Ep. 347: Throwback: Laura's Middle-School Mess
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Throwback," Laura reflects on sibling relationships as she recounts the time in 7th grade when she ran for student council and her brother became her political fixer. Also, Shanna reports on all the mishaps at the elaborate escape-room birthday party that she threw for her daughter, and Laura discusses the unexpected challenge that sprung upon her family this week. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6 and 9 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6 years old and 3.5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Handling unexpected challenges when you're a parent
-Planning an escape-room birthday party for your kid
-Reflecting on memories from middle school
-Ice skating with your young kids
-Best kids' party favors
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shana and Laura. |
| 0:05.2 | On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.5 | We have our special segment, Throwback, where Laura tells us about the time her brother saved her from political humiliation. |
| 0:14.4 | And we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and the offense. |
| 0:17.2 | Let's get started. |
| 0:19.7 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to the show. Hey, Laura. Hi, Shana. Hi, hi, hi. What's going on in |
| 0:25.9 | your world? Give us a check-in. Okay, so this week we faced a little bit of an unexpected wrinkle in our |
| 0:31.1 | lives as homeowners, but it was really extra difficult because we have kids, and so I thought I'd talk |
| 0:37.2 | about it in my check-in. |
| 0:38.8 | Okay. |
| 0:39.5 | So shortly after we came back from evacuating for the fires, I noticed that when I was taking |
| 0:45.0 | things out of our freezer, they felt kind of soft. |
| 0:48.5 | You know, like taking an ice cream sandwich out, and it's not like frozen brick hard. |
| 0:53.5 | It was just a little soft. |
| 0:55.4 | Oh, actually, that sounds perfect. That's the consistency I like in an ice cream sandwich. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah. I mean, honestly, it was kind of perfect, which is why I didn't really register it as a problem right away. |
| 1:05.3 | I thought maybe, oh, this ice cream sandwich brand like is pre-softened, right? Or like, whatever. |
| 1:10.2 | It has, what I really mean by |
| 1:11.9 | that is that it had like preservatives in it, which made it so it wouldn't freeze solid or whatever. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah. But I did tuck it into the back of my brain. And as a few days went by, things were getting |
| 1:22.3 | softer and softer. Like, Augie loves his puffy pancakes for breakfast, which is these little, like, Scandinavian pancakes that are really puffy. |
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