Makeup & Beauty Monday: Spin n Curl Iron
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I have been noticing hair care technology has been getting really innovative lately. Everywhere I turn, there’s a cool new blow dryer, curling iron, or dry shampoo that makes me want to open my wallet. I am dying to try the Dyson Airwrap, but I can’t justify the $500 price tag at the moment (if ever). This gadget came onto my radar recently, and I noticed it has a lot of positive reviews and looks pretty user-friendly. If you’re someone who curls their hair often, or even just on special occasions, at $79.99 this seems worth a try! It’s available at Target. Spin n Curl Iron
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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
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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?
How long of a commute is a dealbreaker for you? My current commute is 45 minutes by subway. My husband and I found a “dream home” that would be a 60-70 minute drive. It’s a really unique property (hobby farm) that really couldn’t be found anywhere closer in to my job. Important details: I work from home twice a week and my hours are excellent, usually in at 9 and out by 5. An extra 15-20 minutes doesn’t sound terrible to me, since I’d still be home around 6. Husband would likely become a SAHD in this scenario.
My husband told me yesterday that he wants to move out of our family home because he “needs time to work on himself” before/in order to work on being a present parent and partner, which he apparently cannot do while being in the family home. I am simultaneously devastated and feeling like freedom and better days are ahead. We have decided that we are not ready to divorce but are separating for a period of time. We haven’t told our kids and are waiting until we know when he will be moving out. While he will be involved in the kids’ lives, I know that 99% of parenting will fall to me because it already does.
A bit of the backstory: My soon-to-be live out husband (what is the right term? I don’t think husband is quite right. Maybe soon to be ex?) suffers from MDD and OCD, and I (and therapists) can see elements of NPD/BPD although he is not diagnosed with either. He has suffered from MDD since our oldest was born 8 years ago. He has been on medication, though he went off for a period of time without telling anyone. He was hospitalized twice three years ago, and again this past fall. Between the hospitalizations, he was in “therapy” but not doing any actual work and basically just chatting with a not-great therapist for an hour every week. During all of this, I have carried the load for raising our children, working full-time and taking care of our home and lives. I have done all that I could, tried to change, be a friend, ask less from this guy in an effort to give him time and space to work on himself. I recently went on medication because I just couldn’t keep my head above water on the mental health front. Oh, and our son was diagnosed with ASD exactly one month ago yesterday.
I’m looking for all of the advice, tips and support that anyone can think of going through this process? Great reads for me? Books that help explain this to the kids (5 and 8)? Songs/playlists? Parenting advice? I need all the good vibes and advice that is out there.
In the process of weaning our 5-month old from SNOO. Because we are weaning, his arms are out of the SNOO sack, but he is still clipped in to SNOO. He sleeps soundly overnight for 11-12 hours and doesn’t need SNOO to soothe him at all. We’ve been trying to put LO down in his crib for naps and can’t seem to get it right. He will fall asleep on me or DH, but as soon as we put him down in the crib he wakes up. He can roll over both ways and almost always flips right onto his stomach when I lay him down. I’m OK with letting him sleep that way since he rolls easily, but I do notice he moves around a LOT in his crib. He naps inconsistently at daycare in a crib- sometimes for 1.5 hours or more, and sometimes for just a few minutes. We have tried putting him down swaddled with his arms out, and also with no swaddle. We use white noise and blackout curtains in his room, he is not hungry when we are putting him down, and he is obviously tired. Any tips? Maybe a different kind of swaddle?
Talk to me about paying your nanny taxes (or not). We’re looking for a ‘part time’ (30-35 hr/wk) nanny, and plan to pay employer taxes (we’ll pay state/fed, and split medicare and SS). First – any services that you’d suggest? The agency has one they work with but they don’t require you use it. Second – have you found that insisting on paying taxes (and not grossing up) made you a less desirable employer? We’ll plan to pay in the middle of the band for our area, but taxes are a non-negotiable for us for many personal/professional liability reasons.
If there is already a thread on this someone please feel free to point me there!
I hate how my office is closed but the presumption is that everyone should work from home “if able to.” Given that our daycare is closed, I don’t feel like I am “able to,” but twenty years ago, the fact that the office was closed would have just meant we all got a free day off. Now, I have to take a day off because my kids are home. I’m sure, overall, the benefits of being able to work from home on occasion outweigh the cons but today it sucks!
upon returning from maternity leave i switched roles within my department. i’m in a role where i meet one-on-one with people and they review me every time they walk out the door. i just saw my numbers for the past few months and while they are not terrible, they are lower than most of my colleagues’. (yes, we can all see each other’s ratings. mine are kind of like a B, while they got A/A-). i have slightly different qualifications than some of them do and i know that some of them didn’t want my director to offer me the role and i feel like my ratings are evidence that they were right. i have 7 month old twins and i know that given my lack of sleep i haven’t been performing at my best, but at the same time at work i shouldn’t be excused from performing just because i have kids. like many on this board, i’m the typical overachiever who is accustomed to always doing well, so maybe i just need to accept that this is the season of getting a B at work. I have little risk of being fired, but I just hate feeling like I’m dragging down the team.
