Makeup & Beauty Monday: Snapscara Washable Mascara
This post may contain affiliate links and CorporetteMoms may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.
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
See some of our latest articles on CorporetteMoms:
Click here to see our top posts!
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’m starting to feel a little anxious about announcing my pregnancy. Not because I think people are going to react poorly, but because of the identity shift that comes along with it. I’m going to be pregnant-me for a while and then mom-me for the rest of my life and never this version of me again. Just makes it all seem very real and scary all of a sudden.
Not sure what I’m looking for here… obviously there are going to be a lot of great things happening, but it doesn’t make it any less scary.
I thought I would share a funny story for Monday. Yesterday, I was cleaning up the house and my 3 year old asked, “what are you doing?”
Me: cleaning up the house
Him: Why? Who is coming over?
Hahaha. Also kind of sad but it’s true. Someone was coming over!
We are bringing 19 month old DD in for an EEG this afternoon. Any words of wisdom? It’s at a renowned children’s hospital in my major urban area so of course I trust they have experience doing this with uncooperative and very scared toddlers. We were told one parent gets to go in with her. The goal is to get her to fall asleep and wake back up during the 2.5-hour test. I am so nervous this goes very, very poorly.
The silver lining is that if we can get through this friggin’ test we will hopefully be confirmatory that she is not actually having seizures.
Our daughter initially passed all ASD screenings, probably because people think of only classic autism and not at all about ASK in girls. Kiddo is sweet and outgoing. Engages in imaginative play. Now that she is school aged, it seems that her social skill are lagging by several years and testing has confirmed this.
School is saying that they can’t do anything for her because she is not having any academic difficulties. She is, however, unable to make/keep friends now that she has social skills several years behind her peers, and she is getting unmercifully teased in school (she has some habits, like nose-picking, that are unpleasant and that she needs reminders on, but this is just devastating to her). I don’t know how to help her.
I get that the school (large public school system) isn’t perhaps able to help her, but it is also so disappointing that that they never seemed to care all along (it was me just sensing that something wasn’t right and slowly putting the pieces together). It’s like if she had been blind, they would still be giving her non-braille books and saying that being blind isn’t necessarily an academic problem, so the school has no responsibility to help with what is a major challenge. OTOH, they have kids getting pregnant, shot, dropping out, etc. so if it’s not on the 11:00 news, maybe it’s not really a problem in the big scheme of things (to be clear: it is still a problem to US).
Advice?
At what age did you give your baby a stuffed animal/blanket/lovie type thing?
OP: the school has OTs available, but only for things that are academic. But to me, OT seems to be a primarily non-academic discipline (maybe if you have CP and holding a pencil is difficult, then OT really relates to academics), but it seems to be a broader discipline. Maybe not if the school is footing the bill?
[School system also has psychologists. Not sure what they do though. I think they maybe just deal with parents who get so worked up that the just sue until they either get what they want or get a court to fund private school. FWIW, I am not a suing person — I’d just prefer to get services in school or for someone to flat-out tell me that I need to schedule X at facility Y outside of school and have it noted as an excused absence. JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO — I HONESTLY NEED A ROADMAP!]
I have zero background in this — I feel like if you have a special needs kid you probably need to at least do some online child-development classes to figure out what the menu of options even is (in school = ?; out of school = maybe something???). I really just want to scream some days and cry on others.
For anyone following – I convinced my RE nurse to schedule by beta for Christmas Eve. She cautioned that if the number is low they’ll make me repeat because it might not be viable, but there’s no concern about the trigger I guess at that point, and if it’s negative, it is a real negative (which I would really appreciate knowing). And if I have to repeat in 48 hours, I also got her on board with letting me pay out of pocket at a Quest/LabCorp where I’m spending the holiday rather than dragging the whole family back to Boston.
I credit some of the wise IVF moms on here for encouraging me to push back in the past on these scheduling conflicts and think outside the box when travelling – so thank you all!
What factors did you consider when choosing a school for your child? My daughter is ready for Kindergarten. Our city’s public school system is not great. The state’s funding rubic is outdated and inadequate, and the size of the student body is increasing faster than funding, especially with our large immigrant population. The elementary school we’re routed to is average, and the middle and high schools are only a couple of years old and not rated yet. There are two very highly regarded private schools in our area we are applying to.
I’m very supportive of public education, and always assumed I would send my child to public school. I went to public school and had a great experience. My husband’s public school experience was very bad, and his parents moved him to a private school. My concerns with private schools are the tuition costs, and I don’t want my daughter to grow up surrounded by “rich white kids” (she is a rich white kid). My husband worries that public schools don’t adequately address bullying or discipline.
Different experience: we chose private, and one classmate is in the private school largely because the public school would not do a visit/tour other than the open house 1 week before school starts.
Thought I would share. My mom sent me a text over the weekend that she got our card and that she loved it and was so proud of me for getting it out early. There are many things about which my mother could be proud – I’m a BigLaw working mom on partner track, our very difficult toddler is thriving, I’m moving forward from my miscarriage this fall that hit me pretty hard, we’re dealing with a whole round of sickness and it’s super busy for me at work but somehow all of the balls are still in the air, etc. But getting out completely unnecessary holiday cards in mid-December is what she decides to be proud of. I actually called her out on it, not that it will do much good.
Departing daycare teacher gifts – same amount as holiday gifts? And two questions:
1) is it weird to ask for a photo with my child? I know my child is just one of many to them, but it would be meaningful to me to have photos with all her teachers.
2) is it weird to offer to be a reference should she need one? I don’t know how much good a parent reference would be for another daycare job, but maybe she’ll decide to nanny and could use me for that? I don’t want to be presumptuous but I feel like you can never have too many potential references.
So more of an awkward vent than anything.
The husband mentioned to the inlaws (his parents) that he didn’t know what to buy his adult siblings. So MIL actually bought gifts for them (the same expensive generic gifts) and told him to emt the money for them and that she’d wrap them for his siblings. And even he was shocked. I mean at what point can we stop giving eachother useless thoughtless gifts? haha
Prob too late in the day but a post above has prompted: at what point did you tell coworkers, more distant friends and family members about your first pregnancy? Do you wish you had waited longer? What would you do differently, if anything?