Washable Workwear Wednesday: Side Tie Pencil Skirt
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I’m not a big skirt wearer. I ride a lot of different modes of public transportation, and I find it annoying to have to concentrate on making sure I’m sitting appropriately while wearing a skirt. That being said, I feel at my most “powerful” when I’m wearing a killer skirt or dress. I love this skirt’s faux wrap style and the bright colors it comes in. I’m drawn to the bubble gum pink color because I like the combo of the rest of my wardrobe (black, grey) with bright pink. This skirt is machine washable but the care instructions direct to dry flat, and it’s $79 at Nordstrom in regular and petite sizes. Side Tie Pencil Skirt
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- 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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Just wanted to say a thank you to everyone who makes this such a great community. My husband and 14mo daughter unexpectedly traveled recently and thanks to all the great advice and conversation in here, I was able to recall some great tips that made our trip as smooth as could be expected.
Another week, another announcement on Wednesday that my kid’s day camp will have a presentation Friday afternoon. This time at 2 pm, even worse than last week’s 3:30.
Dear camp organizers – we send our kids to your camps because we want them to be occupied and have fun *while we work*. If you plan to have a Friday afternoon event for parents, couldn’t you have told us that during the sign-ups, or at least in the “don’t forget, your kid is signed up for this camp next week” email? Then maybe I could have had a chance at asking for the time away from my office – but even then probably not, since *someone* has to be in the office on Friday afternoon.
Growl grrrrrr.
We took the plunge and started our 28-month-old on Miralax yesterday. She’s been withholding her poops for ~3 days at a time since potty training a couple months ago. She is definitely making herself uncomfortable (the two hours before the poop comes are filled with crying/sadness/etc). It’s not a diet issue — her diet has not changed at all since potty training and she was pooping 2x a day while in diapers. We also tried a few days of prune smoothies and they did not seem to make a difference.
Any advice or words on what to expect would be very welcome! We of course have talked to our pediatrician (we are giving her 2 teaspoons a day) but hearing from people who have been there is super, super useful. My hope is that if we give her a string of successes (ie easy poops) then she will stop being stressed about it.
Ive tried this skirt on and didn’t love it. The fabric is just too cheap and thin to lay nicely.
24 weeks pregnant with my first today and just feeling sooo distracted! That’s normal right? Feeling/watching her kicks is like the best TV show ever and I’m starting to get so impatient to meet her (but she better stay inside!)… Having so much trouble concentrating at work, just keep researching her progress, thinking about labor, planning her nursery etc. Should I just accept this as reality for the next 16 weeks? 18 years!?
I will be taking my then 19 month old on a trip requiring several long haul flights (while I am 7 months pregnant). The travel there requires a 3 hour afternoon/evening flight followed by a long haul red eye. The return travel involves a long haul red eye flight followed by an 8 hour daytime flight.
Please give me all your travel tips! LO usually has zero screen time, but I am planning to take our iPad mini and sound-limited wireless earphones for the daytime flights hoping that it will be new and engaging. What do I load onto the iPad? What shows or games? I’ll take colouring supplies and books as well. Other activities that will engage him? I think I’m most worried about LO sleeping on the long haul flights. When he was younger he would sleep in a baby carrier or on me or my husband, but he’s already too big for a carrier and sleeps restlessly on us because he’s used to sleeping flat in his crib.
Anyone else feel like the fatigue that comes with being a working mom is hard on your marriage? I know that I’m not putting enough energy and effort into my marriage these days, but I am so.flipping.tired from being “on” all the time. At the end of the day, when the kids are in bed, I have nothing left to give and just want to be left alone. But, I can’t deny that feeling this way is starting to show in my marriage. Being a working mom (who also happens to be an introvert) feels too freaking hard sometimes. I feel like I’m doing everything half-a$$ed — marriage, work, parenting, and meeting my own needs. I don’t feel like this ALL the time, but I feel like I experience major periods of burnout several times a year. It is not good.
Where do you buy fitted twin sheets? We just moved our toddler to a real bed and I bought one sheet set for her but she doesn’t like using a pillow and has no need for a top sheet so I don’t want to buy more sets when I only need the fitted sheet. Is Company Store my only option? I’m struggling to find anything else.
I’m six weeks pregnant with my first and while I’m excited, I’m kind of terrified of telling work. I work in a very intense practice group in NYC biglaw (I’m a fourth-year) and there are only a few women above me in the pipeline– and none of them have kids. I have a reputation as a very hard worker and I’m trying to work extra hard right now and bank even more goodwill…. but…. the first trimester exhaustion is REAL.
