Everyone Thursday: ‘Claire’ Pump
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If you’re looking for a more modern heel to update your wardrobe, do consider the popular Vince Claire pump from Nordstrom, currently on sale. The straight-across-the-vamp cut is very trendy, while the 3.25″ heel is still mostly walkable. The pump was $375 but is now marked to $187, with several sizes still left. Vince ‘Claire’ Pump
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Sales of note for 12.10
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty deals on skincare (ends 12/14) including La Mer, Kate Somerville, Dior, Sunday Riley, Dyson, and gift sets — the deals include reader favorite lip balms Dior Addict, NARS Afterglow, and Clinique’s Black Honey, as well as Too Faced mascara and Sunday Riley’s Good Genes.
- Ann Taylor – 40% off your purchase, up to 50% off outerwear
- Banana Republic Factory – 50-70% off everything + extra 20% off
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off all sale + extra 25% off 2+ items
- J.Crew – Up to 60% off everything, with 40% off their newest styles
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
- Macy’s – 15% off beauty, including Tarte, Clinique, Dior and gift sets
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off, plus free shipping on everything (and 20% off your first order)
- Talbots – 50% off everything + extra 25% off when you buy 3+ styles
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?
I want these shoes so badly, but the heel does not seem walkable to me, and I’m not sure what I would wear them with to get enough use out of them. Anyone have thoughts or own these?
I just booked a last minute trip to the Caribbean with my husband and 8 month old. I know this has been discussed a million times but any must-have items for travel with baby? Flight is 5 hours. Baby will have a crib there and she is formula fed. Happily we have a kitchen which should make making bottles easier. TIA!
Got a call that our daughter got into a great preschool for the Fall. She will be two at the time. The school is lovely and fairly convenient, but I am still waiting to hear from another school that is closer to our house and several hundred dollars less per month. I have to decide on school 1 and pay a hefty deposit before I will hear from school 2. What would you do?
I have a problem that may not have a solution.
My just-turned-2 year old sleeps until 7 a.m. about 3 days a week, which is the perfect time for him to sleep to, as he wakes up refreshed and delightful. The other 4 days a week (with no correlation to weekday vs. weekend), he wakes up around 5 or 5:15 because he’s pooped himself awake. He is still very tired when this happens, and it’s hard for him to fall back asleep after a diaper change, so he sleeps (if at all) only fitfully until 7, and he ‘wakes up’ cranky and tired.
So here is the possibly unanswerable question: how do I stop those early morning poops? Different food for dinners? Feed him 2 hours later that he currently eats? Or alternatively, can anyone offer any tips on how to get him back into sounder sleep after a diaper change?
For those of us with multiple children and too many balls in the air (spouse, no spouse, spouse works two jobs, whatever) there seem to be three schools of thought (other than the lean in school of thought – also valid and appropriate at the right time) for those who need to lean out:
1. Stay full time employed, but lower your hours/quantity of performance/social/extra obligations, and see if anyone says anything;
2. take part time hours for a few years. Short term cut vs. long term investment.
It seems the biggest con of each of these is brought up regularly – on (1) you don’t want to get a reputation for not being a hard worker; on (2) once you go part time you have to “re-prove” yourself to get back to a full time salary and maybe having your employer think ill of you for a few years but be satisfied enough to keep paying you FT is better than having your employer like you but at half the salary and no guarantee of ever getting back to FT.
From those who have tried either, what are the other pros and cons? Would you make the same choice again?
At this age? Parenting definitely matters, but 80% temperament. And your friend is right – unless your kid is REALLY unusual, he is going to start to test your boundaries much more frequently in the next year. My kid is at the more compliant end of the spectrum, but she is a thousand times more likely to test limits now (at 2.5) than she was a year ago. Which is totally normal development, and I would strongly encourage you to make your peace with it in advance. You still can (and should) set firm boundaries, but if you judge your parenting by whether your 2-3 year-old happily accepts those boundaries, you are setting yourself up to feel like a failure.
I commented recently at how delighted I am that my 16m old is obedient. Example: he loves to climb the stairs. He got two steps up when he wasn’t supposed to, and from across the room he obeyed our command to come back down and back to the kitchen. Someone commented that I should “enjoy that while it lasts!”.
I know testing boundaries is a phase of development for children, but I’d also like to think that obedience is something I can cultivate and instill in my child (while he’s actually a child; this all sounds very harsh [i.e. “obey” and “command”] but I do not agree with negotiating or asking a child to do things that are in fact mandatory). How much do you think this is decided by child temperament vs. by parenting style?
We use the fisher-price space saver chair – which attaches on to a chair, eliminating the highchair foot print. It has a tray, but at the right table in the right chair, it should push up to the table (our chairs are too high). I have friends who use an older version of the Summer Infant Sit ‘n’ Style – with tray for the little ones, without tray at the table for the older ones. I prefer keeping the tray for my LO – it can go in the dishwasher or be washed with the dishes, rather than having a giant mess on my table; that has been faster/easier for me.
I’ve never timed our prep/clean up time – DH ends up doing a lot of it, as our LO has an early bed time and I’m typically overseeing bathtime while DH cleans up after meals. I’ve found division of duties and keeping LO out from underfoot seems to be the most sure way to reduce prep time. If I can, I let LO carry non-breakable/spillable things to the table (he’s 18 mos), otherwise he sits in his seat and watches. I ditched the bib; if we eat anything that stains, he eats without a shirt. We keep a sippy cup of milk in the fridge so we’re not rinsing out and refilling cups at meal times. Your 2 YO may be ready to start making the transition to a regular cup, which would help with stuff on the table. We also don’t do kiddie plates – we use Corell and let him have a dessert plate for his dinner.
Not a ton of helpful tips, but that’s what we’ve done
Immediate threadjack:
We have a two year old and a one year old. I’m ready to move the one year old to the table and out of the highchair. Can anyone recommend a seat (I’d be into buying two matching, if necessary) or a booster for sitting at the table?
Second, what are everyone’s tips for minimizing the dinner routine/messes/organization? Right now, it feels like it takes us 20 minutes to get to the table and 20 minutes to leave the table between high chairs, bibs, sippy cups, etc. I’m pretty open to anything that allows us to minimize the equipment on the table and the number of surfaces that have to be wiped up. 40 minutes of table prep/cleaning a night is only mild hyperbole.
Thanks!