Weekend & Family Friday: Rescue Heroes Transforming Fire Truck
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This toy is the MVP of our playroom right now. My son is solidly in the firetruck/firefighter phase, and every vehicle he owns is on its way to fight a fire. This truck is the one that leads them all.
The truck has a lot of wheels and has buttons that make noises, and my son can pick it up and raise it so that it’s chest high on him. It also has disks of “water” that he loves to shoot out and then collect. (We’ve lost two already, of course.)
We got this as a gift, and I think I would also gift it to a kid who is as obsessed with vehicles and firefighting as my son.
The truck is $29.82 at Walmart. Rescue Heroes Transforming Fire Truck with Lights and Sounds
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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?
Happy Friday! My five-year-old and I danced around the kitchen last night to Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen and it was the most fun I had in weeks. What is your put-me-in-a-good mood song? I need a bunch of them!
If your daycare sends bedding home every day to be laundered, do you do laundry every day? Buy multiple sets of sheets and blankets so you can send fresh bedding without doing laundry every day? Just send the same bedding back again without washing it?
I posted yesterday about the challenges of transitioning back to daycare. My three-year-old didn’t cry at drop off today! Unfortunately his older brother did cry at camp drop off. One small victory at a time…
Thanks for the replies yesterday!
Kiddo’s 6th birthday is coming up and he has requested to have a few out of state friends “attend” (we just moved last year and he misses them!)
If we were going to do a zoom birthday with those other 2 families, is there something special I can do to “tie it all together”? Maybe one or two games that work over zoom (4 kids total, ages 4-6)? I was thinking about buying some party hats and mailing them to the friends out of state. Ideas? I have a month to organize! Kiddo hasn’t picked a theme, but did ask for an erupting volcano cake, so maybe dinosaurs?
Paging ANONANONANON – I read your post yesterday about trying to set up child care arrangements for your work. I volunteer with a low income health care clinic and they did the same thing at the start of the pandemic for their workers. They were able to get the state to waive licensing requirements under the State of Emergency.
It’s not even 1:00 yet and I’ve already thrown my child (3) out of my office at least 30 times. DH has tried every activity he (and I) can think of, and nothing will hold her attention for more than a minute or two. If she didn’t get carsick (even medicated) I’d send them joyriding, but I don’t need to clean up vomit today (DH is a sympathetic vomiter, so I do vomit, he does blood). My last nerve frazzled approximately one week ago, and I just cannot handle her sitting and touching me (or screeching) or trying to beat down the glass paned door or anything in the same room as me while trying to do extremely complex drafting on a tight deadline today from a surprise project. If didn’t need my dual monitor setup I would go lock myself in the closet upstairs (putting 3 locked doors between us), but that doesn’t seem to be an option given the hardware needs of today. If I survive today without completely losing my s*it, it will be a miracle.
Where do you find vacation rental homes that are actually nice? I’m thinking of renting a lakefront home in our state for a week this fall as a change of scenery. I’ve looked on VRBO and all I can find is giant sprawling houses that sleep 8 – 12 and seem to have been decorated in the 1990s. What I want is a sparkling clean cabin with two bedrooms. Does such a thing exist?
I’m catching up from yesterday’s post and wanted to comment on the Anon asking about having children but having issues with her mother’s behavior (both from childhood and present). I came to realize my father had major narcissistic issues before I had my child, but I want to note that becoming a parent myself actually triggered a lot of bad memories from my childhood, to the point where I’d wake up in the middle of the night and verbal abuse would replay in my head. And to the person who said “becoming a parent makes you realize how hard raising a family really is, and you gain more appreciation for what your parents did for you,” I’ve had the opposite reaction of what kind of monster are you to have treated your wife and children that way?
Anyway, being aware of the issues is great and I certainly wouldn’t let it stop you from having a child. If you can go to therapy great, but if not do a lot of reading on dealing with NPD and setting boundaries.
I live about an hour from my parents and wish it were further! Just try to see them as little as possible and research the grey rock method. For awhile I was able to keep the dealings with my father to polite interactions at holidays etc, then he started to work his way back into our lives more and the same problems arose. Their behavior will never change. That being said I will let my parents have a relationship with their grandchild unless or until my child doesn’t want to. I will not subject him to the devaluing and demeaning behavior I was subjected to.
I know this is the definition of borrowing trouble, but I can’t help thinking that our decision to hold our son back from K this year is going to harm him in the long run for extrinsic reasons and would love some help thinking about it. We decided back in spring that we were going to repeat pre-K in the fall — he’s on the young and small side for K (just turned 5 last month) and his social development would benefit from another year of pre-K.
And now with the pandemic, I keep hearing of family after family who are delaying K because school is a clusterF this year (which it is). But I am worried that next year the schools are going to be bursting with 40-student kindergarten classrooms and for the rest of my kid’s life he’s going to be in this swell of kids — harder to stand out, tougher competition for sports teams, tougher cohort for college. Are these valid concerns? I don’t know what our alternative is, though — I don’t want to send him this fall, and it won’t be possible to hold him out another year.