Ep. 338 - Last-Minute Holiday Tips, Tricks and Gifts!
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Shanna and Laura share last-minute gift ideas and holiday tips in the special segment "What the Hack?!," including tricks for hanging ornaments, managing holiday-morning chaos and more! Also, Shanna checks in on her mission to remove 1,000 pounds of sand from her backyard, and Laura talks about an artistic activity that has deeply engaged her 5-year-old. 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:
-How to get rid of a sandbox
-My kid keeps drawing violent images
-Tips and tricks for managing the holidays with kids
-Last-minute holiday gift ideas
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.1 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:06.9 | We have our special segment, what the hack, holiday edition, where we share some very last-minute gift ideas and give you a bunch of hacks to help you through this hectic holiday season. |
| 0:16.8 | And finally, we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week. |
| 0:19.1 | Let's get started. |
| 0:21.4 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 338. And also to everyone listening in real time, |
| 0:28.0 | Merry Christmas week. Happy Hanukkah week, beginning of Hanukkah, at least. |
| 0:32.8 | Yes. When's Kwanza? Is Kwanza coming up? |
| 0:35.9 | Yes, it's also the beginning of Kwanza the day after Christmas. |
| 0:39.8 | So yes, for all who celebrate all those things. It's a big week. But we are in the past, Shana. We are not there yet. We are projecting into the future. But I do want to hear what's been going on with you and your family this week. For sure. First of all, I'm a little under the weather. I'm sorry if my voice and energy are dragging a bit. But I'm going to do my best to give you my check-in. So you may remember, Laura, in episode 334, when we were doing our segment, what I Googled this week. One of the things I googled was, how do I get rid of sand in |
| 1:12.2 | Los Angeles, right? Yes. My suggestion was that you just put it in your pockets and go on |
| 1:19.2 | long walks and slowly drop the sand throughout the city. That was a great suggestion, but I decided I needed something a little more timely because once I get hooked on an idea, I just want to do it right away. |
| 1:34.9 | Okay, yes, understandable. |
| 1:37.1 | Especially with this backyard refresh we're doing. |
| 1:39.8 | I wanted to get rid of it and make space in the yard. |
| 1:42.5 | So it occurred to me that I could put the sand in this thing called sandbags. |
| 1:49.6 | Have you heard of sandbags? |
| 1:52.1 | Yes, I've heard of the concept. |
| 1:54.0 | We actually filled a bunch of sandbags last year, or was it the year before? |
| 1:58.0 | Because we have a bit of a flooding issue on the side of our house. So I am |
| 2:02.6 | intimately familiar with sandbags. What a concept. What a concept, right? And I looked up on |
| 2:10.6 | Home Depot and saw that you could buy empty sandbags for like 50 cents a piece. And my plan was I'm |
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