Makeup & Beauty Monday: The Silk Sunscreen
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The warm sun on my face reminds me that I need some new sunscreen.
This SPF 50 mineral sunscreen from Tatcha protects your skin from the sun’s harmful rays while hydrating and evening out your skin tone. This lightweight liquid works on all skin types, and the sheer, smooth finish works under makeup.
Tatcha’s Silk Sunscreen is $64. It also comes in a travel-friendly mini size for $25.
Sales of note for 3/21/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Spring sale, up to 50% off: Free People, AllSaints, AG, and more
- Ann Taylor – 25% off suiting + 25% off tops & sweaters + extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 40% off everything + 20% off
- Eloquii – 50% off elevated essentials + extra 50% off sale
- J.Crew – 25% off select linen & cashmere + up to 50% off select styles + extra 40% off sale
- J.Crew Factory – Friends & Family Sale: Extra 15% off your purchase + extra 50% off clearance + 50-60% off spring faves
- M.M.LaFleur – Flash Sale: Get the Ultimate Jardigan for $198 on sale; use code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Buy 1 get 1 50% off everything, includes markdowns
My family (me, husband, and 2 kids) is taking a last-minute trip to NYC this coming weekend – taking the train up from DC on Friday afternoon, returning Sunday afternoon. We’re staying near Penn Station. Kids are 10M and 7.5F – neither has been to NYC before and it’s been years for me. What would you prioritize doing in this short stay? We are hoping to take them to a musical but Wicked and Hamilton are obviously $$$ at this point – is Lion King worth it if none of us love the movie? &Juliet? I think my daughter would love this – not sure about my 10 year old son, but he does love musicals. Anything else out there you would consider? Thanks!
DS (4) has been waking up at around 5 am. He will moan and cry out, still lying in bed and half asleep. When I check on him, he has kicked off his covers. I put the covers back on him and he goes back to sleep. During the day I ask him why he woke up and he isn’t able to articulate it. I don’t know if he is hot at night and then cold in the early morning? We have a temperature sensor in his room that is supposed to regulate his room temp. Or is he having a bad dream? Is it possible that he doesn’t know how to pull blankets back on himself in his semi-conscious state? If I tucked his bedsheets around him when he is in bed he probably would feel too restricted. Please help me!
Help me sort through my feelings on my childcare situation.
We have two daughters 2. DD1 is about to turn 7, first grade. DD2 is 15 months. DD2 is home full time with our nanny, who also brings her 2 year old granddaughter. Nanny picks up #1 Mon-Thurs at 2:45 and is with all three kids until 5. On Friday elementary school dismisses early at 12:45, so she has DD1 a bit longer on Fridays.
DD1 (7 year old) is increasingly vocal about how nanny only takes care of the baby and granddaughter, and kind of ignores her. I mean — I kind of see it. She doesn’t “ignore” my oldest, but everything is basically solving for the youngest common denominator. Baby music, baby shows, can’t do XYZ because baby… etc.
Is my nanny just not great at managing kids w different ages, or is there actually no perfect solution? I think this worked for the first year we had nanny because DD2 was an infant and just did whatever, but this kiddo is an independent woman and full blown toddler. She wants what she wants, and I feel like as she gets closer to 2, we start to layer in tantrums and the like and it only gets harder for DD1. The only alternative I see is to put #2 in daycare and put #1 in after school/extended day, which is fine but summer then becomes a disaster. A doable disaster, but ugh.
One of my daughter’s best friends is a boy and he’s moving away this summer. She’s been asking if she can have a sleepover with him before he moves. She’s on the young side for sleepovers (just turned 7) and we’ve only done them with two close girlfriends whose moms I know pretty well. The boy’s mom and I are friendly but not close at all and they seem to have more traditional values (not in a MAGA way, but in a very devout church-going way). Is it super weird to ask? I did suggest a “sleepunder” (they come for pizza and a movie and leave by 10 pm) to my daughter, but she keeps insisting she wants a real sleepover.
