What’s the Tooth Fairy’s Going Rate These Days? – Ep. 369

Shanna

Hi, welcome to Big Fat Positive with Shanna and Laura. On this week's episode, we have our weekly check-ins, we have our special segment, the rollback, where I tell a story about my first experience with corporate culture and how my mom saved my ass, literally, and then we wrap it up with our weekly BFPs and BFNs. Let's get started.

Laura

Hello everyone, welcome to episode 369.

Shanna

Laura, Laura, Laura, never miss an opportunity for a 69 cackle. It's once every two years, Shanna.

Laura

Like, you gotta give it to me.

Shanna

It's all yours, my friend. It's all yours. Okay, will you give us your check-in for this week? I will. The girls started summer camp number two this week, which is their musical theater camp, which they have done in the past, and they are starting it back up again this week.

Laura

Oh, fun. Yes, I remember it very well from last year. I remember they did some kind of Disney-themed musical or there were Disney-themed characters. I just remember Elle was Jasmine for some reason.

Shanna

Yes. Good memory. Yeah, last year they did Aladdin. She was not Jasmine in that one. They also did Frozen. She was Princess Jasmine in Frozen. Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course.

Laura

Yeah, she makes a cameo. Everyone knows that, right? Everyone does.

Shanna

Yeah, everyone knows that. But actually that leads in perfectly to what I was going to talk about in regards to the camp is that casting for the show is always a huge deal, right? It happens like the fourth day of camp and the director adds all these parts. to the play. This time, they're doing The Descendants, which is like a Disney original movie. I had never seen it. I didn't really know what to expect. But I was pretty sure that Princess Elsa is not in The Descendants and Princess Anna and Jasmine. So she adds all these characters so that every single child can have some named to make them feel good.

Laura

I like that. It's very inclusive and adding characters the kids know is so much better than what I had to do, which is like, you're villager number two. It's like, oh, cool, thanks.

Shanna

Pretty sure I was grass in my elementary school play, just grass. Yeah, so this is definitely more inclusive. Everyone gets lines and stuff. Yeah, and so aside from adding like princess roles in the show, she also added other familiar characters like Tinkerbell, Alice, you know, from Alice in Wonderland, Simba, Bo Peep, those kinds of things, right? So I picked the girls up on Thursday, which was the big day. And I was like, okay, girls, what part did you get? And Elle was first. She said, I got Merida. And I was like, who is Merida? That is not one.

Laura

Who is Merida? Shanna, for shame. Please tell us because I was like, I don't know. She's the protagonist of Brave. And Brave is one of those movies I loved when it first came out. And I have to admit, I have not seen it recently. So my memory of the plot is a little fuzzy. But she is that Scottish princess with the shock of bright red curly hair. And she's really good with a bow and arrow. And there's a whole thing about like her mom turning into a bear, I think, in the movie. But that's Merida.

Shanna

Thank you. That's more or less how Elle described Merida. She's like, she's a Scottish princess with red hair. She's very brave. And she's like, it's perfect for me, right, mama? And I'm looking at my daughter with her reddish hair. And every time we do a genealogy, I don't know, like a history of your family thing, we're such a mix. We never know what to pick. she has landed on Scottish because we're like a sliver of Scottish, you know, so she identifies with being Scottish. So she's like, I'm Scottish, I've got red hair, I'm brave. And I was like, oh, wow, they're like totally typecasting this year. Hell is super excited. And it was like a perfect, you know, typecast. I'm like, CECE, what are you? And she's like, I'm grumpy.

Laura

And to be fair, she's not stating her emotion. She's saying that she's been cast as grumpy from Snow White, right?

Shanna

Yes, exactly. Yeah, the director had added three of those characters from the show. Grumpy, Doc, and Dopey. I'm like, in my opinion, the worst ones, right? How about Happy and Bashful, but whatever. So I was like, oh no, CeCe's gonna hate this, right? Because there's like, Tinker Bell, Bo Peep, there's all these cute parts and she got grumpy. I was worried, but she's like, no mama, watch this. And she said her line, she had some line in the play. She crosses her arm, she scowls her little face, stumps her foot, she goes, I don't know what we're gonna do about that. And said it in the grumpiest acting tone and then drops it and smiles and I'm just like, oh yay. Okay, good, I'm glad. She's like totally okay with being grumpy.

