Ep. 337 - Next-Door Grandma
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Stump the Mom," Laura and Shanna grill each other with amusing and educational trivia questions involving surprising facts about family-favorite holiday movies, treats and toys! Also, Laura reports on what life has been like with her mom, aka Grandma Susan, living next door, and Shanna talks about diving into birthday party planning for her kindergartener. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 5.5 and 8.5 years old, and Laura’s kids are 5.5 years old and 3.5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-What is it like to live next door to your mom when you have kids?
-Relationship between small children and their grandparents
-Planning your kid's birthday party
-Holiday trivia questions relevant to moms and families
-Classic kids' toys
-Extracurricular activities for your kids
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.8 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:08.4 | Our special segment, Stump the Mom, where Laura and I grill each other with holiday-themed trivia, and we wrap it up with our BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:16.7 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to episode 337. |
| 0:23.1 | Hi, Laura. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi, Shauna. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello. |
| 0:26.5 | Could you do me a huge favor and give us your check-in for the week? |
| 0:31.2 | I will oblige. |
| 0:33.2 | Yay. |
| 0:33.5 | So this week, it's been a pretty chill week. |
| 0:36.6 | The kids have been in school. And I've been working, but it hasn't been as intense as previous weeks. So that's been good. But what I wanted to check in this week about was the fact that my mom has been in town for two weeks now. She's been in town for the past two weeks. And she's actually going to be in town |
| 0:55.6 | indefinitely right now because there's an incident in Portland. Oh, oh. It's everyone's okay, |
| 1:02.9 | but there was a fire in the basement of my stepdad's house in Portland. And the house filled |
| 1:09.9 | with smoke. Everyone's okay. |
| 1:11.5 | Even the bird survived. |
| 1:13.8 | But the house is covered in soot and needs remediation. |
| 1:19.4 | And so about two weeks ago, my mom and Neil packed up what they could, what wasn't smoke covered, and came down to Glendale for an |
| 1:29.2 | indeterminate length of time. And they also brought their bird, by the way, the 28-year-old |
| 1:35.8 | cockatiel, Sydney, who is... Oh my gosh, they live that long? They live. I don't actually |
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