Accessory Tuesday: Stella Flat

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Naturalizer Stella Women\'s Pointed Ballet Flats Women\'s flatThese Naturalizer flats look so fun — I love them. They only have a couple of reviews so far, but they’re very positive. I think the pictured lilac color is really cute, but note that they also come in a lighter pink and in black. This looks like a great, sophisticated, sleek flat and it’s only $99 at Nordstrom, and Naturalizer. It comes in sizes 4–11. Stella Flat This post contains affiliate links and CorporetteMoms may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support!

Sales of note for 2/14/25 (Happy Valentine’s Day!):

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase — and extra 60% off sale
  • Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + 15% off (readers love their suiting as well as their silky shirts like this one)
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 300+ styles $25 and up
  • J.Crew – 40% of your purchase – prices as marked
  • J.Crew Factory – 50% off entire site and storewide + extra 50% off clearance
  • Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – Flash sale ending soon – markdowns starting from $15, extra 70% off all other markdowns (final sale)

And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interestworking mom questions asked by the commenters!

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If you live in the right area, a college student or graduate student could be a good fit. Someone that has free nights/late afternoons and no overnight commitments. I wouldn’t trust most high school students with an overnight, but a grad student could be perfect and a very responsible undergrad could as well. You’d have to have the kind of role (DH too) that could give a caregiver a month’s notice. When I traveled, it was sometimes “hey, WE HAVE A FIRE OVER HERE FLY OUT TOMORROW TO PUT IT OUT.” That might be trickier.

Birthday party advice needed! I’m planning a 2 hour birthday party, and we’ll have 10-12 kids there. I have a small craft activity planned for the first 15 minutes to give people time to arrive, and then a 45 minute big group activity. Will cake/ice cream, a pinata, and pin-the-tail-on-the-animal take up a full remaining hour? It feels like it would….but if it doesn’t, I’d like to have a back-up activity. I suppose we could do a bit more of the main activity…or read a story.

Any suggestions for a pre-baby long weekend in Scottsdale/Phoenix? Mostly looking to lounge by the pool and have good food, and I’m open to hiking or other low-impact pregnancy-friendly activities.

Hugs. It is so hard to learn about anatomy defects during pregnancy. Once you have a diagnosis, reach out to local support groups or facebook groups to connect with other parents. These will give you good resources in terms of figuring out what to expect after birth and a place to ask about doctors and hospitals as well as provide some emotional support.

Can I just say how hard it is to have a kiddo whose struggling with behavior at school? I have a bright, sweet funny 5.5 year old boy in kindergarten who has really struggled with behavior over the past few weeks (was a little bit of a struggle before break, has been worse after). He has a teacher I really like whose tried a number of different things with him and us and my husband and I have been working extra hard at being consistent, enforcing consequences and staying even with him. He can be impulsive and has tantrums that escalate quickly. He feels bad afterwards and is starting to verbalize feeling bad about himself. His teacher doesn’t think he has any diagnosis, just that he’s immature (but felt like waiting a year wouldn’t have been helpful-June b-day-because he’s doing really well academically and she felt like he would have been bored and gotten into more trouble if we’d waited). It’s just kind of a grind right now. I spend my days at work worried about how his day is going. His teacher has been good about working with the school counselor and I’ve told them that if they have ideas about outside interventions we are all for them. But I’m so used to just working and fixing problems at work and this is hard. Also my heart kind of aches for him. His teacher thinks he’s just immature and that this will get better. But right now it’s just so hard.

My husband has adopted this way of talking to me that’s getting on my nerves, and I don’t know if I’m being unreasonable. Instead of saying “Are you leaving soon,” he’ll say “You leaving soon?” It’s the omission of one word but I so dislike how it sounds! “You find that book?” instead of “Did you find that book” …I actually brought it up some months back and he kind of laughed it off. And started it back up again!
In the universe of possible issues, I realize this is silly. (Do) you guys think I’m overreacting? :)

We just found out that our IVF treatment worked, and I’m pregnant with #2! Our first child is in elementary school so it’s been awhile since I’ve been down this road. What’s the advice on working out while pregnant these days? The nurse at the RE’s office said I’m fine to keep doing what I’ve been doing (but tone down any intense interval training or anything like that), but I seem to recall my OB during my first pregnancy saying to keep my heart rate below 130. Is that still the advice or is that outdated? I generally do a mix of cardio and weights, but nothing terribly intense like crossfit or marathon training.