Laura

She wants the juicy part, right? Like, she doesn't want to be cute and just flitter around like Tinkerbell. No, she wants to really dig deep.

Shanna

Exactly. We all know that my kids love acting. Acting. So, yeah, she can really dig into this one and really take it to the next level. But yeah, so that's really all I have to report this week. The camp is going well, and I'm excited to see how Grumpy and Merida play out in The Descendants. I will let you know.

Laura

Oh yes, I need to know. I'm going to need videos. I'm going to need the whole report.

Shanna

All right. What about you, Laura? What's your check in for this 369th episode?

Laura

Well, Augie has gone to the first week of his camp that's run by his school. It's an after-school program camp. So that's a relief, because last week was a lot of trying to figure out what to do with Augie while he was busy on a deadline. And Sebastian's still in school for a couple more weeks, so about a month, I think. So I was back to having some independence this week, but what I want to report on is an event that happened on a little walk around the neighborhood that we took after dinner this week. Okay. So we've been trying to get out of the house after dinner because the alternative is that the kids rot on the couch watching whatever the hell they're watching while Corey and I tried to clean up or whatever. And it doesn't lead to anyone feeling good, right? So actually, I think it was Augie who first was like, let's go and walk around the neighborhood.

Shanna

Oh, yay. I'm glad it wasn't so traumatic. You know, I'm glad it was already wiggly and everything and ready to come out.

Laura

Yes, me too. I mean, I don't think that plastic core power bottle could have really actually knocked real teeth out that had roots still, you know. But it is funny because I of course was like, oh my gosh, I gotta take a picture for daddy and grandma and everyone, you know. Or we gotta show them your first lost tooth. But he has all this chocolate milk all over him. Let me send you a picture.

Shanna

All right, let's see. Oh, okay. First of all, he looks very happy about this. He's got a huge chocolate milk mustache and a bit of a, what do they call it when there's like the little patch of a beard? Oh, a little chocolate milk soul patch there. Zooming in to see his gap. Laura, he doesn't have a gap. There's no gap. He doesn't have a gap.

Laura

It's because of the shark teeth. You can see, in fact, he just lost a tooth, but he still has one extra because he still has like the other, he has two shark teeth growing in, right? So he has an extra tooth still. But yeah, so he lost his tooth and there's no gap. So we're hoping it moves forward to like line up with the other teeth. I don't know. We're gonna keep an eye on that. But yeah, he skipped right over the gap tooth phase, I guess. Maybe we'll see with the tops.

Shanna

Yeah, maybe he'll get some little gaps on top. That is really cute. Yay, first two. Such a milestone and you didn't have to do any weird tooth wiggle yanking because I know you don't like that. I do not. Yeah, but what did what did you guys do? Did the tooth fairy come that night or what happened?

Laura

Yes. So the Tooth Fairy came. It's so funny because I want to say like three or four years ago, my mom got a little shopping happy on a customizable goods website. She was ordering a hooded towel for both boys so that they could have them for swim class and they have their names on like the hoods of the towels. And then when I got the package, they also had these little monsters in with them. And I was like, what is this? And they had their names on them and she's like, oh, that's for the tooth fairy. So when they lose their tooth, there's a little pouch and you put it in and then the tooth fairy comes for that. And I remember being like, they're one in three. This seems excessive. But by some miracle, we have not lost those. Like, I do not know how. When his tooth started getting wiggly, I found them deep in a drawer and brought them out. We have Sebastian's as well.

Shanna

You're like, mom, can you get a second one that says Augie and another one that says Sebastian? Seriously? All right. Let's see. Oh, here's a picture of him putting the tooth into the little monster. Oh, I see. The pocket is the monster's mouth, which makes sense. I love it. That is so cool and so cute. Was he excited to do this?

