Ep. 343: Change of Plans
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment, "They Said What?!" Shanna and Laura discuss the funny, outrageous or offensive things people have said to them recently about parenting, including stories about negligent neighbors and movie-theater mishaps. Also, Laura reports on her 5-year-old's surprising new outdoor interest, and Shanna discusses a last-minute pivot she and her husband had to make on Christmas Eve. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6 and 8.5 years old, and Laura’s kids are 5.5 years old and 3.5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Christmas with young kids
-Doing yard work with young kids
-Big-muscle activity for kids
-Kids and trampolines
-Should I give big gifts from Santa or from parents
-Falling asleep during movies as a mom
-Rude neighbors
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.3 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.5 | We have our special segment. |
| 0:08.6 | They said, what? |
| 0:09.4 | Where we get attacked and abandoned? |
| 0:11.5 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:14.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:17.3 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:18.7 | Welcome to episode 343. |
| 0:20.4 | Hi, Laura. Well, hello, Shana. Hello, hello. Ho, ho, everyone. Welcome to episode 343. Hi, Laura. Well, hello, hello, ho, ho. It's Christmas |
| 0:25.9 | week in BFP land. Yes, in BFP land. It is Christmas week. I'm sure everyone listening is |
| 0:32.9 | way over it, though. They're like, get that Christmas crap out of my ears. Yes, yes. I know. I know. |
| 0:42.1 | It's so far beyond it at this point. But Christmas or not, why don't you give us a little update about what's been going on in your world this week? |
| 0:49.7 | Yes, well, because of the holiday break, my kids are both home this week. No camps, no nothing, just old-fashioned mama data camp. Luckily, Corey and I both have a kind of light week this week. The TV and film industry, they completely shut down over the holidays. So no one's expecting anyone to do any work. My job job is kind of slow right now, |
| 1:13.0 | so no one's really like expect me to do anything this week. So I got to just have fun with the kids |
| 1:18.1 | and do stuff around the house. And we didn't have anything really special planned outside of, |
| 1:24.1 | you know, Christmas Day opening presents and stuff like that and having a big |
| 1:28.3 | Christmas dinner with family and friends at the house. But for the rest of the week, we didn't really |
| 1:32.1 | have anything planned. I figured there would be enough excitement with Christmas and Christmas Eve |
| 1:37.0 | and all that stuff that we wouldn't need to do anything like big. Like I didn't plan big outings |
| 1:42.6 | to go to kids indoor playgrounds or |
| 1:45.5 | museums or anything. I was just like, let's keep it home. So. Nice. And on day one of the holiday |
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