Family Friday: Woven Jersey Navy Pouf
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If you’re looking for a kid-friendly piece of decor that’s still kind of stylish for your home, I have to sing the praises of Land of Nod poufs. We have a bright green one from a couple years ago that’s similar to this, and it’s durable and the kids like it — and it works well in the space. This is sort of the more grown-up version but if you have any little ones to spoil this holiday season (or the grandparents want to), they also have a $120 giant dog stuffed animal pillow that your kids can flop on that looks really adorable. The pictured one comes in blue and cream and is $99. Woven Jersey Navy Pouf
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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?
Back to Anonanons’ theme from the other day, we just won a proposal I was on for a very cool project, and if it weren’t for the fact that I’d be in my 39th week of pregnancy during the kickoff, I’d be booking tickets to travel to [top 5 favorite foreign city] for the kickoff meetings right now. Sigh. Trying to psych myself back up for giving birth and losing all my momentum around here. I know the opportunities will be here when I get back. // End whine.
Curious about the time between your child being day and night potty-trained. My older daughter was day trained around 2 years, 8 months and was dry at night about a month later. My younger daughter day-trained a month or two after she turned two. It’s been over a year and her diaper is still super wet in the morning. I haven’t pushed it because I know it’s a physiological thing, but it is starting to seem like it’s been a REALLY long time since she was potty trained during the day. This is normal…right?
What are your favorite white noise machines? We need one desperately and I’m looking for one like Karp recommends that gets louder in response to baby making noise but that seems to be a fantasy. Have you found this magical machine? Prefer something else? Thanks!
Drinking tons of water helps me somehow!
I’m feeling really down and sad today, for absolutely no good reason — possibly lack of sleep, but no legitimate reason to be unhappy! Any quick fixes you lovely ladies can suggest? Thank you in advance.
What are your favorite sites for holiday photo cards? I haven’t been happy with the quality of Shutterfly recently and need an alternative. I drool over Minted’s stuff, but it’s a little pricey.
What’s your opinion/technique on kids doing things for themselves? Mine can do things like pick out their clothes and get dressed and put on their shoes and socks. Everything I read says that it’s best to let kids do things on their own if they are able, but about 50% of the time my kids don’t want to pick out their clothes/put their shoes on/etc. by themselves. Do you help? Stick to your guns and let them do it on their own?
Any favorite places for boy-girl twin coordinating outfits? For our extended family pics we’re going to dress the 4-y.o. cousins in coordinating outfits and being as how theyre not actually twins, I have no experience with this. Any help?
I used to think these poufs were silly, but now that I have a kid, they seem much more practical and still cute. Agreed about the crumbs though. I’d probably just flip it over and shake it out, tbh.
How did you decide how many kids to have? We always talked about having a big family, but now that we have one kid, I’m really enjoying it being just the three of us. He’s 8 months old – do I need to give it some time? Today I feel like I’d be happy with one more, but honestly the more time goes by the more I’m on the fence about it. Hubs waffles between “we said we want 4 so we need to get on it” (we’re 32) and “ehh one more would be enough.” Money is not really a factor for us; we live in a MCOL area and both have good jobs, plus we both grew up poor so we feel like our kids will already have a better baseline than us (and we turned out fine). I’m still interested to hear for how many of you money was the deciding factor.
I need advice! My 19 month old is climbing out of his crib…he did it for the first time two weeks ago and can do it quite easily. I put him in a sleepsack again hoping it would buy us a couple of months but he has started complaining about that too and waking up in the night shouting “off off.” I feel like he’s too young to move to a bed, no? But am starting to doubt I have options. My nanny says moving him to a bed is “giving in.” But I don’t want to leave him in the crib and risk that he’ll climb out and hurt himself! FWIW crib mattress is already on lowest possible setting and I can’t put it on the floor (too big a gap).
Any advice appreciated!
Thanks to everyone who offered toddler hair advice yesterday. Excited to give it another try this weekend with the help of ouchless elastics, Elmo on the TV, and a spray bottle.
Home with the toddler today potty training. I’m already exhausted. Wish me luck!
Referring to Polar Express.
I wish this book was more Santa-friendly. We always skip the last page but our 4 yo is eventually going to catch on.
Any favorites?
We have Little Blue Truck’s Christmas which is a hit. And we do ‘T’was the Night before Christmas’ on Christmas Eve. Looking for classics to add. I never read Polar Express as a kid, what age is it best for?