Laura

Very, very excited. And so and he was like how much do you think they're gonna leave me how much do you think the tooth fairy is gonna leave me. I was like I don't know and in my mind I'm like I don't know I gotta start texting people are looking at tooth fairy index or whatever. Right and he's like I think five hundred dollars five hundred. You have no concept of how much things cost. I was like, that's not gonna happen. And then I was like, well, maybe $5. And the minute I said that, I was like, ooh, is that too much? I'm like, oh, shit. I just totally set an expectation without realizing it. So here's what I did. I actually remembered that I had a bunch of shrinky dink plastic in my craft closet. So after we went to bed, I decided I was gonna make, I like, Augie's first tooth little key chain thing with a cute little cartoon tooth on it.

Shanna

Yeah, true. Yeah.

Laura

Yeah.

Shanna

Well, that sounds perfect. I love that. Did he like the token?

Laura

Oh, you know what? He thought it was cool, but I don't think he loved it as much as I was hoping he would. He definitely loved the money. He immediately put it in his piggy bank and was like, this is mine. He was like, Sebastian, this is my money, not yours. You have to lose a tooth to get this money. Oh, my gosh.

Shanna

Oh, right.

Laura

But yeah, it was fun. And I cannot believe how teeny tiny that freaking tooth is. It is so

Shanna

Let's do it.

Laura

We are back, and our special segment this week is Throwback, where Shanna and I tell stories from our past that may inform our parenting today. And Shanna, this week, you're gonna tell a story. I will follow you up in episode 370, but for now in this 369th episode, you have a throwback for us.

Shanna

Oh, you know I do.

Laura

Is it from the summer of 69?

Shanna

Yes, when I was but a mere egglet in my mom's ovaries.

Laura

Do your kids ask you where they were, like when you were a baby and stuff? Because Sebastian asks me nearly every day. He's like, mama, where was I when you were a baby?

Shanna

Oh, do you tell him that half of him existed in an egg in your ovary?

Laura

Yes, I say you were an egg waiting to be developed inside of my ovary. And the reason he probably asks it is that my mom likes to take a lot of credit for his existence because she always likes to tell him, did you know that the egg that formed you was actually inside of me when your mommy was in my uterus? And it actually drives Corey crazy because he's always like, yeah, she takes too much credit.

Shanna

Yeah. Like, what am I? Chopped liver? Come on.

Laura

But yeah. So like, whenever we look at old pictures and stuff, too, we'd be like, what was I? Was I an egg? And I was like, yeah, you were an egg in this picture. You were in there somewhere.

Shanna

No, no, this is more like summer of 2001, which doesn't have quite the catchy ring as summer of 69, but it is what it is.

Laura

Britney Spears and the Snake, I remember that. Oh, was that big in 01? If I recall, my memory is a little hazy of that time.

Shanna

for me what was big then was like black tight going out pants and like little halter tops and like chunky heel you know that kind of thing that was like what I was rocking at that time I was in college and I had recently had a slew of jobs that included waitress at a Mexican food restaurant, cocktail waitress at a bar restaurant that turned into a night club at night, these kinds of things. And I liked them. They were very fun. But there was something in me that was like, I want to get myself a day job, a respectable college day job. And that's what I did. I took to the advertisements in the newspaper because that's how they worked back then, because that's how old I am.

Laura

I yearned for a time when the only requirement for a job was that you knew how to type, you know?

Shanna

Yes. Oh, truly. I thought the world was my oyster because I could type like 79 words a minute and I thought I was going to take over the world with that skill, right?

Laura

It was a great skill. I mean, that was very impressive back in the early aughts.

