Accessory Tuesday: Soft Crescent Bag
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I’m seeing crescent-shaped bags like this one everywhere — they strike the perfect balance between compact and roomy.
This bag from Aussie brand St. Agni is made of supple lambskin with a soft suede lining. The simple silhouette is perfect for everyday wear — no need to change your purse from workday to weekend.
The Soft Crescent Bag is $455 and comes in six colors. (I’m partial to plum.)
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Anyone have any behavior techniques that help with throwing? DS is 4, and, in the past few weeks, he has started throwing stuff when he’s either upset or at generally inappropriate times. For example– this morning, he was upset with me for not putting his music on in the car so he threw a toy at me while I was driving. He also will start throwing stuff if he’s bored as a game– but it’ll be like throwing shoes around light fixtures or throwing rocks around other people.
For context– DS current has a broken arm and is currently having sleep issue (tonsil surgery later this summer– woo!). Before the arm broke, he was super into tee ball, and we would throw a ball with him a lot. We’ve tried telling him “no balls or throwing in the house” and talked through other ways to express anger/frustration without throwing. I think some of these issues may resolve when he starts getting better sleep post-tonsil surgery…. but looking for any advice to help us get through the next month or so.
One more post about purees! I did all homemade baby food for the first (and not for second!). Highly recommend steamed sweet potatoes with ground beef. Also used cannellini beans as the base for meat mixtures, but found that sweet potatoes had the nicest consistency and sort of soaked up the ground beef grease.
Has anyone been to Mexico City, either with or without kids? Dh threw it out as an idea for a couple’s trip. We’d likely have 3-4 days, we have nonstop flights from our home airport and it’s only 1 hr time change. I admit it doesn’t really grab me but he never really offers any input into travel planning so I feel like I should honor it when he does.
My 7 year old’s second closest friend is moving away next month. She’s in camp with him this week, we’re setting up some play dates and co-hosting a large goodbye party for his family next month, so they’ll have plenty quality time together before he goes, but it’s still sad. I know it’s a normal part of childhood and she’ll survive, but this is the first time it’s happened with a friend where they were old enough for a really deep friendship. They’ve been really close friends for two years now and he is an amazing kind-hearted and thoughtful kid who also has a really silly side that matches up well with my daughter’s personality but influences her in a good direction. I really like his mom too. It stinks.
Guys, I am struggling with my 15-year-old this summer. He has a couple of things going on (school activities, drivers’ ed), but not consistently every week. He has never been a kid who does well with a lack of structure. Sometimes he reads (great!), but he’s also on screens a lot (not great).
We haven’t made him get a job because he can’t drive yet, and there are not many businesses within walking/biking distance that will hire 15-year-olds.
To add some structure and teach him some life skills, he gets a daily list of things to complete by the time we get home. They’re done maybe 50 percent of the time. Then we get lots of attitude about how we haven’t taught him anything (not accurate) and that it’s not his fault. We have gone so far as to turn off the wifi for certain periods of the day.
For extra cash, he has been doing odd jobs for neighbors. He does a good enough job, but complains to us about it incessantly and thinks everything is “so unfair, so boring,” etc.
Frankly, I don’t like him very much right now, and I’m not sure how to turn it around. He is acting like an entitled brat. I don’t know how much of this is the age, the summer slump, or something else. It is super triggering because I had a summer job at 15 and was grateful for it, even though it was hard work (different time, different place, different resources, and I know it’s not fair to compare).
Wondering if anyone has any useful advice here.
My daughter turns 4 next month. We started trying to potty train her around 2.75. Pee training went fine, although it took longer than with her older sister (maybe 2-3 months before reliably no accidents). She does not seem to have ever fully suceeded at potty training for BMs. There have been many days with no issues, and even periods of a week or, the longest, 10 days accident-free but then accidents resume.
In the past it seemed that she was not aware that she had an accident. We would notice by smell, usually, though sometimes she would tell us. Most often this would happen at daycare where she might have 2 or 3 or 4 accidents in a day. Lately this doesn’t seem to be the case, but I can’t say what’s happening at daycare with certainty.
In March we thought maybe there was a blockage/impacted stool and these accidents were leaking around the blockage. We did Miralax daily for about a month. She continued having accidents, always soft stool throughout. When we tried weaning her dose down, she would have explosive diarrhea type episodes at daycare a day or two after the dose. We stopped Miralax in late April.
