Washable Workwear Thursday: Pleated Henley Dress
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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?
Does nursing get easier? DS is 6 weeks and often struggles with feeds (pulling off, screaming, gulping and swallowing lots of air). I’ve seen an LC but it didn’t really help. Will he just figure it out at some point?
And I fed my first formula in bottles so I know that’s an option but I want to stick it out with nursing as long as I can because it can help manage pcos symptoms.
I’m having a moment today. Kiddo #2, my youngest, turns 5 tomorrow, which does.not.seem.possible. DH and I decided long ago that we were done having kids (vasectomy and all), but moments like this totally give me that twinge all over again. It’s fun to have a big kid and I don’t REALLY want to go through the baby stage all over again (not to mention pregnancy, omg, no thank you), but man, sometimes it is sad that it’s over.
did anyone’s kid’s school do anything for 9/11? my kids are still very little, but i am just sort of curious as to how it is acknowledged in schools these days.
My EBF 3 month old has had very dark green diapers for the last week. (Previously they had been consistently the normal orangey color…) She seems gassy but otherwise ok. I have a call in to my ped, but prob won’t hear back for a while – anyone else experience this? My toddler has had a cold, so I wonder if that could be related?
Trying to figure out how (a) my husband can plan better, and (b) I am not always the naysayer (and I’m sure there’s a (c) where I just handle things better…).
Last night, we had a frustrating conversation where I brought up that his upcoming plans to take our toddler camping may have to change because of eastern equine encephalitis in the area (we don’t live in an EEE area, but we have an upcoming trip to New England & he was planning to do one night of camping as part of an otherwise indoor trip). I realized that I just needed him to say that he wouldn’t do the camping if there was still a risk based on area and temperatures — basically I do not want to be in the position of telling him “no,” I want him to make this decision himself. And one of the areas he is looking at is high risk where town is saying not to go outside during areas of high mosquito activity & not to go camping…which seems like a no brainer to me. If I said no based on a safety issue like this, he would respect that, so it’s not that I’m worried about him going necessarily. But I want him not to go because of the actual risk, not because I said no…I am so so so tired of vetoing things based on doing the emotional labor of figuring out what is feasible, etc.
Not sure what I am looking for, kind of a vent. But commiseration/ideas/reframing welcome.
My 3 y/o is built so differently from me, and from her two sisters. She’s 80% for height, and 35% for weight. DH jokes that she must have hollow bones like a bird. Her wrists, ankles, knees-everything-is tiny. She has size 9 feet like my other two did at this age, but XX narrow. We just had to custom order tap shoes for her because even 9 narrows wouldn’t stay on.
So. Pants. Her waist fits into 2T pants and skirts with room to spare. She doesn’t wear diapers. She has no butt. Every pair of pants we try that isn’t leggings falls right off. She won’t wear a belt.
Even leggings are loose- I have a booty and just cannot wrap my head around having thighs on which *bike shorts* are baggy!
Generally my solution is tunic dress + leggings, but she’s now telling me she won’t wear “dresses with a stripe” aka empire waist dresses with a seam- like 90% of preschooler dresses.
So- does anyone else have a kiddo with this build? What brands work? She is
Wearing these old navy jeggings in a 3T today and they literally fell off her at school when she tried to put away her backpack.
She weighs I think 29lbs soaking wet, which is what my other two weighed at like, 2.
How common is it for a preschool/daycare to refuse to put sunscreen on kids in the afternoon?
Our preschool recommends “8 hour sunscreen” application in the morning, I looked the brands up and they do not really last for 8 hours, are not made for kids anyway.
They ask that we put on sunscreen at home before 8am and will not reapply sunscreen at 2 or 3pm before the kids go outside to play, without a doctor’s note. This is a large daycare/preschool, part of a chain, and their policy is standard for all ages. My older child is in elementary school and of course there’s no way to reapply sunscreen there either, though I am tempted to send some in the hope that kiddo will do it himself.
Both kids often come home hot and sweaty and red, after playing outside in the afternoon, so I’m concerned about too much sun exposure. I assume only kids with an actual skin condition bring in a doctor’s note. Should I try and get one (or argue with the school) or am I being too paranoid?
My toddler finally took off walking a couple of weeks ago and suddenly has way less interest in eating. This is normal, right? I assume she just doesn’t want to stop running around the house long enough to eat. We’ve been skipping snacks if she tells us she doesn’t want to eat, but forcing her to sit down at dinner with us, even though it usually involves some tears. Is the right approach? Should we be doing something different? I’m not really concerned about calorie intake (she’s chunky and daycare teachers say her intake there hasn’t changed much) but I am concerned about night waking due to hunger (hasn’t happened yet though) or setting a precedent that she can skip meals if she’d rather play.