Shanna

It totally was. So I got this college job and I was especially excited because it was pretty close to where my mom worked her office job. So we were two little Phoenix office go-getters. And I loved it. I loved it. I was working for a nonprofit that did great work to support people with different forms of arthritis from children to adults. We created programs to You know, that they could go and exercise, learn about the condition. We had a whole department that like did a marathon training like, you know, as a fundraiser. It was just a very cool organization. And the people I worked with were really cool too. There was Sherry, the receptionist up front. She was my direct manager. She was this like no-nonsense 40-year-old woman that would bring beers to work on Fridays, put it in her little mini fridge and crack them open at 2 p.m. even if she was the only one drinking.

Laura

Wow. I feel like HR would have a thing or two to say about that.

Shanna

Yeah, no, no, I don't even think we had an HR now that I think about it. My two personal co-workers, back in my quote unquote office, which was really just the copy room off the side of, you know, the office, were Rita and Shirley. Rita and Shirley were like 85 year old volunteers that would come in a few times a week. Rita was this woman from Long Island who was like, I survive on cigarettes and coffee and I believe her. You believed her when she said it. And then Shirley was the sweetest little grandma with white puffy cotton ball hair. And she loved me, loved me. And I loved these ladies. And I made instant friends with the 20-something year olds that ran the marathon program. I really felt like this was an instant family. There was Valerie, the program director who everyone knew was obsessed with her two Lhasa Opsos.

Laura

Kathy, oh man, the way you're saying her name makes me think that she might be the villain in this story.

Shanna

Kathy was the CEO, the queen of the ragamuffins here at the Arthritis Foundation. While we were all kind of drinking beers at 2pm and smoking cigarettes and living on coffee and me going out to bars at night, like Kathy was clearly the Scottsdale elite that shopped at artsy boutiques to buy flowing colorful expensive clothes and big chunky jewelry and she had short red hair that was dyed red and it was fabulous and her lipstick was red and her nails were long and red and she was fabulous but also quietly fierce. Like I feel like there's got to be a character like this in film somewhere that I've seen before but I can't put my finger on it.

Laura

She's the Scottsdale, Arizona version of Anna Wintour sounds like or Miranda Priestley, if you will.

Shanna

Yes. Yes. Exactly. And she took great pride in running this organization and being the matriarch of the group. So that's the environment I'm working in. And remember, I had come from the restaurant nightclub environment. I had come from being a very wishy-washy college kid. I'd changed my major a million times. I felt like I just wanted to be an artsy person. But here I am in this office job and trying to fit in. And that seemed fine for everyone that I worked with there, but there was something about Kathy. Like, I just felt like Kathy didn't have the same vibe. I was scared of Kathy. I was intimidated by her. And one of the reasons is that I got this feeling that I rubbed her the wrong way, but I didn't know why. In hindsight, I'm like, well, maybe I didn't come across as taking the job as seriously as I thought I was.

Laura

This is reminding me of something I've seen on TikTok recently, which there's a bunch of these Gen Z kids going out to get jobs for the first time. And they're getting fired for wearing inappropriate stuff to work. And they'll post a TikTok and be like, I can't believe I got fired for wearing this. And you'll look at it and be like, oh my Lord, of course you did short asker or a see-through top or weird stuff.

Shanna

Exactly, especially when you haven't worked in that environment before. And when it is Phoenix and it's like 115 degrees outside and you're getting ready for work in the morning, you being me. This is actually a continuation of my story because you led me perfectly into this. I woke up one morning. It was a very hot outside. I put on my outfit and I went to my office job at the Arthritis Foundation. Now, remember I said I worked in the copy room, which was off to the side. I did not interact with the public. Nobody saw me. I was back there with Rita and Shirley stuffing envelopes. But on this particular day, I was doing my thing back there hanging out with my ladies and Sherry, my coordinator, came up to me very serious and she said, Shanna, I need to talk to you. And I'm like, oh, and like Rita and Shirley look at me like, oh, uh-oh.

Laura

You're sending your mom back to work in booty shorts.

