Weekend & Family Friday: Rainbow Name Crayons
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These crayons are a very cool idea for a party favor, gift, or stocking stuffer. Kids love things that are personalized with their names (heck, I still do) and obviously love coloring with crayons. I think these are particularly cool because they look tie-dyed and contain several colors within each letter. I like how they are well sized for little hands, and even the packaging is personalized. This Etsy seller, TheCrayonHouse, also sells single colored shape crayons for party favors, which I also think is a great idea for a less personalized party favor. The personalized name sets range from $9.97 for a 1- to 5-letter name up to $13.97 for 9–11 letters. Rainbow Name Crayons
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I start my IVF injections tomorrow. Hit me with your best advice, please! (for injections/self-injection specifically, but also IVF generally). Thank you! Excited and nervous.
I had my IUD insertion yesterday – definitely used my childbirth breathing techniques and was very uncomfortable last night but feel pretty good today and am relieved not to worry about birth control for 10 years.
Traveling solo with my 2 month old next week and I want to run my plan by you ladies!
I do not have an extra seat for her on the plane, so my plan is to check the stroller and car seat (ub Cruz and Mesa) before security and carry her on me to the gate and on the plane.
Should I be worried about the logistics of this, and/or about the integrity of the stroller/car seat? The ub brand travel bags come with a travel protection plan but are so expensive ($200 together)- I was going to try to avoid purchasing those and go with a middle-tier option (zohzo brand). But since I’m checking these at the ticket counter I’m worried they’re more at risk of damage than if I gate checked them.
I’m trying to avoid bringing the stroller/car seat all the way to the gate since I’m the only adult, but if you tell me I should I will!
I guess I figured it would be difficult to get through security with the stroller (esp since I’m using the carseat with the stroller frame, not the normal stroller seat), but maybe the TSA agents will take pity on me and give me a hand?
This is such a wonderful idea for a birthday gift, thoughtful and reasonably priced as well. Thanks Kat.
Any convertible car seat recs? And when do you abandon the bucket seat? My daughter is a big 8 months. I think she’s ~29 inches so still technically within the KeyFit 30 limits, but it does not look comfy for her at all. I will really miss the convenience of clicking the car seat into the stroller though, especially in airports!
I did a solo flight with the baby when he was 4 months old and I found it helpful to have the stroller (with carseat) with me in the airport – that way I avoided having to carry all of our carryons in addition to the baby. It also made it easier to use the bathroom and just general navigate around the airport pre-boarding. Also, we got unexpectedly delayed, and I was very glad to have the stroller then.
The only challenge was going through security. In one place they were willing to hand check the stroller (I put the baby in his baby carrier on me and walked through). In one airport they asked me to fold the stroller and put it through the x-ray. But everyone was extremely helpful and kind and helped me wrangle all our stuff. I then gate checked the carseat and stroller base (and had the baby in his carrier for boarding/getting situated on the plane).
For NC/triangle-area folks — can you recommend a restaurant for an anniversary?
We’ll be visiting my parents next weekend, which overlaps with my and husband’s anniversary. I know the restaurant scene in Raleigh/CH has really been booming, and while I’m generally familiar with the area, I haven’t kept up with new “hot spots”. Herons was my first thought but we’ve been there a couple times and I’d like to try something different. This may be a better question for main s i t e but I like it here better :)
My husband took a job in another state a couple of weeks ago, coming back home only for the weekends. This situation will last for about 9 months. I have a 5.5 year old and a newborn. I am about to lose it!!! I have started to have physical anxiety, shaking and heart racing and whatnot. The sleep deprivation, breastfeeding, my very intense job (I work 8-5ish, although mostly from home, but also have to stay up working 9-12 and often feel in survival mode nevertheless), and my very spirited preschooler are just killing me.
