Washable Workwear Wednesday: Snap-Front Jacket
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Sales of note for 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
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?
I need to get my two kiddos (age 3.5, 1.5) new fall jackets. I’ve just been buying them each a new fleece hoodie at Old Navy every year but wondering if I should look for something better quality that would allow for hand me downs. I’ll take any and all recommendations!
My kid turns 6 four weeks after school starts. She’s moving from preschool, which has kids rom all over town, to one of 5 elementary schools. There are 3-4 buddies from her preschool that will be in her elementary school, but probably not in her class.
Who do we invite to her birthday party? Do we make it a small thing with her friends that she has now? See who her buddies are as school starts and invite them? Invite the whole K class plus a few good friends from preschool?
Possibly relevant is that her soccer team is all old preschool friends, and they will see each other 2x a week all fall so it’s not like the preschool friends are gone despite no longer being in the same class. And one is a neighborhood friend (same neighborhood, different schools).
My suggestion that we just pick 2 friends and do a daytrip was not taken well. She suggested inviting her whole preschool class + whole new K class and that seems like a lot to me.
Hi – Sleep help please! Our six month old’s sleep is getting worse not better. She goes down just fine but then is up every two hours or so and only goes back to sleep when we feed her. I’m at a bit of loss given our restricted options: we are in two bedroom apartment and our toddler is in the room they’ll eventually share so we have to leave the baby in our bedroom until she sleeps enough not to wake the toddler and she’s definitely a light sleeper. We tried CIA at 4 1/2 months and unlike our older kid it didn’t work well – it got her down at night no problem but never worked for middle of the night wake-ups and we folded after a brutal week and half (for real — we were totally committed but it definitely failed). I’m not willing to do CIA again after that experience. We’ve also already tried a sleep consultant and didn’t see much improvement from her suggestions so I don’t really want to do that again. Any suggestions or resources to read to get our lovely but deeply stubborn baby to sleep more consistently at night?
I have a 3 1/2 yo who is very energetic and talkative. She is an only child (for now) and is used to “being in the spotlight.” For the last 6 months or so, she has gotten really bad about constantly interrupting us. As soon as one of us starts talking (to each other, not to her), she interrupts, usually with something we know is a deliberate means of getting the attention back to her. We’ve tried teaching her that it’s bad manners to interrupt, that if she has something to say she should put her hand on her arm and wait until we give her the go ahead, that she needs to wait until someone stops talking, but to no avail. She’ll do it once and then is right back at it. She also does this when other adults are talking, no matter how often we ask her to wait her turn and let the person finish talking. I’m at a loss as to how else to go about teaching her to not interrupt! It’s incredibly frustrating and makes it impossible for my husband and me to talk about anything until she goes to bed. And by that time we are so tired that we don’t feel up to it anymore or we’ve forgotten what we need to tell each other. Not to mention, it’s just rude!
Any tips on how to get past this?
Fun Question: My marital house closed last Friday!!! YAY!!! This was the last non-kid thing tying me to my ex. I am splitting the equity that I received from the house between savings and putting equity into the new house. Beyond that, I do have some funds left. I’d like to spend some money targeted at making my and my kids’ lives flow more easily and be more efficient. Can you think of anything that has made your life easier – big or small? My kids are 8 and 6. I received a Roomba from my sister for my birthday last month. (We have a cleaning service and a babysitter.)
Advice on big baby and slower weight gain. I think I saw a comment about this a few weeks ago… I have a 2 week old who was born at 9 and a half pounds, v-birth, no issues. Did not have gestational diabetes and my first child was a little over 7lbs. They’re not sure why he was so big.
Anyways we’re EBF and he’s a bit slow to gain weight. I think someone else here said their big baby was slow to gain as well. Not back at birth weight but close. We’ve seen a good LC (in DC – got an LC from the bfing center) and the pediatrician has also seen him eat and confirms he has great latch/swallowing. He’s eating very often during the day but I have to set an alarm for the night because he would sleep a long time otherwise. Right now we’re adding one pumped bottle/day to see if that helps and the ped isn’t overly concerned but obviously wants him to gain a bit more.
We do not want to supplement with formula for now so please no “just give formula” comments. I b-fed my first for over a year FWIW
We’re trying to potty train our 3-and-a-half-year-old and it is… not going well. She knows when she needs to go, and then sits on the potty for about thirty seconds, says she’s all done, and stands up… usually repeat twice, then she walks off and usually has an accident in the next two minutes. But if I try to get her to stay sitting longer, she cries and says she’s scared. And even if I get her to stay longer, she doesn’t seem to be able to relax her muscles enough to go, even when she’s genuinely distracted with a book or video.
I’d be inclined to hang it up and try again in a couple months, but a) she’s already so old– will this actually get easier with an almost four-year-old? and b) she is soooo in love with her undies. I kind of can’t bear to break her little heart by taking them away. She’s sad when she pees on them but she knows there are more in the drawer. Day care wants us to switch to pull-ups. What would you do?
How much do you care about your child having same age or older classmates in daycare? My daughter started in a 0-24 month room when she was 14 months. It’s a class of 8 and she was squarely in the middle age-wise. Now she’s 18 months and all the kids older than her have either left the school or been “promoted” to other rooms. I think they’re capped at 4 infants, so it’s not like she doesn’t have other toddlers to play with, but they’re all younger. I wasn’t that worried about it (someone has to be the oldest, right?) but one of my friends keeps going on about how she won’t develop appropriately, 6 months is a really long time to be the oldest in the room, etc. etc. and it’s starting to make me kind of anxious. We love the teachers and my daughter is very settled in this room, so if it weren’t for the issue of being the oldest, I’d be happy to postpone switching rooms as long as possible.
Meh. Those grandpa style sweater jackets look really sloppy on me. Best for wider shoulders, maybe.