Family Friday: Smocked Tank Dress
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This smocked dress reminds me of the ones I wore as a kid — with a few upgrades.
Instead of the itchy smocking of yore, this tank dress is made of soft 100% cotton. It jumps straight from playground playdates to summer parties. It even has side pockets for rocks, found pennies, and other treasures.
Primary’s Smocked Tank Dress is $28 and comes in four summery colors. It’s available in sizes 2 to 12.
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
Any up for some vicarious Friday shopping? My 7yo needs shoes for a wedding this summer. She of course wants something as sparkley as possible, but it also needs to be comfortable enough for to wear around all day and on grass. We have basically never bought her fancy shoes (she wears sneakers in the winter and “practical” sandals in the summer), so any suggestions where to look? Her flowergirl dress is pale pink with a tulle skirt.
Any outdoor toy ideas for the bigger kid set? My son (6) has been happily playing all afternoon with some guttering, piping, and a pallet, but I wonder if something else would be fun.
Just came home from my kids’ daycare Mothers Day event, which was scheduled from 10-11. It was very cute, but I’m fortunate to have a flexible WFH schedule and live 7 minutes away – lots of parents were unable to attend – and when we had to leave at 11 all the kids started sobbing hysterically… I guess it’s hard to find a good time for these things.
Happy Mother’s Day all – I hope your day goes as you want it to, whether that is time with family or time alone.
For those with bigger kids, do your kids at some point start to set up their own “playdates”/hangs, without parental involvement, before cell phones come into play? So far, all organizing has been through the parents, but our older kid is 8 and can certainly coordinate with his friends on his own, would just need rides. My husband says he was calling friends’ home phone lines at that age but that’s not really an option now. He’s not getting a smart phone for a while, but is it time for an in between? Access to some sort of messenger?
Hi All! Hopefully a fun question for a Friday. We will likely be hosting an informal dinner for a crowd later this month. The purpose is to host some members of my husband’s work team who are visiting from international locations plus some local members of the team. Several members of the crowd are mostly vegetarian. I’m a lifelong Midwest gal, and while I certainly have some vegetarian dishes I make, I wouldn’t say that I have expertise in putting together a vegetarian menu for a crowd. Suggestions? If we have meat, we will limit it to chicken and seafood. Before I take the easy way out with grilled chicken breasts and shrimp skewers (or the really, really easy way out with a bunch of vegetarian pizzas), any ideas on a vegetarian spread for a crowd? Thanks!
I offered to buy lunch for the day care teacher and the parents were extremely generous. I was given $98 by parents and lunch cost $78 (tip included). I was thinking I’d go grab a Starbucks GC for $20 since I know they all like it. There are four teachers. Would it be better to do 4 $5 gc or one $20 one? Or should I just give the head teacher the cash? Or something else?
Me: I am logging off now to go pick Kiddo up from school. As we discussed, you will need to walk the dog while I am gone so we will be ready to leave on time for Kiddo’s recital this evening.
Husband: But I’m working.
Me: I was working too until I shut down to pick up Kiddo. You have no meetings or deadlines this afternoon and unlimited PTO. And although I can do many things, I cannot be in two places at once.
This is a man who does 50% of the housework and likes being able to brag about his wife’s fancy job, not some 1950s caveman. This, my friends, is why women will never get ahead in this world.