Accessory Tuesday: UPF 50+ Resort Wide-Brim Sun Hat

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Upcoming beach vacay? Lucky you! Protect your skin with this packable wide-brim hat.

This packable, UPF 50+ hat protects your face from the sun’s harmful UVA and UVB rays with a 4” wide brim. It even has a ponytail opening, removable chin strap, and adjustable elastic cord for a custom fit. Since it’s made from a soft linen/cotton blend, you can easily hand-wash it after your trip. 

Solbari’s sun hat is $75. It comes in two sizes and colors.

Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
  • Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
  • J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
  • J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
  • Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
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I’ve posted before about my first grader being slow to take to reading. It’s hard for me to tell if she’s really behind where she should be or just “behind” in our high-achieving school district where many kids independently take to chapter books in kindergarten. The teacher is kind of wishy-washy about it — on the one hand she says things like our district isn’t the barometer, and you can easily meet state and national standards while being average or even below average here (true!). On the other hand, she says that my daughter seems to be quite intelligent (she scores 98-99th percentile on standardized tests and can do math way above grade level) and she’s been working so hard on reading, so the teacher is surprised she can’t read better. My husband never got a diagnosis but probably has dyslexia, and it’s apparently highly hereditary. She passed the dyslexia screenings at school. We could pursue private dyslexia testing, but the only benefit of a diagnosis as far as I could tell would be extra time on tests, which she doesn’t need. Our school uses a phonics-based curriculum, so no concerns about that.

We have seen a lot of progress this school year, and even just within the last month or two (she read aloud at an MLK Day community event over the weekend, and even though she sounded really stilted, she read basically every word in a text she hadn’t seen before which felt like huge progress to me from even a month or two ago!), but it feels like she hasn’t had that click to fluency that most first graders have had at this point.
Anyone been in a situation like this and have advice? I’m not trying to be a pushy tiger mom, but don’t want to get into a situation down the road where her reading ability is causing her academic problems and we wish we’d intervened sooner. How do you figure out where kids’ reading should be?

Vacation ideas? I am trying to plan a 4 day getaway for me and DD, who is almost 12, for spring break. We live in SF Bay Area and are meeting her brother in DC on the 5th day to head to Boston. As far as I can tell, she likes Taylor Swift, sleeping, eating, getting her nails done and shopping. She likes the pool but will be bored with me as her only company. I’m thinking a nice hotel with an indoor pool and a really nice breakfast buffet in a big city. Any ideas? Since it can be anywhere between here and DC, I’m at a loss. DC is an alternative (but not Boston), if there is a good hotel option there.

My twins got bloodwork done at their one year checkup for lead, as we live in an older house. We keep getting bills for it. The bills are coming from “MedTox” which is apparently a subsidiary of LabCorp. LabCorp is in network but MedTox isn’t. I am confused by this. Anyone else ever had this happen? This seems a lot like balance billing which is illegal in my state.

Cross-posting from the main page, since it’s a mom issue.

I’m wondering where’s a good place to buy bras online. I’m cutting pumping at work and can switch back to real bras there. Some of my pre-pregnancy bras still fit, but many have gaping cups since I lost a fair amount of weight with breastfeeding. I was a 32C pre-pregnancy, and when I measure myself now it would suggest a 32D, but I doubt that, given the gaping cups of the old bras.

Local shops are all lacking any band size below a 34, so I can’t try any on in sure before buying.

For those of you with house managers – how did you formalize the arrangement?

I found someone who will be perfect – she’s getting me references now. We are doing bi-weekly 5 hours in person (meal prep, organizing, laundry), and opposite weeks 1-2 hours virtual (meal planning, scheduling). With this person being in our home, and potentially having access to calendar, just want to be protected. thanks!

I’m looking to overhaul our vitamin/supplement routine and would love your recs on 1) brands 2) specific vitamins/minerals you give your kids on the regular.

Kids are 9, 7, 3 and infant, and the older ones can swallow small pills.

No gummies…and preferably nothing that tastes too like candy. My 3yo has been known to get past doorknob covers, boxes and factory-sealed bags to eat 14 probiotics tasting like sweet tarts while I’m putting the baby to nap. Yep. Having iron in the house also makes me nervous because of this.

I’m a little bit crunchy (eg, prefer folate to folic acid) and like the appeal of “clean” ingredients, but I’m not overboard into tinctures and essential oils (mostly because they seem like a lot of work to figure out and a little bit of voodoo science).

I think I’m particularly interested in a multivitamin, vitamin D and magnesium. My kids are a neurospicy group so anything that actually makes a difference in sleep and focus and being regulated would be great. But again, is that voodoo science?

Let me know what works for you!

I’m taking my 3 year old and 18 month old on a flight by myself and need help thinking through airport logistics. How do I get all 3 of us through security and on the airplane?

We’re visiting my parents so the only need is ourselves and clothes- they have car seats, stroller, beds etc.

We can check a bag, but those lines have been long lately.

My thoughts:
– option 1: 18 month old in back carrier, bring a rolling carry on suitcase and strap the diaper bag on top. I don’t think he’ll tolerate the check in line + security line in the carrier but can probably handle just security
– option 2: 18 month old in stroller, check a bag and gate check the stroller

Any thoughts or other options?