Also, where is a good place to get some quality but inexpensive br@s? My b00bs are already growing!

I am really feeling the working mom “bad at everything” today.

Any tips on surviving nebulizer treatments for a 10-month-old? We’ll try letting him watch a video on our phone, but I’m not sure he’s old enough for that.

Does anyone have a solid sick policy in their office that makes it clear you are expected to stay home when you are sick? I work with someone who was out all last week (bedridden for 4 days) is now on antibiotics (which is a whole other conversation) but was congested and tired yesterday, left early in the afternoon and is working from home this morning, but insisting we keep our meeting this afternoon saying that she is no longer contagious. I basically refused, so I am saved for today, but wondering if there is a clear policy we can implement. I hate to pull the mom card on everything but I feel like my single colleagues are just not aware that if I get sick it’s more than just taking a few days of PTO and feeling better. It means my husband and kids get sick, too, and a whole punch of PTO to cover days away from daycare and a partner who is down for the count, etc.

We had stretches like this with one of my twins. He just finds daycare much more exhausting than his brother. He’s wiped at the end of the day and it shows at dinner time. He’d sleep on the table if I let him.

Our happy medium is that I’ll load his fork or spoon and he’ll put it in his own mouth. He will actually protest now if I try to feed him. Sometimes the fine motor skills to navigate getting the right amount of food onto the fork/spoon without it falling off is just exhausting at the end of the day. Picking up the fork and putting it in his mouth seems to be easier for him.

They feed themselves at lunch at daycare and for two snacks at daycare so it’s not like he never gets practice. Kindergarten is a long way away. Worry about getting through this week.

I’m sure this issue has been raised, but I’m in crisis mode and looking for positive success stories and directions to pursue. I’m in litigation and I HATE it. I want desperately to do something else but have been doing this somehow for ten years and have done reasonably well at my small plaintiffs firm and made junior partner some time ago. But I feel like I am at a plateau right now in terms of career here, and increasingly hating my job and now lacking motivation to even continue which had never been a problem before despite my lack of enthusiasm for litigation. But to continue to pay my mortgage (in Boston suburbs) even with DH’s salary and realizing I would probably need to take a pay cut, I need to be making at least 90-100K (or with that potential) . I don’t want another litigation job, but honestly can’t figure out what else I am qualified to even do this far out. I’m also just so stressed and overwhelmed by the whole process that I’m almost paralyzed to even do anything to help myself with a job search. I think I might need a career coach at this point, but I’m also wary of that option for some reason.

We have 21 month old twins and our son has recently gotten incredibly picky at lunch and dinner– turning down even toddler staples like mac and cheese/nuggets/etc. He threw a major tantrum last night in his high chair until I fed him with my fork out of my bowl… the same food that was on his tray. Then he ate everything, green veggies included. My husband is reluctant to humor him because we’ve been trying to teach them to use forks and spoons, and he could definitely just eat dinner with his hands… but dinners have been SO exhausting lately that I’m inclined to just feed him off my plate for a while longer and push this battle down the road. Any input? I don’t think he’ll be getting fed by me in kindergarten, but I see why this seems like spoiling him…

Yesterday I had my anatomy scan and we were diagnosed with a single unmbilical artery resulting in a congenital defect of only one kidney. We have a follow up ECG for reassurance of no heart defects and all of the testing we have done so far shows no chromosomal disorders.

Anyone here have any insight or experience with this? This is my second pregnancy and the first resulted in a loss at 16 weeks due to Turners. I’m scared yet trying to be optimistic and educate myself. I read many peer reviews articles yesterday and many talk about SUA but not many talk about only one kidney. I am also talking to my medical team but just looking for peer support.

Hello ladies! My DD is 17 months old, and I believe it is time for me to look for another job. I am an attorney and my current job has decent hours, but I have no professional challenge, and the pay is not that great. Plus I work in a niche field so I am afraid that if I stick for too long I will not have opportunities later. I have been practicing for 2 years. Am I crazy to want something else? Should I wait until DD is over 2 and goes to daycare?

When do you search for jobs and apply? We have a nanny so I was thinking to wake up super early-like 5.00 am and work on my resume and job applications before getting ready for work. It is impossible to do this on the weekends as my baby wants all the attention so I barely get any cooking done. Did any of you apply for jobs during your lunch hour at work? Also, if I work with a recruiter will they help me with my resume?

Thanks!