Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura.

On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins.

We have our special segment, Big Topic, where we discuss that old Thief of Joy comparison

and how it shows up in our parenting lives, and we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs.

Let's get started.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 363. Hi, Laura.

Hi, Shana. Hello, hello. Why don't you kick us off and give us your check-in for the week?

So this week, we had a bunch of family visiting from out of town. That's nice. Yeah, very nice. So my mom came into town because she

planned this epic adventure for her two cousins, who she does not get to see very often,

but who she grew up very close with. So she has a cousin Linda that I think is like two months

younger than her or older than her, something like that. They're exactly the same age. And they grew up near each other. So they were like best friends

growing up, really, really close. And Linda lives in Pennsylvania still, which is where my mom grew up.

And my mom, of course, moved away a long, long time ago. I think she moved away after college

and never lived in Philadelphia

again. So they've obviously seen each other over the years, but never have gotten to spend like

really good quality time together. And my mom really wanted to just do something special with Linda

and Linda's younger sister Jan. And so about, I want to see like a year and a half ago, my mom decided the thing they

needed to do was she needed to fly Linda and Jan down to L.A., have them stay in L.A. for a whole

week before embarking on an 18-day cruise.

What?

Yeah. That will take them from Los Angeles. 18-day cruise. What? Wow.

That will take them from Los Angeles all the way down through Mexico, through the Panama

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