Makeup & Beauty Monday: Repairing Hair Mask
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My hair has been feeling blah lately. It might need something beyond my usual conditioner, like this repairing hair mask.
This intense conditioning hair mask is loaded with three nourishing oils and shea butter to moisturize dry hair. It works for a range of hair types and is a “Clean + Planet Positive” product. I’m looking forward to softer, shiner hair with less breakage.
This hair mask from the Sephora Collection is $12.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
I understand half day camps serve a need in the community, even if they’re not geared towards working parents. But what I don’t understand is the camps that are like 9-10:30 TWR or 10-11:15 M-Thur. Even if you’re a SAHM or have a nanny, it seems like it’s more trouble than it’s worth to keep track of schedules and commute for such a short camp. Just a vent, but it’s so baffling to me why places don’t make their camps at least 9-12 M-F.
Celebrate with me! I’m giving notice today and taking the job in the practice area that I really enjoy with a great boss in Europe. I was so nervous this morning to talk to my boss, but knowing that it is coming to an end is such a great feeling.
I’m going to take a few weeks in between this job and the start of the next. Beyond sleeping, any tips or great ideas of things to do or tackle so that I can hit the ground running when I start my new job?
Thoughts on Girl Scouts for younger elementary schoolers? I had signed my incoming K-er up, thinking it would be a good way to help her make friends in her new school, particularly girls (she tends to naturally click better with boys), but am now second guessing myself and wondering if we’re better off waiting until first grade or later. She’s high energy and loves playing with peers, but does not typically love more structured activities and isn’t very into things like arts & crafts. We also already have two activities (dance, which she really wants to do, and swimming lessons, which we need to do) and adding a third feels like a lot for a new kindergartner, even an extroverted one. I’m hoping we can alternate the swim lessons with something else like basketball or theater when the weather gets bad, but it can’t be Girl Scouts because that’s a full-year thing.
Did anyone have sciatic pain during late pregnancy? I already go to the chiropractor 2x-3x a week and try to rest as much as possible. But, during the last few days, since the baby has moved much lower. Fortunately, I’m close to my due date. I’ve had horrible pain that shoots from my lower back and then both down the back of the leg and around to the pelvis and down the inside of the leg as well. It hurts to bear weight on that leg unless I’ve been lying on my side for a period of time restin. Any tips for sitting position (such as at a desk) and other pain relief would be appreciated.
Another swim lesson question: If you have the option of either swim lessons at the Y once on the weekend or swim lessons at the city pool 2x during the week, which would you choose?
Additional factors: kid is only 2 years old, so they’re just doing water acclimation, the schedule of the city classes doesn’t match the days the kid will be nearby that pool (although I might be able to switch some days around), and the Y is indoors so lessons are less likely to be cancelled, but also 3x as expensive, but I do have a credit for the Y. Should I just do city swim for the summer, and save the credit for when it’s colder and we need an indoor activity? Or just swim as available during the summer and not worry about lessons? They love being in the water so far and frankly I love going to the pool so I’m good with adding either swim class to our schedule.
Ugh, I need some encouragement today. Work has been an absolute $hitfest due to management failures above me, and I am drowning in work and not doing a great job of managing my own staff. I am job-hunting but it’s slow going and I may have to change careers in order to find something. At the beginning of the year I was quite unexpectedly asked to take on the top volunteer leadership position with a nonprofit org I’m affiliated with. I said yes assuming that the head paid staff person would guide me through at least the first year of the three-year term. On my first day I found out that the head staff person was retiring and I’d be responsible for supporting his replacement’s onboarding. Five months in I have figured out that the org is totally dysfunctional and needs a huge administrative restructuring, but because my predecessors in this office have done absolutely nothing and none of the in-crowd knows me I am completely incapable of effecting any change. People are deliberately shutting me out of meetings I need to be in, etc. I should have been the first person introduced to the new head staff person and I still haven’t been allowed to make contact despite the fact that 20 members of minor committees have already met her. I am meeting with the retiring head staffer tomorrow to discuss resigning. On top of all this, my serious hobby that was once upon a time my actual career has stalled out, and my parenting and housekeeping are not going well either. I just want to be successful at one thing in life. When do you accept that you are just a mediocre failure and give up striving to excel?
how do you know if your kid’s tantrums/acting out are a poor coping mechanism for anxiety? and has anyone found play therapy for a 5 year old to address anxiety helpful?
Professional sporting events with LOs – yay or nay? We took our three year old to a baseball game this weekend and it was okay? Had low expectations but was hard to stay in our seats so we just did a lot of trading off to go for walks and get snacks. Not eager to do it again soon.
If you are in a two parent home where both parents work full time and you have two or more kids under 8-9, can you talk about how you divide time for exercising? Especially if you don’t get up at 5am to do so?! I’ve tried the early morning work out and its just not an option for me (or my husband). Specifically looking for how many times a week you work out, who watches the kids, how you ensure both of your needs/goals are met?
My kid is about to be 7 and I’m thinking about giving her an allowance. It wouldnt’ be tied to chores, which she is supposed to do anyway. Thing is, she never really wants to buy anything, or if she does, its a momentary because-its-in-front-of-me thing and she forgets about it pretty quickly. We don’t have a TV so she only watches streaming shows on her tablet without commercials and I rarely take her with me to Target or stores like that where she might see something she wants. I’m reading Ron Lieber’s book about teaching kids about money and he recommends a spend, save, give approach, which I like in theory but again, not really sure what she’d be spending on or saving towards at this age. I can see this being more of a thing when she’s maybe 10 or 12 but it just doesn’t seem very necessary now? What are your kids saving for or spending on at that age?
We’re going on our normal beach holiday with the cousins (staying separately), but they have just taken in two long-term foster placements. They are both the same age as my son (nearly 6) but one has global developmental delays, with a developmental age of 18 months or so.
We’re doing a meet and greet pre-holiday in a few weeks so we are familiar faces to them. This is a long-term placement until the children age out of foster care, so we’re keen to support a really good relationship. I’m not sure my son has encountered this before, and want to do a bit of preparation. He understands foster placements, as he’s met and loved all their previous placements. Any books or videos folks would recommend?
WWYD – Bedroom edition. Our house has 3 (large) bedrooms upstairs, one (small) bedroom downstairs which is more of an office/occasional guest room, and a finished basement with egress (so… could be a bedroom if we wanted but would rather have it as a family room).
We have 3 kids (if you’re around, you might remember that the baby was a total surprise) and an au pair. Current bedroom setup is Baby + Parents in one upstairs bedroom, Au pair in another upstairs bedroom, and 7 and 3 year old in the largest bedroom. I want to move the baby out but am thinking about long term arrangements. We like having an au pair and plan to for at least the next few years.
Options: All 3 kids in the big bedroom. Possibly get a bunkbed for the boys with a twin on top and a full on the bottom (looking at the CB Kids Abridged Kids bunk bed). Daughter (3) has a good bed and dresser. Get the boys a sleeker dresser.
Option 2: Put the au pair in the office bedroom downstairs and accept that she has a smaller living space. Move the current office stuff into the basement (I like this idea, husband doesn’t).
Option 3: Move one of the kids into the downstairs bedroom and move the office stuff into the basement.
some other option I’m not considering. FWIW, the only addition option is going to be $100K+ to add a bedroom and we love our location, so a comparable house with slightly more room is almost impossible to find and goes into a bidding war every time.