Okay, first world problems, but… childcare for three kids ages four, two and newborn. Newborn hasn’t arrived yet. We currently have a nanny but her hours are long and she’d like to cut them back. We are seriously considering doing two shifts of nanny. Someday I’d love to go au pair but probably after the older two are in elementary school? Older two will go to “school” five days a week in the mornings and often have afternoon activities at least 2x a week.
Does anyone have two caregivers? Do they overlap? What schedule did you settle on? I’d love to replace our once a week housekeeping by having them overlap and also one of them do stuff around the house for example, but how to find? And I feel like an afternoon position could be great for a college student, but I’m not even sure how to start hiring for that. Any suggestions from this wise group? Daycares in our (large urban) area have long lists and weird hours and we are trying to keep things as simple for ourselves as possible (ha!)
Best pool floatie for a 12 month old? I like the puddle jumper for my toddler, but they are too big for the 12 month old (she’s long but lean). We’ll be at beach resort for a few days and she’ll be in my or DH’s arms in the pool, so not concerned about it being an independent flotation device as much as relieving our arms from some weight! Want something she can move around in or kick in. What floaties do you guys recommend?
Also, any recs for something we can take for her to enjoy the beach? I’m assuming she’ll hate to sit in the sand but wouldn’t mind eating it…
After using science to have kids, my husband and I have ended up with extra frozen embryos. Our family is as big as we want it to be, so we have three options with respect to the remaining embryos: 1. discard, 2. donate to science (to be used to train doctors/staff or for stem cell research), or 3. donate to another couple. Does anyone have experience with option 3? And more specifically, does anyone have experience with a situation where the donors donated to a couple they knew? Part of me feels like donating to someone struggling with infertility would be a wonderful thing to do — the other part of me is a little concerned about how I’d feel knowing that my kids’ biological sibling was out there, being raised by someone else (even — or maybe especially because — I’d know who exactly was raising them).
I need to vent. My husband hasn’t been able to walk since last Tuesday. He has pain in his ankle which we thought was gout. He wouldn’t go to the doctors thinking it would go away. We went to the walk-in over the weekend they can’t test for gout there, etc. They diagnosed as a sprained ankle (but he didn’t do anything to cause it to be that way) Now he’s going to PCP today. He is a hard patient, very stubborn etc. I have been dealing with symptoms of depression myself and then got my period yesterday which is always a emotional roller coaster for me. On top of it all we are flying to FL on Wednesday to visit my parents for a week and we are staying with them which causes me angst as well. I can imagine myself going through the airport with a 2 year old in a stroller and husband not able to walk, etc. Just need to vent thanks for listening and if you have any words of encouragement they would be much appreciated.
planning ahead for a 6 hour drive (including a stop) with one year old twins. given where my kids tend to fall on sleep schedules, i’m guessing they will still be on 2 naps when we make the trip. would you drive during the day or would you drive at night, leaving an hour before bedtime and then pray the transfer to the cribs at the hotel goes ok? we’ve flown with them before, but we’ve never taken a long driving trip.
What are the insurance ramifications of hiring a nanny to watch our children in our home who would bring her own child with her? We’re considering a woman to watch our almost-three-year-old twins who would bring her 9-month-old along. The house is still childproofed, but how do we handle the liability aspect? Would we need special insurance beyond homeowners and some kind of workers’ comp?
We had family friends that were on the receiving end of option 3. They adopted the embryos and now have two beautiful children. They keep in touch with the donors and send texts back and forth every once in awhile and remark how much the siblings in the two different families look like each other. Our friends and the donors did not know each other ahead of time. I think it’s easier that way than donating to someone close to you where you will constantly be comparing/contrasting.
Where in Europe would you recommend for travel with a toddler? We want to go to Europe in late spring/early summer with a ~15-16 month old. Currently Paris, Lisbon, Florence are the top contenders – thoughts on those cities or other places we should be considering? We have non-stop flights to Paris and Lisbon from our home airport. We’ve been to Paris and other parts of Italy several times before, so main agenda in Paris or Florence would be relaxing and eating. I’ve heard Lisbon is also a city with good food and a lot to enjoy in a low-key way (ie we wouldn’t feel like we haven’t seen the city if we don’t spend a lot of time in museums). But I’ve heard Lisbon isn’t super stroller friendly? The only city we really want to avoid is Amsterdam because we have plans to go there in 2020 with other family members. And I’m not a huge fan of Scandinavian cities (although I like the more rural, scenic areas in Norway/Sweden).
My long down coat is on its last legs — I’m hoping to get a new one on sale at the end of this season. So, two questions: (1) any specific recommendations? and (2) where/when are the good sales on this type of thing?
The coat does need to be fairly warm because I walk 30 minutes to/from work in temperatures that can dip into the single digits.