Weekend & Family Thursday: Six-Color Bag
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Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
- Boden – 15% off new season styles
- Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
- J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
- Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)
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?
Not sure anyone will see this, but this is a safe place to post: my latest round of fertility treatments failed. I feel gutted. I actually looked at my toddler this morning and cried just out of longing for a second. I’m so grateful for her but find her so triggering in so many (very deeply guilty) ways.
We were delayed for months due to insurance in the fall, then again because the doctor realized at the 11th hour I needed a measles booster in the winter, delaying me to March 1. The March 1 cycle was cancelled at the 11th hour on March 23rd due to COVID. Now this. I really just want to sleep all weekend. Hugs to anyone else fighting this silent fight along side me.
I just saw your question re Bare Republic spray. It’s definitely more liquidy than Coppertone sport. I personally rub it in after, but kiddo just runs off with a white sheen and doesn’t seem to care. He looks purple later, so fair warning there.
Another joyride for DH and DD (almost 3) today (at DD’s express request “go vroom vroom daddy”) to get gas, the car washed, see the outside world etc., properly dosed with dramamine, yet another day of evaluating whether an hour of peace and quiet in which to do work is worth the 20 minutes of vomit clean-up and extra bath. On the plus side, I am an expert at cleaning out car seats, so it only takes half as long as it used to….
I’m borrowing trouble but, can we talk more about red shirting kindergarten? My kid is already small for his age (0.2 percentile small). If he has to go to first grade with kids who are two years older than him, I can almost guarantee he’ll be bullied. I don’t want to red shirt him, but I also don’t want him to be the smallest kid in his class. Guess I have no control over that huh.
Posted this on the wrong page… oops!
I’m in need of adult seating (or not just small kid seating) in our playroom. We got a Nugget that just arrived, which was intended to go in there. However we love it so much that we’ve decided to put it in the larger, more adult-centric family room (mind you, there’s a play kitchen and lots of toys in there so it’s not 100% non-kid).
Now that the nugget got hijacked, what’s a good tweener? I was looking at storage chests but many don’t look purpose-built seating. Any recommendations or better ideas than a storage bench, or can you recommend one that you find is sturdy enough for adult seating? Looking for enough seating for 1-2 adults max.
I’m looking for some sentimental “mom” jewelry (think kid’s birthstone, name,etc) on Etsy, but there are so many! Has anyone purchased something there that they loved? I’m fairly minimalist with my jewelry. A lot of the options look kinda cheap. Bonus points if you can add stones or initials to the necklace as you add kids. And preference for necklace or rings over bracelet or earrings.
Has anyone else had a school announce that they’re going to do standards based learning for the fall? The way this was explained to me is that their goal is for all kids to meet the grade level standards and that’s it. No differentiation, only remediation.
The problem for me is that my daughter is above grade level in pretty much all areas. She was supposed to be tested for the gifted program last spring, but didn’t get tested because of COVID. I’ve been told that she will get no additional materials or instruction beyond the grade level standards.
I’ve been told that if there is an outbreak and we are remote, she can join classwide activities but won’t otherwise interact with the teacher. The teacher won’t call her or meet with her in a small group because the teacher must focus on getting the other kids up to grade level. If the school has 2 day a week in person learning, she won’t meet with the teacher 1:1 or in small groups in class and will only get the same materials (too easy) as the rest of the students. The 3 ‘off-days’ are just homework packets with no differentiation. I just can’t imagine that they’re planning to teach her nothing this year. It sounds like she won’t even really get to interact with the teacher. I want her to have the social emotional benefit of seeing peers at school, but should I send her to school to be ignored? Ugh.
Our daycare is finally reopening next month. In addition to the standard precautions like masks and temp checks, they are asking kids to social distance in the classroom and teachers are not supposed to hug a child unless the child is crying or in obvious distress. I realize they’re probably not going to be very successful at enforcing social distancing between kids (and I’m not worried about my kid having close contact with a small group of classmates) but I’m just not sure how kids can learn the social skills of preschool if they’re constantly being told to stay 6 feet away from other kids. Like if two kids are playing together with a toy and the teachers will tell them to get further apart – how can they learn sharing? Did anyone else’s daycare try to do this? How is it going?
Also has anyone dropped off kids to a new classroom after all this? Because they were closed for 5 months, kids will be moving to new rooms. And because of Covid we hand kids off at the door not the classroom. My 2 year old is not especially clingy, but I don’t see any way that handing her off to a masked stranger who can’t even smile at her is going to end in anything but disaster.
Argh I was so desperate for daycare to open but now that I know all the procedures I feel like I have so much anxiety about how this is going to go.
My parents travel a lot and we dog sit for them regularly. We don’t have a dog, but really like theirs, and the kids frequently ask when she can come over again. She was just here about a week ago, and they were thrilled.
She was elderly, and passed on last night. Any tips for how to share this with the kids (5 and 7)? It wasn’t a shock given her age, but she seemed pretty OK (just slow) last week, so it’s a big blow.
Interesting NYT article this morning that is ringing true for us. I am beyond stressed about this fall and figuring out how to educate my kids at home while working FT. It all just feels so impossible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/business/covid-economy-parents-kids-career-homeschooling.html
Okay, this should be a super simple problem to solve, but I’m stressing out anyway. My kids go back to daycare next week. Various pandemic rules mean that nothing can be brought in from home, including lunch boxes or any sort of reusable container, so we’re required to pack 2 snacks and lunch in disposable packaging, aka ziploc or paper bags. Up until now, our lunch strategy has been 90% toss leftovers from dinner into the bento box and call it a day. Now we can’t include most of those things, because it’s impossible to eat pasta, salad, soup, etc. out of a ziploc bag when you’re 3. This is also super entitled of me, I know, but I’m so frustrated by the requirement that I need to use a dozen plastic bags a day just for my kids’ food when normally we try to limit our use of ziplocs.
Anyway, I figure we can do sandwiches and cut fruit and veg for lunch and crackers or muffins for snack, but any other ideas?