Makeup & Beauty Monday: Stay Vulnerable Melting Cream Blush
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I’m usually skeptical of celebrity makeup brands, but this made-for-summer blush from Rare Beauty may change my mind.
This easy-to-use liquid/cream blush blends seamlessly into your skin for a natural-looking, “I just ran for the train” flush. The light coverage works for all skin types, and it’s free from several hard-to-pronounce ingredients. It’s perfect for those looking for a natural summer look (or if you’re a little rusty with your makeup routine).
Rare Beauty’s Stay Vulnerable Melting Cream Blush is $21 at Sephora and comes in five colors.
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
Anyone with a 5-11 year old who has gotten them boosted? If so, how did it affect them? My 6 yo was fine after the first two shots but wondering if the booster will be harder.
My 21 month old is waking up an hour earlier than usual (5/515 instead of 6/615 – ugh). His bedtime has been 630. I tried pushing it back to 730 thinking he my just need less sleep now – but sometimes he just won’t fall asleep until 8 (he plays/talks in his crib). His generally naps for 2-2.5 hours from 12:30-230/3.
We also recently moved his crib to a different spot in his room AND he’s learned how to unzip his sleep sack… so there are a lot of variables going on.
Any ideas on how to get him to wake up after 6? I can’t handle 5am long term 😱
How did you disclose your pregnancy at work? And did you notice any career repercussions?
I am 14w along, I mostly work hybrid so have been able to hide the bump but need to go in the office this week for some large meetings and have other large meetings in a few weeks. My employer I’m sure will be supportive as we have a decent maternity leave policy and are always on Working Mother lists. Relevant to note is that I haven’t been at my employer for a year yet (hello, 2021 great resignation) but I’ll be over a year by the time I give birth.
My boss is likely to take it well initially but pull me from projects and talk poorly behind my back. He has made disparaging comments about a peer of mine who took paternity leave, which more than one person reported to HR. Boss also made comments recently about how he went back into the office when his wife was in labor because the labor was progressing slowly. And in case you were wondering, he’s in his early 40s.
Also relevant to the conversation: he didn’t hire me; I was reorged under him and he’s said several times that he doesn’t understand what I do and has made it clear he isn’t interested in being aware or involved. I have several VPs throughout the enterprise reaching out to me on a regular basis and singing my praises to him, but I don’t get the sense he has a high opinion of me or my team. I have asked for feedback on more than one occasion and been deflected, so I don’t even know what I need to do differently in his eyes.
I’ll see him tomorrow and really dreading it. I tried on a lot of clothes last night and found a few things that just make me look fat and not pregnant. Ideally, I’d like to wait to announce for another month or so, because I’m not looking forward to being even more marginalized in his eyes.
Any positive stories or watchouts to share?
Encouraging (I think?) COVID story!
My husband tested positive on Tuesday and we immediately isolated him in the main bedroom/bathroom. It’s been almost a week and no one else is positive, including our unvaccinated four-year-old. We did, however, catch the OTHER respiratory thing going around that is not COVID (confirmed by multiple rapids and a PCR).
I know a lot of people come here to ask if there’s any hope they won’t catch it when it enters the household, and it’s possible to get lucky!
Also, I highly recommend DoorDashing several slices of various specialty cheesecakes from cheesecake factory to get through solo parenting. Cheesecake on the living room air mattress at the end of the day has been the only thing to save my sanity lol
i thought last week’s discussion about whether you would quit if you had a windfall of money was interesting. so many of this site i think are high achievers and i was told i should go to the best schools, get a high paying, high powered job etc. and while i’ve definitely derailed from that, it has taken me a while to realize and be ok with the fact that not everyone is going to be sheryl sandberg. on that note though, I asked DH what he would do if he no longer had to work and he like couldn’t grasp the question, it was almost funny. if that same question was asked on a site for men/fathers, do you think the responses would be different?
