Accessory Tuesday: Sloan Loafer
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I’ve been swapping my heels for loafers. If you need a go-with-anything option, this pair from Vince looks like a solid choice.
This rounded-toe loafer is made from soft leather or suede and has a flexible, cushioned sole for all-day comfort. These jill-of-all-trade shoes will work with a suit as well as cropped jeans. The comments mention they run large/wide, so consider sizing down if you have narrow feet.
The Sloan Loafer is $250 at Nordstrom and comes in sizes 5–10. It’s available in three neutral hues.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- 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
This had me totally fired up on Friday, and I’m gut checking here. My son goes to a weekly OT appointment. Not sure if this is relevant, but the OT is paid through insurance, and insurance is billed after the appointment. The cancellation policy is that you get 1 “free” cancellation every six months. After you use this cancellation freebie, you pay a $100 cancellation fee that obviously insurance will not pay for any missed appointment. You don’t have to pay the fee if you reschedule, but you cannot reschedule for your regular appointment slot.
We spend most of July and August at my parent’s home in another state. I reached out to the office to let them know we will not be attending sessions in July and August, and they told me that to keep my appointment slot, I have to pay $100 for each missed appointment, which ends up being around $600. This is…bananas right? I’m giving them like 6 weeks notice, and they cannot take the appointments off the calendar for the months of July and August, then put the appointments back on the therapist’s calendar in September? I’m legit baffled that there is no flexibility here. I’m going to end up just cancelling services in July (and I had to pull back the trigger of walking away on Friday), but man, it took forever to get this slot and I want to freaking cry.
My normally super chill kid is being a gremlin and I keep reminding myself it is May, there’s school drama, the light is messing with sleep, everyone’s tired… but my goodness. And our schools don’t let out until 29 June, so we’ve got 4 more weeks of this! Looking forward to some work travel this week to get a break from the sass and baby talk, which is definitely the quickest way to wind me up.
Any suggestions for relieving a severe tension headache in pregnancy? I won’t have a chance to take a bath until later (which usually helps my shoulders) and Tylenol has never relieved an ounce of pain for anything I’ve taken it for.
on friday when i picked my twins up from school one came out sobbing…turned out she had a 102 fever, which kind of derailed our weekend plans. on the flip side, taking one kid to the pool is a totally different ballgame. i love my kids and being a twin parent, but as i was never sure if i wanted one or two kids, sometimes i am envious of those with one.
Working mom win (tho it’s totally luck) – my kid won some thing at school where he gets to have lunch with a ‘special adult’ and I actually can make it if he picks me! I land at like 10pm the night before from a trip, but I can make it! Trying not to bias him to pick me over my husband just because I happen to be available for once 😆
I’ve been pregnant or breastfeeding for the past 3.5 years. I’m weaning my 2nd and (definitely) last baby now and am struggling with this transition. I’m VERY ready to have my body back to myself, but I’m sad about it being the end of my newborn period. I’ve been promising myself a wardrobe (and bra) update once I met this milestone and now that it’s here it just feels like work and not fun. I don’t know what I’m looking for in the post, I guess just want to say this to someone who’ll get it.
On the topic of gremlin kids, I need solidarity or validation or commiseration—I don’t know what! We have a 3.5 and 1.5 year old, and I often find parenting exhausting. Some days I wake up in dread about the amount of care and attention they will demand. I sometimes feel like I must be doing something wrong because other parents with similar jobs and similarly aged kids rarely express the oppression I feel from parenting. I have many moments of joy and laughter, but I rarely (never?) feel like I can co-exist in a space with my children where they don’t need/want something of me (a snack, to play, to be picked up, to sort out jealousy, to soothe, to distract). It doesn’t help that my kids don’t demand as much of my husband, despite our very intentional and equal split of responsibilities for them. Anyone else feel similarly? Is this a toddler thing? A me thing?
WWYD? Everyone always has great suggestions, so help me with some swim season logistics:
4 and 7 year old have swim team (pre-team) practice 5:00-5:30- they get home from school at 4:30.
12 year old has swim team practice from 6:15-7:00p and gets home from school at 3:30pm.
What to do about dinner? When and what? I have a flexible work schedule so I can prep/make dinner ahead of time. Usually we eat at 5:30/6pm. Part of me thinks the simplest is to pack dinner and all eat at the pool from but I don’t think the 12 year old is going to want to eat right before swim practice. But waiting until 7pm to eat is not great for the littler kids. Also I don’t love the idea of eating 5 dinners a night at the pool because I find that limiting- but maybe that’s just summer and I should lean into it? Swim season is only seven weeks, so it’s just going to be logistically annoying for a short time…
Considering buying the Kids Anywhere chair from PBK for DS’ reading nook in his room. If you have the chair, how long did your kids use it? It’s not cheap so would want to get a few years of use out of it. Would a beanbag chair be better?
May post again tomorrow seeing as its’ getting long in the day, but here we go: we may have a window to go on a last minute vacation if DH’s job transition times the way we hope.
DH, me, 6 year old (well traveled/does well on the go, in hotels), and a 7 month old. Everyone has passports, which we don’t necessarily need to use. No airbnb/rentals – hotels only. We’d be flying out of Boston and have a week. I think we want “easy button” given the 7 month old – beach, pool, ideally direct flights. Don’t want to go somewhere that necessitates a lot of driving around if we can help it. Ideally we wouldn’t be renting a car, but maybe I suppose.
Is this Florida? We’ve done Ft Lauderdale a few times when DD1 was about this age and it was super easy (Marriott harbor Beach). We could go back but wondering what I’m not thinking of. I’ve poked around Bermuda but nothing jumps off the page. We did Beaches T&C, but not for this trip. Gulf Coast? Amelia Island (will water be warm? )?
I’m open to any and all recs that meet the criteria above. TIA!