Washable Workwear Wednesday: Melody Cardigan
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Here’s a bright cardigan to say farewell to summer in!
This fluttery open cardigan from Nic + Zoe is crafted from a textured linen blend that’s perfect for late summer. The pretty sky blue works with summer whites and the slightly shorter sleeve length will highlight a statement cuff or delicate tennis bracelet. As with many of Nic + Zoe’s offerings, this cardigan comes in regular, petite (lucky sizes only), and plus.
This cardigan is $138 and available in sizes Petite P to 3X.
Looking for other washable workwear? See all of our recent recommendations for washable clothes for work, or check out our roundup of the best brands for washable workwear.
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
How do you teach a kid to bike? My daughter is 5 and somehow we haven’t done this. She’s fine on her bike with training wheels but wants them off like some friends, and I’m not sure how to teach or transition.
I’ve never had a nanny before and could use some help navigating this. We have a 14-month old (very easy-going for a toddler) and our nanny is in her mid-sixties. She’s incredibly experienced and fantastic with the kid (and he adores her). Having her around helps with my ongoing postpartum anxiety because I really trust her with the kid. She’s very present and safety-conscious. She’s also much cheaper than the going rate for a nanny in our area.
English is a second language for both of us, and I think we have some communication difficulties. She told me today she feels overwhelmed – there are too many toys, it’s too messy. We moved into this house a few months ago and while the living areas are unpacked, we’re a bit disorganized right now. I am solo with the toddler in the mornings and early evening, so when she arrives it’s a bit chaotic because we will just have finished breakfast (but I can’t clean up while I am solo with the toddler – he’s in the cruising/falling over stage so I need to spot him). She usually takes the kid when she arrives and I start cleaning up. I don’t know how to make life easier on her, and in a way, I don’t know that I should. Life can be chaotic with a toddler! We’re really doing the best that we can but with so much solo parenting (plus an aging, somewhat incontinent dog), it’s hard! She also told me I’m not doing a good job keeping him from bonking his head. I really try my best but sometimes he does fall. So she makes me feel pretty bad about myself. In theory I can see that she is maybe not the best fit for our family, but see above – I really, really trust her and don’t want to let her go. She just seems unhappy and I’ve asked her how we can make sure she’s happy, but we definitely have some communication difficulties. I’m a biglaw partner and the main breadwinner plus the main caretaker of the kid outside of the nanny’s hour (yeah it’s not ideal), so I’m really at my wit’s end.
my 4 year old twins are in a major mommy phase, which i think is hurting DH’s feelings, though on the flip side while DH is a very hands on dad and is great with them, he is struggling a bit more in this preschool phase where a lot of the parenting involves a lot of patience/emotional labor, rather than when they were more babies/toddlers and it was more physical labor. does anyone have any ideas for a reset, or how to help them feel more connected to DH or to at least not protest every single time he does something with them
We are planning a long-haul (Southeast Asian major city) trip in the fall for a family wedding. Kids will be newly 5 and almost 2. We will be in and out of various transport (family cars, Ubers), mostly in very dense city traffic with very old roads. Location is lax about child safety/car seats (lots of kids on laps, motorbikes, etc.) but I am not okay with it – I guess my US traits showing ;)
Plan is to purchase a carseat from destination for almost 2-yo (I’ve already found one, and it can be delivered to family; I’ll just have to watch a few videos on install beforehand but it seems similar to what we do in the US). For 5 yo – debating between travel backless booster (not inflatable) and one of the safe rides vests. 5 yo is on the taller side, currently in a regular 5-pt harness at home. Any thoughts/suggestions/experience?
The daycare germs are killing us! We spent most of August with a viral infection- first husband, then baby, then me. And now I get a call from daycare that baby has a fever. She just was sick three weeks ago! It’s been a cold every four weeks or so since she started in May. Is this normal?!?
Any introverted moms here with busy, extroverted kids? What are your tips?
We’re emerging from two years of baby/toddlerhood followed by two+ years of Covid into a post(ish) pandemic world with an extremely energetic, social only child 4.5 year old. We’re still under-scheduled compared to a lot of families, I think, but in the last couple of months, we’ve added a weekly Sunday morning activity, occasional Saturday activities and near weekly play dates with school friends to our existing schedule of daycare, two full-time jobs, a fair amount of family travel and local family we see often. It’s been absolutely amazing for my kid and it’s wonderful to see her thriving, but I am sooo exhausted.
Tell me all your advice and ideas to get out the other side of a sleep regression please! At 4 mo, he would sleep 8pm to 5am with one wake-up, but for about 6 weeks since then, it’s gotten worse and worse. Now we’re up literally half the night–alternating 2 hours of sleep (max) with an hour or 2 of whining or crying. Peds confirmed he is perfectly healthy. The only safe sleep location is a packandplay in our room, although I’m looking for other options.
In addition to my cathartic vent above (I need more IRL working mom friends), a parenting pro tip. I bought my son a spedometer for his bike after he was jealous of my Garmin.
A few days in, it has shaved 5 minutes off our cycling commute as he tries to break the land speed record on the straight bits. He’s also realised that if he’s at 11 mph on the approach to the “big old bridge” ( a steep 500 year old pedestrian bridge), he’ll make it up without having to push. He maxes out at 13mph, and his response was “we’re going to need to find a bigger hill!”
My three year old has started scratching me when he’s mad (usually when I suggest something he doesn’t want to do, like start the bedtime routine or go to the potty). We’ve talked about how we don’t scratch and use our words, scratching hurts people, and we’ve said he can scratch a pillow if he wants to get his anger out, but he’s still scratching in the moment. Any tips?
My childcare ended quarantine rules! We are free! My kids have been home at least one week per month since January due to quarantine. Earlier this month, it was 18 days since my husband had Covid.
No question. Just celebration! Yay!
My 5yo (older 5). We cannot seem to get him night trained. He is an incredibly deep sleeper (like he never wakes up if you move him from the car to bed). On nights he’s super tired, he often wets the bed. If he’s well-rested, he can hold it until morning. The problem is that once he starts wetting, he wakes up which ruins his sleep which keeps him wetting which means he’s more tired and on and on.
We do have him go to the bathroom before bed. We do not restrict liquids in the evening (it makes me uncomfortable to deny water but I am open to people’s thoughts). Is it just a matter of waiting? The Ped said if he woke up dry most days, then to stop using a diaper, which we did. But then he was overtired and had an accident (like a week ago) and I have been washing sheets every day since (and he’s still overtired).
I don’t have a big problem with waiting if he just needs to mature more, but I welcome anecdotes!
So this week my son has realised that not all parents work, and thus, not all children have to go to wraparound care. And boy is he salty about it. Any good scripts that help explain to kids that some parents work, some parents don’t, etc?
I think in some ways this will “fix” itself when I’m back to my normal 25% travel schedule, it’s easier to understand why you have to go to breakfast club when mummy is literally in a different nation, but for now, it’s hard. He also doesn’t have aftercare everyday due to waitlists, so it’s hard to understand why I can spend 3 hours at the playpark on Tuesdays, but not the rest of the week…
He’s asked to stay home with promises to “be very quiet” and for me to poke holes in a big box, fill it with snacks and an iPad, and ship him to Portugal, before he realised the loo would be an issue, lol.