Washable Wednesday: Silk Pintuck Blouse
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This washable silk blouse from Talbots looks promising — I like the four colors it comes in, the pintucks in the front, the roll sleeves, and the half-placket. I also love that it’s on sale: it was $99, but is now marked to $55. It’s available in regular, petite, plus, and plus-size petite sizes. Washable Silk Pintuck Blouse
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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+
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?
Also had this with my kids–interest in potties/bathroom functions start, we get excited, install training potty and buy cute undies, work on sitting there when the mood is right..and then a big fat nothing. I have known parents who really went for earlier potty training successfully, but they were SAHMs and it seems incredibly labor intensive. Like, carting a portable potty around at all times and obsessively quizzing the kid, “DO YOU NEED TO POTTY?!?!?” <<pass for me. We talked to the ped at whatever checkup coincided with the interest/lack of interest, and were told by different peds to just roll with whatever the kid is into. So we did.
It gets frustrating at some point when you're changing a 2.5 yr old and you know (*know*) that they could totally potty train that instant if they wanted to. OTOH, I was more afraid of getting into some sort of crazy potty power struggle with stubborn toddlers and then veering into a dark place (stress, anger, withholding, blockage), so we basically chilled. (Always nice when the path of least resistance seems like the correct one to be on.) Eventually my kids' teachers told us they thought the kid was ready, and for both that was all they needed–it was this basically overnight thing: diapers to undies because their teacher said so. We had very little by way of accidents or anything like that–a nice S curve experience.
tl;dr–sure, get a potty (bjorn is my fav) and let the kid dork around with it, but keep your expectations low.
So I have a potty training question for the more experienced moms.
My almost-17-month-old LO is telling me now (unprompted, with reasonable accuracy) when she does a pee or a poo in her diaper, and will also tell us when she wants her diaper changed. She is also quite observant and likes coming into the bathroom when I or my SO use the toilet.
I wasn’t expecting to start potty training this early but I am starting to think these are the “signs” you are supposed to look for when determining whether a child is ready. But on the other hand, I have also heard from parents who tried to train too early and just ended up frustrated, and whose toddlers were frustrated as well.
For those of you who have gone through this before, do you think I am seeing signs of readiness? Do you think it would be worthwhile getting a potty to just see what happens? This is totally new territory for me….
Every time I think clothing for baby girls couldn’t get more disturbing/tacky, something else lowers the bar.
The offender this time?
A toddler-sized Juicy Couture bikini with “Juicy” across the tushie. Shudder.
I’m 37 weeks pregnant. Sleep has never really been easy this entire pregnancy. I finally made the decision that hubby and I should try sleeping in different rooms, so as not to disturb each other. I am eager to try it for the purpose of getting more sleep, but I’m sad we won’t be in the same bed. :( I like cuddling with him!
Having a day. Toddler has been having epic meltdowns every morning about wearing a diaper and clothing. Today I wasted about 30 minutes trying to get her in a diaper and in clothes. When the nanny arrived, she was hysterical crying, half wearing a diaper, strapped into her booster seat tossing cheerios on the floor. She had some red marks on her side from where I tried to hold her as I carried her kicking and screaming from her room to the kitchen, which the nanny asked about. So now in addition to thinking I am some scatterbrain who cannot manage her own child, she probably also thinks I beat her. Who by the way, happily put on a diaper and clothes and sat to have her hair styled by the nanny. Oh, and the baby is kind of marked up because he banged into something while I was trying to cajole toddler into clothing and was freaking out because toddler was screaming all morning. My nerves are all a mess. And work is not going much better. I know there are good days and bad days, but lately I feel like I am having only bad ones.
So I need some new shirts for summer. I’m 9 weeks right now and am looking for something I can use to hide it now, but still be comfortable. I also don’t want to flaunt my, um, ‘expanding assets’.
Any suggestions? I figure whatever I get now would make sense to wear post-partum as well. Any tips as to what worked well for you?
Another pumping question – if you pumped at work, how long were your sessions and how did you settle on that length of time? Right now I usually pump for 15 minutes/session, but thinking I should increase this for going back (2 weeks from today, yikes). But the 15 minutes doesn’t have a basis – I probably read it somewhere else on the internet.
Thanks, as always, for sharing your experiences.
Didn’t you just feature this item a couple of weeks ago?