Washable Workwear Wednesday: Tie-Front Jacket
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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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?
Not the poster from yesterday, but also moving with 2 small kids. I am definitely using the packing service after all the recommendations from yesterday! For anyone that has done it, can you explain the logistics? Do you watch them pack? Pack with them? Were there items that you packed yourself (other than bulky items like pillows and lamp shades)? I guess this is something you just have to live through yourself, but I can’t picture how it actually works.
Also, are there any good preschooler books about moving?
Hi – I’m looking for a relatively slim rocking chair (not a glider) that we can keep in our bedroom and use to nurse/soothe our baby. We already have an awesome larger one in the nursery (the nursery works sleepytime rocker) but our toddler sleeps there and so we need something for our baby at night. I’m thinking just a wooden rocking chair with pillows tied on but am open. Small footprint is must. Any recommendations? Our style is generally modern with some traditional pieces.
My 3 year old came home from school yesterday with a bad scrape on her back. She doesn’t know how it happened and neither do her teachers or school bus driver (I thought she might have fallen getting off the bus in the morning). She’s almost 4 and in junior kindergarten (not sure if it’s called the same thing in the US). I think it’s super weird that no one knows how it happened. I wouldn’t blink an eye at a knee or elbow scrape, but a bloody scrape on her back seems off to me. I need to just let this go, right? It’s not super painful to her and it should heal quickly. Thoughts?? (This transition to kindergarten is no joke, guys. Soo rough.)
Cautionary tale: I bribed my child to get ready for bed last night by saying I’d let her open one of her birthday presents once she did so. (She’s got about 20 presents from her recent bday party to open, so I’m doling them out strategically.) Well, she did so, and while I was hoping it would be a book we could read before bed, or a lovey, it turned out to be Candy Land. I had to promise we would play it “tomorrow.”
Well, she was so excited to play Candy Land that she woke up at FOUR-THIRTY this morning, raring to go, and sure enough, from 4:45-5:45 a.m., I played Candy Land (while browsing my phone, please, I’m not a saint).
So, learn from my mistakes ladies: right before bedtime is not the ideal time to open birthday presents. Who knew?
Also, do any of y’all do what I do and open presents over the course of weeks? I feel like if we did it all at once it would just be a blur of stuff. But I hope my friends don’t think I’m insane when they get texts 3 months later saying “We just opened XX’s birthday gift, thanks so much!” Should I just not say anything by that point?
What time does/did your three year old go to bed? We’ve been on a 7:30ish bedtime for a while, and he consistently wakes up between 7 and 7:30 in the morning. Just recently he’s been awake for AGES after we put him to bed. He’s also been requesting that we stay in there with him. He’s not sad or scared, he just plays in his crib in the dark. Last night he didn’t fall asleep until after 9! I’m okay with pushing it back to 8:00 or maybe even 8:15, but he still needs sleep. Our daycare is terrible with communication so I have no idea if his napping has changed (typically he doesn’t fall asleep during naptime, he just has quiet time). I think 12 or more hours is the ideal of sleep for toddlers, so I just want to make sure he’s getting enough. Curious if we’re just way off base with our bedtime.
How much do you pump on average on each breast? I’m going back next week at 17 weeks and I have no idea how many oz baby needs on average? I’ll be gone 6 hours a day. Tia.
Similar to the post above about misc playground scrapes. My 15 month old just started daycare. She’s the youngest in the younger toddler (15 months-2 years) room. She’s been there 2 weeks and each week, I had an injury/incident report. Both times she hit her head. Once, she “tripped over a chair and hit a wall.” The other time she “was walking and walked into a wall.” Both times she had a big bruise; the second time she had a cut as well.
So, I have 3 kids that have gone through daycare. This is not my first rodeo with incident reports. I get the occasional scrape, bite, what have you. But two in two weeks? My older kids both went to this daycare but there has been turnover with the teachers in this room so both teachers are new to me. My kid is not a klutz. She has never “tripped over a chair” or “fallen into a wall” at home or with other caregivers. DH thinks they’re just not paying enough attention to her– either she’s getting pushed or tripped, or she’s running around when she shouldn’t be or what have you. I think this is being compounded by the newness of the teachers– I picked up DD once and she was HYSTERICAL when I walked in, and the best they could tell me was “she’s upset that other kids are napping.” My kid, who is the most chill kid I’ve ever met, doesn’t get hysterical like that. I’ve seen it exactly once in the 15 months she’s been alive.
