Welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. This week, we have our weekly check-ins.

We have our special segment, which in honor of the release of my new potty training book,

Good to Go, a fresh take on potty training for today's intentional parent. My co-author,

GNI, will be taking over the special segment for a ask us anything about potty training.

And we close with our BFPs and BFNs for the week.

Let's get started.

Hello, hello, hello, everyone out there in podcast land.

This is episode 378 of Big Fat Positive, Shana.

Hello.

Hello. Hello, hello. Let's get right to it. Can you tell me what's been going on this week? Sure thing. So this is a bit of a loose end, but I don't know if you recall. Back when we recorded our end of the year wrap up last year, like at the end of the year, one of the questions was like, what's one of your goals in 2025 or what are you looking

forward to?

And I was like, I don't know, to hire a gardener?

Oh, yeah.

Just, I don't know.

I was not aimed at high, clearly.

But despite the seeming ease of that task, it's taken me about nine months to get around

to it, but we have succeeded. I asked Steve to jump on that task, and he did. We have hired

gardeners to come and clean our yard so me and my family can get more use out of our yard without

me having to also like get out the blower and the rake and the do all the stuff, you know? So I'm so

happy about that. Oh, that's great. Congratulations. I am a little bit jealous. We once had

gardeners. I didn't like them. They didn't really do what I asked them to do. And I was kind of nervous about them around my native plant. So we decided we should just go without gardeners. But yeah, the backyard is a mess all the time. And I definitely long for someone I trust to just come in and like fix it up. So we can just go out there and enjoy it, like you said. So that's amazing. That's exciting. Yes. So as a result, I have found myself, you know, when you hire like a house cleaner, right? You're like, oh my gosh, I have to tidy up for the house cleaner and get ready for the house cleaner. I found myself doing that with this yard purse. And I was like, oh, my gosh, it's the first day of the yard work. And I'm like, come home. Next thing I know I'm like cleaning stuff up, putting things away and doing all this stuff. But doing this got me thinking about my front yard, which I have not watered the lawn out there for at least a few years. And to save money, there was the

drought. I thought maybe I would like replace the lawn, et cetera, et cetera. But I've discovered that

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