Ep. 407: What's in Your Bag?
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In the brand-new special segment "What's in Your Bag?," Laura and Shanna dig deep to discover the hilarious items that only parents would have lurking at the bottoms of their purses and bags, including a soggy sensation that made Shanna recoil and the sad remains of a once-glorious creation that Laura remembers fondly. Also, Laura reports on her 5-year-old's progress in his new TK classroom, and Shanna checks in on her family's action-packed weekend in San Diego. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week, including a fancy purchase Laura made just for herself and a dinner experience that Shanna was surprisingly delighted by. Shanna’s kids are 7 and 10 years old, and Laura’s kids are 7 years old and 5 years old.
Topics discussed in this episode:
• Transitioning your child to a new classroom mid-year
• Kids' sports: what to expect from Little League at age 7
• Planning low-key family weekend trips in Southern California
• What's really at the bottom of a mom's bag
• Setting up a home sewing and craft room
• Reclaiming pre-kids hobbies as a parent
• Credit card points: a secret weapon for personal splurges
• Taking your kids to live music at dinner
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
• Deadpool
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
• Ep. 406 - Where Shanna talks about Owala water bottles vs. Stanleys
• Ep. 404 - Where Laura talks about Sebastian transitioning into the TK classroom at his school
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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. |
| 0:07.9 | We have a brand new special segment called What's in Your Bag, where we discover the random |
| 0:13.3 | and hilarious items lurking at the bottoms of our purses and backpacks, and we wrap it up |
| 0:18.1 | with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. |
| 0:20.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 407. Hi, Laura. Hi, Shauna. Hi. Kick us off with your |
| 0:32.0 | check-in. What'd you and the fam get up to this week? Well, first, I just wanted to give a quick |
| 0:36.1 | check-in about Sebastian in his new classroom this week. Well, first, I just wanted to give a quick check-in about Sebastian |
| 0:37.5 | in his new classroom at preschool. Ah, yes. He's up with the bigger kids now, right? Yes. Well, he's with |
| 0:44.6 | his peers now in the TK classroom at his preschool. And, you know, when I talked about it a couple |
| 0:51.6 | weeks ago about the switch, I mentioned how, you know, we almost didn't do it because we were worried about him. |
| 0:58.4 | Just having too many transitions in such a short period of time. |
| 1:02.8 | Right. |
| 1:03.1 | You know, going from his old school to a new school and then so quickly turning around and going into a new classroom. |
| 1:08.5 | But I just want to report that he's doing very well in his new classroom. |
| 1:12.2 | Awesome. And there's just been a couple dispatches from the classroom that have warmed my heart and |
| 1:17.2 | made me feel good about the transition. So the first was that, I think it was the second week he was there. |
| 1:23.9 | He got to be the classroom teacher's helper for the day. And they sent a very adorable |
| 1:30.5 | video of him going over the day's agenda on their big notepad thing that they have at the |
| 1:36.9 | front of the classroom. You know what I'm talking about? Like those big tear off notepads that are |
| 1:40.8 | poster size. Actually, let me send you the video because it's just so cute and he looks so happy. |
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