Ep. 409: Impulsive Decisions
Big Fat Positive: Pregnancy and Parenting (BFP)
Laura Birek, Shanna Micko
4.7 • 531 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Laura reports on her family's rocky journey home from Mexico and the effects it had on her kids, and Shanna talks about how her daughter's adorable Easter egg hunt took an unexpected turn. Also, in the special segment "Throwback," Shanna shares two stories about how her impulsive decisions as a child disrupted her family's vacations. Finally, the moms share their BFPs and BFNs for the week, including a long-overdue errand Laura finally checked off her list and a spontaneous project Cece took on that made Shanna's heart sing. 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:
• How to keep your kids occupied during a long travel day
• Handling sibling jealousy during spring break
• Taking kids to birthday parties when they're overtired and dysregulated
• Sending your kids to day camp during school breaks
• Impulsive childhood decisions
• When best-laid vacation plans go wrong
• Letting your child take ownership of a project
Products, links, resources mentioned in this episode:
• Johnny Rockets (Restaurant in the Cancun airport)
• "Meat tenderizer in the acute treatment of imported fire ant stings" - Article from the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 1987
• Pinetop, Arizona - Where Shanna's family vacationed
• Best Jewelry and Watch Repair, Glendale — Laura's ring resizing recommendation
Past BFP episodes mentioned in this episode:
• Ep. 386 - Where Shanna shares the hack of keeping an Oh Shit kit in your car
• Ep. 397 - Where Shanna talks about her girls attending "field trip" camp over winter break
• Ep. 408 - Where Laura shares a Throwback story about the time her family went on vacation to an all-inclusive Club Med resort in Mexico
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| 1:07.9 | Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shauna and Laura. On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins. |
| 1:12.8 | We have our special segment, Throwback, where I managed to throw a wrench in more than one family vacation as a kid, and we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. Let's get started. |
| 1:25.4 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to episode 409. Hi, Laura. Hi, Shana. Hey, why don't you kick off |
| 1:31.7 | our check-ins with your check-in? Oh, look at that. So my basic check-in this week is recovery |
| 1:40.9 | from a trip. It's been a bit of a doozy. So there were two things going on this week. |
| 1:48.0 | One was recovery from our trip to Mexico, which, you know, got us out of our routines. It got us |
| 1:53.5 | out of our time zone, all that stuff, right? And then the other was the fact that Sebastian |
| 1:59.6 | was on spring break this week and didn't have to go to school while Augie did have to go back to school. |
| 2:07.2 | Ah, yes. |
| 2:09.1 | It's a little tricky, tricky situation. |
| 2:13.6 | Oh, I'm sure Augie loved that, right? |
| 2:16.5 | Just saying goodbye to his little brother who got to stay home and chill while he went off to school. |
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