paranoid something bizarre will turn up even though we haven’t had any problems.
Okay, reposting since my original post hasn’t shown up (and it’s been a few hours), so hopefully this won’t duplicate.
In a nutshell – we have a terrible bathroom. Tiny, with a combo tub/shower similar to the link below, except that 1) the door is 1/3 of the tub, not 1/2, 2) the tub is a jetted jacuzzi tub (we’ve never used the jets) so it is higher and narrower than a normal tub, 3) the shower wall extends all the way to the ceiling everywhere but the door b/c it is a weird, sloped ceiling, and 4) the bathroom itself is incredibly small, so very little room to manuever.
It’s a rental so we can’t change it. It’s our only shower/tub.
We’ve been bathing our 9 month old in a Skiphop tub on the kitchen floor, but she is super tall and rapidly outgrowing it. How would you handle bathing her in our tub? Would you put the Skiphop (or something similar) in the tub and lean over the tall side to bathe her? Have her move further back and sit in there with her? All our options seem so cramped and claustrophobic but I’m trying to figure out the best (and safest! with a slippery baby!).
Thanks in advance for entertaining my ridiculous question but this really has me stumped and a bit anxious.
I am curious, how many hours are your kids at daycare per day? And what is the optimal amount of hours spent at daycare in your experience? Our son is almost 5 and we are lucky to have a full day pre-school in our area. But he cannot nap there anymore and basically is a mess when we pick him up after a full day. I am curious how you manage childcare for this age group. Yesterday I brought him home during my lunch break and then after his nap my husband played with him while I worked. Not ideal because we live in a condo and I can hear them.
Just looking for commiseration. I’m lucky in many ways right now (safe WFH job, spouse who is available for childcare etc) but at month, what, 18 of covid wfh – at my wits end. Kids are home for the summer with my spouse (academia) providing childcare. 7 year old has 3 weeks of camps only (due to budget). Preschool age kiddo has no camps. I have a private work space at home but our house is not large and 7 year old is an extremely intense child who is having an extremely intense summer. There is no way for me to avoid hearing the 10+ major screaming meltdowns every day (mostly older one, increasingly younger one; yes, older one is getting professional help but it doesn’t work instantly). Occasionally it’s a decibel issue (disrupting calls) but more of an emotional issue for me – so hard to hear ALL THE MELTDOWNS and basically hear my spouse’s relationship with kiddo deteriorate in real time. I don’t think I can rent an office for the next six weeks for a variety of reasons including being home during little kid’s nap allows my spouse to exercise during that time so he doesn’t actually lose his mind, and can’t work in a public setting like a coffee shop due to the nature of my work. We did just spring for an extra week of camp. I’m trying to work more outside in the yard and trying to just… ignore it. I had a conversation with my boss recently about anxiety and this kind of backdrop is not helping with anxiety!
Any moms on who are full time remote workers? I’m thinking about leaving my job and wondering whether I should look for a remote position as that may make things easier work life balace wise (maybe?). I am also probably too optimistically imagining that then we could go away all summer and hire a sitter and live somewhere beautiful and remote (we live in NYC normally) every summer. (My SO’s job is flexibly remote). Anyone doing this? Pros, cons?
Hi again. I posted a few weeks ago.
Recap: I returned to work 4/1 from maternity leave. In 2020, we started the year just having moved to a new city, I started a new job, almost lost my marriage, got unexpectedly pregnant with #2, and lost a beloved parent. Literally, my parent passed and I gave birth a month later.
A month ago, my boss told me she felt I wasn’t performing at the top of my role, and I am now on an informal professional development plan (HR not involved).
It has been going well, but this week I got some feedback a bit out of left field. My reaction was probably not great – I made the mistake of telling my boss I felt that she was putting words in my mouth. She then went off on me and said that even if it wasn’t the case it was her perception, and at the very least if I disagreed, I needed to give her the chance to say it (fair). She then went on to tell me that I had a very improper tone with her a few weeks ago, and that “even her husband” commented on it (she called me at 4 PM on Friday for a last minute request, my tone was likely my concern that what we had wasn’t high-quality enough for the last minute request and I didn’t want our team to look bad) how much she supports me to senior leadership, etc. I burst into tears. I just don’t need this crap right now. I just want to do my job and do well, but sometimes I feel I’m damned if I do, damned if I don’t.
Am I being too sensitive? Full disclosure, I can react instead of responding often and have worked on that, but it still flares up when I’m taking things personally.
No, you’re not being too sensitive. Your manager sucks. Why was HR not involved in your development plan? What does the plan entail? This is a red flag to me.
You’ve had a lot of hard and tough changes in your life and this person is not helping, or Understanding and supporting. I suffered greatly with a toxic manager at one point in my career. I sought help from trusted peers, notified HR and utilized my company’s wellness benefits to get virtual therapy. Can you utilize FMLA to take some time off? A time-out could be beneficial. I’m so sorry you’re going through this.