Washable Workwear Wednesday: Striped Tie-Neck Shirtdress
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I really like the combination of elements in this dress. I like how the black and white vertical stripes are broken up by the elasticized waist that has a little bloused element to it. The elasticized waist makes the dress look like it could be separates. There are buttons down the front to the waist, which could be helpful for pumping at work. I like the v-neck with ties, although I would probably tie them instead of leaving them loose like in the photos. This dress gives me a “Kate Middleton attending Wimbledon” vibe — and I don’t know about you, but I’d like to be putting those vibes out into the universe. It’s $129 full price at Ann Taylor (but be on the lookout for one of their frequent sales). Striped Tie-Neck Shirtdress
Two plus-size options are at Talbots (on sale — and available in all size ranges) and Bloomingdale’s.
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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?
I missed yesterday’s discussion about working mom forums. I agree, there isn’t anything out there. The reddit working mom forum is fairly quiet. My reddit summer babies group has moved over to discord and it works really well. It’s a small enough community that we get to know each other and feel comfortable sharing photos etc but would love a community more focused on the joys and challenges of life as a working mom.
Interviewing Doulas this weekend. What questions would you ask? Birth btw is in a hospital.
Thanks!
For those of you that are raising your kids with a religion when did that routine start showing up in your home? We are Jewish and maybe light candles once a month at home on Fridays, go to services once a month and host a shabbat dinner six times a year, and host huge gatherings for all major holidays. Now that we are expecting our first we are wondering when to start incorporating more stuff because want to raise our kid as Jewish. However, they obviously don’t really know what is going for the first part of their life. Did you start these routines right when the kid was born or did you give yourself a breather because life is crazy enough when they are tiny wait until they were a bit older?
Inspired by the question above- for families that are not religious, how/when did you explain religion? We live across the street from a church so we’ve explained generally what church is, and offered to let our kids (oldest is 5) check it out to see what’s inside…but I’m also happy to take her to other religious buildings in town. I would love some resources so we can explain religion without sounding condescending (want to avoid a convo that goes “some people do this but we don’t” “Why?” “Because we don’t believe those things.” “Why?”)
I know this has been covered in one form or another before but thought I’d ask – how do you merge rooms for kids when the younger kid is a super light sleeper? My youngest is still in our room but I really want to move him into our daughter’s room soon, which shouldn’t be a big issue as their bedtime is about the 30 min apart and could probably be the same and she is a super sound sleeper to the extent that he still wakes up at night.
The issue is he is a super light sleeper and she spends about 30 min to an hour each night messing around after “bedtime” – asking for a hug, water, to go to the moon, etc. Explaining to her that we need to be quiet for baby brother works, at best, about half the time. We already have all the sound machines. Ideas?
I need positive vibes and advice I am scheduled to have a difficult conversation with a team member this afternoon. She thinks she’s leading when in fact she is alienating and turning everyone away. She will also have every response to why it’s not her fault, but will blame others. help.
PSA: Sometimes the “Decalf” label on K cups is very small. I picked up a seasonal pack of K cups last week and did not notice that they were decalf until this morning. I completely startled my kids by screaming “you’ve got to be kidding me!” at the coffee maker this morning when I realized I had been drinking decalf for a week. I now understand my recent headaches and why my coffee at work seemed to pack so much more of a punch.
Does anyone have kiddos who had or have strabismus (crossed eyes)? My 6 month old was just diagnosed. Did it correct with glasses or did your kid need surgery? The ophthalmologist was very encouraging about the possibility of correcting it with glasses but my mind is (typically for me) jumping to worst case scenarios and I’m freaking out a bit at the thought of my tiny little baby having to have surgery.
For those who are bilingual, how, if at all, did you go about having your kids know both languages?
My husband and I are from the same foreign country but moved to the US as young kids. We spoke our native language at home but English outside the home. We’ve always spoken English between us and with our friends (even those who speak our native language). Now that we have a baby, it’s important to us that he knows enough of the native language to be able to communicate with our older relatives. Plus it may be a useful language to him in the future (fairly widespoken). So far we’ve been speaking to him in our native language but still speaking English to each other even when he’s in the room. Our parents speak the native language to him and he’ll be home with a nanny who speaks the native language starting next month when my leave ends.
So generally his only exposure to English is from husband and I speaking to each other and to friends or when we’re outside the home. We also read to him in English because we can’t read well in our native language. But nanny will read to him in native language. I’m worried that this confusion of languages will cause delays in speech and that he’ll be behind when he starts daycare in about a year. Is there a better way we can teach him both languages?
I would really appreciate advice on how better to screen babysitter candidates to find the type of sitters that we are looking for. Despite my efforts, our current sitter is not a great fit and I don’t know what I should have done instead in the screening process.
For the last several years we have hired after school babysitters from our local university, for 12 hrs/week. College students, ranging from 19 – 22 in age. They are responsible for doing some chores around the house, then picking up the kids and hanging out with them until I return home. They also do some dinner prep but no actual cooking.
I have two very energetic, boisterous, loving little boys. They can be a handful, especially after a long day at school, and so I have made it clear both in the job description and in the interviews that I really need someone high-energy, engaged and attentive. Our current sitter is….passive. She sort of just sits and stares at the kids, she doesn’t seem to engage. My kids don’t seem to be bonding with her at all.
I find this all very surprising because she seemed high-energy in the phone interview, the in-person interview at our home before I hired her (where I see how she interacts with the kids), and her references were all glowing.
What could I have done differently? Any specific questions you ask potential sitters that you find helpful?
Our prior college sitters have not been like this, so I can’t just blame this on youth.
Suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
PSA: The book “Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids” is on sale for $1.99 in Kindle format. I can’t recall if it’s been recommended here but it’s been on my to-read list for a while – if it’s on yours, now’s a good time to buy!
Could you tell you were pregnant even before missing a period? I swear that I’ve gained weight/bloated am extreme amount in the past couple of weeks, even though my diet and exercise haven’t changed. Also just generally not feeling too great. Is this all mental or are these all signs?
How would you feel about your nanny texting your husband independently with pictures/updates about your kids? I guess I just don’t understand why she doesn’t text us at the same time since she is sending us both the same pictures and videos. I’ve half-heatedly tried to respond once and include my husband but she responds just to me then and separately to my husband. My husband, ever generous, thinks she doesn’t have group texting. She has a new iphone so yeah, she has group texting. It makes me feel weird since she is young and reasonably attractive. I have 100% faith in my husband but I just don’t like that she texts with him on her own. Am I overreacting to this?
I tested two days before my period was expected because I felt like I had been hit by a truck– such extreme fatigue. Bloating didn’t happen until a few weeks later. But really the only way to know for sure is to wait until you’re close enough to your period that you can test.
I think you’re doing all the right things. The key is to have as many people in the home speaking the native language to him, and ideally, speaking the native language to each other. I would love to raise my kids bilingual but it hasn’t worked out that way so far, much to my immense regret. Husband and I speak the same language but he is a native speaker and I am not, so I can’t carry on a conversation in native language for hours on end. I had hoped that husband would only speak that language to my kids but he never did, and now my kids are way behind. So now we’re doing weekly language school.
So bottom line, just keep doing what you’re doing. There will likely be a language delay in English and that’s normal and expected, your little one will catch up very soon once starting school. I did not speak English until I started preschool and became fluent within a short time.