Makeup & Beauty Monday: Facial Cotton
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I have heard so much about these facial cotton pads throughout the years. Now that I am upgrading my skincare routine, I am using products that necessitate or are applied/removed more efficiently with a tool. I invested in one of those egg-shaped beauty blender tools for my foundation, and I recently purchased these to remove eye makeup. I wear long-wear eyeliner, and I am using an oil-based cleanser around the eye area for full removal. When I went to Sephora.com recently, I noticed that they are selling a pack of 40 for $5 (or 165 for $12). I picked up a few for the women attending a Mother’s Day brunch as a little gift. Facial Cotton
Mini-Deal Alert from Kat: I just saw that LK Bennett is closing all US stores so is having massive sales — and one of the top things we were going to recommend for Mother’s Day is on a pretty great discount at Amazon, the Nixplay WiFi Frame.
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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?
Ugh, the “washable” markers my son sued to draw on the couch did not come off with a professional cleaning. Any last minute suggestions? The cleaner told me that the red dye is the hardest (it was a brown marker but there is a light pink residue).
Does anyone have footwear suggestions for a almost 1 year old? We did zutano booties in winter, but now it’s too warm. She likes to cruise, so needs something, but she takes off whatever we put on her. So far she’s figured out how to undo the velcro on her See Kai Run Shoes. She has Freshly Picked moccs that take a bit more work, but she can get those off too
Does anyone have a glider from Pottery Barn Kids in the performance everyday velvet fabric? Is is ok with stains? Bonus question: does your cat scratch it? Thank you!
My son is 2.5 and has generally preferred me most of his life (runs to me when he gets hurt, wants me to carry him in new places) but he’s always been fine hanging out with my husband until about a month ago. For the last month, he gets so upset whenever he sees my husband and shouts “go away” and hits and kicks him. For example, this morning my husband went out to walk the dog, and I sat on the couch with my son and read books. When my husband tried to come in, he ran over to door, slammed it closed, and said shouted “go away, I don’t like you daddy” and had a complete meltdown when I opened the door and told him daddy had to come inside to get ready for work. Once he was in the door, my son started hitting him. When I ask him why he is hitting daddy he says “because I don’t like him” and occasionally “he’s a mad boy” or “he’s sad and angry” Son does something similar for bedtime (though if I am not at home, he will go to bed from my husband with minimal protestation). I understand that emotions can be challenging for toddlers but this seems extreme. Son also loves our nanny and has no issue when I leave for work everyday; he’s also fine with grandparents. My husband is understandably upset by it and we’ve tried saying things like “we don’t hit, you don’t have to like daddy but you need to respect him and daddy always loves you” but it doesn’t seem to work. Ideas?
Finally, FINALLY, I can post good news: My final divorce hearing was this morning. He agreed to everything, so we are officially divorced! I cried during the hearing, but honestly what I feel most is liberated. And, for even more good news: I found a house this weekend that is exactly what I am looking for. It is so perfect. It is smaller than what I have now, in an amazing little neighborhood in the same school district , relatively new (current house built in 1800, new house 2012) and a below what I thought I would end up spending. As I walked out of the divorce hearing, my realtor called to let me know my offer was accepted! While I know that there will still be rough days and big emotions ahead, I can’t help but feel that the tide is starting to turn my way.
I don’t know, I’m the non-gestational mom in our family (so didn’t carry, have a c-section, pump, etc) and we still take turns deal with the super messy poop diapers. Is that really that unusual? It kind of seems worse to me to lord the “I did the first 9 months of work” thing over the other partner.
Our parents live in town and want DD#1 to stay overnight with them when I have the baby. This makes no sense to me, except for the fact that the hospital is closer to their house than ours. She’s never spent the night with them (she’s had MAJOR sleep issues, so we prefer to keep her on a schedule / routine and the rare times they’ve kept her overnight, they come to our house and stay). She will have just turned 2 when the baby is born. I don’t want her to be all out of sorts sleeping 2 nights with grandparents and then throw a huge fit the night we bring the baby home when we try to do our normal routine.
They’d also like me to stay 2 weeks at their house when the baby is born than my mom come stay with us or commute daily from our house, which I already said a hard no to, because I think it would disrupt my older daughter’s routine. I think a new baby changes so much that it’s important for the older child to have consistency in all aspects of their life as much as possible. I just don’t find it relaxing to be at my parents house with two kids and schlep all my stuff, especially when they live 30 mins away.
I am grateful for parental help, as I know many on this board have zero help and normally, I would be very flexible because I’m just grateful they are helping at all, but I just feel so inflexible about what I want when the baby comes (in 3 weeks).
