Weekend Open Thread
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Sales of note for 5/4/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Select clothes, shoes & more up to 50% off
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including new arrivals (ends 5/4) + extra 15% off $200
- Banana Republic Factory – 40-60% everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Extra 50% off all sale + $19 & up spring steals
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off must-have styles + up to extra 60% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 70% off clearance
- M.M.LaFleur – Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off one regular-price item + 30% off everything else
A funny anecdote about how kids’ brains work…My now first grader had a best friend in preschool that went to a different elementary school and they haven’t seen each other in over a year and a half. My daughter talked about this kid *constantly* throughout kindergarten, even though she made lots of new friends in K, and still mentions her occasionally even this year. Over the weekend we randomly bumped into the other family for the first time since preschool at a community event and… the kids didn’t recognize each other. When they were reintroduced to each other by the parents they basically didn’t speak to each other.
I like the push in modern parenting to respect kids and treat them as people, but I think it’s also good to remember that little kids build things up in their minds and don’t always mean what they say. I kind of suspected my kid wasn’t really missing this girl specifically but was talking about her as a way of expressing nostalgia for preschool, and running into the other family definitely confirmed that.
If you get a wedding invite that just says John & Jane Doe on it, it’s clear your kids aren’t invited right? My husband thinks we should ask if we can bring them; I think they’re clearly not invited and it’s gauche to ask. Husband’s cousin is the groom and he knows we have kids and has met them briefly at other family weddings/funerals.
This is the worst photoshop job I’ve seen in a while.