Since then, she has continued to have soft poop and goes at least daily. Sometimes she will have 4-5 small (like a smal meatball sized) BMs in one day; other days 1-2 more medium size BMs. No signs of constipation, pain, avoidance or withholding.
At home, she has had maybe 1 accident in the past month, and generally initiates her own trips to the bathroom. At daycare, she continues to have accidents at least one or two days a week.
Diet is good, I think. Lots of veggies and fruit, whole wheat toast or oatmeal, not much meat. Cheese and milk frequently but not massive amounts.
Is this just a matter of patience as her bowels maybe get retrained over the next few months, or does anyone have any ideas what I am missing?
Thanks.
my newly 7 year old has been a disaster for the past month. screaming all the time, yelling, etc. she used to be a rather sweet kid. i told her that it is ok to be mad, it is not ok to be mean. i also suggested that she write down some of her mad feelings if she needs a way to express them, so this morning after shouting from the second she woke up, she wrote:
“i hate mommy. mommy is rude. i am soooo mad at mommy. mommy is super mean. i haaaaaaaate mommy. mommy is stupid. she is so rude. mommy does not help me at alllllll!”
help!!! i don’t take it so personally but it is obviously unpleasant having her scream 24/7 and something must really really be bothering her and i don’t know what.
My husband will be away on a rare business trip part of next week and I’ll be home with our 2 kids under 5. We’ve been through this before and me and the kids were fine, but for some reason I’ve completely freaked myself out about this time. Can I handle the two kids all by myself for days? What if someone gets hurt? What if everything descends into chaos? We’re going to keep our regular work/daycare schedule but I’m convinced the rest of the time will be a disaster. I know this is anxiety speaking. Any advice to get a better handle on the dread before he leaves? Thanks!
I’m pretty sure my youngest (4) has some sensory issues, which mostly come out when he’s tired/maxed out from the day. He gets very wiggly/silly/jumpy, lots of shrieking/screaming when playing/running around (I swear if someone were to walk by our house they would think we’re hurting our child, and we’re not), etc. The days we can get outside, even in the intense heat where we live, for a walk, it tends to be better.
It’s more annoying to me than anyone else in the house, I think likely because I’m hyperaware. School hasn’t mentioned it. He just started OT for fine motor help (we self-referred). I did mention this to the OT, he didn’t see it in the eval, but he had some explanations and I do plan to follow-up for tips.
Tips to deal? Or is this just kid behavior that will get better with time/age? I try to help him take deep breaths, co-regulate, etc. I feel bad because I get annoyed and he’s not doing anything “wrong” per se.
How do parents with little job flexibility handle all of life’s surprises, like surprise! The A/C is out at your kids’ day camp and it’s closed for 3 days. I used to be able to work from home while minimally supervising (racing cars in the basement, laptop at the library, etc.) but my job has eliminated WFH and I have to take leave any time I’m not in the office.
My baby is coughing a lot overnight while on his back, even though coughing during the day mostly resolved after a recent cold. He’ll be fine for hours and then have a coughing spell for 15 minutes. The room is naturally fairly humid. Would you make a doctor’s appointment for this or just wait it out?
Repost from late yesterday ….
A dear friend just gave birth to a baby boy with clubbed feet. We knew he had them, finding out at the anatomy scan, but I think it’s hit friend pretty hard now that he’s here, which makes sense.
From what I understand his care will be pretty intense starting around the 1 month mark with braces and other corrective care. Anyone have experience here? What can we do to support? I know footed PJs are out. Anything else specific to the condition that we/the friend group can provide as a way to help that is outside of the normal new baby gifting/help?
Last night somebody posted about a friend who had a sweet Bebe born with club feet and was looking to support her friend.
My daughter was born with a cleft palate and what helped me was twofold – I needed somebody to just tell me how beautiful my baby was and do the normal cooing and I needed somebody to just offer practical support with appointments. My BFF would always text me something silly on appointment days but for a friend whose kid is having ongoing medical issues, i actually try and put the appointments in my calendar so I can send something like a coffee shop gift card.
Give her boundaries so she can ask for help. Would you watch another kid during an appointment? Would you grab something from a marketplace purchase for them? Can you make dinner on a Wednesday?
I’m newly back to work after maternity/parental leave (private mid-size firm) and I am just feeling crushed by the workload. I was supposed to have a “ramp up” period – but 3 weeks in and my workload feels as if I’m already at full capacity + already so behind. Totally normal, right? It gets better? Feels like I need new or different systems or a new way to do things.