Accessory Tuesday: Tess Pump
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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?
Thanks for the helpful responses yesterday! Also, there’s a definite car wash/rain-type correlation to posting here/work emergencies. Ha!
To piggyback off of yesterday’s post on rising kindergarteners, I’d be curious to hear how others have handled the after school situation. Our oldest will be starting kindergarten in a few weeks, and her school has before and after care for a very reasonable price. We were originally leaning toward getting a sitter to pick up both her and her little brother (from daycare) and bring them home for a couple of hours before we’re done with work. My husband and I both have relatively flexible jobs and may be able to swing an early day a couple of times a week, meaning we could pick up the kids between 4/4:30. Otherwise, she’ll be there until 5:30 or so. Will my daughter be exhausted? She’s been in full-time daycare for years and regularly spends 10 hours there, but I know kindergarten is a different animal.
my three year old has very little interest in drawing and scribbling and coloring etc. I’m getting worried because she can’t come close to writing her name or drawing a stick figure and I’m pretty sure she cannot draw circle, square etc. she’s totally fine in other areas – very verbal, can count, identify some letters, and spell her name, but I’m worried about these milestones. We recently took her out of full time daycare for scheduling reasons and now she’s home with a nanny and will start at a Montessori preschool school in the fall. I think I’m feeling bad that she isn’t learning as much as she was in daycare and while our nanny is fine she’s not great and I don’t think she really is working with her at any learning type stuff. Should I be concerned about this? Should I force her to work on it if she isn’t interested?
I recently read The Crane Wife essay and I can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve reread it twice now and I just keep finding new things to reflect on. Just thought I’d share.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/
Postpartum binders: anyone tried a postpartum binder targeted to the hip area? I know Kat had a great post about taking advantage of the excess post-birth hormones to get your shape back and I used the Bellefit with my first kiddo’s v-birth in 2015 (thanks, Kat!)—it worked well for waist reshaping. However with my current pregnancy, my hips have really spread and I want to bring them back inline post-birth, if possible. Looking at the ‘Zon, seems like there are a lot more options for binders than 4 years ago and they’re like 1/5th of the price (hello overseas third party sellers). I’m especially interested in the 3-in-1 binder products that have a separate piece for the pelvic area. Any tried these?
I came back from maternity leave to my biglaw job a couple months ago. I’m supposed to be 80%, but am billing over 100% with people asking me to do even more. My husband (who has a government job) is picking up a lot of slack because I haven’t been able to get home before bedtime most days. I’m overwhelmed and feel like my previously under-control ppd is starting to spiral out of control again. I have applied to one government position, but don’t expect to hear back for a while. The thought of sticking it out in this job while I continue to job search makes me get a pit in my stomach. I think I want to give my notice and then job search while taking a little time off, but I’m scared. I want to keep working, so I don’t want to do this if it will tank my career. FWIW, I have several years experience in biglaw, went to HYS, and am not looking to land a particularly prestigious job. So wise hive, what do you think? Can I leave now, get a new job later, or do I need to stick it out through long hours and worsening mental health?
How do you pack for trips with your kids? When it was just 2 moms, we would put everything in 1 big duffel. With the kids, we need more packing space! Trying to figure out if I should get another big duffel (so 1 mom bag, 1 kid bag), or if we should think about bags for the kids. They seem too small to carry their own bags at this moment. But would it just make it easier in the long run for them to have their own bag?
Currently we do all of our travel by car. I anticipate that we will plan a bigger trip by air within the next year.
My son’s 9mo pediatrician appt is tomorrow. Anyone have insight into what milestones the doctor is going to ask about? Also any recommendations for questions I should ask? Just like to be as prepared as possible. Thanks!
Does anyone have a good calendar app that works across Android and Apple so a family can share calendar events? My husband and I have tried Outlook and Gmail and both seem to be glitchy in sharing events accurately. Thanks!
I usually find Clark’s brand comfortable. I am wearing Clark’s Dancer Nolin pump right now and I find it has a nice classic shape, is comfortable with good padding and suede foot bed ( my feet get sweaty). I see it’s only 45 dollars in Amazon! Great deal of you are looking to get a pair.
I think I’m going to take a weekend away. AWAY. No husband, no kids, no job, no people needing anything from me.
I am an extrovert, but what I really want more than anything is to lay by a pool with a book and read. I want to watch HGTV and get a massage and take a shower that’s long enough to shave my legs AND wash my hair.
Specific resort suggestions? Short flight from the Northeast is fine, looking to do this late Sept/early October (Hurricaine season, I know). Don’t really like yoga, do like running and hiking but am very very okay with doing nothing.
I’m pretty sure my summer sitter sucks, but I don’t know how or if I can fix it, or I cut bait and find someone else.
I have 3 kids. They can be a handful if not properly watched, because they are 1, 3 and 6. They need an experienced sitter. They need an engaged sitter who can do “crowd control” type stuff and keep track of all 3 at once. I work from home a lot this summer and generally stay out of the way (my office is in another part of the house). But i’m around enough to watch that:
1. my 3 year old walks all over the sitter, bossing her around and generally being bratty. I’ve talked to the sitter 5+ times about correcting this behavior and making sure she is the adult in the relationship, telling her how we do discipline (time outs) etc. this hasn’t changed at all. Totally fair that my 3 y/o is the brat here (but no worse than the average 3 year old), but I’m comparing to other sitters who can say “you need to use nice words” or “you get what you get and you don’t get upset” etc.
2. My six year old has TWICE in the past two weeks BITTEN my 3 year old while this sitter is here. I have no idea how this happens. It never NEVER has happened with other sitters, and never with me or my husband around. From what I gather, the two kids are too close, fighting (today it was apparently over whose turn it was at aboard game and the little one stole the piece), and the sitter cannot/does not keep them separate. I know 3 kids is hard, but this last incident happened when the baby was asleep, so she was just dealing with a 3 and 6 year old.
I’m so torn- I can’t teach this person how to be a babysitter. She shows up when she says she will. She cleans up (enough). My kids don’t particularly like her– in that when she sits, they are like “eh, ok.” vs their eyes lighting up when other sitters come over. But I’m starting to feel like my kids aren’t entirely safe (from eachother). Is this valid?
FWIW, the sitter is ~20 and home from college. We’ve had many college aged sitters before but they’ve all been great with the kids. Heck, my 13 year old neighbor mothers’ helpers and she’s a million times better.
Ugh, I really don’t want to find a new sitter this far into the summer but I feel like I may have to. I straight up told her (when i heard the screaming across the house today and went to see what happened) that I need her to be able to keep my kids safe, and that when they are biting each other, they are not safe.