Organizing Thursday: Tile Mate
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Tired of getting my panicked calls at work asking where my car keys are, my husband bought me a Tile. This little gadget attaches to whatever you often misplace — car keys, for example — and connects to your phone with the Tile app via Bluetooth. Here’s how it works in practice: You finally have the baby bundled up and ready to head out the door. You are confident you’ve packed everything in his bag for daycare, you have your own bag, and you even packed your lunch! Then you realize you haven’t seen your car keys since Friday night and it’s now Monday morning, and your memory doesn’t go that far back. You call your husband, and he asks you if you used the Tile. You frantically/angrily/regretfully hang up on him and open the app, and you hear the beeping tone from somewhere in your house. Success! If that sounds even vaguely familiar to you, I suggest you check out this gadget. It is $19.99 at Amazon and is eligible for Prime. Tile Mate
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
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- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
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- 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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- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
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- 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?
I forgot my pump parts at home and I can’t go out and buy new ones. AUGH. My first instinct is to try to hand-express into a clean water bottle. Is there a better solution? Help!
I asked for and received one of these for Christmas and have loved it for the most part. However, sometimes it doesn’t seem to automatically pair with my phone or update its location. I spent a whole day thinking my keys had been left at the Ft. Lauderdale airport (that’s where the app showed they were) only to find out they were in the bottom of a bag in my living room…
I have a fossil smartwatch (it is analog but has certain smartwatch features) that has tile technology built in, and I can press a button to make my phone ring. That has been very helpful a number of times.
Hoping everyone survived getting Valentines done!
I forgot that my son’s before/after school program likes to do holidays as well, so we had 50 additional valentines to do! Luckily, he’s aging out of caring and was fine to just write his name in the “from” line instead of pick and choose who got which one (he still individualized the school ones, though).
Anyone have recs for a very itchy belly during pregnancy? I’m 25 weeks today and have been using all the oil, lotion and balm in an effort to avoid/minimize stretch marks that I used last time but I’m still so itchy! I don’t remember being quite so itchy last time!
Has anyone taken antidepressants while nursing? I know the research says its most likely safe but I am wondering if I am better off pushing through or doing formula.
I’m 26 weeks and all of a sudden I just feel ugh, huge, and somewhat uncomfortable. Also, all of a sudden I would really like a glass of red wine. I’ve had a really easy pregnancy so far, so really I have no basis to complain and in the grand scheme my current complaints are really minor. But anything I can do to cheer myself up? I’m having a hard time thinking of anything.
My second baby is almost a year old and I finally committed to losing the 10 extra pounds I have left. I’ve lost about 7 of them only to find… I have extra stomach skin now. It’s not like… sking removal surgery-worthy, but it’s certainly more than I would like. For example, when I have high-waisted leggings on, my belly button looks weird with loose, wrinkly-looking skin around it. If I’m just in low-cut undergarments, it’s not as noticeable until I bend down or lay on my side or something.
All that to say, is there anything to do to encourage the skin to rejuvenate or something? If I visiting a cosmetic dermatologist could they help? I don’t have any stretch marks on my stomach, just this loose weird skin. I didn’t get it after my first (but I got MUCH bigger with this baby) so I’m at a loss. Is this something that might eventually go away?
Another long post (I posted about this a while back but my post got stuck in moderation until too late, and we still need help)! Any tips for helping a four-year-old go back to sleeping through the night, or at least resettling herself if she does wake up?
This has been going on for the last month and a half, ever since we got back from holiday travel. Part of the underlying problem probably is that she wakes up and realizes she has to go to the bathroom, which she doesn’t want to do. (Before this she had been nighttime trained for over a year with hardly any accidents and no drama at all.) We thought we had solved that problem by allowing her to wear pull-ups, but we still get the nighttime waking and getting upset almost every single night. In the meantime, for what it’s worth, we have had a checkup and the pediatrician confirmed there’s nothing physically wrong.