So, am I just feeling extra overprotective of my last one here? I already met with the director about the two incident reports–not that they happened, but I was annoyed that they didn’t call or give me a heads up about a head injury, which, while minor, I was pretty sure was their protocol (especially since they didn’t put anything on the one that was bleeding a bit–“we are not allowed to put medication on”–come on, no Neosporin?). As I said I’ve had 2 other kids go through this daycare and I was always in the past given a heads up during the day if my kid got some kind of head injury. I am otherwise inclined just to grit my teeth and count down until my kiddo is ready for preschool, but I don’t want to short change the third kid on safety, either.
How would you manage the following situation: I’m 100% certain I want kiddo #2. DH is on the fence. I’ll be 37 next summer. DS is almost 2 and is generally a pretty good kid so far, and DH is very hands-on with him.
DH will sit down and talk about it of course, but I am asking any suggestions on managing in terms of my own anxiety, racing thoughts, etc. Anyone been in a similar situation?
I’m flying into Boston with my two-year-old and four-year-old next month. We will be getting in late at night (10ish), and will need to get to a hotel in Cambridge. I am guessing that my best option will be to fly with our car seats and buckle them into an Uber, but if you ladies have any other suggestions please let me know! Thanks so much.
Has anyone here taken depression/anxiety meds while pregnant? I’m just into my 3rd trimester, and feel the anxiety creeping in. I mentioned it to my OB this morning, more as a “hey, watch for this” because I had PPD with my first pretty badly (in retrospect) and never got help, and don’t want to repeat the experience. He’s open to prescribing something, and if my current plan of yoga, early bedtime, and pacing myself at work better doesn’t help, I’ll call back and ask. But I have some crunchy-mom influence in my life and have always been hesitant to take drugs, esp. while pregnant. If I decide I want to try a medicine, what am I looking at?
Where could I fly to this weekend out of IAH that’s cheap? Just need a little getaway.
Vent about sleeping ahead. Earmuffs for mamas of babies who are currently sleep deprived and holding out hope that time will solve all problems.
My kids (ages 6 and 2.5) have never been great sleepers, but for the last year or so they’d been sleeping through the night until at least 6 am. Recently, my 6 yr old has been waking up crazy early (between 4:30/5) and although she mostly stays in her room, she’s not always super quiet. The 2.5 yr old has also been waking up early, around 6 or so, when he seems to need to sleep until 6:45/7.
The early wakeups are really taking a toll on me. But last night might have broken me. Toddler woke up and needed soothing around midnight. I finally got back to sleep and 6 yr old appeared in my room around 2 am wanting to sleep with me (husband is in guest room bc he wakes at 4 am to get to work). I let her snuggle but can’t sleep with her, so eventually get her back to her own bed. Finally get back to sleep. I wake up when husband leaves the house at 4:30. Finally get back to sleep. Toddler awake at 5:45 in a godawful mood. Six year old, whose birthday is today, appears at 6:05. For the next two hours until it was time to leave for school, they were alternately crying (wailing, really, about the dumbest crap) and whining, and I feel like I spent the entire morning screaming at them. I am so g*ddamn tired and I feel like such a sh*tty parent. I screamed at my daughter on her birthday! I yelled at a 2 year old! I know it’s a phase and the kids were completely happy at school drop off, but for some reason I can’t shake the terrible morning. I feel like I haven’t had decent sleep in six years. All I want to do is go to bed and sleep for the next week.
I have 8 nieces and nephews, 6 of whom have birthdays in October/November/December. The kids’ ages range from 2-7. Given the number of kids involved, I usually try to buy similarly-themed gifts to simplify shopping for me and keep it fair and even across the board. Budget is $25 per kid. And I’m kind of running out of ideas — what do you think of these?
1) Hardcover book geared to each kid’s interests, plus some other book-themed gift?? I’ve already found great books for each kid that I’d like to give, if I can find a supplemental gift.
2) A board game — any favorites for the preschool and early elementary crowd?
3) Fun pajamas and slippers — probably not realistic for the budget.
4) Nice fleece hoodie from someplace like Primary, in each kid’s favorite color, plus a Beanie Boo or other small toy.
My siblings all have homes with not much storage space, so I’m trying to go with a blend of practical + fun + doesn’t take up a ton of space.
On day 10 of solo parenting my 15 month old twins while DH is away for work. Last night one threw up at bedtime and then i was up half the night throwing up….is it Friday yet?
We’re doing family photos in a couple weeks and just wondering if anyone has suggestions on what I should wear. I’ve heard that long dresses are really flattering, but struggling to find one that looks appropriate for fall. Thanks so much!!