Family Friday: Baby Tie-Dye Pocket Romper
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There’s something about tie-dye that reminds me of carefree summer days.
Your baby will wear this fun, colorful romper all summer long. This one-and-done outfit is made from 100% cotton slub; is hand tie-dyed with safe, bright colors; and features a pocket for pacifiers (or if you’re my kid, a growing rock collection). The back snap placket and leg snaps make for easy-on/easy-off.
This Baby Tie-Dye Pocket Romper from Primary is $18.50 and available in sizes 0–3 to 18–24 months.
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
Friday afternoon update: My fifth grader returned this afternoon from his 4 day, 3 night camping trip with his class. (Side note: God bless those teachers.) He had some major anxiety about the trip, and I had concerns about his need for his schedule/rigidity, his medication and dietary restrictions. Preparation for the trip involved calls with the principal, the outdoor education center where they camped, purchasing some gear and then packing the gear. After the first night, I received a call from the education center that he was having a tough morning. (He couldn’t find his sleeping bag?! At the bottom of his backpack….)
Well, he got off the bus beaming. He had a great time with this bunkmate and no comments about the food. I asked him how he felt about the trip, and he thought for a second and said, “I’m really proud that I did that.” He’s a bit sunburned and desperately needed a shower, but he not only made it through but he was content and strengthened a few friendships. He had a blow-up with his bestie a few months ago, and they found each other before they left and said, “talk later.” He found his bunkmate and they shared an inside joke from the trip before we left school. You guys, I’m crying from the relief of him having had a good time.
I need permission from strangers: pumping sucks and I’m pregnant with my second. I want to spend the extra money on the willow or elvie to make my life easier, with the idea that I will build more of a stash if I can pump more easily. But I know they don’t collect as much as more traditional (even portable-but-not-hands-free) models. I have a traditional madela (pump in style, I think) that is less than 2 years old that I can use if I need to. Pumping that I don’t hate and is easier to access is better than pumping I hate and dread even is output is lower. That’s an okay position to take, right? Last time I EBF for 4 months or so, and combo fed to 10 months, including lots of stress about pumping, supply, etc. This time i am committed to not being as committed. (And for the moment, am ignoring formula shortages.) Thoughts?
I just got my fifth e-mail of the day from the school. Did you know that the cafeteria manager at another school is being inducted into the state School Lunch Manager Hall of Fame? If they don’t want me to quit reading all of these messages and miss something important, they need to think before they hit send.
DD (4) is sick, so I caved and let her have chicken nuggets for breakfast (which she picked over leftover pancakes, frozen waffles, leftover biscuits and bacon, lucky charms, cinnamon toast or a peanut butter sandwich) on the condition that means she has to eat something different for lunch and dinner (super picky eater).
DD: Mommy, I still hungry [after eating 8 chicken nuggets].
Me: If you’re still hungry you may have some fruit. Apple, banana, strawberries or grapes.
DD: I was just kidding mom! I not still hungry.
I’m in a slow period at work (not typical, but not unusual) for the next couple months. Can you help me brainstorm productive ways to spend my time? I’ve got working on my second language (very relevant to getting any promotion at my job), update my resume, book half hour catch up sessions with colleagues I’ve not seen recently. Also relevant, I’m basically full time work from home during this period. I need to be available, so no “deep work” that’s not work related.
Hi! I have one of those too at 4. For soccer we pick the oldest shortest dress she has that still fits comfortably (usually practically a tunic), put longer bike shorts under it and the jersey over it. I even tucked a dress into snow pants this winter. I often tuck her longer dresses into her undershorts or leggings (since she also feels very strongly that bottoms are required in addition to undies) for when she rides her bike. Some battles are not worth fighting IMHO. I also usually have her in Hanna dresses so while they are twirly, they are also stretch cotton and easy for her to move in and I have yet to find a stain I couldn’t get out of them.
For reference, while I would wear leggings as pants as a kid on occasion (but mostly dresses), I did not wear any “real pants” until 6th grade (which then were button-fly jeans, shudder). I in fact had to borrow jeans from a friend for our fourth and fifth grade concerts which required us to wear the school t-shirt and jeans. I am a grown adult today who is mostly dressed appropriately and semi-regularly wears real pants in public.
I should be writing but I’m reading all the fascinating responses to yesterday’s shared labor questions. I’m gone 25%-30% of the time so I think my husband gets extra credit just on the basis of physical proximity to the home/kid. But I try to be helpful when I’m home – laundry and folding, cooking when I’m home.
I generally am a very ‘good for you, not for me’ kind of a parent. But I literally just need to come be judgemental about my sister in law for a minute so I don’t accidentally text her and say ‘you’re insane.’
She herself was homeschooled and now they are very into the fundamentalist homeschooled thing. But also… they have progressively gotten more and more extreme. No vaccines, the world was created in 2000 BC, doesn’t acknowledge COVID or allow her kids to wear masks or see people in masks. And to answer the question – they go only to church or relatives homes. That’s it. They don’t go to the grocery store or Target.
The value that they prioritize for their kids is obedience. Like, I get it – when you have a large family it’s necessary. But also… it’s almost freaky to be around a table of small children eating in absolute silence, afraid to talk. Recently, they’re also being jerks to my in-laws who (although they can be clueless about things) are generally very kind people and lovely grandparents. Kids can’t go to the grandparents overnight because when they come back they ‘aren’t obedient’.
A recent kids birthday literally felt like I was on some weird TLC show. Little boys in tucked in flannel shirts and little girls in prairie jumpers.
(Oh, and I know she judges me very harshly for working and sending my kids to school and daycare and eating gluten and getting vaccinated.)
This may be a problem with no solution other than time but thought I’d ask anyway.
Has anyone successfully gotten their kid out of dresses? My 6 year old refuses to wear anything else. I’ve mostly given up day to day and just said we have to be weather appropriate but now we’ve enrolled her in a sports program on weekends and while there is no uniform everyone is encouraged to wear shorts or other athletic gear and she refuses to even wear a skirt and now doesn’t want to do this thing she was excited for because she can’t wear a twirly dress. It’s like these dresses are a safety blanket or something. I’ve been holding on to her too small dresses because some of them still fit but just look like tunics but this feels super nutty. Anyone have any tips that worked for them? It’s driving me nuts because I feel like she’s starting to miss out on actual activities at this point but maybe I just need to let it go.