Shanna

I just remember how short they looked on her and the sacrifice she was making going back to her office in those shorts to make me feel better going back to my office in my pants so I could save face. I was like, thank you, mom. I love you. I'm giving her the biggest hug, just like, oh my gosh. Stupid shit I get myself into because I don't think, you know, a few steps ahead. And then I've got my mom saving my ass again with some silly problem, but like not shaming me about it. You know what I mean? She wasn't like, Shanna, of course, you don't wear shorts to an office. You know, it was nothing like that. It was just like, I have a solution. Let me help you out. My my love. Oh God, I love my mom. She saved the day.

Laura

It's so funny because, you know, that phrase like he would give you his shirt. off of his own back. It's like, no, no, no, my mom would literally give me her skirt off her own butt. My mom would give me the culottes.

Shanna

Oh my God, yes. So I went back to the office with a change of outfit and Sherry noticed and was like, I did the right thing. Look at me, professional office lady, and you know.

Laura

As she cracks a beer.

Shanna

Yeah, exactly. That was some good management today.

Laura

Well, see, you didn't have TikTok to teach you how to dress appropriately for the office.

Shanna

Exactly. How is a person supposed to know when they are alive and office working in the year 2000? How is I to know?

Laura

Also, I'm kind of pissed at Kathy because it's kind of low to make your supervisor have to go be the one who tells you. I understand that's delegation and blah, blah, blah, but it's like, if you have a problem with someone's dress at work and you're the CEO, shouldn't you take ownership of that and be the one to tell them? I don't know. I think that's kind of shitty.

Shanna

I felt that way too at the time. You know, I was very young. I didn't know exactly how and why I thought it was shitty, but I definitely had the sense like, oh, she's having someone else do her dirty work while she like reigns supreme in her office, you know, with her chunky turquoise earrings and her flowy pants. It just, it felt weird to me. And I didn't love that, but I did love Sherry because she was so fucking cool. She was just like totally understood, did not judge me for that at all.

Laura

I have a feeling Kathy didn't want her to say, oh, I'm telling you this because Kathy doesn't like it.

Shanna

Now that you mention it, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that was probably supposed to be on the down low. Oops. But thinking about how it might influence my parenting now, I think about how often young people, myself included, obviously, learn by just stumbling through life, you know, and learning as you go. And part of that is being shamed along the way, you know, like I was shamed by Kathy. So as a parent, not adding shame. onto it, not layering it on, is just such a gift. And in retrospect, I'm so glad that my mom never did that to me. You know, she never made me feel bad about going to the office in shorts or whatever. Never was like, oh, I don't know if I should switch pants with you. It was her idea. Like she gave it to me.

Laura

Yeah, I feel like the moments I had the most shame and bewilderment growing up were those moments where it was assumed I should have known something but no one ever taught it to me and I was learning it the hard way, basically. Like what you're talking about with Elle wearing the same clothes twice in a row. I have this clear as freaking day memory of Amy in my sixth grade class seeing me in an outfit on like a Thursday and saying, didn't you wear that on Monday and like laughing? And I was like, yeah. Cause I'm like, yeah, it's a piece of clothing I own and we probably washed it in between. I don't know. And she's like, you're not supposed to repeat outfits in the same week. And I remember just being like, like I'm that meme with like the calculator in front of my face being like, you what?

Laura

But you, you know, you just didn't know that the business casual environment was not kind to those wearing cargo pants. Like now you obviously are cargo shorts. Like obviously now you would know better. But, but yeah, you didn't know. And instead of being told like, oh, hey, in the future, like, You know, your supervisor or Kathy could have come up to you and been like, hey, like you're fine today, but I just wanted to show you like our dress code, like what's expected. That's kind of a little bit too casual for us. Like no big deal. No one ever sees you anyway, but like just next time just leave those at home. You wouldn't mind if felt a little bit of shame, but you wouldn't have had to like run to your mom, been so upset and then so upset that your mom like literally stripped down for you.

