Weekend & Family Friday: Wonder Wheeler Beach Cart
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Check out this hideous but very useful contraption! My husband and I have one of these (though I think ours is from Costco), and we call it “the schlepper.” It is pretty amazing how many more things you need for the beach when you have kids. It’s a long trek up the beach if you forget anything in your car or locker, so you want to make sure you don’t leave anything behind. My favorite part about this cart is the space on the front to hang beach chairs — those things are incredibly unwieldy. Another cool perk is that there’s a holder on the side for a beach umbrella. Whoever designed this really thought of everything. It’s $89.95 at Amazon and is eligible for Prime. Wonder Wheeler Beach Cart This post contains affiliate links and CorporetteMoms may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support!
I’m way behind here on planning, but today is our nanny’s last day at work before baby starts daycare next week. Any recs for things to do to acknowledge how awesome she was? Or reassure me that current plan is good and I’m over-thinking this? We are planning on writing a heartfelt card, giving her a week’s additional pay as bonus, and probably throwing in a bottle of type of wine we know she likes. Yea or nay on pic of her and kid? We also already have a couple of date nights lined up with her so she will be back occasionally.
It was always set up to be a temporary situation until baby could join older sis in daycare, and nanny has another gig lined up starting in the fall, but she’s been with us since the new year so we’re all going to be sad to part!
Has anyone else had a renovation project go haywire? I’m just looking for commiseration because I feel so frustrated and embarrassed by this process. I aggressively negotiate large, complex deals at work but I feel like we’re being taken for a ride by our contractors and decorator and I have no control. We’re about done but I’m so disappointed with everyone’s disregard for our budget and timeframe.
What do you find is the best way to share notes and info with your spouse for things like joint research projects so they are easily accessible to both people? For example, we are currently working on finding a before/aftercare program for our kid and both of us have talked with people at different programs about it. I’d like to have one document or spreadsheet to dump that all the information into rather than just emailing back and forth. I like Evernote but he doesn’t and Google Drive is very slow on my work computer. He likes to take notes on his iPhone, but then I have no way to see or change the note.
Please help me with language for a “no gifts” bday invite. My friends used this one and I liked it and think I am going to use it to but want to ensure it’s benign and inoffensive, but also gets the point across. “Please, no gifts. [Name] has everything he needs.”
BTW I am the poster who asked about confirmation to def not bring a gift to this party after receiving this invite. I didn’t and if others did, the parents kept them tucked away. It was a small party with good food and a pool – it was a blast!
DH and I are expecting our first baby girl in December. We’re going shopping for a glider for the nursery this weekend. What are some features of a glider that you enjoyed (or conversely, hated)? Is it better to get one that has a separate ottoman as a footrest, or one of the La-Z-Boy types where the whole thing reclines and extends by using a handle on the side? Price is ideally less than $600. TIA!
I love when people give updates, so I wanted to let you all know that I am the poster whose kiddo was going to be left behind when all of his classmates moved up at daycare. Well, they shuffled some things around and he’s moving up, too! I appreciated your advice. I wanted to share that I think one thing that helped move them along was asking them to sit down with me and my husband to discuss what we should say to our son about the decision – how would they recommend we explain it? Rather than answer that email, they made it work! I think asking them to help us explained it helped them see the situation more from our perspective.
Last week I posted about how kiddo was upset at Grandma and going through a ‘I only love mommy!’ phase.
Well, we talked about how it was age appropriate, Grandma reassured me she knew it was a phase, and I gave Grandma the okay to let him watch extra TV and go with some ‘looser’ rules when they were together.
Last night at dinner (Grandma came over), we asked kiddo, ‘What was one thing you really liked about today?”
“GRANDMA. I love her so much and she makes me so happy!!”
So that one worked out.
Hello. Thanks everyone for the advice yesterday about how to handle husband who excites toddler before bed.
Yesterday kiddo went to the park, had dinner and I started his bath. He immediately started protesting because dad was around and he wanted to watch tv (I don’t let kid watch tv anymore) and dad took over bath. I got kid dressed for bed and he went to sleep around 7 and woke up at 6 on the dot. Have some laundry to do (small man had an accident this morning) but still quite promising!
Husband is out this evening so everything should be right in schedule tonight.
Thanks everyone.
DH and I have been trying to move from our HCOL city to a more affordable city for close to 7 years now. In that time, we’ve started our family and established a wonderful network. We love our daughter’s daycare like family, including the other families there. We also just had another LO. Well we finally have the chance to move to the lower COL city and while I’m excited, i feel really sad. I know we can’t realistically afford to stay here long term, but I’m so sad to leave our wonderful daycare and network. Now I’m questioning everything even though we’ve been working towards this. I know part of it is likely being 2 months postpartum and not anxious to go back to work in general, but it just seems so overwhelming to start from scratch in a new place (even though we have some family there). I find it especially sad to leave DD’s daycare, where she’s gone since she was an infant. Not sure what I’m looking for, but this is so hard!
play kitchens. kid kraft vs. step 2? or any other recs
We are naked-weekend potty training our twins this weekend (they are almost 3.5). We’ve got chips/juice/all the TV on hand, but I’m not seeing a lot of information about what to do for nap time and night time! We only recently switched them into toddler beds, and they usually take about an hour to fall asleep for nap, then sleep for 1-2 hours. I think if I keep going in there every 30 minutes to make them pee, they’ll never nap. Should we just skip nap this weekend?
Plus, we were hoping to do night training simultaneously with the full expectation that it might not work… I’m picturing heavier sleeping if there aren’t naps, but that’s probably not an issue. Do we just have them go before bed, then wake them up once in the middle of the night?
How do I get Desitin off black pants? Dish soap maybe? Tide pen didn’t work well. Baby wipe didn’t work.
(at my knee. I even wore a light robe over my outfit to keep myself clean. SOMEHOW baby got diaper cream on their foot and now I have weird white smudge all over my pants.)
Ladies, I’m working on weaning my 17 month old and it’s making me so sad! My husband & I are going to Europe for a week in early October for our 10th anniversary, so my goal has been to have her weaned a month beforehand. But neither of us (me or baby) really want to do it – if not for the trip I’d happily nurse till age 2, which is not something I’d have EVER said pre baby! She’s dropped feedings without much protest (just dropped pre bedtime this week so we’re down to morning only) so I think this process is more traumatic for me than her. But I get so melancholy when we nurse because I know our days are numbered. Any words of wisdom or advice?