Washable Workwear Wednesday: Pleated Plaid Skirt
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For a person who hates wearing heels and has legs on the shorter side, I am anxiously waiting for the midi-length skirt to go out of style. Even though I’m sitting out this particular trend cycle, I actually love seeing it on other people. This particular skirt has great elements to it: pleats, plaid, elastic waistband. I love how the embroidery softens the plaid + pleats combo. I also love how it is styled here, with a black, ribbed, turtleneck, long-sleeved shirt. My only change would be closed-toed shoes (practicality!) — and I’d throw a belt on there. This skirt is $69.90 at Zara, but (at least online) it looks like it should be more expensive than that! It’s available in sizes XS–XL. Pleated Plaid Skirt
This plus-size skirt at Nordstrom also has a floral against a plaid.
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- 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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This is probably been discussed before, but….
We are moving into our newly built house tomorrow after living with my in laws for a year while it was under construction. I have a 3.5 year old and a 6 month old. Throw all of your moving tips at me! Older child will be in daycare all day but I will have the baby with me. I’m trying to pick up things today that we will need immediately (ie cleaning supplies etc)
Work bag recs in the $500 or less range? I have the lo and sons seville tote and I have really enjoyed the size, look, and functionality. However, this is the second one I’ve had where the strap became very very frayed. They replaced the first one but this time it waited slightly over a year to unravel so I don’t think they will. Plus, I’m done with it. It’s a shame because I loved the pockets and the sleek look. I especially appreciated the ability to carry file folders and a laptop
Any recs for a similar bag?
Hey all – I posted this on the main page too. As my parents get a little older and don’t want STUFF for the holidays, thinking about gifts that keep on giving. Have any of you bought a subscription to Story Worth or similar apps/services? I think my dad would like filling out the prompts/ writing memories and I’d love to have them for my kids. Thoughts on this or other (perhaps less expensive) options? Thanks.
Does anyone know of any brands of prenatal vitamins that do NOT have iron? Am I limited to gummies? I’m willing to take a separate, higher quality iron vitamin if it means I’ll be regular again.
I have been sleep training LO and while I see some improvements things are… not great. Please tell me what I am doing wrong. LO is 5.5 months old. Started three weeks ago.
LO naps 45 minutes generally, maybe once in a while an hour or so. Goes down awake with nap routine and noise machine. Sometimes he will fuss/cry for 5-10 mins still. Wakes up crying and still tired.
LO typically goes down for night without much fuss, maybe 5 mins of fussing. He generally wakes up a little after midnight to eat, and then again sometimes between 3-6 (so eating two times). He generally eats for 10 minutes, and seems hungry, so my guess is this is not for soothing? And then up for the day at 7:30. Sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night, fusses a couple minutes, and goes back to bed. I have been trying to wake him up and have him put himself back to bed after eating recently, hoping that will help.
Also I have work trips coming up, so will have someone else watching LO. What instructions should I give?? I don’t want them to ruin all sleep training done thus far and be inconsitent but also don’t want LO to be a miserable mess.
Here is a log of my last three nights. I have experimented with adding formula to test whether wake ups are due to hunger or habit or soothing. Naps are generally 2-5 mins of crying or so, and then naps for 45 minutes to an hour.
12/1
7:00 PM fed breast, topped of with 4 oz of formula (finished 7:30)
7:45 PM – asleep immediately
10:00 PM – fuss for 5 mins, ignored
11:35 PM – cry 4-5 mins, went in
11:40-11:50 PM – feed; cry 1 minute to sleep
5:35 – peeps
7:30 – woke up
12/2
7:55 – finished eating, breast and formula (3 oz)
8:15 – put to bed fussed/cry 2 mins , ignored
10:57-fussed/cry for 2 mins, ignored
12:00 PM – cried for 5 mins, not calming down, so fed 10 mins, put down, cried for a min, fell asleep
5:50 AM – up, fed 10ish mins but didn’t eat much, only ate from one side
6:30 AM – up again, fed again (bc he didn’t eat much last time and sounded super hungry, decided to go in.
7:45 – woke him up
12/3
7:30 – finished eating, breast only (did not want formula)
8:05 – bed, fussed/cried for a couple of minutes, fell asleep
9:52 – alternating crying and fussing for 4 mins, ignored
12:15 – up, crying, ate for 10-15 minutes
3:30- up, playing /whining, not really crying
3:45 – started crying, so went in to feed. Ate well for 15 minutes. Put down awake
7:00 – up crying, fed, fell asleep while eating
7:45 – woke him up
12/4
7:30- finished eating, breast + 3 oz of formula
8:00 – stirred 10 mins and fell asleep on his own, no crying
12:15 – up, stirred/fussed 10 mins, started crying, so went in and fed. Woke him up after and put self back to bed
4:45 – peeps, maybe fuss for 1 minute.
6- woke up to eat, stirred/fussed for 10 minutes, but not going back to bed, so fed.
