Ep. 370: Wedding Wackiness
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In the special segment "Throwback," Laura recounts the time that her mom saw through the facade of Laura's toxic ex-boyfriend and planted a seed of doubt about their relationship. Also, Shanna talks about how going to a wedding with her kids involved flip-flops, blue lips, late-night cake and more, and Laura reports on a day-long excursion with her family to a quaint village on Catalina Island. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week. Shanna's kids are 6.5 and 9 years old, and Laura’s kids are 6.5 years old and 4 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
-Celebrating 4th of July with young kids
-Taking a day trip with kids to Catalina Island
-Going to a wedding with your kids
-Laura's throwback story about a past relationship
-Going on a shopping spree with your kids
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
-Two Harbors village on Catalina Island
-Narcissistic Personality Disorder
-Verbal abuse in relationships
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
-Ep. 369 (For Shanna's story about her mom giving Shanna her pants)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. |
| 0:05.0 | This week we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 0:07.1 | We have our special segment, Throwback, where I tell a story of a time when my mom planted |
| 0:11.8 | a seed of doubt in my brain, and it was actually a good thing. |
| 0:14.9 | And we close with our BFPs and BFNs of the week. |
| 0:17.1 | Let's get started. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 370. Hello, Laura. |
| 0:23.7 | Hi, Shauna. |
| 0:24.8 | Hi. Why don't we dive right in with your check-in? What'd you all get up to this week? |
| 0:30.1 | Well, this was the week of Fourth of July for everyone listening in the future. |
| 0:35.1 | And we had a very fun weekend. Fourth of July fell on a Friday this year. So we had a |
| 0:41.7 | three-day weekend, all of us. Augie is in his camp and Sebastian's still in school for like two more |
| 0:48.3 | weeks. And so we got to have a three-day weekend. And we didn't have any actual plans for the fourth until |
| 0:55.2 | you messaged me and were like, you want to come over for the Fourth of July? And I was like, |
| 1:00.5 | yes, please. Yay. So we hung out on the Fourth of July. It was very fun. Our kids just love |
| 1:07.7 | hanging out with each other and I love hanging out with you guys. We actually finished a puzzle of the adults did. That's right, the butterfly puzzle. It was just a very nice day, |
| 1:17.4 | and I thank you for inviting us. Thank you for coming. Of course. Although, I have to say, |
| 1:22.2 | Sebastian did not like the little, I don't know what you call them, the snappers, little popper firework things. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, we call them poppers, but I think they're called party snaps. |
| 1:33.8 | They're like little individual, I don't know, explosive powder, you know, that kids throw. |
| 1:39.5 | And then when they hit the sidewalk, they go make like a tiny, teeny, tiny little firework thing. |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah, it's basically the only firework you can legally do in that way, I think. |
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