Grandma is very concerned about our 3yo playing on a balance bike and then learning a real bike. Traffic seems to be her biggest concern, even other bikers on trails; she also concerned kiddo could quickly zip away beyond physical supervision. I understand I could just ignore her advice. But I like to at least carefully consider the risks she brings up.
It seems like the “normal” bike riding age is now toddler/preschool instead of early elementary, which is a very different maturity level. Do you guys find your early bike riders get themselves into trouble? Where do you let them ride? What rules do you set around it? FWIW, my kid is a bolter even without wheels :(.
Anything Tatcha is so wonderful. It’s pricey but worth it if you can splurge. I haven’t tried their sunscreen, yet but now I may when I have re-up mine (currently using Sheishedo).
DH and I have gotten into a bad pattern of putting off scheduling discussions for things that are months out: think vacations, or enrolling our kid in drivers’ ed, or any number of other things that are important but not urgent.
I think what’s happening is that by the time evening rolls around, we’re mentally exhausted and/or running kids to various activities. And then weekends are sort of their own issue. And, it’s never as easy or as straightforward as picking a date for some of these things; there are always other issues at play or have to be worked around. So we keep delaying or talking in generalities, but then are scrambling at the last minute to get things together.
Example: Need to plan our summer vacation. Kind of know where we want to go. But when do we go? We’re waiting on blockout dates for a school activity that DS is involved in that will have a mandatory summer camp. Also, summer is one of my busiest times at work, sadly, and I have things to work around. And my mom is ill and I have very mixed feelings about being a plane ride away if anything goes sideways. So nothing is planned.
Believe it or not, we’re both organized people! When it comes to running our daily lives, we are in a good groove. It’s the longer term things that needs to happen but nobody is in charge of that tends to trip us up.
Help. Any ideas?
Food Allergies – Yesterday my MIL came over for dinner. She wanted to bring a dessert, great! She walks in with a box of peanut butter girl scout cookies. My 16 month old has a life threatening allergy to both peanut & eggs. She knows this, this has been something that’s been a constant for almost a year.
She immediately opens the bag and starts eating one. I felt like I was scolding a child when I told her, “Just a heads up, that has peanut butter. So please do not touch or kiss the baby”. She immediately apologized, said she wasn’t thinking clearly, and immediately took it to her car and washed her hands. I get having to remind friends to not bring these kinds of items to our home. But it’s disappointing to have to remind our local Grandma constantly too.
Just a vent. (And outing myself to anyone who knows me). Last week DH was out of town from Sunday to Friday evening for work. Kids were generally good, I got everything packed for our ski trip to leave Saturday morning, but at 6pm Friday one kid developed a fever, schlepped both kids to urgent care bc DH wasn’t home yet, no strep, no flu. Poor kid was up half the night with a high fever (in the 103s), so DH and Twin 1 left for the ski trip that I planned while I’m home with Twin 2. (We were meeting my FIL and BIL at our destination and DH likes skiing more than I do, so it made much more logical sense for him to go, but it still kind of sucks to do all the work for a trip and not get to go on it. We were hoping to fly out today to join them but kiddo still has 103+ fever when not on meds). Ski school is fortunately refundable due to illness. Does anyone know if you have a United credit that says travel by September 1, 2025 and I book a new flight that would involve travel by that date, but then cancel the new flight, do i get a new credit with a new expiration date or it reverts back to the original credit? also a very first world problem but my kids were sick on our summer trip, thanksgiving trip and winter break. I think they’ve missed 1-2 days of school for illness, but have spent part of every single vacation over the past year sick. Last year spring break our flight was canceled and we ended up on an impromptu 14+ hour long road trip. My daughter wants to know how to break our unlucky streak
My in-laws are coming to visit in a few weeks and asked what toys to get our 18-month old. We only see them a few times a year, so there is no way I can talk them out of gifts – but they will buy off a list if we provide one. I think we are relatively set for indoor toys, so I was thinking about some outdoor stuff for this summer.
What were your toddlers favorite outdoor toys? Maybe a water table? Is 18 months too young for a balance bike? If you have any recommendations for smaller indoor toys, I’ll take those too.