Makeup & Beauty Monday: Travel Hair Diffuser
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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?
Happy day-after-Thanksgiving-break ladies! It’s coming in to work on days like this that remind me why I love having a career. As much as I love my kids, and spending time with them, after NINE DAYS of family togetherness, it feels unbelievably good to sit down in my SILENT office, drink my hot tea, click away on my keyboard, and just do whatever I want to do for a few moments before starting my work day. Do you all know what I mean?
Happy Monday! I figured I’d crowd source comments for this.
When do you let your some-what-sick kid stay home from school?
My Kindergartner is stuffy, sneezy, little lethargic, but not feverish. I’m working from home today, so I told her she could stay home provided she rested, and if she experiences a miraculous recovery, she has to go to school after lunch (luckily lunch is about two hours after school starts). I feel like a sucker, but working mom guilt is strong — my mom was a SAHM when I was in elementary school, and I took liberal advantage of ‘sick days.’
How do you deal with different parenting styles? My son is demonstrating some mild toddler defiance (yelling poo, the occasional launch of a car or screaming no….nothing dramatic but things that we don’t want to let slide). My husband and I don’t seem to be on the same page about what to expect from our son and how to address it. Neither of us are big yellers and we don’t spank so I’m not concerned about traumatising our child but he thinks I’m too soft and I think he’s too harsh. I think that his expectations for behaviour can be unreasonable and I’m not loving this authoritarian streak which seems at odds with his very loving, engaged everyday behaviour.
How do you get on the same page? Do you have a coherent stance or does it not matter? He’ll talk about it but honestly he’s pretty dismissive of my reading of parenting books / suggestion that research can be helpful.
What is the digital picture frame that is pricey but people love?
It’s my first day back at work after mat leave! And of course I forgot to turn in a form for daycare and have to go home at lunchtime to get it and bring it to daycare. And I was planning to use that time to pump… Ugh wish me luck today.
Any recs for a really soft (but absorbent) hooded bath towel that is big enough for a 1-2 year old? I think we have finally outgrown baby’s hooded bamboo towel, but we really loved the fabric (it was from the river store). Are the PB Kids ones any good? TIA!
I’m having an absolutely clusterf*ck of a Monday after the holiday weekend.
1) Cleaning service has been coming every fourth Monday like clockwork for years. I spent several hours tidying up for them last night and then they didn’t show this morning. I called them and they said “Oh, we moved your cleaning to the second Monday of the month, did we not tell you?” Uhhhh…no, no you did not tell me.
2) For some reason, my dependent care FSA decided to reimburse both me and my husband only half the withholding this month, even though we each have pending claims for the max amount. Neither the FSA vendor nor our employer can tell me why, or whether we’ll ever see the remaining November money (a couple hundred dollars!)
3) I got a great new travel rewards credit card and as soon as I got it, several weeks ago, called the hotel we’re vacationing at in a few weeks to give them the new credit card so they could charge the room and tax to that. They assured me it was no problem and everything would be charged to the new card. Woke up this morning to a $3k charge on my old card with negligible rewards.
All first world problems I know, but argggggggh. I want this day/week to be over.
Guys, my almost five year old is so difficult right now. I thought this age was supposed to be easier! It feels like everything is going well then she runs into a corner and has a boo boo and things go to h*** in a handbasket. And everyone’s late to morning drop off. Big feelings and more tears and arguing than we’ve had of late. She’s always been our super strong-willed and more difficult kid.
Can someone weigh in on all the big changes going on for her developmentally so I feel less resentful? I feel bad for resenting it, but she’s taking up so much of our emotional energy. At the expense of her two younger sibs. No major change right now in her life elsewhere, loves school, etc! She’s just kind of a pain! With moments of awesome too!
We employ Amelia Bedelia as a housekeeper. While we were gone for thanksgiving she decided to wash our couch cushion covers. We came home to cushions that are stuffed into comically small covers that look like pillows sitting on the couch base rather than cushions! Any suggestions? It’s a nice couch! These weren’t slipcovers unfortunately… you guys are always so good with these types of questions!
My MIL bought a car seat for black friday (without asking). She told us yesterday, so then we had the pleasure of telling her she needed to return it because we are not comfortable with her or my FIL driving kiddo. “But I’ve never had a ticket!” Notwithstanding the lack of police enforcement in this area, I am not comfortable with her eyesight, reaction time or scatterbrained-ness (although if given a choice I would ride with her over my 84 year old FIL who probably shouldn’t even be driving himself around, but that’s another battle). Even if she were to somehow miraculously solve all of those issues, there is nowhere I am comfortable with them taking our very active and strong kiddo out in public without one of us present. As it is I have to bodily carry kiddo through parking lots and full-body wrestle her into the car seat at least a few times a week when she doesn’t want to hold a hand or isn’t ready to leave. And now I’m sure this is going to be A THING, just in time for all the holiday stuff. I already vetoed the Santa photos she wanted because toddler does not like Santa and I’m not into emotionally traumatizing toddler for that.
What does an over tired, over worked and newly-gained-15 lb, 35 year old mom wear to a Celine Dion concert that she is absolutely shamelessly SO EXCITED to go to with her college besties in two weeks?
Jeans and booties (either black or sand) are for certain but what do I wear on top? It almost certainly needs to be bought new because I’m in the early stages of fertility treatments and whether I only look at or actually consume the carbs, I gain the weight, so nothing fits and I hate shopping right now. Sigh. It’s a season, right? Bonus points if I can get it at Loft, BR, Jcrew or Nordstrom. I’m a size 10/12 normally but def pushing the next size up. Prob a large on top with big hips.
Hi folks! Long time, no see. I remember there being threads about long plane rides with little kids, but google is failing me. Can anyone point me to those threads? My family is traveling to Asia with a 4.5 year old in a few months. She’s generally well behaved on (shorter) plane rides, but I’m looking for some tips on how to make a much longer plane ride easier!
any advice on what a scientist should wear when she’s interviewing for tenure-track positions in top science departments (including ivies and top west coast schools)? this is for a friend of mine who has been a postdoc forever and spends zero on clothes and is asking my advice, as most of her friends are male scientists. i have offered her free reign in my closet but i dont want to make her look like a lawyer if that’s not what she’s supposed to look like. i did send her to sephora for a makeup consult.
Help — the winter coat I bought for my preschooler is a dud. It’s a Columbia, which usually works well for us, but this one is terrible and gets soaking wet, quickly. So I need a backup for snow days but really don’t want to spend a tonsince I doubt she’ll be able to wear it again next year. Any good recommendations? I looked at the Cat & Jack 3-in-1 and was not impressed with the material for the price; it seemed like it would also get wet quickly.
Silly advice – my husband and I are thinking of asking two couples from daycare that we have gotten to know to come (with kids obviously) for a weekend to our family’s cabin. Our kids are besties and we get along well with the other parents, and have hung out with them a fair amount of times, though not together. I tossed this idea out there to each of the moms a while ago and they seemed into it. But I’m wondering how to ask while giving them a gracious way to say no, if they don’t want to or think it’s weird. I guess in part because I’m worried they will think it’s weird! We go up with friends all the time, but it’s not like we’re friends with these parents, exactly. Or are we? I know I am overthinking this, but I don’t want to make anyone feel pressured or uncomfortable with the offer. Any suggestions? Other than just getting over myself, which is a good suggestion