Washable Workwear Wednesday: Side Zip Ponte Pencil Skirt
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Happy New Year! Is anyone else totally confused as to what day of the week it is and dealing with kiddos who don’t do well off their schedule? Yay for school breaks. There are some maaaajor sales ending today, including the big Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale (see all our favorites for work!), which is where I found this fun, machine-washable pencil skirt. The black has lots of sizes left, while the pretty raspberry has only lucky sizes in stock. It’s available in regular, petite, and plus sizes for $41: Side Zip Ponte Pencil Skirt
Psst: Don’t miss our roundup of New Year’s Day sales for workwear, many of which are also continuing today!
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Sales of note for 2/7:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
- J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off one item + 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?
Ladies, we have been TTC from 1 year with no success. I have HSG scheduled on Friday. All of a sudden, a thought came to my mind about safety of HSG, as in if it is harmful for the eggs/ovaries or cause cellular damage. I am feeling very uneasy and kind of thinking of cancelling the test and TTC for few more months before doing this. Can some one please convince me it is okay to undergo the test?
For those of you that bill your time, what was your billing like the first full month back from maternity leave? I got back in late-ish November and between sickness, the holidays, and just not being that busy, my December billing was pathetic. Ugh.
Food at that age is just for fun. Keep introducing things and don’t force it.
anyone ever have a child who wouldn’t eat? started solids right after thanksgiving. on day 1 my child was interested, opening his mouth for the spoon. since then his lips are closed as tight as possible and he moves his head when he sees it coming. i’ve tried letting him feed himself with the spoon and i’ve tried finger foods. he just likes playing with the spoon, the bib, the high chair straps, etc. he is 7 months. i just messaged the pediatrician because i am not sure if i should be worried yet, but has anyone encountered this and had a child who has then decided to start eating?
I’m 4 months postpartum, and I feel like my hair is a total mess. It’s really thick and wavy in places, so wearing it down requires a lot of flat ironing that I don’t really have time to do with an infant. (Plus the baby tends to yank on my hair if it’s down.) My usual standby of a ponytail or makeshift bun (using hairties) just isn’t working at the moment, for some reason – I can’t figure out if the texture of my hair has actually changed or what, but I feel like my hair is constantly a mess. Help!
I’m terrible (like really incredibly terrible) at all things crafty so complicated updos are out. Does anyone have hair hacks or easy (like super easy, any idiot can handle) updos for someone like me? (Cutting it shorter tends to make things worse, and it just poofs out more.) I’m out of ideas!
Do it! Let the judgy friends harrumph to themselves while you are enjoying a glass of wine in a mudbath somewhere. I regularly go away with friends, but if they weren’t up for travel, I would absolutely go alone. Not only is a great for me to recharge, but it’s a good chance for my husband to get some alone time with the kids – especially valuable when my daughter was in her “Mama Only” phase and didn’t want him if I was around.
What do you guys think about traveling solo (for pleasure, not work) as a mom? I feel like in my circles it’s taken for granted that parents go away together without the kids occasionally (to nurture the marriage and all that) but a mom vacationing solo is seen as selfish, like why would you choose to be away from your family when you could be with them? But my husband doesn’t like traveling, and my close girlfriends don’t want to leave their families, so I kind of have to go solo if I want to have an “adult” vacation (I love traveling with my kids too, but it’s definitely different!)
Question prompted by the fact that I’m weaning my second (and last) child soon and kind of want to go to a spa or wine country or something very not kid-friendly for a few days to decompress and celebrate the fact that my body is finally mine again after about 6 years of pregnancy and nursing…but I mentioned it to a couple moms in my circle, and the reaction was “Wow, I could *never* go off by myself, how indulgent” (with a strong judgy vibe).
Husband and I both have pretty intense careers, and we have constant issues related to that… would love to get any advice related to that.
1. Division of household responsibilities. How do you divide household responsibilities when both partners have intense careers but one person makes more because they are in a field that just happens to pay more? We try to outsource a lot but you can’t outsource everything. A part of me thinks I should do more because my husband makes 5x as much as I do (which helps us to to outsource a ton more than if my partner was making as much as I do) but another part of me doesn’t think its fair that I am stuck doing chores, and he gets to spend that time pursuing the career he loves.
2. Also how do you deal with time spent on weekends /evenings working? A lot of times we both could use the time to work but don’t *need* to, but it could help our career advance better if one partner is home with the kids and the other one is at work.
3. And how do you manage time together? We are inevitably busy at different times, and so one of us will get resentful when one person is busy with work and the other person wants to hang out. It sucks when you have to work and your partner is nagging you because you haven’t spent any time together lately, but it also sucks when you feel like your partner is prioritizing work over you.
My husband started commuting a few months ago for his job, M-F. He was home for ten days for the holidays and it was annoying to have him around, I was constantly irritated with him. I felt such a big sense of peace and relief when he left, and I am so confused about what this is all about. Anyone else who has spouses who travel M-F has this issue? I am now dreading when he is no longer commuting to work in a few months and we are back to living together. Solo parenting is hard but I love having the evenings to myself after kids go to bed, and I don’t miss him at all. I think there are some issues that we have related to us both working in intense careers / division of household responsibilities (I will make a separate post above for that because I think it’s an interesting issue that a lot of people here could relate to), but not a ton of marriage problems or reasons we should get divorced. I do think I am very introverted and being around people all the time is hard for me, so that could be part of it.
I have a nanny starting soon for the first time. What tips do you have for getting off to a good start? DH and I will be working at home her first week to help her get settled. How detailed are you in your instructions? Eg, each day should I be saying “feed her a banana and toast with peanut butter for breakfast” or should I just give her a list of foods the baby regularly eats and say “find something appropriate based on what’s in the fridge/pantry”? The baby is 11 months old if it matters.
Happy new year! Question about sick leave: if you take off time to take care of your child because nanny is sick (kid was not sick), would you take that as sick leave or vacation? If kid was in daycare & stayed home sick, I would take it as sick, not sure in this case. I am probably way past overthinking on this one…