The typical scenario is this: in the middle of the night, often two separate times a few hours apart, we (actually I) will wake up to the sound of her crying and screaming — then one of us will go into her room and find her sitting up in bed, extremely upset. At times she will identify a specific “problem” that we will solve (e.g., she’s hot — we’ll open the window); other times she’s just generally upset. (For what it’s worth, she has never once said she had a bad dream or was afraid of something, and I’m confident she would tell us if that were the case.) For a while we thought we could manage this by just keeping her sleeping bag and a spare pillow on the floor next to our bed for her to come to in the night if she wanted, but that went the way of all the other solutions: they work perfectly for about two or three nights, and then either a new “problem” arises or she just redevelops general (extreme) unhappiness about waking up and not being able to go back to sleep.
She has always had a nightlight, and we have also given her a Twilight Turtle (which projects stars on the ceiling) that we turn on at bedtime and that she can and frequently does turn back on herself when she wakes up in the night. She is also allowed to turn on her bedside lamp and look at books if she wants, but that’s yet another thing that worked for a couple of nights and now doesn’t.
We have tried to give her what we think are basic, concrete, manageable problem-solving strategies (steps for falling asleep, breathing to calm down). I just don’t think she’s to the point, developmentally, where she has enough self-control (or can remember) to implement these on her own in the night. We remind her of them and coach her through them again when she wakes us up in the night, and they do often help then unless she has already gotten super upset (and of course our goal is to have her stop waking us up at all).
We have done sticker charts to reward her for “good nights” twice now. It takes her several tries, but both times she has finally gotten enough stickers to get the reward. Obviously it has not resulted in overall improvement, though. (Not to claim that we’re doing this perfectly, but I did look up child psychologists’ tips on the “right” way to do sticker charts, and we are following all the advice.)
I am not inherently opposed to letting her cry (scream) it out on her own, but it’s not really a good solution because she progresses to throwing books and banging loudly on the door, and then she wakes up her eighteen-month-old sister down the hallway despite that we have a veritable tornado of white noise machines.
I feel as if we need a big reset, but I don’t know what to do. Any advice, or at least commiseration? My husband thinks we should pretty much have an ongoing series of sticker charts. Is that the answer? I also wonder — does this seem like normal four-year-old sleep problems (our pediatrician was not concerned, but she’s also just not that helpful with behavioral problems), or should we consider taking her to a therapist?
Does anyone else’s spouse completely skip Valentines? He’s been really busy at work, but I’ve been really busy picking up the slack on the home front. And I just got him a card, so it’s not like that was a big deal (did cards and fun little presents for our two toddler aged kids this morning too). I feel like a card or flowers or anything would make me feel more appreciated right now (also in my third tri!) – but I’m also tired of having to ask. Unsolicited flowers would be nice! Just venting I think. I’m pretty sure he’s more the norm than an outlier, but this is personally not my favorite day!
Anyone a single mom by design on here? I’ve got eggs frozen, I’m 35, single, and pondering when I pull the trigger. Just curious how others have made this call, still early stages of contemplation!
Skin care help?
I have always had decent skin, sometimes a bit dry or red, with some mild acne on my chin or by my nose around my period. I don’t pay much attention to it and do not find skin care to be a form of “self-care.” I use Paula’s Choice redness relief cleanser and moisturizer/sunblock every day. The end. I don’t wear makeup.
I am seven months postpartum, my kid is cutting back on nursing and my period just came back and my skin is FREAKING OUT. It is dry, flaky, oily on chin and nose, red, and I’ve got all kinds of cystic acne happening on my chin. What do I do? I will realistically be willing to add one, or maybe two products. Any thoughts?
Potty training question. Training out 21 month old, been going well for about 3 days now. 1 or less accidents yesterday and so far today. Been following the oh crap method, but honstly did not get through the whole book, so few quick questions.
However, we aren’t doing nights yet. She poops in her diaper every morning before she fusses for us to get her and has for a long time, so I don’t know how to teach her she can also poop in the potty since timing doesn’t really work with diapers at night?
Also, I’m 24 weeks pregnant, and thought about delaying night training until baby is about 6 months old. DD #1 will be 2.5, is that an okay to night train?
How do we take her on short outings? Pee before leaving and have a potty seat in the car or just sit her down in a public bathroom?