Family Friday: Sleeping Queens 2 Game
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My youngest is a fan of the original Sleeping Queens, so he had to have the sequel.
In this game, the queens are awake and have to save the kings from silly predicaments with help from some magical companions. The setup and gameplay is a little more involved than the original (we watched a YouTube video explaining everything), but we got the hang of it after one game. Now, it’s a snow day favorite that’s fun for both kids and grown-ups!
Sleeping Queens 2 is available at Amazon.
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On the topic of kindergarten: I am a bit disappointed that we haven’t found people in my kids’ kindergarten yet, for us or for him. We’ve made friendly conversation with parents of older kids and kids in the preschool, but zero vibes with any parents in the kindergarten class. That’s fine, I don’t need to have parent BFFs. But we also haven’t had any playdates or birthday parties, and it’s almost March. We had lots of playdates and parties in our private preschool/daycare, and other kids genuinely enjoyed our kid, and the current K teacher says our kid plays well with the other kids. So I don’t think it’s a social EQ problem. Our kid hasn’t expressed much interest in playdates with his classmates (I’d happily send my cellphone number on a note for my kid to pass to his friends’ parents if he did). We’re more likely to get together with his old daycare buddies. I don’t know what to think? I was hoping for more of a community for him and us, but school feels very drop-off, pick-up, and that’s that.
Along the lines of the house question below:
We currently live downtown and planned to move prior to our oldest starting kindergarten this summer. The schools aren’t good where we currently live and it’s not the kid friendly vibe we want.
We settled on wanting to move to a small town that’s a reasonable commute for my husband, closer to family and (hopefully) walkable if we can get a house in the area we want. I was feeling strongly that we need to move before starting kindergarten to get the best chance of community that we want/are moving for, even if that means a not perfect house.
My husband had a major medical event in January and is having a mid life reckoning as a result. He’s not sure about this job anymore. Our marriage has been more strained because of all the stress.
I wish I had a crystal ball. Moving during this period feels a little insane, but staying put is it’s own decision. Any thoughts or words of wisdom?
Similar to threads this week about verbalizing mom joy: what funny/fortuitous parenting mistakes have you made recently?
Mine what teaching kiddo “He who smelt it, dealt it.” If I had considered before saying it, I probably wouldn’t have. But it also fits perfectly with his current silly gross humor. Is that still a thing kids say? Or just a 90s throwback?
Moms of school-age kids: do you request a different schedule in the summer months?
My 11-year-old has now aged out of her usual summer program so we’ll be making things work through a hodgepodge of camps, most of which don’t start until 8:30 or 9:00 am. I’m wondering if it would be less stressful for me, and the people who work with me, if I change my in-office hours during the summer and plan to catch up on missed work at home.
FWIW, I did not do this with my older kid, and I think it made things much harder on myself.
We vastly preferred the original Sleeping Queens to the sequel.
Another question about morning routines with toddlers. Daughter is 2 years and 8 months. We used to have a good morning routine where we had a nice balance of having time to read a couple of books, chat, and still got ready and left the house on time.
Recently, we are struggling to follow our routine and almost never leave the hosie on time. My daughter is taking many detours from what we need to be doing (like running into the closet behind the hanging clothes to want to play, wants to play a game, won’t go potty, etc.)
I, too, am struggling with how to have this, because I am happy to go along with a game or run around the house, but I also need to get to the office on time. We get up early enough to have enough time to do everything we need to do.
1) What are your morning routines with a 2.5-3 year old?
2) Thoughts on handling a detouring toddler? How do you strike a balance between not having an upset child and still getting ready?
How many of you love your home? I love our yard and neighborhood. The house itself is fine. It’s a split level, kind of awkward layout, smallish rooms, but still plenty of space for our family.
Is it normal to not love your home? I do like aspects of it but overall it’s just…meh. I think the layout is what gets to me the most, and there’s really no changing that. We are not in a position to buy a new home now, but I’m trying to figure out if it’s something we should be aiming for in 3-5 years or if I should just accept our home, imperfections and all. My husband is happy here, but he’s also the kind of guy that’s generally happy anywhere and hates change. I suppose everyone has their wants, right? Or do all of you live in your perfect houses?
What other jobs have you asked cleaning services to take on besides basic cleaning? They come once a week, and they think we’re an easy job and have suggested a rate reduction but if they feel that strongly we’d rather have more support for other cleaning-adjacent or tidying support – we just aren’t really sure what the range of options is. (We’re relatively new to having a cleaner). Would welcome any ideas.
Travel rec –
Just back from Amsterdam – it is is such a fun, family-friendly city. Very much recommend. We had three 8-year-olds, a 14-year-old, public transport was easy, and we stayed in a nice family-friendly hostel. We loved the Van Gogh museum (go early) and NEMO, the science museum, and just bopping around. We ate pancakes and had incredible Indonesian food.
We took the overnight ferry from the UK and I was up to my eyeballs in motion sickness pills, but didn’t get sick (incredibly emetophobic).