Can any parents of ADHD elementary school students provide some guidance for me? Kiddo is 4, looking like we are heading down that road based on preschool evaluations and we need to make some decisions about K next year (no official diagnosis yet, but can feel it coming). Classic symptoms of not being able to sit still, can’t focus and only wants to do what they want to do. We have been working with an OT 2x a week for over a year, but still have safety issues (running into street, etc.) We have the means to send them to a private school focused on kids with special needs, should we do that (I can cut back at my job easily enough to accommodate)? Or try for the public school with IEP etc. first? They’ve never been able to do more than 3 hours of preschool, spending the rest of time with a nanny (or me). And I’m le tired.
I don’t even know what I’m looking for here, maybe hope or reality check or commiseration. I don’t know what I don’t know. They’re not even in K yet and I’m feeling exhausted just thinking about what’s in front of me.
With the <5 vaccine rollout happening in (hopefully) a few short weeks, I'm trying to wrap my head around where I'm going to get my kids vaccinated. My ped isn't doing vaccinations since they don't have a cold enough freezer.
I know this is somewhat region- specific, but interested where others are thinking to get their littles vaccinated to get some ideas where to look.
today is my 4 year old twins first day of camp. it is at their school, but they just call it camp bc it involves water play and not everyone continues year round, so they are in a different class, etc. despite my best efforts, they seem to think its a campout, like they’ve seen in tv shows bc that is what the word ‘camp’ means to them and were very worried that it is going to be dark and that they will have to sleep there.
Does anyone have any older/competitive gymnasts who have any thoughts on gymnastics and injuries? I have a 9 year old who loves it and has a lot of natural talent for it, but it the stuff she does scares me and I know it’s only getting worse once she is in the team next year and as she continues to get more serious. It was great as she was younger and just did fun things, but just watching her scares me now and I have heard of stories of some pretty serious injuries (e.g., requiring surgery) from older gymnasts. Any advice on how to reduce my own anxiety about it or is this something we should really consider as she gets more into it?
My husband brought home bed bugs and possibly Covid from his recent conference. Just what I need after weeks of solo parenting.
Ideas needed! My elem kids (K, 2) had an amazing bus driver this year in a lot of ways. I was going to get him an end of year coffee gift card, maybe $20-$25, and then decided to email some others I know on our bus route and see if they wanted to chip in. Well, word got around and people are generous and now I have almost $300 toward this gift! That’s a LOT of Starbucks!
What should I do with the cash? He’s a young-ish guy (?30s?) with kids. He has an amazing rapport with the kids on the bus, always shows up on time, watches out for the little kids, etc. Handing him an envelope of cash seems weird. Small gift basket (snack filled- our kids have a list of what he is always snacking on) or coffee mug with a $50 coffee GC and a $200 amazon GC? Just an amazon GC? A visa GC? Target? Other ideas?
Thanks!
Is it normal for a toddler to snore? My 3 year old girl snores regularly, even when taking naps (like yesterday, in the car), and it worries me, but I have no idea if I should be worried or not. She also has tubes in her ears. I will 100% ask the ped next time we’re there, but I’m curious if this is a thing to ask about now, as opposed to at the next check up. Thanks!!
Seeking advice for three year old sleep……
My son just turned three. Fortunately, he has always been an excellent sleeper, but we have occasionally had our tiny regressions etc., yet he seems to really have slightly higher than average sleep needs. My son is day time potty trained (started in January, has been day time accident free for 7+ weeks), and I don’t think he’s ready for night time potty training, as he still wakes up from naps and in the morning with a pretty full wet diaper. He still sleeps in a sleep sack and in a crib with all four sides up and has never once attempted to climb out of the crib. We have asked him if he wants us to turn it into a bed or if he wants to just sleep with his blanket. He says “no” to all of these questions. He doesn’t even like to lie down for extended periods of time on our bed, and says “I sleep in my crib” when we ask him if he wants to lay down on the bed or on the nugget couch in his room. He naps just fine at school on his nap mat on the floor.