Shanna

Yes, yes, we can educate the young people with kindness. I think that's the thing is it didn't feel like Kathy's criticism of me was that it was too casual. It was almost like the message I was getting is that I was being too sexy or something, like I was showing my legs and that was inappropriate. It felt like a comment on my body and an assumption that I was trying to show off my skin or something. It was very odd. Did the men get to wear cargo shorts? Probably. Probably. I don't know. I mean, the men were allowed to fart in their office and freaking lice all it up.

Laura

So funny. I will say I'm a little jealous of the story because I don't have any daughters. And I'm like, I really don't think there's a future where I'm going to be in the same clothing size as my sons and be able to save them by swapping outfits.

Shanna

That's why you're just always going to carry a suitcase of appropriately sized boy and young man clothes with you everywhere you go.

Laura

Just be lurking outside of their first job. You're like, I've got alternate outfits if you need them.

Shanna

Oh, my God. Mom, go away. Oh, man. So yes, shout out to my mom. She's the best. Love you, mom. Love you, Shanna's mom. But that's my story. Shall we move on to our BFPs and BFNs? Yes, we should.

Laura

All right. What is it? Okay. So my BFP is that this weekend we went to a movie with basically everyone in Sebastian's preschool class. What?

Shanna

Oh, how fun and maybe so loud. I feel like a lot of little voices.

Laura

A lot of little voices. Okay, so it was designed for this situation because it was actually an incanto sing-along. Oh, fun. So fun. It was held at Vidiot's, which is this really cool Don Prophet indie movie theater and DVD rental place. in Eagle Rock. And it's right down the street from his school. And it wasn't like a school sponsored event or something. One of the parents just posted in the WhatsApp being like, oh, we're going to take our kid along to this. Do you guys want to come? And we jumped on. We're like, yeah, that sounds fun. Because I was looking for something to do with the kids that day. And another family jumped on. And by the end, I think it was almost the entire class was there. There was at least 20 families that were making up this group. And I did feel kind of bad for everyone else in the movie theater because there were definitely some adults there without kids.

Shanna

I know. Did you get any pictures with her or get her autograph or anything?

Laura

No, she took off right after. I think she was like, I'm going to be mobbed. But she gave a cute little intro here. I took a little video.

Shanna

OK, let's see. Oh my gosh, there she is. Love that outfit. Huge fan of hers. And Kanto is one of my favorite Disney movies. And also, she kills it in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, so. Yeah. Well, that sounds really fun. And next time they have something like that, let me know. I want to go too.

Laura

Yes, for sure. They do a bunch of kid screenings and they do all kinds of interesting, like, old movies. So, like, I'm looking up right now. Their website is vidiotsfoundation.org. That's like idiots with a V in front of it. They've got the Iron Giant coming up, Gremlins 2 on 35 millimeter. Nice. Yeah. Oh, the sword and the stone. And then, you know, a bunch of stuff for adults to kung fu hustle. Oh, it looks like Tangled's coming up. And it's a nonprofit to help support cinema, I guess. So, you know, it feels good to go see a movie there.

Shanna

Yeah. What a fun event.

Laura

Yeah. So that was my BFP. What do you got for us? BFP or BFN? I have a BFP. Okay. What is it?

Shanna

It starts off with a BFN and a milestone that we have yet to reach in our life as a family.

Laura

Okay. I'm curious to hear because I feel like you've been through some big milestones as a family already.

Shanna

Yeah, yeah. While I was working in my office the other day, the girls were watching TV, Cici comes in and says, mama. And I'm like, what? She goes, I got gum in my hair. No.

Laura

Yeah, it's amazing you've lasted this long.

