Finally Friday: Sleeveless Lace Peplum Top
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Call me crazy, but I really like this top. The colorblocked lace looks fun and interesting, and I’m still not tired of peplum. It’s available in blue and white, and would (I think) be a lovely thing for a low-key holiday office party. The top is $19.99 at JCP (originally $36) and comes in regular and petite sizes. Worthington Sleeveless Lace Peplum Top
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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?
Did you stop using bottles at 12 mo (roughly)? Or do they hang around until 18 or longer?
Currently baby is 10 mo old and almost exclusively bottle fed (nurses once a day). I’ll continue to nurse that one session past a year if he wants, but I do plan to switch from formula in a bottle to milk in a cup around his first birthday. Outside of a 1-2 month transition period, I’m wondering if I can expect to be 100% done with bottles or if we’ll have a couple of bottle feedings linger.
So one of my twins is now biting. Any recommendations? They’re 20 months old and it happens almost exclusively as a way to get what he wants/doesn’t want. For example, yesterday, he wanted a book his brother had and so he (according to the au pair) grabbed his brother by the shoulders and bit his ear! (I’m still having trouble visualizing this.) Later, they were fighting over a book again and when I reached in to try to pull the book away, he bent down and bit my hand. He’s also bitten me when I had him in my lap and was trying to put on his shoes but he wanted to run off and play. No bites have been very bad and I think he’s really only just discovered and is testing out the concept of using his teeth. He doesn’t really talk yet so I can’t ask him to use his words. So far we’ve just been saying things like “No! No biting. Teeth are for food, not for biting our family.” He sometimes just kind of shrugs it off and sometimes he starts crying (although it’s usually hard to tell if he’s crying because he was told “no” or because he wasn’t able to get the book/toy/whatever from his brother). Any suggestions? Online resources tend to say things like keep kids out of situations where they tend to bite, but seriously? Twins fight ALL THE TIME. All the time. Like, all the time. Like every other minute they’re awake, they’re fighting for some toy or book or sippy cup or whatever (even if they have the exact same one themselves — you can hand them each an identical thing and they’ll still each want to have BOTH the things).
Dear Grateful Senior Associate,
Please actually tell me this. It would be a big help and encourage me to ask for work in the future instead of constantly feeling like I’m screwing up.
Signed,
Overwhelmed by Everything Junior Associate
Dear junior associate who just asked me for work: Thank you for asking, I am buried and need your helping hands badly. Do not be ashamed that you need to ask for work; that is the law firm life. Do not be ashamed that this will be your first time handling this type of matter; you are so junior that I expect you haven’t done anything yet. I am sorry for the sheer amount of work I am about to drop on your unsuspecting head, but you will learn so, so much more than you would have if you hadn’t asked.
Signed,
Grateful Senior Associate
Ha, you all are the best! That’s what I was leaning toward, I think I just got freaked at the amount of stuff that is showing up in Very Large Boxes right now in preparation for the baby’s arrival, and wondering where it would all go. But you made great points, and I particularly appreciate hearing about the necessity of in-unit laundry (if you can get it). I think I’m not properly wrapping my mind around the amount of laundry we’ll be doing, but have a better sense of it now. Thanks!
live in a smaller apartment with two full bathrooms and an in-unit washer and dryer but no additional storage, OR a larger apartment with only one bathroom, lots of storage, and a coin-op washer and dryer in the basement? Both are two bedroom apartments, first kiddo on the way.
The joys of city living.
We considered a daycare that was run through an evangelical church, but didn’t end up using it because of distance. The kid and I are cafeteria-Catholic and my husband’s family is Methodist (but never really participated in religion). The tenets of Christianity are all the same so I would have no issue with him going to a daycare even if it wasn’t Catholic (for me, that would apply to Judaism, as well). FWIW, I went to Catholic school from kindergarten through my freshman year of college, and there were plenty of non-Catholic kids there for the quality of the education, and they had no issues assimilating. I imagine that would be even easier for younger kids.
Any thoughts on sending a 2 year old to a church daycare when your own family is not at all religious? There’s a great place nearby to our home I am considering using for my daughter’s childcare, but they do a Lutheran church service with the kids once a week. I am agnostic and don’t want to confuse my child, but at the same time I am open to the idea of her being exposed to religion as a moral/cultural presence in society. Does anyone have experience doing this?
Does anyone have success stories—or horror stories— finding a babysitter through Sittercity, Care dotcom, etc.? We have exhausted our minimal local network and haven’t found someone who we can rely on even for our fairly infrequent baby-less outings.
I’ve made contact with a few potential babysitters on the websites but I am apprehensive about pulling the trigger and bringing them in. Do I just need to meet them, check references, and just Get Over It that someone caring for my child was until very recently a stranger on the Internet?
I am very sorry for what you are going through and hope the best for you.
I understand your wonderings. In my country in Europe if there is a problem TTC the man is tested first thing. Mainly because that test is so easy, quick and noninvasive compared to many tests of the woman.
I don’t really have a question, more of a discussion topic that I can’t really talk about with my husband or anyone close to me. My husband and i have been trying for almost a year to get pregnant- he has been more relaxed about it than me, I’ve been charting, recently started acupuncture, read Taking Charge of Your Fertility and tried to address some issues I noticed, etc, despite having a completely normal cycle and no obvious red flags. He did agree to get tested in September, but for scheduling reasons it didn’t happen until yesterday. When he asked his doctor for a referral back in September, his doctor said “sure, but your wife should get tested- it’s usually the woman with the problems.” I was horrified when I heard that- I thought it came off as really sexist, and everything I had read said it’s usually half and half. Well, the results came back and his count is practically zero. Obviously there is more testing to be done, but I am just feeling annoyed (along with sad, of course), maybe, at how sexist this whole experience has seemed? Maybe that’s not quite the right word, but it just seems like everything I read was geared towards me being the problem and finding the solution, and everyone, including my husband, kind of internalized that. Of course I could have problems too, but it seems likely that this is what has been preventing it from happening. Can anyone relate to this? Has anyone else been able to get pregnant despite issues with your partner’s fertility?
I have a 8.5 month old who seems ready to move towards a sippy cup. She seems frustrated with the flow from her bottle (medium flow). Any suggestions? Bonus points if available at Target.
If your kid used a pacifier, when did you take it away? Just trying to figure out when I need to do that.
For those of you with nannies, how much do you disclose when having to take off the day to cover when she’s sick. I was upfront about saying I was taking the day off to cover for childcare because a) its not a me or dependent sick day and b) I otherwise would have given more notice for a leave request but I wonder if it reflects poorly on my own reliability. Am I over thinking this?