Family Friday: Walrus Knit Sweater

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striped Walrus Knit Sweater for kids

Over bunnies and bears? How about this cute, yet unique, walrus sweater?

This gray striped sweater features a walrus in its best winter finery. Made from a soft bamboo/cotton blend, this classic pullover has a relaxed fit and flat tag for comfort.

Just add a pair of warm joggers for a soon-to-be favorite cold weather outfit.

This sweater is $42 at Little Sleepies and comes in sizes 0-3 months to 10.

Sales of note for 2/7:

(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
  • Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
  • J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
  • J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
  • Rothy’s – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – 40% off one item + free shipping on $150+
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I’m the Hanukkah grump from yesterday and am in a much better mood today :) We gave my 5 year old my old American Girl doll (Molly) last night. I wasn’t sure how it would be received because until this point she’s mostly preferred baby dolls over kid dolls, but omg she LOVED it and is taking such good care of it and she cried this morning when she had to say goodbye to the doll to go to school. It’s really magical to see my kid so excited about something that was a huge part of my childhood.

This was posted over on the main page and is really resonating with me right now. Might repost next week: https://www.vox.com/features/23979357/millennials-motherhood-dread-parenting-birthrate-women-policy

It’s “How millennials learned to dread motherhood.”

My cousin lives across the country and is in town this weekend at my uncle’s place. He invited family over tomorrow so we can meet his 9-month old son. My DS woke up this AM with the sniffles and a low-grade fever (99 degrees). If he doesn’t get better by tomorrow or gets worse I won’t take him to visit the baby. Would it be ok if I visit the baby? I should probably ask them if it’s ok. I can take a rapid test beforehand. Should I mask too or is that overkill?

this morning my K twins’ school had their story book parade and they left for school all smiles, but one of them came through the parade crying and when she saw me said “i want to go home.” DH was with me and he was like you are just seeing a small snippet of her day, but i’m like how am i supposed to make it through the day without thinking about that the whole time and i feel badly bc she was so excited about it

We made it through the Santa visit. Last year we did a Santa breakfast that was lovely, but I knew there was no way I could manage that. So I had looked at our local train setup at a hardware store (random but amazing) and the remaining times were all pretty terrible for us because it’s so popular it sells out quickly. But a friend had a connection and reached out, and they must hold times back because they gave us an entire train to ourselves for free so we wouldn’t have to be with strangers at the “north pole”. So some friends joined and it was really sad but also really nice and the kids had a great time.

What’s everyone up to this weekend?

A pal and her kids are coming up (met via a Reddit bump group and 6 years later, are still friends – the internet isn’t all bad!) to join us for a trip to the theatre and then sleeping over. The kids have only met a few times but seem to get along pretty well so it should be fun. Afterwards, we are going to abandon the 3 kids to my husband and go to the local pub for a drink. Here is hoping she meets someone for a Hallmark movie style fling.

Advice on dealing with resentment and feeling like I cannot rely on DH because his big job always comes first? A recent example that is sort of petty but emblematic – he agreed to pick my parents up from the airport. This required him to leave work an hour earlier than usual (he is in charge of his schedule and normally at the office for ten hour days). He was almost an hour late picking them up because he got caught up in an “emergency” with one of his reports. This sort of occurrence seems to happen any time we have evening plans or needs. I think the solution is just to not ever ask him to do anything near the end of the work day (I usually don’t), but I hate how the result is that I am always on the hook for kid stuff and household “emergencies.”