Family Friday: Wade 2.0 Sneaker Sandal
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For little ones who have weeks of endless water fun ahead, these water-friendly sneaker sandals will keep them going all summer long.
These machine-washable shoes have a memory footbed for comfort and easy-on hook & loop with elastic laces. They also feature Stride Rite’s SRtech sensory pod — SRtech allows toddlers to feel the ground while they walk and run for better traction and grip.
Stride Rite’s Wade 2.0 Sneaker Sandal is $46–$54 at Nordstrom and comes in navy and pink. It’s available in both little kid and big kid sizes as well as medium and wide widths. Stride Rite’s website may have the size/color combo you’re looking for if it’s sold out at Nordstrom.
Sales of note for 1/16:
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Cashmere on sale; AllSaints, Free People, Nike, Tory Burch, and Vince up to 60%; beauty deals up to 25% off
- AllSaints – now up to 60% off (some of the best leather jackets!)
- Ann Taylor – Up to 40% off your full-price purchase; extra 50% off sale
- Banana Republic Factory – 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles with code — readers love this blazer, these dresses, and their double-layer line of tees
- DeMellier – Sale now on, free shipping and returns — includes select options like Montreal, Vancouver, and Venice
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; extra 50% off all clearance, plus ELOQUII X kate spade new york collab just dropped
- Everlane – Sale of the year, up to 70% off — reader favorites include their scoop tee, Dream Pant, ReNew Transit backpack, silk blouses and oversized blazers! New markdowns just added
- Hannah Andersson – Up to 30% off all pajamas;
- J.Crew – Up to 40% off select styles; up to 50% off cashmere
- J.Crew Factory – 40-70% off everything
- L.K. Bennett – Archive sale, almost everything 70% off
- M.M.LaFleur – Tag sale for a limited time — jardigans and dresses $200, pants $150, tops $95, T-shirts $50
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – Semi-Annual Red Door Sale – 50% off + extra 20% off, sale on sale, plus free shipping on $150+
I know this has been asked before, but I can’t find it. Recommendations for first birthday gifts? My daughter turns one at the start of September, and I’m already getting requests for gift ideas from friends and family. Would also love ideas for Christmas, when she will be almost 16 months.
We’ve had lots of chat about dividing the load lately. I wonder if it might be useful to share our routine from an actual day. We were both WFH yesterday, 1 school-aged kid (last week of school).
5:00 – H cycled to get T from aftercare while I started dinner. We had no groceries and H tried to stop by farm shop in town, but it was closed so it was a bit of a creative endeavour. H and T cycled home.
5:40 – H and T worked on thank you card for teacher while I finished dinner
6:00 – Dinner.
6:40 – T upstairs for shower with H, I tidy kitchen
7:00 – Storytime, I read, husband does some admin bits and stacks dishwasher
7:50 – T to bed, reading, showers, hang out for me and H
10:00 – H feeds cat and does dream wee with T, both to bed.
What would you do? My husband was laid off yesterday (which is fine for many reasons). We have two late elementary kids who are doing a mix of some weeks of day camps, partial day sports camps, some time home, and we have a summer nanny who drives them around and watches them when they are not in activities. My husband will look for work at some point but we want to take a little time to regroup and step back so it’s not like he’s going to be job searching for hours a day and as mentioned above, the kids are in activities part of most weeks. We could, keep the nanny through mid-August like we planned, pay her out (for the whole summer? For July?) and let her go, pay her for full time but schedule her for part-time work. Maybe there is some other alternative. I work at home sometimes and our house is not very big, so the idea of all of us being here is not super attractive. I would never just let her go immediately. She’s just out of school and living with her parents while she searches for a teaching job. She could probably pick up other babysitting jobs or similar in our town but I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume that she could find another full time summer job. Any thoughts are welcome!