Typically, the sleep schedule has been that we put him down around 7:00/7:15 and he sleeps until 7:00/7:15 am. The past few weeks, he hasn’t been settling down at night right away (will sing to himself and just generally roll around in his crib), and we go back in around 7:30/7:45 to check on him. In the past, this not settling down would mean that he had likely pooped in his diaper, and we’d change it and he’d immediately go to sleep. Now, when we have gone in to check on him, I ask he if has to go potty, and he says yes. So we go, and he generally pees, and often poops as well, but it takes like 15+ minutes before he’s done on the potty at this time of night (the rest of the time, it doesn’t take nearly this long, and he eats a lot of veggies, so I know he’s not constipated). But, this means that he’s not actually getting to sleep sometimes until like 8:30. While I know that’s normal for many kids his age, it means that he is basically still asleep in the morning at 7:15 when we go to wake him up. This morning he even pulled his blanket over his head and said “I don’t want to go to school today, it’s time for my nap.”
The past few nights, to try and prevent this problem, we’ve tried to do an extra potty before putting on the nighttime diaper, and go to bed a bit later (like 7:30/7:45), and he still not settling down and probably didn’t end up falling sleep until close to 9:00. We have a video monitor, and have been encouraging him to say “I have to go to the potty” and we will get him and go to the potty, but no luck with what. FWIW, we have always just used a potty seat on our normal toilet and a stepstool and never a little potty.
I know eventually we’ll have to move to a toddler bed and out of the sleep sack, and I discussed this with our pediatrician and she said as long as he’s not climbing out of the crib, it’s fine to keep him in both. Any tips or advice for how to get this boy his extra hour of needed sleep back?
My newly minted 4 year old (April bday) has a default reaction of fear to most things, it seems. She’s a VERY outgoing girl at home and around people she knows, but we’re finding this a pattern as we venture out and do more things that are out of the normal routine or destinations.
Swimming lessons Saturday were a disaster, for example. We had our first non-“mommy and me” swimming lesson and she was scared out of her mind. She loves the pool, ocean, tub – you name it – with us but I couldn’t have bribed her with all the candy in the world to get her anywhere near the edge of the pool. We prepped her for the lessons a ton as far as what to expect – she was so excited for the lessons she wore her bathing suit all day Friday ahead of Saturday, but then Saturday just totally seized up.
Different, but along the same lines: her preschool teacher told us she recently “came out of her shell” and I literally asked if they were talking about the right kid. I was floored. I don’t think she has ever been in a shell. She has two cousins the same age and she’s hands down the loud, performative one of the trio in all settings. Apparently she’s been incredibly shy, wouldn’t participate in circle time or music class until this spring. Meanwhile, at home, she sets up a “stage” with her nuggets and uses a spoon for a microphone and belts out songs she knows. It’s like two different kids!
I have a few other examples, too, but I think this gets the point across.
I don’t think this is necessarily atypical of the age, being cautious of the unknown or new environments, but is there any good advice out there about how to appropriately address and support her? More exposure to the unknown? Follow her cues? I had two very well intentioned but very pushy parents and I’m sensitive to over pushing/forcing things, but also don’t want to be overly sensitive and exacerbate the reaction, if that makes sense. Should I sign her up for the dance lessons in the fall that she claims she wants to do, or just sit tight and focus on swimming lessons, for example? Appreciate any insights or similar experiences you have! TIA.
Random question. I’ve had my kids in swim lessons off and on for years. (With a big break for covid.) They both mostly can do a freestyle stroke, but it doesn’t look clean or confident. I’d like them both to feel like they can confidently swim, which is a life skill I don’t have. They’re 6 and 8 yo now.
Many in our area sign their elementary aged kids up for summer swim team, which is one way to get enough practice to learn to swim well. I’m not sure we’ll be able to do summer swim given my work schedule, wait lists for good swim clubs, and crazy practice times.
What are my other options? Weekly lessons don’t seem to lead to real progress. We go to the pool a lot in the summer, but my kids don’t default to a freestyle stroke so they don’t improve. I don’t need Olympians, but I’d love to have my kids be strong swimmers.