Tips for getting through this time? When is best to tell– around 12-14 weeks or should I wait as long as I can until I start to show?
Any thoughts on the Schwinn Interval Jogging Stroller? My in-laws have offered to buy us a jogging stroller, but DH and I feel like we can’t ask them for a $500 stroller. If anyone has any experience with that one, or other cheap (<$200) jogging strollers, I'd love to hear.
Hey ladies – Many thanks again on all the great advice here. I had posted a weekish or so ago about taking an international trip/vacay and the debate whether to a) Take our then almost 10 month old; b) Leave baby with Grandma; or c) Stay back and let DH go somewhere (we’ve each done solo vacation travel before, so this is not completely random). The more I think about it, option (b) seems to be the best. Our marriage can use some TLC, and I’ve learned that these chances to vacation and travel should be valued. My mom would come to our place (we live in a city away from family, so she would fly in) to take care of DS, ideally taking him to daycare during the weekdays, but giving her the flexibility if she wanted to keep him home, too. Any tips on: 1) How to manage/plan for Grandma being sole caretaker of baby (she’s great with him and pretty much will follow schedule, etc.) and 2) Pumping and dumping while away, and 3) Introducing formula before I go? He’s been pretty much EBF, but will likely be combo fed while I’m gone.
To stave off exhaustion – Go on walks as much as possible. You’ll be tired, and this will help rather than make you more exhausted. Just a slow walk around the block. Drink a TON of water at your desk. That will also help. Otherwise, there isn’t a way out except through. If you have nausea, keep some small hard candy at your desk. Doesn’t have to be ginger – whatever you like, but NOT sugar free. You want the sugar!
As for when to tell – it’s repeated here a lot, but really up to you. I waited until 14 weeks.
So, I think my 3 yo is extremely advanced. She is reading at a 5-year-old level and her vocabulary and reasoning continue to blow us away. She seems to have an incredible memory (e.g., making connections between a book she’s reading and an old library book she hasn’t read for months). She is extremely creative and seems to get easily frustrated when she wants to play pretend with her friends who can’t seem to grasp what she is telling them. People often comment that she seems much older than she actually is.
I know that it’s too early to do any testing for academic advancement, but I’m concerned that she is way ahead of her peers at the preschool curriculum and wondering if we should be considering academic-based private ($$$) preschool. Is that crazy to even think about? I recognize that there’s a huge social development component at this age and want to make sure she is gaining social skills as well.
I understand I may get flamed for this, but maybe someone else has gone down this road and can offer advice? If I keep her where she is, any suggestions for talking to the director about how to meet her at her level?
We have a 27 month old son with a speech delay. I’ve posted about him before and got great advice here to get that second opinion! He’s the one who speaks a normal number of words for his age, but they’re all nouns and no verbs or people– i.e. he just started saying “Mama” and “Daddy” and his twin sister’s name a few weeks ago after some frankly very intense drilling on my part. Not sure yet if it’s autism or just something else going on. He qualified for early intervention and is in speech therapy every other week now.
At our first speech therapy appointment they mentioned trying to steer him away from “labeling,” which is how he reads books now– flipping through them fairly quickly and naming the “things” on each page– and towards more narrative speech. So we’ve been trying to cut down a bit on the I Spy type books, which he loves, and direct him more towards books like Close Your Eyes that are more story-oriented.
So ironically, I’ve found in the last two weeks that one of the things that is helping the most is screen time?! His sister is SUPER verbally advanced and wants to watch Daniel Tiger, so we’ve been letting them see one half-episode every night after dinner. And Disney has some 3-minute shorts where all the characters interact and have brief stories and he seems really into those and always talks more after he sees one. Generally, on screen, there’s a lot more conversation between two characters or groups of characters than we’re getting even in his storybooks. It feels wrong because I am booky mcbookerson but I’m actually thinking about, after consulting with the speech therapist, upping his screen time slightly so he sees more friends-interacting-through-conversation examples.
Does anyone have good recommendations for other age-2-appropriate shows that have the characters talking to each other a lot and not just explaining things? They love Elmo and Sesame Street clips from YouTube, but a lot of times it’s just one character singing or saying how they should brush their teeth or something. I can only take so much Daniel Tiger before I lose my mind and they’ve seen all the Disney shorts multiple times. We have Hulu, Netflix, and the Disney Now and PBS Kids apps on our Roku, but no cable.
What do you do to teach young kids how to call 911 in an emergency? It seems so complicated to teach a 4 year old to find and unlock a cell phone, and then figure out how to dial. Then they have to remember their address since it can’t be traced in cell phones. Am I crazy for considering getting a landline for this purpose?