I think the hardest part is constantly feeling like I don’t have enough hours in the day and managing my daughters tantrums (which have become a lot since dad left, she is very close to him – she had a 2 hour tantrum no exaggeration this morning about wanting to wear something inappropriate for the weather, I can expect tantrums ANYTIME something doesn’t go hear way, I have read a lot (e..g, janet landsbury podcast, etc) about how to manage them but I am still struggling. She is a great kiddo, very smart and kind, teacher says she is one of the best behaved kids at school, but when she gets in tantrum mode she feels like another child
What can I do to make this easier? I can barely hold it together at this point, especially when my kid is tantruming for 2 hours it is hard to parent the way I want to parent! I have had two big meltdowns myself this week and 1 not so proud moment of handling her tantrums, and constantly feel physically like utter shit with anxiety and a shitty parent to my preschooler for not being able to manage her tantrums. Not to mention that my angel chill baby is getting little attention because I am dealing with my preschooler, so I feel guilty about that too. We are throwing a ton of money at the problem – we have help getting preschooler to school one morning a week when I have to be at work early, someone who does our laundry/housekeeping, grandma stays with baby, I basically don’t cook during the week. I am starting to feel resentful towards my husband for taking this job (even though its unreasonable, the pay is really good and it is amazing for our family and will put us in a very good place in the long run) and my kid for making my life hard by having tantrums about silly things, although I know that it is not about her clothes/dinner/not getting a toy she wants but about missing daddy.
And how do I manage my preschoolers tantrums? I used to mediate a ton and do yoga before baby, which thank god helps me manage my emotions, but after 2 hours of hearing tantrums daily I am gonna snap too. At this point, I am even considering letting her get her way on everything just to avoid them…
Adding to the wound, my parents are in the same city but have been extremely unhelpful. They have watched my preschooler a total of 5 times since baby was born and have only watched baby once for two hours. They come over to “help” but instead expect to be fed and entertained, not even offering to even clean up. I have expressed my unhappiness about this recently and I am hoping things will change, but it is my kids and it wasn’t their decision to have them so I don’t know how much help I can expect. I feel resentful though.
I just want to be there for my daughter in this very hard time but cannot drop the ball at work either, so self-care went out the window, and I am feeling the consequences of it. And honestly feeling like I am sucking at everything.
I always baby-wear through security (you can keep her in the carrier, they just might swab your hands) but also brought through the carseat and stroller. The seat will fit through the xray, but if the stroller doesn’t just ask them to hand check it.
It’s really nice to have a place to put things down and if you gate-check the seat it’s almost definitely going to make it to your destination and not get lost.
Update on Decision 2019: Bean Bag Chair. Thanks to good advice from this group, we went with the Pillowfort brand “character” bean bag chairs for 4 and 6 year old. They seem thrilled, these meet a need in our current house casual seating scheme, and cost $50. If I get a couple years of helpful use out of them, totally worth it. Will report back on any long term performance issues:)
Ladies, would like to vent. I’m tired. DH works late, so I typically solo parent most weekdays, which means DS goes down later than he should, which means he wakes up earlier (around 5-5:30 AM, and I let him CIO/roll around, but he doesn’t go back to sleep for more than a few minutes. I know he’s still tired because he dozes off while nursing when I go in around 6 AM to get him).
After DS goes down, I do all the clean up + packing for the next day (thankful for podcasts for making this pleasant), and then muster whatever strength I can to do a quick online workout because losing the baby weight has been incredibly hard for me and I miss wearing most of my wardrobe. After that, a shower, and maybe a smoothie down the hatch, it’s time for my last pumping session. I am so so so tired of pumping, especially this last session before bed, where I often fall asleep while pumping/watching TV. I also work FT and often go offsite for meetings, so the amount of times I’ve pumped in my car, hunted down security guards for finding the key to the mother’s room, hauling milk around, etc. is now wearing on me. I know it’s my choice, so I can’t complain, DS turns 1 soon, and I’m dropping this night session next week, but I am exhausted. My body is tired. I’m tired. DH is always grateful, and expresses it, but this morning I just hit my limit and didn’t get any empathy, so I am whining here.
Prompted by the airport and carseat threads above, anyone have two toddlers and thus travel with two Scenera Nexts? We currently stack ours on a luggage cart, but I’m always trying to see if there’s a way to improve this system.
Anyone have experience with induction using cytotec and/or foley balloon? I had pitocin with last kiddo b/c my water broke and contractions weren’t going, and despite hearing lots of negatives about pit, it was totally fine. But this time we’re scheduling an induction for next week and doc said they will probably need to use both cyto and foley before moving on to pit, but that since this is our second v-delivery, things should move quickly with that bit of assistance. I’m super pro epidural and loved that I got to basically sleep through most of labor last time. Wondering if I need to prepare myself for pain from that cyto/foley process (or maybe I can even get the epi during those initial stages if possible? I’ll ask them…). Thanks for any insight experiences!
I got the epi pre-foley and felt nothing with the balloon. (Cytotec did not get the job done). Advocate for this…laying around with no contractions, hulu, and an epidural was actually kind of nice.