Accessory Tuesday: The Lygia Necklace
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Here’s the look-at-me necklace I’ve been seeking.
I don’t often think of M.M. LaFleur for jewelry, but maybe I should. This 20-inch necklace made from acrylic resin features a bold interlocking chain.
I can see it working with a variety of necklines: crewneck, V-neck, scoop neck, or even a turtleneck. It’s what I need right now to punch up my button-downs and sheath dresses.
The Lygia Necklace is $125 and comes in the pictured “jasper” (a dark red, and my pick) or ivory/beige.
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+
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 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?
Ugh I’ve had three non-Covid colds in the last two months. I’m currently laid up in bed with a 101.9 fever feeling absolutely awful. I forgot how yucky non-Covid illness can be.
I concur with others that the climbing wall and slide fall out of favor quickly.
Monkey bars can be useful to older kids and adults for pull-ups.
Our neighbors had to take down their climbing rope because their kids were forever trying to tie it around various body parts and then jump off the slide platform to “fly.”
Crowdsourcing vacation ideas:
1. Warm, beachy vacation that is easy to get to from Chicago and the Bay Area for a getaway with some friends from law school. Priority is good food. All-inclusive is fine but not a must have. Aiming for October.
2. Trip in June with three pre-teen/teens (9-13). They like swimming, walking around, amusements parks and animals. Maybe one or two museums but not more. Continental U.S. Not Chicago, Bay Area or Oregon coast. I had been thinking about NYC/Boston, but I’m afraid it might be too many museums.
Thanks!
Following up on the sports discussion above, my 6 YO son isn’t super into sports, but a lot of his friends are, and I think he’s feeling left out. He’s worried about not being good enough though, and based on that, he is not really willing to try sports. Ideas on how I can encourage him to just give it a shot/have fun? I don’t care about him being super into sports or being some great athlete but I don’t want his self consciousness to hold him back.
Passing on a random tip that a friend suggested and has been a game-changer: during the first few months after the baby is born when you’re feeding them in bed and milk is getting everywhere, keep a towel in bed with you. I used a cheap Target beach towel and it was SO much easier to find in the middle of the night than a burp cloth, plus it soaked up all the leaking milk from whatever side I wasn’t nursing on much more effectively. I did not have this tip for my first two kids and wish I did, so maybe it will help someone else.
What would you do? DD (7) signed up for spring soccer, under the premise that she would be playing with one of her BFFs. Long story short, her school/grade had too many girls for one team, and she and BFF ended up on different teams. She was crying at the end of the first practice because she was so disappointed. (She is pretty quick to tears these days, FWIW.) She knows other girls on her assigned team, so I didn’t think it would be a big deal. This is context for a season that didn’t start out under ideal circumstances.
We’re now three games into an eight-game season, and it’s not going well. She half-heartedly participates at practice. She is the kid doing cartwheels and picking dandelions while the others are working their tails off. Yesterday, she got upset about something involving a girl “stealing” her ball (girlfriend, that is soccer), and I ended up having to pull her off the field until she could calm down. I was empathetic to a point, but after about 10 minutes of this, I told her that she needed to participate with her teammates. To her credit, she did get back out there. The coach is actually pretty good with this gaggle of first-grade girls but keeps making these backhanded comments about my daughter “enjoying herself in her own way.” While waiting for other kids to arrive, the two of us were kicking a ball back and forth, and he made a semi-snarky comment about being glad that she was participating in a drill. While I get his point, it also made me want to roll my eyes. She’s 7 and this is a YMCA league; the stakes could not be lower. He is the only coach, it really isn’t feasible to give her more one-on-one attention, and to be fair, he has given DD compliments when she IS doing her job. He’s actually one of the better coaches I’ve seen for a little-kid league and is actually teaching them things, so I don’t want to be too hard on him.
There are still five games and weekly practices left in this season, and Kiddo is clearly not having a good time and may even be a distraction. We have told her that it’s not appropriate to be playing around while everyone else is playing the game, but it’s not really sinking in (probably because she doesn’t care about it enough). Would you make her finish out the season, hoping that she’ll find some enjoyment in it? Quit, and stop wasting everyone’s time and effort? That’s not a lesson I want to instill, but I also hate sinking time and effort into something that isn’t working.
What swing set features get the most use at your house? We’re finally biting the bullet and getting a backyard swing set and I’m not sure if my girls (currently 4.5 and 1) will make use of playhouse feature, climbing wall, etc. Definitely getting swings but that’s as far as I’ve gotten. Is this kid dependent, or are they generally popular features?
I am pretty sure I’m being ridiculous and need a reset.
So. My youngest is a tall 2 year old. She’s been rear facing in her car seat and is fine with it… however, my husband has basically been driving with his knees at the dashboard. Combination of ‘he has long legs, she’s tall so she’s in a Diono, and it’s not a huge vehicle’.
Solution would be to put kid on the passenger side, but older kid has to be on there for school drop off. Husband gently suggested that we turn her forward facing. I may have acted like that was an absurd suggestion, but… I actually think he might be the sane one here.
What are everyone’s norms around sharing photos of your kids with family members? Both from a logistical standpoint (e.g., if and how shared albums are used) and principle standpoint I’d love to hear what others do!
We are trying to keep our kids off social media until they are old enough to decide for themselves what they want to share, and that’s been respected, but feel like we still get a lot of requests for photos from family members all the time. I know that the pics we text them get passed on more broadly, still off social media, but with grandparents’ friends or further out family members we don’t even know personally ourselves, which makes me a tad uncomfortable. But when I step back I guess that’s not that different than a snapshot being shared in the analog era. Anyhow, would love some perspective!