Family Friday: Three Little Piggies Game
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If your kids like solving puzzles, here’s a fun logic game for them.
My oldest got this Three Little Piggies game when she was a toddler. Even then, she would try to figure out how to keep her piggies safe from the wolf. The game comes with 48 challenges where you position the pigs and wolf around a grid and try to protect the pigs by fitting the puzzle-shaped homes around them. The game also includes a storybook — my youngest isn’t quite up to playing the actual game but uses the pieces to act out the story (although in his version, the wolf enthusiastically eats all the pigs).
Smartgames’ Three Little Piggies Game is $26.99 at Target.
Sales of note for 4/16/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – 5,521 new markdowns for women!
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your entire purchase + 50% off one full-price item
- Banana Republic Factory – 50%-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – $29+ select styles + extra 40% off all sale
- J.Crew – Spring Event: 40% off sitewide + extra 40% off all sale
- J.Crew Factory – 40%-70% off everything + 60%-70% off spring faves
- M.M.LaFleur – New collection just dropped! Use code CORPORETTE15 for 15%
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off select tops + 30% off dresses, skirts, shoes & accessories + 40% off all markdowns
So pro tip from my husband for everyone school shopping this year: while they have all the uniform stuff out, buy your kid a plain white button down and khakis/a plain black pair of pants or skirt. At some point, they’ll have to wear this for a school concert or something and you don’t want to be driving around on December 15th at 9PM looking for one…
(Also, in dividing household labor, we were specific that his job is to evaluate the kids’ wardrobes for size and fill in any gaps. I like to shop on sale – particularly grabbing Tea Collection dresses for my daughter when they go on super sale – but he is the one who looks at the big picture and makes sure there are minimal gaps. It’s a good system in case anyone is looking for a way to divide this duty but still be able to sale shop for kids.)
It might be too late in the day… but anyone have any stories of using Clearblue ovulation predictor kit successfully? Thanks!
Thanksgiving plans advice please — we are joining my step-mom’s family for Thanksgiving in their home town. It is a 13 hour drive w/o stops or a 4-5 hour flight with a connection (there used to be direct flights but those don’t seem to have come back post-Covid) so we’ll have to figure that out as well. But for now accommodation advice: 2 adults, a 3.5 year old and a then 9 month old can either share 1 bedroom in the giant rental house where most people are staying or we can get a couple hotel rooms in a hotel about 15 minutes away from the rental house. I think the obvious answer is get the hotel rooms, the big drawback to that is someone will likely need to go back to the hotel once or twice a day for the 9 month old to nap (or I guess we could haul the pack n play back and forth every day). 3 year old currently naps but I’m thinking she may not soon because she has started fighting naps. Anything else I’m missing? We travelled with our 3 year old pre-Covid but no trips other than to grandma’s house since Covid and no trips with 2 kids yet.
I have three lunches to make this year instead of one, so I bought six lunch kits, thanks to someone’s suggestion on this board a while back. I know it isn’t super environmentally friendly, but we’re on year 3 of the original lunch kit, so I’m hoping they will all last. It’s been so nice to pop the used ones in the dishwasher and make tomorrow’s lunches the night before, instead of scrambling to make lunches during the morning rush. Do you have any hacks you especially loved learning from this board?
My siblings + nieces / nephews + parents are all renting Airbnbs in the woods for a summer vacation next week. There will be 5 kids ages 2-4 (and one infant who will mostly be in a carrier). I’m trying to come up with a makeshift summer camp schedule to keep the kids occupied and with some structure so it’s not total chaos (just mild chaos which is unavoidable!). Any ideas for schedule or fun activities we can do in a backyard that don’t require purchasing a lot of gear?
Waiting for the bus to get into town for my last nursery pickup – staff is taking bets on who cries. 2 have cried thus far, and I’m definitely going to, I’ve also got £5 on my husband.
So grateful for this amazing start in life, and wishing every kid had teachers and an environment like this in their early years.
This is mostly a vent but I’ll take advice if anyone has it… I posted a couple months ago about my 4 year old having a very hard time with drop off at school. We’ve tried a bunch of things: sending a stuffy or special notes, more time and physical contact with us at home (including sleeping in our bed), talking to her about it, early pickups with special things to look forward to, etc and nothing seems to be helping. The last couple of weeks the teachers have had to literally pry her off of us kicking and screaming and once she actually ripped my shirt trying to clutch me. They’ve told us she doesn’t settle down and stop crying for more than an hour after we leave. So it’s pretty extreme, it’s not just a little weepiness that she gets over as soon as we’re out the door. At pickup she is always happy and often doesn’t want to go home. It’s hard to see her like this, and also the teachers are getting really frustrated with us. They’ve implied that our home situation is to blame, suggesting that the problems started because my husband went out of town for several weeks for work (I don’t think this is actually true but even if it were – it was a work trip that wasn’t exactly optional…it’s not like he was gallivanting around the Bahamas with his buddies) and now they’re hinting that other stuff at home is to blame. They’re telling us that because she’s in a mixed age classroom and they have a new group of 3 year olds and kids who are new to school they need the 4 year olds who have previous school experience to step up and be more mature, which seems like a way of saying they need the older kids to take less of their attention. I totally get why they’re frustrated with it (because I am too! This is so baffling after 3+ years of incredibly easy drop-offs, even weird parking lot hand-offs during the height of Covid) but I also sort of feel like they could be more empathetic and part of me wonders if their “buck up and deal with it” attitude is making the problem worse.
Another shoe question, but for the Bogs lovers out there. We are in the midwest, and have a large yard, so I want to get quality rain boots. Already have winter boots for next year. Would you recommend the regular bog rain boots or the insulated boots for fall/spring?
My oldest has gotten really hard on her shoes, so I need to get away from Target/Carter’s/random Amazon brand. Any brands that hold up well for near-daily wear, and are still “cute” enough for a first grade girl? I used to love StrideRite for her but they have almost nothing in her size, and I’m reluctant to start spending $50+ on shoes without knowing if they’ll actually hold up.