Shanna

I know, right? She's like, are you going to have to cut it? And I'm like, oh, maybe. I don't know. Let me see. And so I take a look at it. It just is not something I'm going to pick out very easily. And so I'm starting to think, OK, what are the things that you do to get gum out of hair? And Elle was like, I've heard that peanut butter works. And I'm like, yeah, I think I've heard that too. But I feel like maybe that makes a worse problem than you started with, because then you got oily peanut butter. So I'm like, there's got to be a better way. There's got to be something better than this. Let me take to the old internet. Well, Laura, I am here to report that thanks to Reddit, I have discovered the best way to get gum out of hair. And I'm like,

Laura

You know the peanut butter is one of them and I can kind of think like I've heard maybe freeze it but like how do you even do that. There's a lot of things that sound dubious to me, but I do trust the crowdsourcing magic that you get on Reddit. So I would love to hear what you learned because, you know, I always remember your tricks for getting out of these sticky situations. Like when was it Cece who drew all over her face and Sharpie? L. L, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just remember, I just remember Sharpie on the face and you were like, I got to try everything and you found something that worked. So was it rubbing alcohol? Is that what finally worked for you? Or no, it was the... Oh, lava soap. Yeah, lava soap. So anyway, so tell me, okay, what did Reddit tell you to do?

Shanna

Okay. Well, I was with you. I was like, okay, I've heard peanut butter, freezing it, putting ice on it, putting oil on it. And these things all came up at first when I googled, get gum out of hair. Like I had to keep scrolling. I'm like, no, there's got to be a better way. So I finally come across the subreddit called Lifehacks and someone, some kind person in the world was just like, I'm posting this so you just all have this information. And I was like, thank you. And it was a TikTok from a user named ma brows and hair. And she said, here's the best thing you need to know about getting gum out of your hair. She unwraps the gum. She chews it. She's like, it's really a lot easier than you would think. She chews it. She takes the gum, sticks it in her hair. And I'm like, what are you doing? Oh, don't do that. And then she goes, all you need is mousse. And I'm like, mousse.

Laura

Yeah, I was going to say, where's your mousse?

Shanna

That is the obstacle. But then I remembered grandma, AKA Steve's mom. had lived with us a while, and there were some items of hers in our second bathroom. And I'm like, I think I vaguely remember a huge bottle of mousse. I'm like, please, please, please, please, please, please. I go in, I look under the sink. Ta-da! There's like a trissime mousse that hasn't been used in like five years. I don't even know why I have it. Well, I have it for this moment, clearly. I'm like, Cece, come here, come here. I I put a big dollop on my hand. I'm like, okay, we're gonna try this. I'm like putting it all over the gum and it just melted. It melted right out of her hair. Zero residue, no oil. I put the mousse in the trash, washed my hands and we were done within like one minute.

Laura

And her hair had so much volume after.

Shanna

She was like a Farrah Fawcett ad feathered hair blowing in the wind. Yes, exactly.

Laura

Okay. This is right up there with a mother's kiss where you like how to get stuff shoved up the nose out of a kid because this is going to be something I guarantee people are going to be writing in and telling us how they use this. So.

Shanna

I hope it helps. I really hope it helps. I know the obstacle is not having mousse on hand. So I'm just here to say, if you think that your kid might ever get gum in their hair, just go buy a travel-sized mousse. If they make those, stick it under the sink and have it on hand. I think that it's like your first aid kit. Just have it in your first aid kit, right? Exactly. You never know when you need some emergency mousse.

Laura

We exist. Basically, go on Reddit, tell people we exist. Honestly, it's one of the best ways for people to find us and we would be so grateful.

Shanna

Absolutely. As always, please keep sharing our show. Be sure that you're subscribed or follow us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you always get new episodes. And leave us a five star review and we might read it on an upcoming episode. If you have any feedback or thoughts or comments on this week's episode or anything else, please reach out. We love to hear from you. Laura, where can everyone find us?

Laura

We're on all the social medias at BFB Podcast. We have a website, BigBatPositivePodcast.com, and if you want to send us an email, send it to contact at BigBatPositivePodcast.com. And finally, if you want to join the coolest group of people on the internet, just search Facebook for Big Fat Positive Community. It is a private group, so you've got a request to join and answer those two membership questions. So we know you're not a robot, but once you do that, you'll be sent straight through to all the amazing conversations we're having in there.

Shanna

Our show is produced by Laura Birek, Shona Maiko, and Steve Yager. Thanks for listening everyone. Have a Big Fat Positive week. Bye! Bye!