Accessory Tuesday: Sammy Breeze Slip-On Sneakers
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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+
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
Any advice for getting a very stubborn three year old to stop sucking his thumb? The dentist says that it is now impacting his oral development . . .
I’m about to purchase some patio furniture from Great Escape. The salesperson will not negotiate at all and blames Covid for low inventory, etc. (1) does anyone in the Midwest know if the Great Escape typically negotiates and I should keep trying, and (2) does anyone know if Covid has truly affected patio furniture supply? It very well could have, but I am also trying to research it.
Hopping on the book train! My 4 YO is obsessed with the dogman books, but sadly we’ve reached the end of the series. Any other silly picture heavy (or even better, comic book) series like dogman? he’s not reading on his own yet but seems to be capable of following pretty involved plots.
During the pandemic we resorted to video to get our 3yo to cooperate with pretty much… everything. Diaper changes, getting dressed, brushing teeth, etc. It used to be I could just hand him my phone and put on a Youtube for 30s, but he’s gotten so demanding now he wants to keep watching for like another 15min and also he will demand the video when he knows we want him to do something.
I’ve had some success with switching it up with diapers to say, you get video if you try on the potty, but then that turns into him sitting on the potty for 15min claiming “I still have a poop coming” (we’re not actively potty training, but we encourage him to try if he wants to and he’s had a few successes).
Tips to wean him off this habit? He didn’t used to need it, and I’d like for him to be able to dress himself someday without a video. He will brush his teeth himself without the video about only 50% of the time. Now that daycare is back I feel like we are less at his mercy and it should be time to get more back into our normal routine. Goes without saying he does all this stuff for daycare provider with no video and no whining!
I saw this yesterday and I thought it was a very interesting read. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/health/coronavirus-premature-birth.html
We are nearing the end of the first year with our au pair. She gets a 1-week summer vacation and has decided to go on a road trip with another au pair for 6 days, including to states that are completely open. I feel like we can’t tell her what to do on her vacation, but I’m also not sure how to handle it. We could ask her to quarantine for 2 weeks when she returns, but I’m not sure how that would work in practice and I think we have to pay her anyway? I’m pretty sure if we tell her she can’t go she will ask to either go to another family or back to her home country, at which point we are SOL with no more au pairs coming to the country. We have 3 kids under 6 and there’s no way we can handle not having child care. Tests in our area are still limited to people with symptoms or known exposure. WWYD?
We are thinking of relocating to a NJ suburb now that it looks like we will be WFH for the next year. (We were always planning moving, but now covid has accelerated our timeline). One of the things that is hard is figuring out school systems. What factors do you look for in evaluating whether a school system will be a good fit for your family?
To Anon who posted late in the day about books for 3yos — a few favorites from our house (all have actual plots and are reasonably enjoyable to read):
– Circus Ship
– Blueberries for Sal
– Gingerbread Man Loose on the Fire Truck
– Iris & Walter series
– The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash
– Room on the Broom
– Fox and the Jumping Contest
– Barkus
– Hattie and Hudson
– How Martha Saved Her Parents from Green Beans
Also, for a cheap/easy option: Daniel Tiger books & Peppa Pig books — and instead of getting the individual Daniel Tiger stories, I recommend getting the big treasury (called “Daniel Tiger Five-Minute Stories” or something), that has all of them in one book and is much cheaper.