Am I being unreasonable?
Does anyone have a really shy 2 year old? My dd is really afraid of men in particular, like when we pass a guy in the grocery store, she’ll look down and if shes really scared close her eyes until they pass. She does this for some women too. It breaks my heart and I try to hug and tell her that they are really nice.
She’s always had stranger danger (starting from when she was 2 months old, she’d scream at the top of her lungs if someone she didn’t recognize held her, likely by the way they held her). She’s at home with grandmas and will start part-time daycare/preschool this fall and I am anxious for her, because she doesn’t adapt easily to new people.
Where is everyone getting all the cute, patterned leggings I see everywhere? They don’t have to be for actually working out, just every day type wear. I already have plenty for working out that I like and don’t care about expanding that collection into “cute” territory. It’s more that I want to be cute when I’m outside playing with kiddo in the yard or running for coffee. That said, if they are workout quality, that’s fine, I just might not use them for that so they stay nicer longer.
Does anyone have a favorite toddler water bottle that a) doesn’t leak and b) doesn’t have a straw? I’ve found tons of toddler/kids water bottles, but almost all of them seem to have straws or other things you suck on, which is not what I’m looking for.
The backstory to this is that I have a 2-year-old who when given a water bottle with a straw will suck down the entire 10+ oz within 10 minutes. This was okay when she was still in diapers, but now that she’s potty-trained I’m looking for something we can take to the playground so that she can drink water when she’s actually thirsty but won’t get so hydrated she needs to pee every 5 minutes.
My almost 4 year old son has started having meltdowns every single morning when he’s getting ready for school. He goes to a sweet school and always has fun when he’s there. This started when we switched to a new nanny a few weeks ago. He does it with us too. Full on temper tantrums, refusal to wear short sleeves, refusal to change clothes, you name it! My mom said we should take him to school in his PJs and call his bluff when we get there and he’ll volunteer to change bc he won’t want to go into class in PJs. I’m also planning on having him agree on clothes the night before. Any other tips? Thank God summer break is only two weeks away!!!!! The old nanny had a strict morning routine and it seemed to work, but even that isn’t working now. We also are giving him more breakfast so it’s not hunger. Could be sleep related – we dropped naps the week before our old nanny left and he’s still not going to bed early enough, but he wakes up on his own each morning. Any advice?
Because I’m not quite ready to tell real life friends, but because I also have to tell someone. . . Positive pregnancy test on Friday! This’ll be #2; assuming all goes well, they’ll be 2.5 years apart which is both exciting and terrifying.
I had kind of a rough weekend. I finally realized that one of my early motherhood friendships wasn’t real and was likely based on convenience. She’s now part of the “cool mom” group in our neighborhood (barf, but it is a thing) and has pretty much dropped me like a hot potato now that she’s found more … like-minded individuals, I guess. At a few events recently, including a mutual friend’s birthday party on Saturday, she has gone out of her way to avoid interacting with me but will be all sweetness and smiles when others aren’t watching. It is so hurtful, like being in junior high all over again. We were besties, but we at least had a nice neighborly thing going: lots of gatherings with our families, we organized neighborhood events together, etc. I feel dumb for ever thinking that friendship was real or genuine.
After the party on Saturday, I unfollowed her on Facebook. Seeing her posts hasn’t been great for my emotional health lately, so might as well rip the band-aid off. Mom cliques suck.
This morning DH got mad at me bc I canceled the mother’s day gift he ordered for me on our shared amazon account. who orders a gift for someone on a shared account!!! I had no idea it was a gift for me – I thought it was something I had clicked on accidentally so of course I cancelled it. aside from the fact that it was not something i would’ve ever wanted, he was mad that i was looking at the placed orders on amazon and it was my fault for messing things up- i look at those on almost a daily basis to see if things have arrived, to return things, etc. last year i was in the hospital on mother’s day bc i’d just given birth and so we were kind of counting this year as my first mother’s day and we’re already off to a rock start….is sunday over yet?
My husband is considering a job in the Chicago suburbs near Lemont. We live in a LCOL city in the south and know next-to-nothing about Chicago suburbs. We’re taking a trip to visit in a few weeks and are considering Wheaton, Lisle, Downers Grove, Glen Ellyn, Carol Stream and Naperville – based on very basic research. Can anyone share their experiences or recommendations? I’d also appreciate daycare recommendations (we’re at a national chain now). For suburb selection, we’re looking for safety, good elementary schools, and a reasonable (30 mins) commute to Lemont. I’ll likely be working remote for the foreseeable future. TIA.