Makeup & Beauty Monday: SatinAllure Lipstick
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I want this lipstick just for the tube.
This satin lipstick from makeup maven Pat McGrath has a comfortable, smooth texture that will give your lips a lustrous (but not overly shiny) finish.
After you apply one of the dozen-plus colors on your lips, botanical collagen and passion fruit extract will treat and moisturize them.
Pat McGrath Labs SatinAllure Lipstick is $30 at Ulta and Sephora.
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
I posted last week about my MIL who won’t stop bringing unwanted clothes and gifts for my kids. She came over for a small Super Bowl party yesterday. She was supposed to bring two pizzas. She brought no pizzas. Instead, she brought: waffles, a half eaten days-old turkey sandwich (I thought you’d want it, I won’t finish it), several bags of chips, two fruit salads, leftover spaghetti, half a loaf of stale bread, and coffee creamer. My husband politely told her we didn’t want or need these things, and she stormed off in tears crying about how ungrateful we are and how she’ll never do anything nice for us ever again, and good luck to us, since now we’re on our own and will have to buy our own food. She returned two hours later, with pizzas, acting like nothing ever happened.
Ideas or tips on how to improve concentration and focus for a 4 year old? My DS seems to have trouble engaging with anything for more than a few minutes. We can’t get him to focus enough to practice letters/numbers/writing, etc. He doesn’t seem interested in puzzles or games much. He’s very imaginiative and could play pretend all day, but it takes a lot of effort to get him to sit down and draw or color or something with us. He doesn’t seem to have this issue at school, where he seems to be on track mostly. He does know his numbers to 20 and letters, for the most part, sometimes gets them wrong or has to be reminded. I know he’s still young for this and I don’t think its really an issue yet, but I just want to find ways to help him concentrate. Sometimes we can get him to sit down to write letters or something, but if he encounters even a bit of difficulty (a letter he doesn’t remember for example), he refuses to continue and will just play or turn it into a joke. Anyone else deal with this?
Monday win- my kid had a full neuropsych battery done this year. It was with an out of network provider, and cost $4800. We knew this when booking it, and went ahead assuming insurance wouldn’t pay. Then DH’s company added out of network mental health coverage for 2024, so we thought perhaps they’d cover a small portion of the visit since testing. I got the EOB yesterday and they are covering everything except $1k! I was fully expecting to have to go around in circles with them to get them to cover ANYTHING since often they want the schools or the GP to diagnose ADHD (which she has, but also, which we knew going in) and they don’t cover “educational testing” (which a lot of the neuropsych was). I think our magician of a provider knew the right way to bill the testing to get it covered–essentially using the testing to rule out medical conditions vs diagnose a learning disorder? IDK but man, what a great start to the week.
someone please remind me that hair grows. my 5.5 year old twin girls got haircuts this weekend and it is much shorter than I (and they) wanted. their hair that was practically to their tush is now more like shoulder length.
For those of you who are also struggling with miscarriages or loss, there is a beautiful piece in The Atlantic today: “She Was My Daughter. But Am I A Mom?” It made me tear up. This path feels so lonesome at times, even though I know we’re not alone.
Did you use cotton balls to change your newborn’s diaper in the beginning? I’m expecting my first and one of the baby books recommended that
A cousin reached out to me through Linkedin and said they are starting a financial planning practice and want to have a zoom meeting with me to tell me about it. This is someone I send/receive holiday cards with but haven’t seen in person in 4 or 5 years. I’m not looking for financial planning advice at the moment. What should I tell them?
People with challenging kids and/or spouses, how do you handle having your schedule and concentration constantly derailed by one explosion after another? For example, last night kid said they wanted X thing for dinner, then refused to eat X thing because “it has worms in it.” The situation escalated into a Whole Thing. I had to stay up late comforting kid instead of spending the evening prepping for a class I teach tonight. I was going to prep during lunch today, but spouse came into my home office and had to have a long conversation about his feelings regarding the situation last night. Now it is mid-afternoon and I am tired from staying up late, am cross from having to listen to everyone’s feelings, and have accomplished zero work and zero teaching prep. I already shifted down to part-time work to help make space for all of this and it doesn’t seem to help. Is this why women all used to be SAHMs? How do I preserve time and mental energy for the things that need to get done?
Has anyone been to Turkey with kids? Our kid is in elementary school and can manage without a lot of “kid stuff” at this point, but if there are things your kids loved in Istanbul or Cappadocia I’d love to hear about them!