Washable Wednesday: Floral Printed Pencil Skirt

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Striped Work Skirt: The Limited Floral Printed Pencil SkirtI feel like I was just ogling a similar skirt for something like five times this price — not only is this one on deep sale, but it’s also machine washable (and available in tall and petite sizes as well as regular sizes 0-18). It is a bit of a mystery why it’s called “Floral Printed Skirt” when, you know, it’s striped, but for $27 I’d take the chance. It’s actually part of a pretty great sale at Limited, so do poke around a bit if you have time — lots of lucky sizes, so start off sorting by that first. The Limited Floral Printed Pencil Skirt Here’s a plus-size option. (L-3)

Sales of note for 2/7:

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

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
  • Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
  • J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
  • J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
  • Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – 40% off one item + free shipping on $150+

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

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Can anyone recommend a good, easy-to-use, small baby food grinder? I want to grind up what the rest of the family is eating for the baby (starting a few months from now). TIA!

Advice on job burnout?

Things have been awful and wonky since coming back from maternity leave a little over a year ago. My job was totally changed when my position was merged with another, unrelated position – what in effect was a form of demotion. My boss is thrilled with the arrangement and there is no visible hope of any change in my position or any hope of a promotion or lateral move to a different position. The restructure that impacted my position is a severely limiting factor in my job performance. My original position is getting shuffled to the back burner, and my skills are growing rusty. Every time I seek to reintroduce original position tasks, my efforts are defeated by urgent demands of add-on position. I’m questioning my desire to remain in my original field and even looking to move into a new field – but I find myself stabbing in the dark randomly at anything that piques my interest.

I’ve been applying for jobs for a year, with a number of promising interviews and no offers. I’ve been battling depression, which my counselor says is purely situational and will resolve itself when I get out of my current position. I scrape by doing the bare minimum, but no one seems to notice – I just had an excellent performance review because my boss is so happy with how I’m “saving money” by working both positions – actual results don’t seem to matter. I hate my job, I hate getting out of bed in the morning, and I resent leaving my kiddo behind to do something so miserable. Quitting is not a financial possibility, as DH has been laid off.

I’m grateful to have a job. But it is slowly killing me.

Hit me with your best survival tips!

What sort of child proofing would you do in a rental apartment? We don’t have any stairs inside our apartment but do have a lot of open shelving. We plan to live in this apartment for at least 1-2 more years (so we’re looking at a 1.5-2.5 year old). Is it worth it to hire a service?

My kids did not fall asleep until 10:00pm last night… and were up at 6:15 this morning. No advice or questions, just ugh wtf kids?

I love our city and moving “home” (where my parents/family still live) isn’t something I’m actually considering. But I’m looking into daycare options for our baby due in July, and I’m feeling jealousy/remorse/regret about life decisions when I found out how basically all moms I know here have their family taking care of their kid, either full or part time. For one, it’s been hard to get good daycare recommendations. And second, I’ll be paying $18,000ish a year in some kind of “independence tax” because I didn’t move home like literally every other member of my extended family when they had kids. I have six aunts that all live within ten miles of my parents, and almost all the aunts are involved in various cousins’ kids’ lives. I’m not at all worried about my kid not getting to see their family – we go back east quite a bit (only 3.5 hour drive) and I’m sure my parents will be here often visiting. My husband’s family is local, but his parents both still work and they aren’t “baby people” like my family – good to watch our baby in a pinch, but not for part time day care.

Ugh I know I’m being immature about this, and I wouldn’t trade our life here, but MAN it would be nice to have family helping out.

/whining

I have a friend who likes to brag about how she walked at 9 months. You read that right: the friend brags about her own self having walked at nine months (not her baby). I find it so odd. Once I said something along the lines of, oh yes, that must be why you’re such a gifted walker now. It just makes me so confused as to why that would be a point of pride. We both walk now. Like, THE SAME.

I think projecting it a few years (or in this case, decades) ahead helps to put it into perspective.

Any thoughts or advice on not comparing your kid to others? My baby is almost 9 months, so around the age where you are on the lookout for major milestones. I really feel strongly about not being the kind of parent who plays “keeping up with the joneses” with my kids. Part of this is just my personality and part of it is wanting to break strongly and clearly against the culture of my husbands family which is obsessed with judgment-by-comparison (he jokingly refers to his cousins as “age matched controls”).

I thought this would be easier but I keep slipping into the trap of checking the birthdate on the crib of that kid in daycare who is pulling up already and worrying if the kid is younger or close in age to mine. I also feel defensive when relatives make comments about what he is/isn’t doing already and speculating about how soon he’ll walk or whatever. Or when my husband tells me that so-and-so’s baby is cruising already. Part of the difficulty I think is that it is necessary to be aware of developmental milestones in order to spot any potential delays or difficulties. I’m finding it hard to be aware but not too aware. My goal is to fully embrace my kid as his own individual person. I want to nip this comparison crap in the bud early. I also need to figure out how to guard against outside influences who are judging how my kid measures up without being too defensive. But I think defensiveness comes from insecurity so I need to work on myself first. Any tips? Mantras?

I would be most concerned about getting hurt climbing out of the crib. Why not move her straight into the queen if that’s the goal?

My first kid moved to big kid bed (a twin) at about 26 months. The queen may seem a little big (the twin did!) but you could make it seem smaller by getting two of those soft bumper guards (I think they are inflatable so they take up more room than just a solid railing). My kid never fell off his bed, even without a rail, but he doesn’t really move around much and never did in the crib either.

She may have a couple more weeks of excitement when not bound, but eventually she’ll realize it’s not that fun and start sleeping again.

Any tips or anecdata to share on sleeping arrangements for a jailbroken 26 month old? Our options are a crib (that does not convert), crib mattress on the floor, twin mattress on the floor, or queen bed. The queen bed will stay in the room regardless and that is the ultimate goal. Jailbreaks occur even with legless sleep sacks. Right now she’s in the crib with a pillow and duvet, with the door shut and an audio monitor. I’m only asking because we are losing sleep at bedtime and at naps to getting up and roaming about the room. Thanks in advance!

So I’m thinking of taking a solo trip, probably to a spa, in the next few months. I feel guilty for leaving the kiddo with her dad for a few days, but it was his idea. And of course I’ll miss her. I also am worried about actually unplugging from work, but I really need to and can’t seem to do that if I’m in town. And the cost, we can afford it, but the money could also go towards a family thing or the college fund. I’d like to take a trip with my husband, but we don’t have anyone we could leave the LO with.

I should do this, right? It just feels so decadent and indulgent that I feel like I need permission or a better reason than ‘I’m stressed and sick of winter’. Stupid mom, wife, and worker bee guilt.

Would any of you consider going to Brazil this summer? I’m having some second thoughts about traveling to Brazil given the publicity around the Zika virus, but I’m not sure if I’m overreacting.

My daughter is sixteen months old. We did away with her pacifier cold turkey almost two weeks ago. She does ok at nap times, but at night she tends to cry for up to thirty minutes (or some combo of crying/yelping/squirming) before falling asleep. She also now protests going to bed as we are winding down for the night with stories, music, and lights off. She will scream, run, and kick to avoid getting in her crib! With the pacifier she would calmly and sweetly go to bed immediately without a problem. I thought this would resolve more quickly than it has…Has anyone had this experience? Advice?