Does anyone have tips for what to wear for a brief television interview? I will be sitting in a chair facing the interviewer and much of the shots are full-body. My inclination is to wear a full suit (I am a lawyer and speaking on a legal issue) but I don’t have a great fitting one. Should I go buy a new one today? Other tips for tv interviews? I am a first-timer!
my 5 month old has nearly identical wake-up, nap, nighttime feeding behaviors as the ones you’ve just listed (including at similar time). the difference is his last meal is 6:30, breastfeeding only, and asleep by 7:15. so your LO’s habits sound normal to me, for whatever that’s worth!
Anyone with three-across car seat experience? I currently have a Honda Fit and we have a Cosco Scenera Next (forward-facing) and two Cybex Atons back there. The babies will probably outgrow their infant seats by February or March and I’m trying to think of options to avoid buying a second van. I’m open to the Diono Radian or the Clek seats, but what I’ve seen online isn’t promising as to what cars will actually work. My main goal is to keep the Fit, but I’m also open to buying a new car or small SUV if they can go three-across. If you’ve managed it, what was the car/seat setup?
I got the Cosco Scenera Next for air travel on the recommendation of people here and I kind of…hate it? Installation was a b!tch, even with LATCH (DH could get a tight fit but I can’t), it really looks so barebones with minimal padding that I’m not sure I feel comfortable using it as a vehicle carseat at our destination if there’s any highway driving involved (which there usually is) and I think my 11 month old is going to outgrow it really soon – her head has plenty of space to grow before it reaches the top of the shell, but her shoulders are within an inch of the top harness slot and the manual says you can’t use it when the child’s shoulders are above the top harness slot. Any other suggestions for car seats for air travel? We have Britax Advocates as our regular car seats and I love them, so maybe it’s worth trying to check those in and just use a harness on the plane? Baby is both tall and chunky, around 30.5″ and 21 lbs. We fly as a family a lot (8-10 trips/year).
I had a second kid and I’m considering switching from daycare to nanny for both children. I’m on maternity leave now and I’ve had my daughter home with me 3 days a week. I think she likes being home more and I like the idea of the two kids being together. I’m also just sick of the pick up/drop off grind and would like that time back. My daughter will be 3 when we would need childcare again and the baby will be 6 months (in March). The baby doesn’t have a spot at daycare until June so we will need to get a nanny for her anyways. I would put my older daughter in preschool but it wouldn’t start until the fall. Any suggestions or input about things I should consider? I feel like most people do nanny when kid is younger and then daycare when older and I’m a little worried about my daughter being bored at home.
No one except my husband knows this in “real life,” but we are undergoing fertility treatments to conceive a third, and I just had my first procedure yesterday….Since we still talk about whether we are nuts to go for 3, I can’t believe we started the process yesterday!! So crazy. We did the treatments to conceive our first, the second one showed up out of nowhere, and here we are trying for 3! Having previously done this, it’s much easier — I don’t have as much time to think about the process and the wait — also I know it’s worked in the past, but still — ahhh!! I still think I’m going to end up pregnant and wonder whether we really do want 3 or not?!
Any advice on how to combat “mom guilt”? I asked our nanny to stay a couple of hours later tonight so I can meet a friend for happy hour after work. I was completely excited about catching up with my friend until I had to say goodbye to my one year old this morning, and then I suddenly felt terrible for taking extra time away from her today. I never feel mom guilt about being away from her for something related to work, but I’m finding that I really struggle with taking any extra “me time” away, especially when my husband or another family member isn’t around to care for her.
I’m experiencing really bad cramping today which means I’m not pregnant again; been TTC for…a really long time. I pretty much knew I wasn’t pregnant but I just feel so sad and frankly annoyed that I have to deal with 1) not being pregnant again, 2) feeling like crap, and 3) having to pretend everything is fine at work.
Inspired by sleep training question above, for those who have done extinction, how do you deal with nighttime poops? I have a 3.5 month old and am considering the all night extinction method since he’s gone 10 hours a few times.but last night he woke up shrieking at 3 am with a dirty diaper. Do you just leave them in it?!?
I’m 24 weeks pregnant and my doctor told me I need to eat more protein, although I’m not anemic. I thought I was eating a lot of protein, so I’m looking for specific suggestions of what you would add to my diet, which is currently as follows: (B) 2 hard boiled eggs, 2 prunes, 2 slices whole wheat toast w/butter, cantaloupe; (Morning Snack) Banana with almond butter – smear on each bite of banana; (L) green salad with leftovers protein (chicken, salmon or pork from dinner night before, or another hard boiled egg if no leftovers), carrot sticks, plain yogurt with walnuts added, seasonal piece of fruit; (D) basically two meal options – meat, starchy vegetable (e.g. squash, sweet potato, cauliflower), regular vegetable, or 2 fried eggs over beans.
I’m astonished that I’m low protein, because I eat it with every meal — and let’s be honest, often eat spoonfuls of almond butter straight from the jar (in my desk – it’s not a shared jar!) after my banana is gone. What else would you add to this daily mix?